Two vets, Bruce Fogle and Simon Lewi, provide primary care.

Bruce Fogle MBE, DVM, MRCVS

Bruce is a Canadian graduate with 34 years experience in clinical veterinary medicine. Together with Simon, he provides primary veterinary care at the clinic. Bruce is the co-founder of Hearing Dogs for Deaf People and was awarded an M.B.E. in the 2004 New Year's Honours List for services to deaf people. He is the world's best selling practicing vet with books in over 30 languages (www.brucefogle.com). Following his long tenure on BBC Radio Two's Jimmy Young Programme, Bruce continues as the resident vet on The Jeremy Vine Show.

Veronica Aksmanovic VMD, MPhil, BSc, MRCVS

Veronica got her first degree from McGill University in Montreal, her Masters in molecular biology from Cambridge University and her veterinary degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked in the most respected veterinary hospital in the United States, the California Animal Hospital in Los Angeles. Veronica and her commercial airline pilot husband Vincent, share their home with a harlequin Great Dane they rescued while living in California.

Grant Petrie MA, VetMB, CertCARD, CertSAM, MRCVS

Grant, a double Certificate holder, in Cardiology and Small Animal Medicine, is a faculty member of the Royal Veterinary College, University of London, where he teaches from Monday to Thursday. He is with us each Friday to provide his problem solving abilities for conditions involving the heart, hormones, kidney, liver and bowel function.

Peter Kertesz DDS, Hon AssocRCVS

Peter, the only dental surgeon in the UK to have been awarded an Honorary Associateship in the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, is available for dogs and cats with unusual or extensive dental and oral conditions.

Suzi Gray initially trained as a riding instructor at Edinburgh University and moved from her native Scotland to England 16 years ago to study veterinary nursing at Berkshire College of Agriculture. Suzi is the clinic’s Practice Manager,  ensuring that all systems function as smoothly and efficiently as possible. Her Pug Beatrice, is the Clinic's official meeter and greeter.

Hilary Hayward qualified as a veterinary nurse in 1975 and spent the first ten years of her professional life at Cambridge University and the Heathrow Quarantine Station. Before joining us at the Portman Veterinary Clinic Hilary spent eight years working in emergency and critical care at the Elizabeth Street Veterinary Clinic. She is presently studying Animal Behaviour at Southampton University. Alice the Pug, Beatrice's mother, comes to work with Hilary, leaving at home two Siamese cats and one husband, Tony.

Ashley McManus has worked at the Portman Veterinary Clinic for over 20 years, having gained extensive clinical experience previously working in Dublin. Ashley has taken occasional sabbaticals, working in emergency and critical care at the Elzabeth Street Veterinary Clinic and traveling extensively. She is the clinic’s designated nurse for managing canine and feline endocrine disorders such as diabetes.

Hester Small has been a veterinary nurse (VN) for fourteen years and at the Portman Veterinary Clinic for over a decade.  She loves working with people and their animals and has the curiously effective habit of singing to patients to soothe them when they are being treated. Hester dabbles in the fashion world, working for Weekenders, and is kept busy at home with her geriatric collie cross, not to mention her husband Henry.

Barbara Sherringham

Barbara, a registered osteopath, is at the clinic several times each week, helping dogs with chronic muscle, bone or joint conditions to control their pain and better use their limbs.

Colette Kase

For over 15 years Colette has been providing classes in primary dog training and offering one to one help with acquired behaviour problems. Colette provides weekly puppy classes at the church hall across the road from the clinic.