Ilse Pedler qualified from Cambridge university in 1989 and had an interest in homeopathy from graduation. She attended several courses at the LHH and then completed the HPTG course gaining her diploma in Homeopathy in 2001.

She has also trained in acupuncture and herbal medicine. She is one of the directors of Mercer and Hughes Veterinary Surgeons in Saffron Walden. She has a son and step son and long suffering husband all of whom have benefitted from Homeopathy. She has a small dog called Broccoli who accompanies her up various mountains in the Lake District.

Nazrene Moosa was born and educated in South Africa. She graduated from the University of Pretoria and began her career in a small animal practice in Durban, South Africa.

She moved to the U.K. in the late nineties and has been in small animal practice in the south east since then. She qualified as a VetMFHom in 2003.

Her interests include medicine and acupuncture and she enjoys keeping fit, spending time with her cats and travel.

Malene Jørgensen graduated from The Royal Veterinary- and Agricultural University in Copenhagen in 1992 and already during the university years discovered the immense possibilities of complementary medicine – in particular homeopathy.

This lead to her attending courses in homeopathy and acupuncture in Denmark and Germany from 1996 – 1998, where she started her own practice for small animals and horses before moving to the UK in 2001 to work first in Somerset with Geoff Johnson and later in Yorkshire, in practices incorporating complementary medicine. 

In 2004 she qualified as a VetMFHom. She worked in Yorkshire for another four years, after which she moved to France to set up a practice solely offering complementary medicine (homeopathy, acupuncture, laser treatment, dietary advice etc). Together with her husband, Phil, she produces the association’s quarterly magazine and also manages their website and Facebook page.

Nick Thompson graduated from Edinburgh University with a degree in Veterinary Pathology (Immunology, Virology, Microbiology, Parasitology and many other fascinating ‘ologies’) and his BVM&S vet degree in 1992. He went into practice, starry-eyed and confident he could treat anything. Within six months he was beginning to get disillusioned with the conventional medical model where so many diseases are just ‘managed’, where the root causes of diseases are untreatable, if they are ever sought.

He started his training at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital in 1994 with dozens of other doctors and vets. He loved the principles, the breadth and scope of homeopathy and the holistic nature of the discipline. For the next four years he became obsessed with the field. In 1998 he very proudly gained his VetMFHom (veterinary membership of the Faculty of Homeopathy) by examination.

Since then he has been practicing homeopathy alongside herbal medicine, natural nutrition (he’s the founding President of the Raw Feeding Veterinary Society) and acupuncture. He started his own practice, Holisticvet Ltd., in 1999 (www.holisticvet.co.uk) in Bath, UK, and has been going from strength to strength since then.

He has lectured in homeopathy in, England, Scotland, Wales, Portugal, Lithuania and New Zealand. He has given lectures at the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bristol and Southampton.

He lives in Wiltshire with his wife Elly, and their two children Arthur and Ophelia, Ziggy the cat and Lady Grey and Charlotte, the chickens.

Mark Elliott qualified from Bristol University Veterinary School in 1989 and immediately embarked upon an intensive period of study at the Faculty of Homeopathy in London. He achieved his qualification in this field in 1996. He established a practice near Chichester in West Sussex in 1994, which quickly became one of the largest centres for Alternative Medicine, as applied to animals, in the UK.

In 2001 he sold the practice which allowed more time to focus on his specialist fields – Homeopathy and Acupuncture – as well as furthering his research interests and allowing time for further in-depth study.

In 2010, he decided that to further evolve the integrated medical philosophy, a return to first opinion practice had to be made. Mark took the step of opening a new practice at Oving, in West Sussex, with the aim of developing a premier centre of excellence for alternative therapies integrated within a first opinion service to the local community. Hence Mark Elliott and Associates opened on 6th June 2011.

He has written several books on Homeopathy and Holistic care of animals, as well as numerous articles published in many journals. In addition he’s held a number of advisory posts, including government appointment and was 3 times elected by the profession to the role of a Council Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. He is also a Past-President of the British Association of Homeopathic Veterinary Surgeons.