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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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With Hannah Capon Author Hannah CaponCanine Arthritis Management (CAM) is an educational initiative set up by Sussex practitioner Hannah Capon to improve the quality of life for the 80% of older dogs in the UK with joint disease. Hannah spoke to Companion about efforts she and her team are making to dispense advice to pet owners to help them better recognize signs of pain, and advise their vets on how they can do more to remedy the problem.
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With Cal Major Author Cal MajorEdinburgh graduate Cal Major stroked her way into the record books this summer as the first person to travel from Land’s End to John O’Groats on a stand-up paddleboard. Along the way she raised thousands of pounds to support mental health services for the veterinary profession and others, as well as raising awareness of the threat posed by plastic pollution to our inland and coastal waterways. She told John Bonner about the highlights of her trip.
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With Jen Palfreyman Author Jen PalfreymanJen Palfreyman, a third-year student at the Liverpool vet school, received the undergraduate Student Inspiration Award from the Kennel Club Trust in June. This recognized the value of her vacation project looking at the possibility of a novel parasite becoming established in the UK. She told John Bonner about this threat to canine health and welfare.
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With Frances Barr Author Frances BarrFrances Barr stepped down as BSAVA’s Academic Director on 30 June 2018 after 8 years in the role. She told Companion about her achievements in that time, her career before arriving at Woodrow House and her goals for the future.
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With Natalia Pérez Ramos Author Natalia Pérez RamosNatalia Pérez Ramos has carved out a career for herself translating veterinary literature from English into her native Spanish. She explains how she found her way into such a niche area, how she spends her working days and how Brexit may affect her work.
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With Hayley Walters Author John Bonner“Don't train to be a veterinary nurse – you'll spend all your working life cleaning”, teenager Hayley Walters was told by one of her lecturers at college in the early 1990s. Not the smartest piece of career advice ever offered, Hayley might think, as she steps forward to receive an MBE for services to veterinary education at Buckingham Palace in June. John Bonner talks to Hayley about her work, travels and achievements.
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With Emma Dahm Author Emma Dahm‘Poacher turned gamekeeper’ is the phrase normally used to describe someone who crosses a professional divide in midcareer. But in Emma Dahm's case, it will be more a matter of ‘critic turned performer’ when she takes up a place as an undergraduate at the Nottingham veterinary school later this year.
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Philip Lhermette Author Philip LhermetteAnyone who has experience of being a patient undergoing minimally invasive surgery will have seen the advantages of such methods over conventional surgical techniques. But the benefits have not always been obvious to many UK small animal practitioners. Philip Lhermette, the incoming BSAVA President, has done more than anyone to change their minds.
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With David Burton Author David BurtonDavid Burton has been a fixture on the Burtons Medical Equipment stand since he joined his father's company in the mid-1980s. He tells John Bonner about his Plan Bee for the next phase of his career.
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Thomas Tully Author Thomas TullyLots of schoolkids dream of being a vet or a top class sportsman, few have the talent or application to fulfil even one of those ambitions – let alone both. Tom Tully is a rare exception…
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With Samantha Elmhurst Author Samantha ElmhurstSamantha Elmhurst is a professional member of the Institute of Medical Illustrators and is the artist responsible for many of the illustrations that appear in the BSAVA manuals. She comes from a family of animal lovers in a house with many pets, and as a young girl was lucky enough to have her own pony when the family relocated to Norfolk. After training as an artist in London, she eventually returned to Norwich where she set up her own company; Living Art.
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With Lizzie Lockett Author Lizzie LockettLizzie Lockett, the newly appointed Chief Executive of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, has worked within the profession for 25 years. She was born in Huddersfield but soon after, her family moved to Richmond in North Yorkshire where her father works as a farm manager. Her mother is a nurse and her brother Christopher is an equine vet in Halifax.
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With Laura Muir Author Laura MuirLaura Muir always puts in top class performances whether she is wearing the white vest of the Great Britain athletics team or the blue surgical scrubs of her chosen profession. But how does this final year student at the Glasgow Veterinary School find the time and energy to keep her two parallel careers on track?
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With James Greenwood Author James GreenwoodJames Greenwood qualified from the University of Bristol in 2007 and has worked in the West Country since 2010. Outside of work, James is a keen ceramicist and slipped effortlessly into a new role as a contestant on the BBC television programme – the Great Pottery Throw Down. He told John Bonner about his career, how he developed his interest in ceramics and how he coped with the resulting public attention.
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With Wolfgang Dohne Author Wolfgang DohneSurrey practitioner Wolfgang Dohne was born and educated in Kiel in Germany. He credits the 1960s television series Daktari as an early influence on his choice of career. Having served as the BSAVA’s representative for FECAVA he is now President of the pan-European association.
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With Kate Sparksman Author Kate SparksmanKate Sparksman is the first RVN to undertake a research-based masters degree in veterinary science at the University of Bristol.
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With Ellen Van Eynde Author Ellen Van EyndeEllen was born and brought up in Belgium; she graduated from the University of Ghent in veterinary medicine. She owns her own practice and finds time to juggle work and family life around travelling to the UK to study for the BSAVA Postgraduate Certificate in Small Animal Ophthalmology – and complete it in the shortest time possible.
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With Heike Dorn Author John BonnerHeike Dorn runs the most isolated veterinary practice in England, providing care for the companion animals, livestock and wildlife of the Isles of Scilly. She received the Ray Butcher award at BSAVA Congress 2017 in recognition of her valuable contribution to animal welfare in the community. John Bonner talks to Heike in her Isles of Scilly paradise.
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With Andy Sparkes Author Andy SparkesAndy Sparkes was one of the first UK vets to train as a specialist in feline medicine. Now, as Veterinary Director of International Cat Care, he is making sure that colleagues abroad have the same opportunities he had to explore the mysteries of our most enigmatic domestic species.
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With Stephanie Writer-Davies Author Stephanie Writer-DaviesStephanie Writer-Davies was born in the Wirral and lived there until the age of 10, when she went off to a boarding school in North Wales. Her parents were both anaesthetists in the NHS before they emigrated to Canada when she was 13. She stayed on at school in the UK, travelling back and forth to Nova Scotia in the holidays, and qualified from Bristol Vet School in 1984.
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