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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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Lyndsey Uglow Author Lyndsey UglowLyndsey Uglow heads the Animal Assisted Intervention Group at Southampton Children’s Hospital, which won the Kennel Club’s Friends for Life competition at Cruft’s 2020. This annual award celebrates “the unique relationship people have with their dogs” and in this case recognized the tonic that Lyndsey and her team has provided to thousands of children with severe medical conditions.
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Olivia de Rivaz Author Olivia de RivazOlivia de Rivaz has managed to combine her role as a small animal practitioner with a burgeoning career as an artist. Olivia was born and raised in Surrey, and is the youngest of three children of a senior civil servant father and a charity fundraiser mother. She graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 2006 and now lives in Wiltshire.
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Alasdair Hotston Moore Author Alasdair Hotston MooreWhen Alasdair Hotston Moore graduated from Cambridge vet school in 1990, his plan was to study for a PhD in immunology. Nearly 3 decades later he still hasn’t found time for that doctorate but he has done lots of other things – lecturing in soft tissue surgery at Bristol, managing a private surgical service and now his biggest challenge – as the first westerner to run a referral hospital in China. (The interview with Alasdair Hotston Moore took place before the coronavirus pandemic)
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Robert Johnson Author Robert JohnsonRobert Johnson is a practitioner from New South Wales and a former president of the Australian Veterinary Association. He has a life-long interest in reptile medicine although, as he explains, his patients have not always appreciated the care that he has given them. In his spare time, he is also an accomplished cartoonist, and on the cricket field, an obdurate late order batsman.
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Jen Gale Author Jen GaleIf you are one of the many among us who are keen to help avert a looming environmental catastrophe – but don’t really know where to start – then let Jen Gale be your guide. Jen is a 2004 RVC graduate who has now left clinical practice to explore ways to encourage everyone to adopt a more environmentally-friendly lifestyle. Founder of the web site Sustainable(ish) and author of the Sustainable(ish) Living Guide, she offers advice and encouragement to those wanting to take baby steps towards creating a world that will be able to support future generations.
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David Yates Author David YatesDavid Yates pioneered the practice of early neutering of companion animals while working at the RSPCA hospital in Manchester. As the surgeon responsible for one of the busiest charity clinics in the country, he accumulated vast experience in performing these procedures and he is regularly asked to speak on surgical and anaesthetic issues at veterinary meetings and in webinars.
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Johanna Forsyth Author Johanna ForsythJohanna Forsyth became the first graduate of the BSAVA’s new Master’s Degree in Clinical Veterinary Research (MRes) at Congress 2019. Johanna talks to Companion about her career progression.
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Helen Whittle Author Helen WhittleHelen Whittle is an award-winning Australian photographer specializing in child portraiture, based in the small country town of Orange, about 160 miles west of Sydney. But she is also a Royal Veterinary College graduate whose fellow students from the Class of 2002 will remember her as Helen Bradwell. She told Companion how she developed her twin career in the studio and consult room.
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Denis Novak Author Denis NovakDenis Novak has been elected the new president of FECAVA, the pan European small animal veterinary association, at its 25th EuroCongress in St Petersburg, Russia (4–7 September). The clinical skills that he employs in his Belgrade-based practice have been finely tuned through contact with professional colleagues throughout Europe, including the UK where he has been a regular visitor.
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Matthew Jones Author Matthew JonesMatthew Jones took up his post in August as founding head of the UK’s newest veterinary school Harper and Keele. He will lead the staff who are preparing the way for the first intake of students in September 2020.
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Chris Proudman Author Chris ProudmanA degree certificate bearing the unfamiliar designation BVMSci was not the only thing that the first cohort of veterinary graduates from the University of Surrey took away with them in the summer of 2019. According to Professor Chris Proudman, the man who planned their route through the previous 5 years, they will have also emerged with the mental equipment necessary to tackle any challenge that presents itself in their professional career.
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Carolyne Crowe Author Carolyne CroweCarolyne Crowe is a familiar face at professional conferences in her role as a member of the Veterinary Defence Society communications and training team. She and her colleagues criss-cross the country speaking to VDS members and helping to ensure that they are mentally prepared for the challenges of practice life. Away from work, she keeps her own head in order running marathons – once completing 10 in 10 days.
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Carla Finzel Author Carla FinzelCarla Finzel set up the first UK district veterinary nurse (DVN) service in Sussex in 2015 and hopes to develop the concept nationally. She sees her work as the embodiment of the One Welfare – One Health ideal in providing help for the pets of owners who may be too frail themselves to bring the animal in for clinic-based veterinary care. Carla was born in Madrid and grew up in Spain and Ireland. She is the adopted daughter of a musician father, and mother who is a nurse.
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Mandisa Greene Author Mandisa GreeneThe Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Council has elected Mandisa Greene to be Junior Vice-President of the College for 2019–20, making her the first person from a minority ethnic background to be elected to the College’s Officer Team in its 175-year history. Mandisa took time out to talk with John Bonner about her aspirations for the coming year.
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Brendan Godley Author Brendan GodleyBrendan Godley is a marine biologist and self-confessed ‘turtle geek’. His research has taken him around the globe to many of those countries with breeding populations of this ancient reptile group. He has worked to help ensure the survival of turtles in Cyprus, Ascension Island, the West Indies, Brazil, Congo and Gabon… all places a very long way from the Glasgow veterinary school where he began his scientific career.
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Sue Paterson Author John BonnerDistinguished dermatologist Sue Paterson was elected president of the BSAVA at its annual Congress in Birmingham. Although she was (ahem) itching to get started in the new job, she found time to talk to us about her life and career.
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Rick LeCouteur Author Rick LeCouteurRick LeCouteur emerged from the Sydney veterinary school in 1974 with a case of the wanderlust that so commonly afflicts young Australians. He went on to work in academia in Canada and the United States where he now lives. In April he will be in Birmingham to give a series of lectures at BSAVA Congress on his chosen specialism, neurology. But after that he could be anywhere, through his new career organizing wildlife-watching tours for his fellow vets.
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Anna Rix Author Anna RixApplications for the BSAVA Ophthalmology Postgraduate Certificate are now open. Andy Rae reports on how this CPD opportunity provided recent alumna, Anna Rix, with a much-needed boost that rejuvenated her career.
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Angharad Belcher Author Angharad BelcherLast month the BSAVA announced a move to Manchester for its Congress from 2021. This month Angharad Belcher, Head of BSAVA Congress, explains why.
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Grace Dickinson Author Grace DickinsonGrace Dickinson is the founder of Reptiles etc, a company that trains animals for film and television work. As the company name suggests, her work doesn–t just focus on the more familiar species of four-legged thespians like dogs or horses, but a wide range of other taxa, including invertebrates. She told John Bonner about her job and how the methods that she uses could make life easier for veterinary staff.
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