Kirsty graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 2017. She then started work in a busy first opinion hospital in Southampton, first as a day and then night vet. In 2019 and 2020 she completed both a rotating and surgical internship at a large referral hospital in Hampshire. Following this she returned to work in […]
Archives: Team Members
Dr Nadia Shihab
RCVS Recognised Specialist in NeurologyEBVS® European Specialist in Veterinary Neurology Dr Nadia Shihab graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2005. After graduating, she completed a one-year internship at a specialist veterinary hospital in Cambridgeshire, followed by a rotating internship at the Royal Veterinary College in 2006. Nadia enrolled on a three-year European College of […]
Dr Lavinia Economu
Lavinia Economu graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in veterinary medicine and an intercalated bachelor’s degree in comparative pathology. After spending a year at a busy first opinion hospital in Norfolk, Lavinia went on to complete a small animal rotating internship at the University of Cambridge. Following this, Lavinia […]
Katrina Endfield
Kat joined Fitzpatrick Referrals as a newly qualified veterinary nurse in 2017, where she developed her advanced nursing and anaesthesia skills. She has been leading and managing teams for three years, as a senior RVN in 2021 and clinical nurse lead in 2023, before becoming head nurse in 2024.
Professor Noel Fitzpatrick
RCVS Recognised Specialist in Small Animal Surgery (Orthopaedics)EBVS® European Specialist in Veterinary Sports Medicine and RehabilitationDiplomate of the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Professor Noel Fitzpatrick, originally from Laois, Ireland, is a world-class orthopaedic-neuro veterinary surgeon and managing director of one of the largest veterinary referral centres in the UK, Fitzpatrick Referrals. Noel […]
Dr Stefano Manca
Dr Stefano Manca qualified from the University of Bologna (Italy) in 2014. He then moved to the United Kingdom and worked in different working environments including veterinary general practice and charity for almost four years. He completed a 12-month rotating internship and a surgical internship at a busy referral centre in Hampshire followed by an […]
Dr Marc Pérez Soteras
Dr Marc Pérez Soteras graduated from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) in 2012, with a degree in veterinary medicine. During his final year, he started working in a busy hospital in Barcelona for the next few years and developed an interest in small animal soft surgery and neurology. Marc then completed a neurology internship […]
Dr Max Foreman
Max graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2015 with an integrated degree in pathology and veterinary epidemiology. Following graduation, he spent a short time working in charity clinics in the Caribbean before returning to the UK to work for three years in a busy first opinion and referral hospital in London. In 2019 he […]
Dr Katia Marioni-Henry
American and EBVS® European Veterinary Specialist in Small Animal Neurology Katia graduated from the University of Parma in Italy in 1995, and after a short period working in a mixed practice, in 1996 she was accepted onto a PhD programme at the University of Turin, Italy. While working on the experimental part of her PhD […]
Dr Anna Giulia Salmina
Anna Giulia Salmina graduated first with a Bachelor in Biology at the University of Lausanne and then in veterinary medicine from the Vetsuisse Faculty of the University of Zürich (Switzerland) after having spent a month of externship in small animal surgery at the University of Colorado (USA). She then spent almost two years working at […]
Dr Ilaria Petruccione
Dr Ilaria Petruccione joined Fitzpatrick Referrals in April 2023, having spent the past year as an anaesthesia clinician at an equine hospital in Newmarket, Suffolk. She qualified from the University of Naples, School of Veterinary Medicine in 2013 before undertaking a rotating internship at a veterinary clinic in Chantilly, France. She then spent a year […]
Dr Christos Nikolaou
Dr Christos Nikolaou graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2005. After graduation, he completed an internship in small animal surgery at the same university and at Fitzpatrick Referrals. At Fitzpatrick Referrals, he continued as a research fellow for six months before returning to Greece to lead his own orthopaedic referral service in Athens. […]