19/06/2024
📕🐎International Speaker Roger Smith at ANCVS Stream Bain Fallon 2024🐎📕
Roger Smith is Professor of Equine Orthopaedics at the Royal Veterinary College, the largest veterinary school in the UK, and is based at the Hawkshead campus at Potters Bar. He qualified as a veterinary surgeon from Cambridge University in 1987, having obtained a First for his undergraduate degree and a Cambridge Blue at swimming. After 2 years in practice, he completed a 3 year Residency in Equine Studies at the Royal Veterinary College. Following his residency, he undertook a 3 year research project culminating in the award of a PhD for his studies on the extracellular matrix of equine tendon. He remained at the Royal Veterinary College, first as a Lecturer in Equine Surgery, then as Senior Lecturer in Equine Surgery before his appointment as Professor of Equine Orthopaedics in December 2003. He holds the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Diploma of Equine Orthopaedics and is a RCVS Specialist in Equine Surgery. He is a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Surgeons and the European College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation, and is also a Large Animal Imaging Associate of the European College of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging. In 2016, he was awarded the Fellowship of the RCVS for meritorious contribution to knowledge. He was elected to President of the European College of Veterinary Surgeons in July 2017 and is currently President of the British Equine Veterinary Association. He provides a specialist orthopaedic referral service at the Royal Veterinary College, involving lameness diagnostics, imaging and orthopaedic surgery, and also co-heads the Tendon Biology Group, with particular interests in understanding the pathogenesis of tendon disease and stem cell therapy for tendons in both horses and humans. His teaching commitments involve clinical training of undergraduate veterinary students, postgraduate training in surgical and sports medicine residency programmes, the latter of which he established at the RVC, and postgraduate research Masters and PhDs. He is married to a GP and has two children and two grandchildren.
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