Our Staff

Dr James Dossan is one of the three practice directors and a veterinarian. James graduated from vet school in 1991 from Sydney University. James’ interest in animals and science lead him to becoming a vet.  

Out of work, James enjoys comedy, reading and sports, especially soccer, but most of all he enjoys getting outdoors and enjoying nature. 

 James has 3 dogs, “Wirra” & “Daisy”, both Miniature Schnauzers, and “Maggie” an Australian Silky Terrier. 

Dr Adam Evans is one of the three practice directors and a veterinarian. Adam grew up around horses and other pets and has always wanted a job working with animals. Initially Adam wanted to be a horse vet but he later found small animal work to be more interesting and rewarding. He is especially interested in surgery and orthopaedics. 

Adam and wife Dr Anna Evans have 2 sons, Matthew and Griffin, as well as 2 cats “Charlie Brown” and “Demon”, and “Rosie”, a rescue Greyhound. 

Markus has been part of the Ascot team since graduating from Murdoch University in 2008. He really enjoys the challenges of both medicine and surgery, in particular soft tissue and orthopaedic surgeries. 

Having a young family, Markus prioritises a healthy work and family life balance. 

Markus has a dog, “Bill” the Blue heeler X Kelpie, who loves walks along the river. 

Catherine graduated in 2013 and has worked in mixed practice all over Australia before coming to Ascot Veterinary Hospital.  Catherine is passionate about providing a high level of care to her patients and has a particular interest in Veterinary Ultrasound.  Outside of work Catherine enjoys baking, and spending time with her young nephew and niece and her cat “Felicity” 

Deanna worked as a wildlife keeper for 6 years in Tropical North Queensland, but she decided she required a more challenging career path so pursued veterinary nursing. Nursing offered a wide variety of new skills and most of all a challenge within the animal industry. Deanna relocated to Perth in 2011 to study a full time for her Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing.  She enjoyed Perth and the lifestyle too much to move back to Queensland as originally planned. Deanna has a poodle named Pablo and 2 cats. 

Emma came to Australia in 2007 as a working backpacker from England. She decided she loved the country too much to leave, and decided to combine her love of Australia and animals and stay here to study to become a vet nurse.  She is very passionate about animal welfare and is closely linked with several rescue groups in Perth. 

Emma has two animals (both rescues) a Staffy X named ‘Poppy’ and a kitten named ‘Rupert’.

Graduating from AVT in December 2014, Jenna is now a part time member of the Ascot team. Jenna has a great love for animals, having previously been a horse riding instructor. 

She owns a horse called ’Cooper’ and has recently added to her animal family with a rescue Staffy Cross called ‘Gnarly’. 

After first perusing a degree in Animal Science and a PhD in Animal Health (working with alpacas!), Kelsie realised that the research life wasn’t for her and went back to her roots of a general love of working with animals. Graduating from AVT in December 2015, Kelsie is now a full time member of the Ascot team. She has a love for the doe-eyed gun dogs and has one and a half Cocker Spaniels, delightful Jasper and the more mischievous Chewie 

Alison graduated from Bentley TAFE in December 2012, and came to work with us in June 2015. She has always had a great love for animals and previously worked as an animal keeper in a wildlife park. 

Her home is full of many pets including 2 dogs, a cheeky Frenchie named “Dobby”, a elderly Kelpie X called “Ellie”, a rescue cat named  ”CT”, and many parrots including a Gang-Gang cockatoo named “Sisco”.  

Jean first came to us as a veterinary nursing student in 2017 . Realising her strong potential we have Jean now working for us on a casual basis. Jean has a house full of animals including a Maltese X “Kesha”, “Bosco”, a fox terrier x jack Russell, and cats Billy and Pepper. When not at work Jean can be found burning up the netball court.