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Companion collection - Interviews
A collection of the informative, revealing and inspiring interviews that have been published in BSAVA’s member magazine, Companion. These articles are available FREE to BSAVA members.
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Ross Allan Author Ross AllanGlasgow vet Ross Allan developed a passion for speech radio as a child and remembers at 11 or 12 years old sending letters to the BBC offering comments on its output. So, it is a real thrill for him to take a break from his clinical work for his fortnightly appointment with Ask the Vet, part of BBC Radio Scotland’s Mornings show. John Bonner tuned in to hear what he had to say.
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Keith Powell Author Keith PowellHill farmer and veterinarian Keith Powell believes that bracken is a blight on the beautiful landscape around his home in the Brecon Beacons. So he has led a project intended to replace that toxic and invasive weed with woodland, providing aesthetic, environmental and economic benefits for the local community. John Bonner reports…
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Animals caught up in domestic abuse nightmares Author Mary WakehamMary Wakeham is the Founder and Chief Executive of Refuge4Pets, a charity providing foster care for the companion animals owned by victim survivors escaping domestic abuse in Devon and Cornwall. She also carries out sociological research into the circumstances in which people and pets are subjected to physical and emotional abuse at the hands of their own family members. She told John Bonner how her findings shed new light into the dark corners where the perpetrators use animals as tools to help them exert coercive control over their victims.
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Fergus Allerton Author Fergus AllertonThis month, Fergus Allerton, who took on the editorship of Companion in September last year, speaks to John Bonner about his future plans for Companion.
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Krista Arnold Author Krista ArnoldBSAVA Honorary Secretary Krista Arnold was born in Vienna to an Austrian mother and a Swiss father. Her parents split up when she was young and she grew up in a multigeneration household with her mother, aunt and grandparents who had a market stall and poultry meat business.
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Ditte Vasby Author Ditte VasbyDitte Vasby and colleagues at the University of Copenhagen veterinary school won one of this year’s BSAVA clinical abstract awards. Ditte spoke to Companion about the group’s research into determining the accuracy of VacciCheck for distemper, parvovirus and infectious hepatitis.
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Lavinia Economu Author Lavinia EconomuLavinia Economu was awarded the RCVS Student Community award this year for her role in setting up the student organization Animal Aspirations. This aims to promote diversity in the veterinary world by reaching out to children from groups that are under-represented in the profession.
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Tom Reilly Author Tom ReillyWanting to help yourself and your colleagues to improve clinical skills will always be the main reason why people are prepared to give up their time to serve as a BSAVA volunteer. But there are plenty of other talents that the Association’s members can develop after they become involved in setting up and running one of its major CPD events, according to Tom Reilly, the new Chair of the BSAVA Congress Committee.
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Stephanie Sorrell Author Stephanie SorrellStephanie Sorrell volunteers for the BSAVA and is the present Chair of the Education Committee. Stephanie spoke to Companion about her career progression and her ambition to promote engaging interactive BSAVA CPD.
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Olivia Cook Author Olivia CookGreyhound racing may not have the high public profile that it enjoyed in Britain years ago but, as a vehicle for off-course gambling, it still attracts a large international television audience. Olivia Cook is one of the vets working to assure punters that the races are fair and the dogs are well cared for.
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Sean Taylor Author Sean TaylorSean Taylor was the first UK veterinary practitioner to enrol for the master’s degree in veterinary forensics and law, organized by the University of Florida. That training has helped inform his work as an expert witness in animal welfare cases. He is the founder of the consultancy Lockgate Animal Forensics and also works in practice in Greater Manchester.
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Laura Sullivan Author Laura SullivanWhen the first lockdown made Laura Sullivan’s vet skills temporarily superfluous, it meant that she had time to spend making environmentally-friendly washable surgical caps for her existing online business. Now, she is back at work stitching her clients’ animals back together, but she still has time to make her own contribution towards more sustainable veterinary practices.
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Emma Gerrard Author Emma GerrardEmma Gerrard is the first veterinary nurse to be appointed to an officer role with the BSAVA, as chair and council representative for the Association’s Cymru region. She was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire and grew up in Cambridgeshire. In 1996, the family moved to the Mid Wales/Shropshire border where Emma has remained ever since.
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Andrew Smith Author Andrew SmithBy day, Andrew Smith is clinical director of a mixed practice in Aberdeenshire. At night, he dwells in the world of spirits. His hobby is distilling gin made from the finest botanical ingredients available on his home patch.
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Rheanna Ellis Author Rheanna EllisNottingham vet school student Rheanna Ellis is working to cure the profession of its diversity problem. She is part of a student team aiming to make veterinary practice a more welcoming place for people from ethnic minority backgrounds and other under-represented groups.
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Meredith Sheil Author Meredith SheilMeredith Sheil has made a huge contribution to improving animal welfare in Australia by developing a combination local anaesthetic and antiseptic used to reduce pain and infection risk in farm livestock undergoing routine surgery. That is quite a leap from her original job as a human medic and researcher into paediatric heart disease.
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Terry Ryan Kane Author Terry Ryan KaneTerry Ryan Kane is a genuine high flyer. She is a qualified pilot who has enjoyed a successful career in two different branches of veterinary practice and as a scientific advisor to the US Congress. Her current job involves teaching colleagues to care for the most important species in the human food chain – and one that has been neglected by the veterinary profession.
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Lucy O’Donovan Author Lucy O’DonovanLucy O’Donovan is a veterinary surgeon with a keen interest in mental health issues – and also a passion for art. She has set up cRxeate, an online community of vets, doctors and dentists, to explore ways that clinicians can give expression to their creative talents and help them deal with the pressures of a stressful job.
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Emma Rous Author Emma Rous“A modern gothic suspense novel done right” was the verdict of the influential US literary magazine Kirkus Reviews on the first book by a new author. Entitled ‘The Au Pair’, it was written by Cambridgeshire veterinary surgeon Emma Rous. John Bonner caught up with her as she dots the i’s and crosses the t’s on her second novel.
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Jasmin Paris Author Jasmin ParisFell runners are more aware than most of us that life has its ups and downs. For endurance athlete and Edinburgh University veterinarian Jasmin Paris, the last 18 months have had both. In January 2019, she smashed the existing record for Britain’s most gruelling race but then in March this year she joined the rest of the country in lockdown. So she is forced to distance herself from the wild mountain landscapes that are her passion. Companion finds out how she is getting on.
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