Lorraine was the Koala Care Community representative on the Koala Health Hub Advisory Committee during 2015. She served 15 terms as President of Friends of the Koala in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. She has been a great champion for koalas and Friends of the...
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LORRAINE VASS, FRIENDS OF THE KOALA
CHEYNE FLANAGAN, KOALA PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA
Following decades of voluntary work in wildlife rehabilitation while working with cattle sheep and horses, Cheyne moved to full time wildlife work in the 90's and has been employed by the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital for the last 18 years as the Clinical...
VICKII LETT, WIRES
Vickii has been a member of the NSW Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service (WIRES) since 1987 and is currently the Koala Coordinator for the WIRES Large Mammal Team where she enjoys the opportunity to exchange information with carers, wildlife...
DR TIGGY GRILLO, WILDLIFE HEALTH AUSTRALIA
Tiggy has been a member of the Koala Health Hub Advisory Committee since the inception of the Hub in 2014 and has been working for Wildlife Health Australia since May 2009. Tiggy obtained her veterinary degree in Glasgow, Scotland in 1999. She returned to Glasgow...
KERRY THOMSON (COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER)
Kerry has an Honours Bachelor of Science at the University of Guelph and a Bachelor of Education at the University of Western Ontario and is now a veterinary student at the University of Sydney, with interests in zoological medicine, surgery and diagnostic imaging....
National Koala Disease Risk Assessment
The Koala Health Hub (in collaboration with Wildlife Health Australia and the IUCN) has recently completed a national Koala Disease Risk Assessment (KDRA). This is the first disease risk analysis to examine disease risk for an Australian wildlife species at the...
Vale Jo Griffith
It is with great sadness that we report that one of our alumni, Dr Jo Griffith, passed away this week from cancer. Jo completed her PhD in 2010 in the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney with Damien Higgins, Paul Canfield, Mark Krockenberger and Merran...