Our Staff

Dr Max Zuber BVSc FACVSc

Max graduated from Sydney University in 1969. He has been at Gladesville since 1971 and became a partner with Bob Ratcliffe and Harry Cooper in 1976. Max has been away from the practice from time to time taking 6 months off from the practice in 1984-85 to take up a position as surgical registrar at the University of Sydney,  where he subsequently remained as  part-time lecturer, and again in 1994-95 to accept a post as Visiting Fellow at the University of Florida.

Max was appointed as Associate Professor in Veterinary Surgery and Head of Surgery in the Veterinary Faculty at Sydney University in June 2001. From this time until December 2002 he was the director of the Veterinary Centre at the University. Max returned full time to Gladesville in 2003 but retains a part-time appointment as Honorary Associate Professor of Surgery with responsibility for teaching surgery to final year students and developing computer based learning programmes for medical and surgical teaching.

Max qualified as specialist in animal surgeon, becoming a Fellow of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists in 1985, and has a particular interest in orthopaedics and oncology.

In November 1991 Max opened the first diagnostic nuclear medicine facility for small animals in the Southern Hemisphere at Gladesville. He receives referral cases for this facility from throughout the country and acts as an external consultant to the University of Melbourne on small animal scintigraphy.

Max has twice been awarded the Australian Small Animal Veterinary Association “Practitioner of the Year” award, a record held by no other. In 1993 he was recipient of the Seddon award for meritorious clinical contribution to Veterinary Science in NSW.

Since 1990 Max has been elected to terms of the Presidency of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists and the Australasian Association of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging.

In 1999 he was appointed as the Australasian Veterinary Surgeons Board representative on The Veterinary Schools Accreditation Committee which evaluates the competence of veterinary graduates from Australian and New Zealand universities as well as those in overseas countries whose graduates can practice in Australia. This does involve Max being away from the practice from time to time and in 2006 / 2007 Max has been involved in accreditation matters at Charles Sturt University in Wagga,  the University of Melbourne, the University of Pretoria in South Africa, the University of  Bristol in England and James Cook University in Townsville.

Max is a born and bred Sydneysider and father of four who has lived with his family and many pets within a 5 Km radius of the Gladesville Veterinary Hospital since 1961.