NOOSA VILLAGE VET

Dr Pieter Serfontein

Veterinary Surgeon

I grew up on a cattle property in South Africa where my family breed Brahman Cattle. This is where my passion for animals started. After qualifying as a Vet in South Africa, I spent 10 years in the UK where I worked in both private and corporate small animal practice. I owned two practices in London (with one of my best friends from Vet school) for 8 years and managed a group of practices in Cambridge. I love both soft tissue and orthopaedic surgery. I met my Irish wife, Colette, while travelling through South America in 2008. We decided to move to Australia in 2009 and after living in Brisbane, Sydney and Rockhampton we finally settled on the amazing Sunshine Coast. In my free time I love spending time with my wife and kids!

Dr Mair Mitchell

Veterinary Surgeon

I grew up in a rural market town in South Wales in the UK. From a very young age I had a burning desire to become a Vet loving all animals great & small, in particular horses. I studied Veterinary Science at The University of Bristol (UK) & graduated in 2000. I spent my first few years working in mixed practice in South Wales before getting married in 2002 & moving  to Australia. Brisbane became our new home & I worked for 4 years locuming & running a small animal clinic. At the end of 2006 I embarked on a completely different pathway becoming a mum & taking an extended career break to raise our 4 beautiful children. We moved up to the Sunshine Coast & now live between Eumundi & Cooroy on 8 acres with a multitude of animals (& of course lots of horses!). I am very excited to be back working at a veterinary surgery part time & am so happy to have joined the wonderful team at Noosa Village Vets.

Dr Shannon Coyne

Veterinary Surgeon

I grew up in Central Queensland and always had a passion to work with animals. I graduated from the University of Queensland in 1998 with Honours and then went to work in Gloucester, NSW in a mixed dairy, beef and small animal practice. After a couple of years, I travelled to England for 12 months. This was spent in a range of practices in the Midlands and Dorset treating cattle, sheep, horses and small animals.
The weather there got to me very quickly and I came back to Australia in 2002 to get warm, and then married.
In 2002, I started work as a mixed practice vet at Gympie Veterinary Services. This was primarily small animals, beef cattle and horses.
I became a partner there in 2004. Over the following years I developed an interest in small animal surgery and gave up the farm animal and horse work to focus on dogs and cats.
I remained the senior small animal veterinarian and partner at Gympie Veterinary Services as it grew from 4 to 13 vets.
The practice was sold in mid 2018 and after a transition period I moved to a role as Technical Services Veterinarian (Companion Animals) for Apiam Animal Health. This role involved providing further education and training in general practice surgery, dentistry and other techniques to over 35 clinics containing 150 vets. I was tasked to look for ways to improve the services the small animal clinics could deliver to patients. I also helped in setting up and developing new clinics and new standards of care.
Out of the clinic I love to spend time with my wife and daughters. I am a keen but unsuccessful fisherman. I am a late convert to diving and try to go whenever I can.

Dr Andrew Telford

Veterinary Surgeon

Dr Andrew joined the Noosa Village Vets in 2020. He has been living on the Sunshine Coast with his family since 2017 after moving away from Melbourne. Andrew has worked in small animal practice for many years and includes a two year stint in the UK in the 1990's. Now that he is living and working in Noosa he has more time to spend with his 3 girls who are at the Sunshine Beach State Primary and High Schools.