Referral Services: Orthopaedic Service

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…

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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)…

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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…

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Dr Nadine Schneider

Nadine Schnieder graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Vienna in 2016. She spent one year working as a small animal veterinary surgeon at a busy…

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Christos Nikolaou

Christos 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…

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Dr Maria Potamopoulou

Dr Maria Potamopoulou graduated with honours from the Veterinary Medicine Institution of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2015. She subsequently worked as a small animal primary care veterinary…

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Dr Mario Coppola

Dr Mario Coppola graduated from the University of Naples in 2011. He worked in a busy hospital in Naples before moving to the United Kingdom in 2014. He spent the…

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Dr Chris Webb

Chris graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2012 before moving to Oxfordshire to work in small animal general practice. After completing his Postgraduate Certificate in Surgery in 2016, he…

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Dr Marius Brataas Stordalen

Dr Marius Brataas Stordalen graduated from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Oslo in 2017. He worked at a busy referral centre in central Oslo before moving to the…

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Dr Jan Janovec

RCVS Recognised Specialist in Small Animal Surgery EBVS® European Specialist in Small Animal Surgery Dr Jan Janovec graduated with honours from the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Brno…

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Dr Sarah Girling

EBVS® European Specialist in Small Animal Surgery Sarah graduated from Massey University, New Zealand in 1995 and spent five years in mixed practice before joining the University of Liverpool where she…

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Intern team

Our team of interns are made up of veterinary surgeons that have decided to devote one year of their life to working at Fitzpatrick Referrals with the sole aim of…

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