Vanessa is the Director and founder of Vascular Diagnostics. She completed a Bachelor of Forensic Biology in Biomedical Science at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and went on to be a medical scientist in blood bank at Royal Prince Alfred, Blacktown and Westmead Public Hospitals.

Vanessa went on to complete a Diploma in Medical Ultrasonography in Vascular through the Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine. She completed her ultrasound training at Concord Repatriation Public Hospital, Liverpool Vascular Laboratory and St George Vascular Services. Vanessa has since worked at other vascular labs including Vascular Diagnostics at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Vascular at St Vincent's Private Hospital and Bankstown Heart Clinic.

During her time at St George Vascular Services, Vanessa was given the opportunity to train other medical professionals in the field of ultrasound. It was during this time that she met Dr Ching-Siang Cheng, who is the vascular surgeon who supports the practice. Dr Cheng and Vanessa both shared the same vision of providing high quality vascular services to the people of Southwestern Sydney, leading Vanessa to open Vascular Diagnostics.

Vanessa has given many educational lectures at national vascular conferences and is currently honorary staff for the School of Medicine at the University of Western Sydney (UWS). She holds the position of Adjunct Fellow where she gives lectures and provides educational material for the Graduate Diploma in Vascular Sonography.

In her free time, Vanessa likes to get creative with her manicure, have her hair braided lots of bright colours, hang out with her cats and go to Muay Thai with her husband and friends.