Our Veterinarians
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Amy Cook, DVM - Owner Dr. Amy Cook has been practicing veterinary medicine in the area since 1996, and became the owner of Newbury Vet clinic in 2011. She appreciates the area's sense of community and loves the countryside. Dr. Cook shares her home with a pack of kids and a pack of dogs, and spends her free time gardening and growing her own food. She feels lucky to spend every day surrounded by animals, and really enjoys working with people as well.
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Melora Hunt, DVM
Dr. Melora Hunt joins our practice with over 20 years experience in large animal, small animal, and exotics veterinary care. When not working, Dr. Hunt spends her time working with her dogs and enjoying the outdoors. We are excited to have her as part of our veterinary team, and she looks forward to getting to know more of the Newbury community. |
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Melissa Helstein, DVM |
Office Staff & Technicians
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Jamie (Receptionist)
Jamie was born in Pennsylvania and moved to Newbury, Vermont at age 5. She went to Newbury Elementary School and graduated from Oxbow High School in 1999. Jamie began working in customer service straight out of high school at a few local banks and then joined her family's business as the office manager in 2006. Jamie currently works for her family one day a week in the office in addition to her full-time position at Newbury Veterinary Clinic. She joined the veterinary business in 2011 when Dr. Amy Cook opened Newbury Veterinary Clinic, and has been there ever since. Jamie has a teenage son, Jacob, and they currently live in Newbury, VT.
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Dawn (Receptionist)
Dawn has lived in Piermont, NH all her life. She grew up on a small family farm with all different kinds of livestock, dogs and cats. She has always had a love for all animals. Horses were her passion. She was enrolled in horse 4-H from age 8 till she aged out at 19 competing horses on a high level. She then became a 4-H leader for 6 years. In that time she was also enrolled in Pony Club where she competed on high levels till she aged out at 19. She worked on horse farms the whole time while growing up. She had her own business at her farm breaking and training young horses and problem horses and giving riding lessons to all ages. She got her first rescue dog while working at a vets office in North Haverhill, NH at the age of 16. She started her family at age 24 and has 3 boys all in their 20’s. She prefers to have rescue animals since they need a home and someone to love! She currently has one horse, one cat and two dogs all rescued. She has always wanted to work as a vet or vet technician but life took her other directions until now where she is currently employed with us.
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Sue was born in Poughkeepsie, NY and moved to Piermont, NH, in 2006. She lives in Piermont on her parents small hobby farm with her husband Will, and 2 children: Blake, born in 2003, and Kylee, born in 2007. They share their home with their mixed breed rescue dog, Riley, and three cats - Abby, Ziva and Gibbs. At the farm, there is also a very small herd of Dexter cattle as well as chickens and turkeys. Sue has been working at NVC since it opened in September of 2011 and in 2012 become a certified Veterinary Assistant. She continues to further her education in the veterinary field by taking and going to many continuing education classes.
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Hannah (Veterinary Technician)
Hannah graduated with her Associate's in Veterinary Technology in 2015 in Colorado, and has always had a passion for animals and medicine. She has worked with large and small animals in private practice and university medicine, which has earned her experience in emergency critical care, anesthesia, and preventative medicine. She has a special affinity for ruminants and chubby corgis. Hannah currently lives in Newbury with her partner and their two unemployed dogs. She spends her days off hiking, reading, writing, and bingeing bad reality shows.
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Tabitha (Veterinary Technician)
Tabitha is a certified veterinary technician. She grew up in Connecticut and earned a bachelor’s degree in animal science from the University of Connecticut. She worked on large horse farms in Pennsylvania and Germany and was employed by several veterinarians in Connecticut before moving to Vermont in 2001. Her favorite part of her job is assisting in all aspects of surgical and dental procedures. Tabitha is married and has an animal family of 2 dogs named Ziva and Havok as well as 5 cats – Tanner, Simon, Marilyn, Phoebe, and Fritz.
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Jacy Aldrich (Veterinary Technician)
Jacy grew up on a farm in New England. Her upbringing manifested her dream of working with animals. In 2023 Jacy graduated college with her Veterinary Assistant Certificate. She started her career strictly practicing large animal, but now does both bovine at Blue Mountain Dairy Vet Services and small animal at Newbury Vet Clinic . Although she’s currently focusing on gaining experience in the veterinary field, she’d like to further pursue her education to become a certified technician. When not working, Jacy can usually be found at the barn, either with her horses or cattle.
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Lomond grew up and still lives in Newbury. She has always had animals in her life, mostly dogs and cats but also horses and goats. Her rescue dog Daisy is a Hound cross who loves to run and is learning to navigate an agility course. Lomond has worked in our kennel since the summer of 2022 and also works full-time as a School Counselor. In her free time she enjoys reading, game nights with friends, and traveling.
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Madisyn (Kennel Assistant)
Madisyn is a junior at Blue Mountain Union School and is currently working as a veterinary technician and kennel attendant. Madisyn lives with her family in South Ryegate, VT. Madisyn's household has 11 people, 9 cats and 5 dogs. Madisyn's childhood dream has always been to be a veterinarian or vet tech.
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