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Endoscopy Vet Referrals was started by Dr Elise Robertson 15 years ago, with the aim of providing high-quality, efficient and accessible peripatetic services for veterinary practices in East Sussex, West Sussex, Surrey, Kent, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, North London, SE London, SW London and Central London. As a mobile referral consultant, Elise travels to the referring practice to perform out-patient canine and feline endoscopy procedures.

UK Team

Dr Elise Robertson

London and South East

BS BVetMed MANZCVSc(Feline) DipABVP(Feline) FHEA FRSB FRCVS

ABVS® Recognised Board Certified Diplomate Feline Practice
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Dr Sheila Wills

Dr Sheila Wills

Mid-Wales, Shropshire and Stoke-on-Trent

BSc BVetMed CertSAM DipECVIM-CA MRCVS

RCVS Recognised Specialist in Feline Medicine

EBVS® European Veterinary Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine
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Nicola Mitton

Head of Operations and Executive PA

Registered Veterinary Nurse
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Prof-Mahmood-Bhutta

Prof. Mahmood Bhutta

AKC BSc MB BS PgDip (Med Eth Law) PGCME FRCS (ORL-HNS) DPhil

Consultant ENT Surgeon Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
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International Team

Middle East

Megan Thoburn

Head Nurse & Referrals Co-ordinator
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Mainland China

Tommy Yuen

Head Nurse & Referrals Co-ordinator
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Singapore

Melissa Mike

Melissa Mike

Head Nurse & Referrals Co-ordinator
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Hong Kong

Suk Man Hui

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Malaysia

Gayathri Devi Mohan

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“Elise is quite frankly superb at her job. Her interest and enthusiasm pours through in her dedication and approach to her work. Her client skills and 'bed side manner' are second to none. I could not recommend her more. Just brilliant!”
Karen Scott BVM&S, GPCert(FelP) MRCVSVETERINARY SURGEON, PET DOCTORS, SEAFORD, EAST SUSSEX
“A big 'Thank You' to Elise for the care she provides and the obvious passion she has for her profession and the animals she treats. Without Elise, Mimi my 8 year old tabby female would not be enjoying life to the full she currently is now.”
Owner of MimiWILFRIED, BRIGHTON, UK
“We have worked closely with Elise for several years and thoroughly recommend her personable approach to our clients' more complex cases. Elise is always happy to discuss all aspects of feline medicine and we've found her in-house referral service invaluable.”
Peter Haggis BVM&S CertSAO MRCVSVETERINARY SURGEON, WILBURY VETERINARY SURGERY, HOVE, UK
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Dr Elise Robertson

BS BVetMed MANZCVSc(Feline) DipABVP(Feline) FHEA FRSB FRCVS

ABVS® Recognised Board Certified Diplomate Feline Practice
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Nicola Mitton

Veterinary Nurse and Personal Assistant
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Prof. Mahmood Bhutta

AKC BSc MB BS PgDip (Med Eth Law) PGCME FRCS (ORL-HNS) DPhil

Consultant ENT Surgeon Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
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UK Team

Dr Elise Robertson

BS BVetMed MANZCVSc(Feline) DipABVP(Feline) FHEA FRSB FRCVS

ABVS® Recognised Board Certified Diplomate Feline Practice
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Nicola Mitton

Registered Veterinary Nurse and
Executive PA

Human ENT Surgeon
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Prof. Mahmood Bhutta

AKC BSc MB BS PgDip (Med Eth Law) PGCME FRCS (ORL-HNS) DPhil

Consultant ENT Surgeon Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
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Dr Elise Robertson

BS BVetMed MANZCVSc(Feline) DipABVP(Feline) FHEA FRSB FRCVS
ABVS® Recognised Board Certified Diplomate Feline Practice

Elise graduated, with honours, from Colorado State University (1998) and The Royal Veterinary College, U of London (2003). She operates a peripatetic endoscopy & endosurgery referral service (canine & feline) for first opinion and referral practices in SE England. She also operates quarterly referral clinics in the Middle East and SE Asia including United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. She regularly lectures and provides practical endoscopy courses on both national and international platforms including UK, USA, Sweden, Finland, Germany, UAE, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia. 

Elise has received her formal post-graduate training in medical endoscopy, interventional endoscopy and ‘key hole’ surgery from well-known human paediatric & neonatology endoscopy hospitals as well as veterinary academic institutions based in the UK (Royal Free NHS Hampstead, London), France, Germany, Italy (Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital & European Endoscopy Training Centre, Rome), United States and Thailand (Siriraj Piyamaharajkarun Children’s Hospital, Bangkok).

Elise currently divides her time between clinical work, teaching/lecturing and publishing within the subjects of feline medicine, endoscopy & endosurgery. She lectures for ISFM/University of Sydney Distance Education Course in Feline Medicine, co-lecturer (CE Endoscopy & Endosurgery courses) at Translational Medicine Institute at Colorado State University, and visiting Professor at Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Veterinary Science, in Bangkok. She has a particular passion for delivering practical feline medicine and endoscopy/endosurgery education, for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, on a global scale. She’s a recipient of the 2017 BSAVA Frank Beatty Travel Scholarship, 2018 BSAVA PetSavers Award for her meritorious contributions as a veterinary surgeon in small animal veterinary practice and awarded Fellow Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for her contributions to the advancement of veterinary endoscopy education.

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Dr Sheila Wills

BSc BVetMed CertSAM DipECVIM-CA MRCVS
RCVS Recognised Specialist in Feline Medicine
EBVS® European Veterinary Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine

Sheila obtained her degree in Animal Science from the University of Reading in 1994 followed by her Veterinary Degree from the Royal Veterinary College, University of London in 1998. She operates a peripatetic canine and feline endoscopy service for first opinion and referral practices in the Mid-Wales, Shropshire and Staffordshire regions of the UK.

Sheila spent five years in primary care small animal practice before undertaking a residency in Feline Medicine at the Feline Centre, University of Bristol, which she completed in 2006. She has led several small animal medicine departments within large veterinary referral hospitals across the UK including the Animal Health Trust, Wey Referrals and Lumbry Park Veterinary Specialists. She also provided a small animal medicine advisory service to general practitioners during her role as a small animal medicine consultant for IDEXX veterinary laboratories. She returned to the Feline Centre at Bristol Veterinary School to undertake a one-year feline medicine lectureship post before taking up an academic post as the director of an international veterinary postgraduate examination body. In 2022, Sheila returned to clinical practice as a feline medicine consultant, creating and delivering lectures and online course content for both private and academic organisations before joining Endoscopy Vet Referrals in February 2025. She has over 15 years of experience as a small animal medicine specialist and veterinary endoscopist.

She is an EBVS® European Veterinary Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine, one of only 17 RCVS Recognised Specialist’s in Feline Medicine globally and a member of the ISFM Academy of Feline Practitioners. She is particularly passionate about providing practically relevant veterinary education and regularly lectures both nationally and internationally on all aspects of Feline Medicine. She has also provided clinical tutorship to over 50 postgraduate veterinary surgeons during her role as a senior tutor on the feline medicine distance education course delivered by the Centre for Veterinary Education, University of Sydney. Sheila has a special interest in minimally invasive endoscopy, feline renal and ureteric disease, gastroenterology and delivering Cat Friendly Practice.

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Nicola Mitton

Registered Veterinary Nurse and Executive PA

After meeting Elise at a clinic in Epsom, Nicola has been working with endoscopy vet referrals since 2017 as Elise’s PA. Originally from South Africa, she immigrated to the UK in 2010 and worked as a veterinary nurse in various capacities from referral centers, Head Nursing and locuming for 11 years in and around London. Through working at a number of clinics, Nicola gained a great deal of experience in various forms of clinical practice. Since leaving the nursing profession in 2020, she moved to Spain and eventually landed back in South Africa where she continued to manage all the bookings for cases from over 150 practices around London, South East England, Singapore and beyond! Please feel free to contact Nicola with any referrals or enquiries about our services!

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Prof. Mahmood Bhutta

AKC BSc MB BS PgDip (Med Eth Law) PGCME FRCS (ORL-HNS) DPhil.
Consultant ENT Surgeon Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

Prof Bhutta has extensive experience in tympanomastoidectomy (both “back-to-front” and “front-to-back” approaches), ossiculoplasty, stapedotomy, and hearing implants, and Eustachian tuboplasty. After completing training, he spent 5 months training the first mastoid surgeons in Cambodia, and then took up consecutive College Memorial Fund and TWJ Otology Fellowships in Western Australia, delivering otological care to remote Aboriginal communities, alongside work in Perth furthering expertise in hearing implants. More recently, he has branched into the veterinary world, and pioneered image guidance and endoscopic surgery to remove cholesteatoma in dogs. His academic interests lie in chronic otitis media. During training he’d completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford as a Wellcome Trust Clinical Fellow and Phizackerley Scholar at Balliol College, exploring molecular mechanisms in chronic otitis media, and ran the largest study in the world on otitis media genetics. He was subsequently appointed NIHR Clinical Lecturer at UCL Ear Institute, then visiting fellow at the University of Western Australia, and finally Chair in ENT at Brighton & Sussex Medical School. He has delivered many invited national and international lectures, authored over 150 journal articles, two books and several book chapters, and won numerous research awards. He is consultant to the programme for the prevention of deafness and hearing loss at the World Health Organisation, where he is developing their ear care training. He has trained health workers in ear and hearing care in Cambodia, Zambia, Fiji, Bangladesh and South Africa.   

Prof Bhutta’s other professional projects centre on sustainable healthcare. His initial work was on labour rights in the production and supply of medical goods. He founded a multi award-winning group at the International Department of the British Medical Association, which I continue to lead, and work with UK government, NHS procurement hubs, NGOs and International procurement and policy institutions to foster better working conditions in healthcare supply chains to the UK and internationally, including for surgical instruments, medical gloves, and healthcare textiles. He has given a TED talk on this issue, and published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, British Medical Journal, and the Lancet. More recently he has worked on environmental sustainability in healthcare, co-lead the Green strategy at his hospital Trust, and has been invited to chair a national report on sustainable surgery. 

In 2006 Mahmood founded the Medical Fair and Ethical Trade Group (hosted at the British Medical Association) in response to labour rights abuses in the manufacture of medical products, including surgical instruments, gloves and textiles. He works with the NHS, and international procurement organisations and NGOs, to foster better working conditions in healthcare supply chains

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Megan Thoburn

Head Nurse & Referrals Co-ordinator

Managing Director at The Cat Vet, Dubai and personal liaison for Dr. Elise Robertson for feline and canine Endoscopy Vet Referrals for the United Arab Emirates. Megan is a Registered Veterinary Nurse, graduating from the Royal Veterinary College, London, UK in 2013.  

Megan relocated to Dubai in 2015 and joined The Cat Vet in 2020 as the Head Nurse and has since played a key role in establishing the first and only ISFM Gold Standard feline specific hospital in the UAE. The Cat Vet is a fully equipped, state of the art facility, providing both first, second and referral services for feline medicine and surgery.  

Megan initiated and established the collaboration between The Cat Vet and British Veterinary Centre, Abu Dhabi, which has proven a successful and effective base for Endoscopy Vet Referrals since March 2023. Dr. Elise Robertson has since diagnosed and therapeutically managed a wide range of feline and canine medical cases across the United Arab Emirates.  

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Tommy Yuen

Head Nurse & Referrals Co-ordinator

Tommy joined Concordia Pet Care Hong Kong in 2022. He has more than ten years of experience in animal nursing and is an experienced nurse who is dedicated to animal welfare and quality care.

He has always been a big lover of animals, especially cats, and he strives to do his best in animal care. He believes that animals deserve respect, dignity, and love. He hopes to give his best to this industry.

EVR Referrals were thrilled to welcome Tommy to the international team in 2024 as the Hong Kong referral coordinator for the region.

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Melissa Mike

Nursing Supervisor

Melissa has been an integral part of Amber Vet and Amber Cat Vet since 2018, serving as the Nursing Supervisor and primary point of contact for Dr. Elise Robertson in Singapore. She manages Dr Robertson’s appointments, ensuring a smooth and stress-free experience for both clients and their canine and feline companions.

With extensive experience in feline care, Melissa leads the nursing team in providing a calm, cat-friendly environment tailored to the unique needs of each patient. Amber Cat Vet upholds the highest standards of feline care and is recognized with the Gold Cat Friendly Clinic Standard by the International Society of Feline Medicine (ISFM).