Other Vets

Susanna qualified from London University in 1983. After qualifying, she worked in practices in Oxfordshire and the West Midlands, before coming to this practice in 1988. Susanna works part time in the practice and deals solely with small animals. Having a particular interest in using therapeutic dietary manipulation (such as prescription diets), she has run successful pet weight watcher clinics for a number of years. She also has particular interests in geriatric and internal medicine and is studying for her dermatology certificate.

Hazel Cooper qualified from the RVC, London in 1989 and worked at mixed and small animal practices in Yorkshire, Cumbria, the Midlands and Cornwall before joining us at Head and Head in 2003. Hazel works part time and does solely small animal work at the practice. She enjoys all aspects of small animal practice and her particular interests include dentistry, dealing with rabbits (and other "small furries") and using homoeopathy to complement her conventional treatments. She has the and has recently achieved full membership of the faculty of Homoeopathy.

David Kitchen is a farmers son. He was born in Cornwall and lived here until the age of 12, when he moved abroad with his family. He then lived initially in Spain, before moving to the USA, where he obtained a BSc in Biochemistry from High Point University, North Carolina in 1991. In 1997 he qualified as a Veterinary Surgeon from Edinburgh University. He has worked in mixed and large animal practices in Cornwall since then, joining us at Head and Head in March 2005. He spends most of his time doing farm and equine work in the practice. David has a small farm with suckler cows. When farming allows, he enjoys travelling abroad!

Simon Mitchell started here at Head and Head in March 2011.

Simon grew up in Carbis Bay and saw practice with us here at Head and Head as a vet student. After qualifying, he worked as a large animal vet at Kenwyn near Truro. He is particularly interested in bovine herd health work and enjoys all aspects of large animal practice.

Emma Stack joined us in January 2012. Emma grew up in Sheffield and graduated last summer from Bristol University. She then spent some time travelling; working with small animals in the RSPCA in Fiji and also spending time in New Zealand gaining valuable experience during the busy calving season there.

She is interested in all aspects of mixed general practice and is settling in well.

Lee Thwaites joined us shortly after Emma. Lee is from Exmoor and graduated from Liverpool University last summer. Since graduating he spent some time working for the PDSA gaining valuable surgical and medical experience and also spent some time in Madeira working as a diving instructor! He is interested in all aspects of mixed general practice and is enjoying working in Cornwall. Among his many outside interests, Lee is an accomplished equestrian!