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We’re kicking off our inaugural vet ultrasound workshop during Spring in Melbourne!

Come join us for a hands-on course to sharpen your small animal sonography skills.

Location: Moorabbin AEC
Date: Spring 2024

Email us to secure a spot or make an inquiry
sales@atlasdiagnostics.au
Or call Earl 0478 505 787

Grab your spot and be treated to an iconic “Melbourne culinary experience”

We have two of the best in the Vet industry tutoring this course. It’s one not to be missed !

Dr Sue Ramoo and Dr Cathy Beck will be hosting a hands on course that will enhance your clinical and diagnostic skills and provide invaluable knowledge to use day to day in your clinic

Don’t miss out on a spot to try out our user intuitive machines.

Click Here to download our registration forms

See you there!

Tutors:

DR CATHY BECK
BVSc(Hons), DipVetClinStud, MVS, FANZCVS (Radiology), GCUT

Cathy graduated from the University of Sydney in 1992 and then spent 2 years working in mixed animal practice in Australia and the UK. Cathy returned to the University of Sydney in 1995 and completed a Mixed Animal Internship, gaining a Diploma of Veterinary Clinical Studies. It was during this time that Cathy discovered diagnostic imaging. This led to a Residency at the University of Melbourne with some time at The Ohio State University. Cathy obtained a Masters in Veterinary Clinical Studies, Membership and Fellowship of the ANZCVS in Radiology and worked as a Radiologist at the University of Melbourne for 25 years. Cathy is currently working in teleradiology for VetCT and undertaking a PhD.

DR Sue Ramoo
BVSc (hons) MANZCVS (internal medicine)

Dr Sue Ramoo graduated from the University of Sydney more than 15 years ago. She worked for a short period in general mixed practice, then embarked on an internship in critical care and internal medicine at ARH Homebush, before permanently moving to Melbourne where she completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Melbourne. She has worked in several private referral practices since.

Sue founded a mobile internal medicine practice in 2019 and currently provides services to metropolitan Melbourne clinic. These include ultrasonography, echocardiography, endoscopy and medical oncology. She is particularly passionate about oncological care and enjoys integrating imaging with other diagnostic tests to aid in formulating differentials and treatment options.

Whilst she is not an expert skydiver or Nobel prize winner, she firmly believes that when life gives you lemons, eat ice cream instead. She is a pet parent to a Border terrier, Princess parrot and 4 retired chickens as well an expert negotiator of two human children. Her muses are Captain Marvel and Rachael from ‘Friends’, and she is inspired to learn something new, every day.

VetTech Australia is a 100% Australian owned veterinary equipment company, carrying a wide range of quality, trusted products that complement the everyday veterinarian.

VetTech Australia is the newest Veterinary distributor of Mindray Ultrasounds. Mindray ultrasound imaging solutions, including both cart-based and portable systems, are designed to enhance veterinarians’ confidence in diagnosis with excellent image quality, dedicated veterinary parameters, and user-friendly workflow. With deep insights into our customers, we bring significant benefits to veterinarians by offering visualized animal care.

The brands we distribute are considered market leaders in innovative products and include Mindray, MILA, Flexicare, Rita Leibinger, Suburban Surgical, W&H and Welch Allyn, just to name a few.

VetTech Australia has a strong focus on the servicing of anaesthetic machines, vaporisers, autoclaves, and routine equipment maintenance offering both onsite testing and a fully functioning repair section. VetTech also has a dedicated clean room for servicing vaporisers such as TEC-3, 4 and 5, and other brands such as Blease and Penlon.

We are also able to service and repair the following:

• Patient monitors
• Scavenge systems
• Patient warmers
• Infusion pumps
• Syringe drivers
• Oxygen Concentrators
• Surgical tables
• Dopplers
• Surgery lights

Our service team consist of factory trained biomedical technicians with over 25 years of hands-on experience in the veterinary industry. We have the knowledge and tools to undertake any service task with ease. All products sold by VetTech are serviced in house which allows for minimal downtime for the clinic.

Do you need help with fitting out your new clinic or re-modelling your old clinic? We can help you with this. The team can complete full clinic setups, medical gas installations, liaising directly with the clinics’ selected builders and tradespeople to give you a final build that is both professional and ergonomic.

VetTech is also considered one of the market leaders for veterinary specific operating theatre lights – please contact us first before you purchase your next light or if you need to upgrade to the latest LED technology.

Quality customer service is at the forefront of our business model – we make it easy for vets and their nurses to be able to phone and order equipment and consumable items, ensuring quick delivery and quality products. We are also known to source those hard-to-get items or direct customers in the right direction to help them reach their request.

Our company aim is to supply quality items at a reasonable price. We manufacture our own in-house designed anaesthetic machines that meets the needs of the Australian veterinarian and is guaranteed with a 6-year warranty.

Our new product catalogue allows your clinic to make the switch to VetTech Australia with ease. If you haven’t received your copy in the mail, call our friendly customer service team to have a hard copy delivered or emailed.

We look forward to welcoming you and your clinic to the VetTech Australia family.

Contact VetTech Australia

Email us – customerservice@vtaus.com.au

Phone us – 1300 339 139

It can be daunting for any professional to take the leap and start their own business. However, with the right team of professionals, it can be a relatively straightforward undertaking. Whilst you may have confidence in your ability to build your veterinary team, putting together a team to design and build a veterinary clinic may not be as comfortable.

A Commercial Real Estate Broker should be one of the first professionals engaged to help with finding the ideal property for your new clinic. The Broker should be able to provide a market analysis to help identify potential properties and help you narrow down the budget that should be allowed for leasing or purchasing a property. One of the first things your Real Estate Broker will need to know is how much space or how large of a property you need. By working with an experienced Veterinary Architect when you begin to search for property, you can set yourself up for success early on and minimise the time and expense of building, which is essential to every budget critical start-up.

Pre-design services available from an Architect include “Needs Assessments” and “Feasibility Studies”. As part of a “Needs Assessment”, an Architect should be able to provide you with a veterinary specific design questionnaire that will ask you all the relevant questions about your intended business, to inform the project brief. Once the project brief is established, the Architect can then accurately estimate how much lease space or land is needed to suit your intended operational requirements. Having an accurate estimate of what is needed will quickly narrow the search by your Real Estate Broker. The Architect can then help evaluate the right-sized properties as part of a Feasibility Study. This process should help you confirm the suitability of specific properties for your start-up, and help you start to consider the potential costs involved with building your practice. There can be a broad variation in costs to fit out different properties. A feasibility study should identify the major costs to be expected, in addition to how well they may be suited to veterinary practice use.

An Architect that has worked specifically with start-up veterinary practices should be able to suggest cost-saving design ideas, to help minimise the cost of the build, and maximise the revenue-generating potential for any given size clinic. It is important for every start-up not to “over-build”. Controlling the cost of the build starts with the needs assessment by establishing the size of the clinic that is needed. The Architect’s concept design has the potential to impact construction costs and potential income by optimising space usage, maximising revenue-generating areas, and minimising non-revenue-generating areas.

Lastly, during the detailed design, striking the right balance for quality of materials that minimise initial costs, while still delivering a facility that will be easy to maintain and suitable for the intended purpose is key. An experienced Veterinary Architect can advise on the relative cost of materials and the performance trade-offs between one vs another.

When considering a new build, be sure to pre-qualify and interview your Architect as you would anyone you are going to employ. Scrutinise their specific, relevant experience, and don’t be afraid to ask questions. The Architect should serve as a trusted adviser to support you throughout the design and build, so if they are unwilling or unable to explain the process in a way you can understand, they may not be the right fit for your project. Success starts with building the right team.

To learn more about us or to get started, please call +61 7 5657 6777 or visit: therian.com.au/veterinary-clinics-hospitals/