Poppy Bristow

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Poppy graduated from the Royal Veterinary College and went on to complete a rotating internship followed by a Small Animal Surgical residency at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals, RVC. Poppy became a lecturer in Small Animal Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania in 2014, gaining her European College of Veterinary Specialists diploma in 2015. In 2016 Poppy returned to the UK to work in a private referral hospital. She then moved back to the RVC to start a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery which she completed in May 2019. She is currently a Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery, subspecialising in Cardiothoracics. Her main interests include open repair of the mitral valve and congenital heart defects in dogs.

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Dylan Clemens

Dylan graduated from the University of Liverpool in 1997, having also gained an intercalated degree at the University of Edinburgh in 1995. Initially he worked at the PDSA in Liverpool for three years before completing a surgical residency and registrar post in Small Animal Orthopaedics at the University of Glasgow. Dylan returned to the University of Liverpool in 2004 where he was awarded a PhD for studies into the molecular genetics of canine osteoarthritis. In 2007 Dylan returned to the R(D)SVS as a senior lecturer in Small Animal Surgery, where he is involved in the clinical service, teaching and research into the genetic basis and functional aspects of canine osteoarthritis. Dylan is an EBVS® European and Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons recognised specialist in Small Animal Surgery, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and Higher Education Academy. 
 

Eddie Clutton

 

After graduating from the University of Liverpool, Eddie worked in the The Royal Liverpool Hospital, Anaesthesia Department for three years.  He locumed in mixed practice in Cheshire and South Wales.He worked in the University of Virginia – Maryland, USA for 5 years as assistant professor in Veterinary Anesthesiology. He has been head of anaesthesia in R(D)SVS (Edinburgh) since 1990.  In 1996 he became Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia. He is a member of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, the European Society of Anaesthesiology, the Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Law Veterinary Association, LAVA, LASA, and the Veterinary History Society.  Between 2000 and 2005 Eddie was editor-in-chief of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia. He is the ex- President of the Association of Veterinary Anaesthetists. His research interests include mini pig welfare, muscle relaxants in pigs and sheep, pain in pigs and sheep; depth of anaesthesia monitoring. He was awarded Chair of Veterinary Anaesthesiology in August 2007 and The Morpheus Award 2019 (ECVAA). Currently, he is the Clinical Director of the Wellcome Trust Critical Care Laboratory for Large Animals and Academic Head, Veterinary Anaesthesia (R[D]SVS).

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Madeleine Campbell

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Madeleine is a RCVS and European Recognised Specialist in Equine Reproduction, and a European Diplomate in Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Law. She is Lecturer in Human:Animal Interactions and Ethics at The Royal Veterinary College, and has a particular research interest in the ethical issues surrounding the use of animals in competitive sport. Madeleine is a Past President and Chair of the Board of Management of the British Equine Veterinary Association, and a past Chair of the Ethics and Welfare Committee of the British Veterinary Association. Madeleine was a member of Advisory Board for the Centre of Health Law Science and Policy, Birmingham University, and currently sits on the Royal Veterinary College’s Clinical Research Ethical Review Board, the Zoological Society of London’s Ethics Committee, and the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons’ Ethics Review Panel

 

 

Victoria Sandilands

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Dr Sandilands is a behaviour and welfare scientist, specialising in poultry. Her research work focuses on the housing and management of laying hens, broilers and broiler breeders, and how their needs can be met while still being sustainable in British farming. She is also the chair of the ethics committee for SRUC (Scotland’s Rural College), which oversees the various trials to improve farming in all species – sheep, dairy cows, beef cattle, pigs and poultry. She teaches and supervise students at BSc, MSc and doctorate level, and is the Director of the University of Edinburgh/SRUC’s MSc in Applied Poultry Science. She is also on the council or board of various behaviour and poultry societies and journals.

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Zoe Belshaw

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Zoe qualified from Cambridge Vet school in 2003 and has been an RCVS and European recognised specialist in small animal internal medicine since 2011. She has extensive experience working in general, referral, charity and veterinary teaching hospitals, has contributed to more than 20 peer reviewed publications and speaks regularly at national and international veterinary meetings.  In 2016, she completed a PhD at the Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine (CEVM), University of Nottingham which explored how vets and owners make decisions about dogs with osteoarthritis. She currently combines clinical work at the PDSA with wide ranging consultancy work, editing the “What Is Your Client Thinking?” column in the Veterinary Record, co-supervising a PhD and Masters’ students and membership of the RCVS Ethical Review Panel.

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Elizabeth Mullineaux

BVM&S, DVM&S, CertSHP, MRCVS

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RCVS Recognised Specialist in Wildlife Medicine (Mammalian)

Liz worked in mixed practice, overseas and in the UK, before settling in Somerset as a director of a small animal veterinary hospital for 17 years. Having developed an interesting in British wildlife, in 2011 she completed a clinical doctorate investigating the factors influencing badger rehabilitation and release. She now works as Scientific Advisor to Secret World Wildlife Rescue (a wildlife charity specializing in badger rehabilitation), alongside small animal emergency medicine and academic part-time roles. Her main interest is the appropriate clinical care of British wildlife casualties. Liz is co-editor of the BSAVA Manual of Wildlife Casualties and author of several other publications on wildlife medicine.

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Gilly Mendes Ferreira

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After completing a BSc Honours Zoology degree at the University of Aberdeen, Gilly moved to Edinburgh to complete an MSc by Research degree focusing on captive primate welfare and behaviour at the University of Edinburgh RDSVS. Following her masters Gilly took up an education resources officer post at the Scottish SPCA and over the last 14 years has progressed to the post of head of education and policy. 

 

Gilly’s core activities within the society involves managing the ‘Prevention through Education’ 

programme which now reaches over 270,000 children annually and implementing new initiatives such as the Animal Guardians programme and the use of robotics to teach animal welfare education. She also runs collaborative research projects predominantly with the University of Edinburgh, University of Stirling and the University of Glasgow that focus on the impact of animal welfare education, the links between animal cruelty and human abuse, and also the enrichment of animals in the Scottish SPCA’s care (i.e. playing music to kennelled dogs as a way of decreasing their stress levels). By being involved in animal welfare education and research and working with the Scottish SPCA’s Chief Superintendent Mike Flynn, Gilly is able to assess and respond to any proposed legislative changes so that we can ensure current animal welfare legislation meets modern day issues.

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Ian Futter

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Ian qualified from the University of Glasgow Veterinary School in 1992. The first seven years of his career he spent in Mixed Practice around Glasgow treating Companion Animal and Farm species. He then took on a role at Scottish SPCA where he helped establish the Veterinary Department. He is currently Chief veterinary Officer.

 

Ian’s primary role is running a team of shelter Vets and Nurses across three different sites in the Glasgow area. He also advises on Veterinary treatment of animals in the Society’s care around Scotland and sits on the Senior Management Committee.

 

With particular relevance to this conference, Ian has contributed to the expert evidence of hundreds of cases over the past fifteen years presented by the Inspectorate Department of the Scottish SPCA to the Procurator Fiscal Service in Scotland. He is very familiar with the importance of good Witness Statement Report writing and the procedures involved in bringing an animals welfare case to prosecution.

BVSc MRCVS

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Steve Loughnan

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Dr Loughnan is a social psychologist who is interested in the ways people treat animals. He graduated from University of Melbourne with a PhD in social Psychology and was a research fellow in University of Kent. He is currently lectures at the University of Edinburgh Specifically, he is interested in the rights and responsibilities people feel towards animals, either individually or as a society. His work has focused on the justifications and psychological mechanisms people use to enable them to feel good about eating animals.

 

Lesley Winton

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Lesley Winton initially studied Legal Studies and Legal Accounting and worked in this field for 15 years. She then left to pursue her passion for animal welfare and addressing the links between animal abuse, child abuse and domestic violence. She has 25 years’ experience working in the Voluntary Sector in both a professional and volunteer capacity and has set up two charities in relation to animal welfare and child welfare. Driven by the desire to develop a unique humane education project for vulnerable children led to the creation of Fostering Compassion, bringing together abused and neglected children with rescued animals. Lesley also has a very keen interest in raising awareness of the pain of pet bereavement and the strength of the human-animal bond.

Lesley has Diplomas in Legal Studies and Legal Accounting, a Diploma in Life Coaching, and in 2014 completed an online Edinburgh University Course on the Clinical Psychology of Children and Young People. She is also a keen writer, publishing her first book in September 2013 highlighting the importance of the human-animal bond

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Nicola Ackerman

 

Nicola works as the Head Medical Nurse at Plymouth Veterinary Group. Nicola graduated from Hartpury College with an honours degree in Equine Science, and subsequently qualified as a veterinary nurse in 2002.

Nicola has past roles as editor of the Veterinary Nursing Journal, sat on the Veterinary Products Committee for the Veterinary Medicines Directive, and the Ethics and Welfare Group for BVA. Nicola has written for many veterinary publications and textbooks and is the editor of Aspinall’s Complete Textbook of Veterinary Nursing.

Nicola has won the BVNA / Blue Cross award for animal welfare, the SQP Veterinary Nurse of the Year and the SQP Nutritional Advisor of the Year.

Nicola is part of the RCVS working party investigating post qualification routes for RVNs. Nicola is currently studying for a Master’s degree in Advanced Veterinary Nursing with Glasgow University.

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David Martin

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Dave Martin has been in mixed clinical practice for the last 21 years. After graduating from Liverpool, he started work as an assistant at Brownlow Vet Group which is located on the Shropshire / North Wales border. He enjoyed working there so much he brought a partnership which lasted to 2017 when for one of his partners the call of the golf course became too much and the practice was sold to IVC.

Since that time Dave has become the Lead Clinical Director for Brownlow Vet Group. He can as often be found calving a cow as emptying anal glands in evening surgery with the only thing he absolutely refuses to do is orthopaedic surgery, on the grounds of animal welfare, as his skills at DIY are non-existent.

The majority of his work however, is welfare consultancy and Dave receives regular instructions from the RSPCA as well as Local Authorities, the Police, APHA, CPS and private solicitors. He has particular interests and considerable experience in dealing with cases involving, animal hoarding, non-accidental injury, organised animal fights and the puppy trade and loves nothing more than dealing with the unusual or the unexplained.

He has lectured widely to both veterinary and non-veterinary audiences and is currently working on a series of e-learning CPD units on the veterinary role in investigating animal crime. He is a member of the IVC Welfare Advisory Group who report on welfare matters directly to the Clinical Board and has been consulted in cases as far afield as Switzerland, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand.