Meet the Team

Dr. Alasdair Renwick joined Peninsula Vet Emergency and Referral Hospital (ERH) in 2021. He provides our Specialist Orthopaedic Service.

Alasdair is an internationally recognised specialist in small animal orthopaedic surgery in Australia and the United Kingdom. He is one of two specific orthopaedic specialists in Australia and the only one in Victoria.

Graduating from Glasgow Vet School in 1996, Alasdair spent 11 years as a general practitioner before specialising in orthopaedics and spinal surgery. He trained in surgery at Willows Referral Centre, gaining the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Diploma in Orthopaedics in 2011, then moved to East Neuk Veterinary Clinic, Scotland’s busiest orthopaedic referral clinic, before emigrating to Australia in 2018.

Alasdair has lectured in the UK and Australia and provided the first-ever veterinary orthopaedic conference in Vietnam. He is a faculty member of the AO Foundation, the world’s leading education, innovation, and research organisation specialising in the surgical treatment of trauma and musculoskeletal disorders in people and animals.

His special interests include:

• Cranial cruciate ligament rupture (TPLO)
• Lameness cases
• Complex fractures
• Hip replacements and micro/nano hip replacements
• Complex growth deformities
• Spinal stabilisations
• Working dogs expertise, getting back to full performance

His pet family consists of a four-year-old scruffy border terrier. Growing up, Alasdair had greyhounds and cats.

Dr. Clara Lauinger joined Peninsula Vet Emergency and Referral Hospital (ERH) as an Emergency and Critical Care Registrar in 2021.

Clara graduated with honours in 2014 from the University College Dublin, the only veterinary medicine course in Ireland, and decided to move to Australia that same year. In Melbourne, Clara undertook a rotating internship in a specialist referral clinic before a 3-year emergency and critical care residency, which she finished in 2021.

Clara is a keen advocate for gold-standard patient care, especially analgesia and novel therapies, such as cannabinoids (CBD), to treat pain. She is also a trained Reassessment Campaign on Veterinary Resuscitation (RECOVER) instructor and is working with our team to improve CPR outcomes on our patients.

Clara has published in the Australian veterinary journal and presented at the Australian veterinary science week. She aims to sit her specialist exams in the coming years.

Her special interests include: 

• Mechanical ventilation
• Blood transfusion
• Component therapy and nephrology. 

Her pet family consists of two rescue French bulldogs, Cu Chulainn and Bruce.