RVC - Key Persons
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- Member of the Nursing Team
Alex Erlen, PhD student, Munich e-mail: alexander.erlen@pharmtox.vetmed.uni-muenchen.de
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- Member of the Nursing Team
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- Compass Research Assistant
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- Member of the Nursing Team
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- Member of the Nursing Team
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- Compass Research Assistant
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- Compass Research Assistant
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- Member of the Nursing Team
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- Member of the Reception Team
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- Member of the Nursing Team
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Abbe is interested in all areas of neurology and neurosurgery, although she has a particular interest in enhancing regeneration in the central nervous system and in the development of new diagnostics and surgical techniques for managing challenging neurological diseases. She is currently working to establish an EEG service at the QMHA to improve our ability to recognise and manage patients with seizures, as well as metabolic encephalopathies.
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- Lecturer in Comparative Pathology
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- Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomic Pathology
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- Research Assistant in Equine PPID Quality of Life Assessment
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- Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Clinical Genetics
Anna qualified from the University of Cambridge Veterinary School in 2001 and has worked in specialist equine hospitals since then. She worked for five years in Sydney, Australia with racehorses and competition horses and joined The Royal Veterinary College Equine Practice in 2006. Anna gained her certificate in Equine orthopaedic surgery in 2009 and enjoys lameness investigations and all aspects of general practice.
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- Lecturer in Small Animal Medicine / Oncology
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- Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences
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- Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology
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- Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Medicine
Barbara is particularly interested in haematological and immune mediated diseases. She has a particular interest in progressing our understanding of optimal immunosuppressive therapy protocols in patients, e.g. with immune mediated haemolytic anaemia.
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- Lecturer in Antimicrobial Resistance
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- Lecturer in Farm Animal Pathology
Carolina is particularly interested in local anaesthesia, mechanical ventilation and the uses of alpha-2 adrenergic receptor agonists. She has a particular interest in progressing our understanding of the anaesthetic management of patients with sepsis. Carolina is also interested in the anaesthetic management of patients with liver and renal disease.
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- Associate Professor in Animal Welfare and Behaviour Science
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- Senior Lecturer in Ophthalmology
Christiane is part of the Ophthalmology service and is particularly interested in conditions affecting on ocular surface disease in dogs, cats and horses. She has a particular interest in progressing our understanding of the therapeutic properties of mesenchymal stromal/stem cells and corneal disease modelling.
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- Lecturer in Basic Sciences
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- Senior Lecturer in Comparative Biomedical Sciences
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- Senior Lecturer in Cell and Molecular
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- Associate Professor Companion Animal Epidemiology
- Senior Lecturer in Companion Animal Epidemiology
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- Deputy Clinical Director QMHA & Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care
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- Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics
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- Lecturer in Zoo and Wildlife Pathology
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- Lecturer in Basic Sciences
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- Lecturer in Comparative Pathology
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- Associate Professor in Veterinary Neurology and Neurosurgery
Elsa has a particular interest in progressing our understanding of post-traumatic epilepsy and other neurological sequelae in dogs after traumatic brain injury. She is also interested in the investigation of inherited neurological disorders and all aspects of neuro-ophthalmology.
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- Lecturer in Clinical Pathology
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- Head of Research Development
Francisco is part of the Diagnostic Imaging Service and is particularly interested in vascular diseases and malformations and the use of IT to better teach those interested in Imaging. Francisco has been working as a clinical radiologist at referral only level in the UK since finishing his residency in 2002. He is a Diplomate of the RCVS and the ECVDI and has been an RCVS Recognised Specialist since 2004. He has taught and examined residents involved in ECVDI residencies and has published in English and non-English Speaking journals and books.
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- Equine Veterinary Surgeon
Goncalo graduated from the University of Lisbon, Portugal and started working in the UK in 2003. After some time in practice with an equine ambulatory team in the midlands, Goncalo joined the Dubai Equine Hospital where he completed an internship at the referral hospital and was involved with high performance and competition work. He then returned to the UK where he worked in ambulatory practice in Essex before joining the Royal Veterinary College in 2006.
Goncalo enjoys the multi discipline nature of ambulatory work, in particular equine orthopaedics, ophthalmology and geriatrics.
Harold qualified from the Royal Veterinary College in 2018 having previously completed a degree in biological sciences at the University of Exeter. He stayed on at the RVC equine referral hospital for a year working alongside specialists dealing a variety of referral cases.
Harold then joined an equine ambulatory practice based near Windsor in Berkshire predominantly dealing with sports horses and polo ponies. He was one of the regular duty vets at Guards polo club managing an array of orthopaedic emergencies.
Outside work he loves travelling, cooking and playing polo with his wife India. He is currently training several thoroughbreds off the racetrack to play polo but also enjoys teaching them to jump.
Having re-joined the RVC team in Autumn 2020, Harold really enjoys the mixed nature of equine ambulatory practice but has a particular interest in sports medicine, dentistry, diagnostic imaging and surgery.
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- Head of Veterinary Forensic Pathology & Lecturer in Anatomic Pathology
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- Lecturer in Internal Medicine
Jack is interested in all aspects of canine and feline internal medicine, although is keen to focus on nephrology.
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- Compass PhD Student and Post - Doctoral Researcher
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- Equine Practice Assistant
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- Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Neurology and Neurosurgery
Joe is interested in all aspects of veterinary neurology and neurosurgery, although he is particularly interesed in the management of acute spinal cord injury and the development of advanced neurosurgical techniques such as transsphenoidal hypophysectomy. Joe's research interests centre around progressing our understanding of acute spinal cord injury in dogs, canine epilepsy and the use of hypophysectomy surgery to treat pituitary disorders in cats and dogs.
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- Senior Lecturer in Anatomic Pathology
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- Associate Professor in Transfusion Medicine and Emergency and Critical Care
- Co - Head of the Emergency Referrals
Karen is co-head of the Emergency Referrals and Critical Care services and Director of the Transfusion Medicine Service. She has a particular interest in progressing our understanding of anaemia and transfusion medicine in dogs and cats.
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- Associate Professor of Small Animal Surgery
Karla is Head of Small Animal Soft Tissue Surgery and Clinical Lead for Small Animal Minimally Invasive Surgery (laparoscopy and thoracoscopy).
Karla has completed extensive training in minimally invasive surgery at the Royal Free Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and offers a wide range of laparoscopic and thoracoscopic surgeries. She is a proponent of virtual reality simulation training in minimally invasive techniques, as means of providing excellent standards of care to the greatest number of veterinary patients.
Karla has many years of experience in emergency surgery of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, biliary system, chest, urinary system and skin.
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- Lecturer in Basic Sciences
Liz is part of the Cardiovascular and Renal Biology section of the Comparative Physiology and Clinical Sciences research group. She has a particular interest in equine endothelial cells.
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- Lecturer in Molecular Veterinary Epidemiology
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- Senior Lecturer ( Eq. to Associate Professor ) in Animal Welfare
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- Lecturer in Basic Sciences
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- Senior Lecturer in Animal Health Economics
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- Professor of Neuroscience
Rebecca enjoys all internal medicine cases, but is particularly interested in dogs and cat presenting with renal and lower urinary tract disorders or with endocrinopathies. She oversees the medical management for all cats that are seen for management through our subcutaneous ureteral bypass (SUB) clinic and her current research focuses on calcium disorders and formation of calcium-based kidney stones.
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- Associate Professor in Veterinary Extension Services and Infectious Diseases of Cattle
Dr Richard Booth qualified from the University of Bristol with a degree in Veterinary Science in 2005 having also completed an intercalated BSc in Veterinary Pathology at The Royal Veterinary College. He then went on to study for a PhD at the RVC entitled "Bovine Virus Diarrhoea Virus - A Longitudinal Farm Study Of The Health Profiles And Molecular Epidemiology Associated With Viral Control".
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- Professor in Small Internal Medicine & Nephrology
- Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine
Rosanne is Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine and Nephrology. Her clinical and research interests are in both canine and feline nephrology and urology. She is interested in all aspects of urinary tract disease but is part of the team offering minimally invasive procedures such as laser ablation of ectopic ureters and laser lithotripsy for stone disease. She is a co-director of the extracorporeal therapies team at the RVC, providing advanced dialysis support for patients with acute kidney injury and plasmapheresis for patients with conditions such as immune mediated haemolytic anaemia, myasthenia gravis and more recently as a novel therapy for cutaneous renal glomerular vasculopathy (CRGV/Alabama Rot). She provides the clinical support and advice for the RVC's GFR service.
Rosanne's research is focussed on systemic hypertension and chronic kidney disease in cats. She is currently supporting two PhD students evaluating chronic kidney disease - mineral and bone disorder and oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in feline CKD. Further active research includes the genetics of feline hypertension and whole genome sequencing of E.coli associated with subclinical bacteriuria and urinary tract infections. Rosanne is also chair of the infection control group and responsible for antimicrobial stewardship in the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals.
She supervises postgraduate senior clinical training scholars and is actively involved in the clinical training of undergraduate BVetMed students. Rosanne is also module leader for three medicine modules in the Certificate of Advanced Veterinary Practice (CertAVP) and has lectured both nationally and internationally at both general practice and specialist level in her areas of clinical and research interest.
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- Lecturer in Companion Animal Behaviour and Welfare Science
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- Senior Lecturer in Statistics
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- Senior Lecturer in Molecular Bacteriology
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- Lecturer in Veterinary Clinical Microbiology
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- Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care
Simon is part of the Emergency Referrals and Critical Care services with particular interests in patient side ultrasonography, cardiovascular monitoring, endothelial function and ischaemia-reperfusion injury. Research interests would include neuromodulation and management of pericardial effusions.
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- Associate Professor in Animal Behaviour and Welfare Science
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- Senior Lecturer in Farm Animal Diagnostics
Stefano is interested in all aspects of sepsis, although is particularly interesred in lactate in sepsis, acute kidney injury and urinary biomarkers.
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- Associate Professor in Population Medicine
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- Associate Professor in Animal Welfare Science
Andrew's research focuses on the investigation of antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial efficacy, and dose optimisation using a combined microbiological and pharmacometrics approach.
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- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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- Member of the Vet Team
- Cert AVP ( DI ) PG Cert Vet Ed FHEA MRCVS - Head Vet
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- Member of the Nursing Team
Graeme began his farm career working at dairy farm with 150 cows before completing his National Diploma in Agriculture at Moulton College. He then took some some out travelling in New Zealand where he worked milking 800 cattle. On his return he then began working as a General Farm Worker at The Royal Veterinary College. He then returned as Farm Manager where he manages the herd, spends a lot of time with students, keeping the paperwork up-to-date and accurate, optimising cow performance, liaising with teaching staff, organising appropriate animals for classes and maintaining their welfare.
Welfare is an important part of Graeme's role, he takes great care to minimise the amount of time our cows are waiting for students. A happy cow is one that can eat, drink and rest and this is how we like them to spend their time.
Graeme also has a dog called Berri who sometimes visits the farm with him.
Graeme can be contacted by email: gwebster@rvc.ac.uk
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- Member of the Nursing Team
- Lead Nurse
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- Member of the Reception Team
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- Member of the Reception Team
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- Member of the Nursing Team
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- Member of the Nursing Team
- RVN - Head Nurse
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- Member of the Nursing Team
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- Member of the Reception Team
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- Member of the Reception Team
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- Member of the Nursing Team
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- Development Office Assistant
Mark is responsible for providing administrative support to the Alumni Relations team. Mark joined the RVC in 2014 after previously working at Oaklands College in St Albans.
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- Equine Client Coordinator
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- Equine Practice Assistant
Hannah qualified from the University of Edinburgh in 2018, having also completed a bachelors degree in infectious disease. Hannah then completed a year-long internship at Scone Equine Hospital, which was mainly focussed on equine medicine and intensive care. She then stayed in Australia and spent time working in both hospital and ambulatory settings, which included providing veterinary services at race meetings. After returning home to the UK, she spent two years working in ambulatory practice in East Devon, gaining a wide range of experience with its varied case load. Here she undertook a large amount of charity work, which she found very rewarding. She enjoys all aspects of ambulatory work, but is particularly interested in equine medicine, which she is currently undertaking a certificate in.
Outside of work Hannah enjoys playing (and watching) rugby, open water swimming, and running.
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- Senior Dispensary Technician and Operations Manager Assistant Equine
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- Member of the Nursing Team
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- Senior Client Co - Ordinator
Jason has specialised in equine veterinary care for over 20 years qualifying from Cambridge University in 1992. Working first in Hampshire where he developed the equine side of a mixed practice, he then went on to spend 9 years at Peter Scott Dunns equine hospital in Berkshire. Working with both pleasure and performance horses at all levels of competition, Jason developed his interest in general equine practice, stud work, lameness investigation, back problems and dentistry. Whilst working for Peter Scott Dunns he was routinely the on duty vet at Guards Polo, including the annual Cartier Polo Gold Cup and was also duty racecourse vet at Sandown, Ascot and Kempton. He worked in their equine hospital performing over 1500 equine general anaesthetics and dealing with their post-operative complications and care. He also looked after the equine stud work for this large 10 equine vet practice including AI, with both chilled and frozen semen.
In 2002, Jason moved to Hertfordshire where he joined the RVC equine practice. He was awarded his Royal College Certificate in Equine Practice in 2003 and has since focused on developing a strong team to expand the RVC equine practice. He was appointed an Official Measurer for the JMB in 2006. The practice grew rapidly thanks to the dedication of the team he built up and he continues to steer and develop it in order to maintain its position as a centre of excellence dedicated to serving the horses and owners in the community.
With his other keen life interests, his wife Julia and three children, he has little time for hobbies. He hopes that one day he will return to climbing, riding and skiing.
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- Lecturer in Veterinary Public Health
Kurt's teaching and research encompasses veterinary public health. His interests lie in the long-term sustainable utilisation of animals and their products, and how a One Health approach can achieve this goal. His research focuses on animal welfare at slaughter, antimicrobial usage as well as trade and food safety.
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- Lecturer in Livestock Veterinary Extension Services
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- Imaging Facility Manager ( Vaccinology and Cell Therapy Centre )
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- Equine Client Coordinator
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- Lecturer in Veterinary Clinical Pathology
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- Member of the Reception Team
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- Member of the Nursing Team
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- Member of the Nursing Team
- Senior Nurse
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- Professor of Veterinary Education
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- Head of the Graduate School and Professor in Veterinary Clinical Epidemiology
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- Professor in Veterinary Dermatology and Cutaneous Bacteriology
Anette is particularly interested in staphylococcal skin infection, antibiotic resistance and food hypersensitivity. Anette is also interested in the therapeutic options and management of MRSA and MRSP infections in companion animals and infection control in small animal practice. As well as supervising small animal dermatology cases, Anette is involved with equine referral cases.
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- Member of the Reception Team
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- Member of the Nursing Team
Sam is the Alumni Relations Officer and working with Vicki, Sam is responsible for the annual Eclipse magazine, newsletters, alumni website pages and social media. She also enjoys chatting to alumni at various reunion events across the world. Sam is relatively new to the team, joining the RVC in July 2017. You may have also spoken to Sam if you have purchased clothing or gifts from the RVC online shop!
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- Finance Department, Banking & Treasury
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- Member of the Nursing Team
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- Meervenne, Collaborative VetCompass Researcher, Copenhagen
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- Member of the Reception Team
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- Member of the Nursing Team
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- Head of Alumni Relations and Events
Vicki is the Head of Alumni Relations and Events and is responsible for setting the strategy and vision for Alumni Relations, planning and implementing programmes and projects to engage alumni and provide tangible benefits to alumni and current students.
She secures commitments from alumni to provide professional expertise and volunteer service; collaborates with other RVC departments to create and maintain pathways for alumni participation and works with colleagues in fundraising to encourage giving to the Alumni Fund.
Working with the Events Manager, she oversees the co-ordination and delivery of the annual calendar of major RVC events. Vicki is a full member of the Institute of Fundraising and worked at the RVC for over 17 years (in fundraising, events and alumni relations). She has two children and a 6 year standard long haired dachshund called Pepper (short for Pepperoni!) who is incredibly lazy!
David's clinical interests include interventional cardiology for the management of congenital heart disease and the use of advanced echocardiographic techniques for the diagnosis and prognosis of cardiac disease in companion animals. He is also interested in the therapeutic options / management of dilated cardiomyopathy in dogs through the development of novel stem cell therapies.
The Clinical Cardiology service consists of 4 Diplomats (Virginia Luis Fuentes, Tsumugi Anne Kurosawa and David Connolly), one staff clinician (Xavier Navarro-Cubas) and 3 senior training scholars (Joon Seo, Inma Cerrada Serra, Iñaki Prado Checa) and our dedicated nurse Haley Cook. Together we are committed to running an efficient, state of the art and client orientated service. If you have any questions regarding this service please don't hesitate to contact us on QMHACardiologyTeam@rvc.ac.uk