16/12/2024
🩺🐴 Welcome to our newest team member! 🐴🩺
Dr. Shanya Sommers grew up in Victoria and completed a Bachelor of Science at the University of Melbourne before making the move to Far North Queensland. She then graduated from James Cook University in 2022 after completing a Bachelor of Veterinary Science and moved to the Northern Rivers region with her wife. Since then Dr. Shanya has worked in first opinion equine general practice roles.
She has experience working with racing thoroughbreds, performance horses and pleasure horses alike. Her areas of interest include: dentistry, reproduction, dermatology, laminitis & geriatric equine management.
Shanya has always had a love for horses and grew up riding throughout her childhood. She now has a Quarter Horse – Goose, who she loves taking to the beach for a ride & over the last few years has had the pleasure of retraining two retired racing thoroughbreds.
