Posts by Linnaeus Sarah

We are delighted to have appointed Jess Florey as Clinical Fellow in Internal Medicine and Alex Belch, who has just completed his Residency, has taken the post of Clinical Fellow in Small Animal Surgery. These appointments will ensure that our Clinical Specialists are able to meet the demands of our increasing caseload.

We are extremely proud of Charlene Mallott, long term employee and our Neurology Nurse Manager. Not only has she gained a First Class Bachelor of Science degree in clinical veterinary nursing – with honours – but she also received the Robert Allen Memorial Award for best dissertation of the year.

When we expanded our premises in 2013, roughly doubling the floor space available to us, we wondered at first how we would fill it all! Needless to say, that took very little time to achieve. With our increasing caseload and therefore number of employees. We were soon using every inch of that new space. Now,…

As a cost control measure RSA recently launched a Preferred Referral Network, agreeing fixed treatment costs with ‘preferred’ referral practices. In order to incentivise the use of these preferred providers, they have introduced financial penalties for customers of Argos, Homebase, John Lewis, Marks & Spencers, More Than and Tesco who choose referral practices not on…

We have heard from the University of Nottingham that 3 of the Interns who recently completed their internships at DWR have achieved academic success. Floris Drões, Kine Elmenhorst and Pablo Pérez López have all achieved their post graduate certificates; Pablo and Kine with Merit and Flores with Distinction. This is a great achievement and we…

DWR Internal Medicine Specialist and Head of Cardiology, Jon Wray, has authored a new textbook ‘Canine Internal Medicine: What’s Your Diagnosis?’ published by Wiley Blackwell. The book is a guide to handling internal medicine cases in the clinical setting, combining problem-based learning and case studies with questions and answers. It is designed for veterinarians in…

Members of our Cardiology and Nursing Teams were out and abut at The London Vet Show last week, providing information and advice about continuous heart monitoring and the Holter Monitoring Service. This was established in 2005 by Ruth Willis to support vets in small animal practice by providing ambulatory ECG (Holter) monitors and interpreting the…

The following recently published papers illustrate the benefits of research collaboration, both between disciplines and between organisations. Negrin, A., Spencer, S. and Cherubini, G.B. (2017) Feline meningoencephalomyelitis of unknown origin: a retrospective analysis of 16 cases. Can. Vet. J. 1073-1080. Banzato, T., Bernardini, M., Cherubini, G.B. and Zotti, A. (2017) Texture analysis of MRI to predict histologic grade…

Max Foreman, one of our Interns, has been involved for the last 13 years with Eagle Heights Wildlife Foundation in Kent. This is a small, not for profit, organization and he visited recently to help out with the meerkats. During his time there, he participated in the quarterly veterinary inspection, chaired an Ethical Review Committee…