Wellington Road

Dr Carol Mayes

Veterinary Director

Carol has worked at this clinic since 2006 and has strong emotional ties to this veterinary practice due to the wonderful clients and pets she has met over the years. Some of these pets are our special oldies that were puppies and kittens when she first started working here. Providing care to “oldies” is a particular favourite of Carol’s.

She is also passionate about pet emotional wellbeing as well as their physical health. As a team, we do everything we can to make the experience of the veterinary clinic as gentle and fear-free as possible. Over time, this concern about pets mental health and wellbeing resulted in her doing extra study and sitting examinations in animal behaviour. She now has a membership (recognition of a special interest and extra knowledge) in animal behaviour. We offer longer consultations and a holistic approach to behaviour problems so feel free to give us a call if you have any behaviour concerns.

Carol and Matt have 2 sons, Finn and Austin, a naughty whippet called Juno, as well as a cat who was originally a Mount Barker stray brought into the vet clinic, called Billy. She enjoys all aspects of veterinary practice, medicine, surgery and dentistry and looks forward to meeting you and your pets.

Dr Courtney Swanson

Veterinarian

After graduating from Charles Sturt University in 2017, Courtney began her career as a mixed practice Veterinarian in Mt Gambier. While she enjoys working with both large and small animals, she decided to pursue her interest in small animal internal medicine. She then decided to move to Warrnambool in Victoria and focused on small animal general and emergency practice. Having lived away from home, she has decided home is where the heart is, and started working at Greencross Wellington Road.
In her spare time, Courtney enjoys horse riding, hiking and spending time with her beloved Cavalier King Charles Spaniel ‘Rory’.
Courtney is looking forward to meeting and getting to know all of the clients and their pets!

Dr Amber Miller

Amber graduated from the University of Adelaide in 2016. She started her career in mixed practice in the WA Wheatbelt region, where she gained experience in a range of different species and situations, from dogs and cats to livestock and even emus! After three years in WA, Amber returned home to the Adelaide Hills to join the team at Greencross Vets.

Amber is interested in all aspects of veterinary practice, but particularly enjoys investigating complex medical cases. She enjoys working as a team with clients to provide the best possible care to their pets.

Amber is often accompanied by her little shadow, a scruffy terrier called Izzy, and also lives with a fiesty cat called Evie. When not at work, she can usually be found cooking, reading or riding horses. Amber is very excited to be joining the Greencross Wellington Road community.

Charis Bailey

Charis Bailey is the Practice Manager here at Greencross Wellington Road. She has been with the practice since 1999 in between getting married and having 3 children. She started as a volunteer and worked her way up to Practice Manager. She loves meeting people and their pets on reception, enjoys monitoring anesthetics during surgery and has recently challenged herself taking on the role of Practice Manager.

Charis has had a love for animals for as long as she can remember. Presently she has a maltese x shihtzu called Benji and a labrador x kelpie called Marley. She also has a ragdoll cat, Leroy and a silver tabby named Misty.

She lives with her husband and 3 children on a farm outside Echunga. Some of her other interests include reading books, walking her dogs in the forest and running obstacle courses.

Charis looks forward to meeting you in the clinic!

Courtney Earl

Veterinary Nurse

Courtney joined the team at Greencross Vets Wellington Road in 2024 after starting her vet nursing career 3 years ago as a Trainee Nurse, while studying her Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing. Having grown up in the Adelaide Hills surrounded by animals both large and small, her love of animals and dream of working in the veterinary industry began at an early age.

She currently lives with 2 dogs, an energetic and mischievous fox terrier cross named Jock and a sweet and gentle mixed breed named Ellie, both of whom have been well known to the staff at Greencross Wellington Road for many years. She also lives with 2 cats called Lucy and Smudge who are 17 and 9.

When not at work, Courtney loves playing netball, highland dancing and spending time with her pets.

Courtney is so excited to be part of the team at Greencross Wellington Road and looks forward to welcoming you and your pets to the clinic.

Sarah Evans

Veterinary Nurse

Sarah has recently joined the team at Greencross Vets Wellington Road. She has always had great empathy and compassion for all animals, and especially horses. Sarah’s nursing career started almost two decades ago in the Adelaide Hills. She especially loves providing comfort and a high level of care to sick animals.

Sarah also spends time helping horses and riders forming a friendship and bond, based on trust and understanding.
Her passion is classical dressage and the wellbeing of the horse. Sarah lives with her two dogs Bailey and Rommy, cats Timmy, Ari and Milo and horse Ada and pictured with her special boy Gryphy.

Tam Walker

Tam came to work at Greencross Vets Wellington Road once she completed her Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing at TAFESA Gilles Plains. After her placement with us, she was offered a casual role with our clinic and you may see her around the clinic a few days a week.
Tam has a deep love for all animals, with a particular interest in pocket pets, especially ferrets, she has two cheeky ferret’s Theo and Humphrey. When she is not at the clinic she can be found at home with her partner and their family of 3 dogs, Hudson a Bull Arab, Sadie a Labradoodle and Rocco an American Staffordshire Terrier, a sugar glider, a few rescue cats, 2 Flemish giant rabbits and guinea pigs. While at home you can find Tam with a ferret on her shoulder, looking after all her animals and studying all things pets.

Kate Parkinson

Trainee Veterinary Nurse

Kate joined Greencross Vets in 2021, previously working at Holden Hill and Strathalbyn Greencross Vets clinics, and joined our clinic in early 2022.
Kate decided in 2018 that she wanted to do something different and made the leap to move solo to Australia from the UK, after settling in for a few years she decided that she wanted to advance her previous experience working in veterinary in the UK by studying her Certificate 4 in Veterinary Nursing. She is really enjoying broadening her knowledge during her studies.
In her spare time Kate enjoys spending time with her partner and their Border Collie ‘Squid’, camping, surfing and photography.

Shannyn Moyle

Shannyn started working towards a career in veterinary nursing as an intern at Wellington Road. She enjoys all aspects of veterinary nursing and continues to increase her knowledge whilst working as a nurse in the clinic and through ongoing study.
Originally from Adelaide Hills she grew up surrounded by animals, from chickens to a turtle. At present, she has a gorgeous Field Spaniel called Fred and the best snuggle buddy in Louie the Devon Rex. Shannyn also has a passion for marine and aquatic life and enjoys watching the fish in her home aquarium thrive.
Shannyn is thrilled to be a part of the Greencross Wellington Road team and looks forward to welcoming you and your pet family members to the clinic.