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MOVERS AND SHAKERS

BSAVA AWARDS STAFF
AWARDED

Celebrating THE AMOROSO AWARD PROFESSORSHIPS

achievements of sponsored by Hill’s Pet Nutrition In 2021/22, we were delighted
Winner: Martin Hawes
to announce the following
our staff and THE J.A. WIGHT members of RVC staff that
alumni with the MEMORIAL AWARD were promoted to Professor:
sponsored by Blue Cross
BSAVA awards Winner: Daniella Dos Santos Barbara Haesler,
Professor in Agrihealth
2021 & 2022 THE PETSAVERS Nicola Menzies-Gow,
VETERINARY Professor in Equine Medicine
The BSAVA awards recognise ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
outstanding contributions in the field Richard Meeson,
of small animal veterinary practice sponsored by Hill’s Pet Nutrition Professor of Orthopaedics
and give professionals the recognition Winner: Ross Bond Justin Perkins,
they deserve. THE BLAINE AWARD Professor of Equine and
Winners received their prizes at sponsored by Royal Canin Translational Surgery
this year’s BSAVA Congress in Winner: Rosanne Jepson
Manchester in March. Bettina Dunkel,
2021 award winners also being Professor in Equine Internal Medicine,
Congratulations to the presented with their prizes were: Emergency and Critical Care
award winners!
Oliver Garden – Liz Chan,
THE BLAINE AWARD Professor of Higher Education
sponsored by Royal Canin
Many congratulations to them all
on their Professorships.
Read more about the awards at
www.bsava.com/bsava-2022-
award-winners

Roger Smith elected Junior VP of the BEVA

Roger Smith, RVC Professor of Equine Orthopaedics, has been
elected Junior Vice President of the British Equine Veterinary
Association (BEVA), after being elected to the Council three times –
in 1997, 2000 and 2019 respectively. Additionally, Roger has been
named as one of BEVA’s ’60 faces’, recognising and celebrating
the successes of 60 people in the equine veterinary community to
celebrate BEVA’s 60th anniversary.

n honour of its 60th year, BEVA invited Large Animal Associate of the European disease. His principal research interests
its members to nominate individuals College of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging. are understanding the pathogenesis of
who they felt had inspired, developed In 2016, he was awarded the Fellowship tendon disease, diagnostics for tendon and
Iand advanced equine veterinary of the Royal College of Veterinary ligament disease, and stem cell therapy for
science. Roger is included in the list Surgeons for meritorious contribution to tendons in both horses and humans.
as an example of someone who has knowledge and was elected to president Roger said: “To be included alongside the
significantly impacted the profession. of the European College of Veterinary other 59 ‘faces’ is a great honour, and I am
Roger has been at the RVC for 32 years, Surgeons in July 2017. proud to be featured together with some of
arriving in 1990 as a Resident in Equine Roger currently divides his time between industry’s trailblazer and future leaders.
Studies after graduating from the running a specialist orthopaedic referral “I have supported and admired the great
University of Cambridge in 1987. He is service within the RVC, where he is work of BEVA for over three decades and
a Diplomate of the European Colleges of involved in lameness diagnostics, imaging am looking forward to continue working with
Veterinary Surgeons and Veterinary Sports and orthopaedic surgery, and continuing the Council and contributing to their efforts
Medicine and Rehabilitation and is also a to direct research into equine tendon within the equine veterinary community.”

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