EV&DS Vets
Dr Oliver Liyou
BVSc (Hons 1) MACVSc (Eq Dent)
Grew up on small farm in Queensland with up to 30 horses at a time. Enjoyed riding, mustering, learning to shoe horses, filing teeth, breaking in, training and driving pacers and drove a winner at his first race drive in Brisbane in 1990 at 18 years of age.
Graduated from Uni of Queensland Vet School in 1993. Worked in Grafton for 9 years in mixed animal practice. Spent time working in UK and US in 1997 and 2000. Started Equine Veterinary Dental Services in 2002, and now organises equine dentistry post graduate workshops to train equine vets how to perform equine dentistry — with over 300 attending in 7 years from 2002.
Interests include trying to be the best dad he can to his 3 boys, horses, promoting equine dentistry to the equine veterinary profession, rugby league, golf, kayaking, camping and outdoor activities.
Dr Gill Scroxton
BSc BVMS
Born in Surrey, England and grew up in Zimbabwe, where she enjoyed pony club, jumping and eventing horses until the age of 33 when she moved to Australia.
Graduated from Murdoch Uni Vet School, WA in 2000, and been in equine practice — in WA until moving to Grafton in 2009. Gill also lectured in equine studies at Curtin University for 3 years — teaching equine reproduction and equine health.
Gill had first visited Grafton at an equine dentistry post grad workshop in 2004, and revisited at an advanced level course in 2006. She made a difficult decision to sell her practice in WA in 2008 and move to Grafton in 2009 to join EVDS. Since then Gill has fallen in love with Grafton, its surroundings, the people and has become a partner at EVDS, so is here to stay!
Dr Ben Sykes
BSc BVMS MS Diplomate ACVIM MBA
Ben graduated from Murdoch University in 1997 and has worked in full time equine practice since. Following graduation, he worked in Australia for 3 years including an internship at Randwick Equine Center and a stud season at Scone Veterinary Hospital. He then completed a two and half year residency in Equine Internal Medicine in the USA before moving to Finland. In Finland, he headed the University of Helsinki's equine clinic before establishing the first private 24-hour equine hospital in the country.
Ben is a passionate educator and currently serves as the Visiting Professor in Equine Medicine and Surgery at the Estonian University of Life Sciences and is an instructor for the University of Liverpool's online postgraduate courses. He has lectured extensively throughout Scandinavia and presented at the ACVIM annual forum in the USA.
Ben's main areas of interest are performance horses and internal medicine. He is FEI accredited and has served as the treating veterinarian at numerous World Cup shows including the Helsinki and Tallinn international horse shows. He currently serves as the NSW Polocrosse Association team veterinarian and is an enthusiastic part owner of two racehorses.
He is married to Katja with two children, Marcus and Jessica. Outside of work, his interests include Australian Rules football, horse racing, sailing and working on his farm.
Dr Louisa Poutsma
BVSc (Hons) CMAVA
