RCVS Recognised Specialist in Small Animal Orthopaedics and Professor at the University of Nottingham, with over 25 years of experience in referral surgery.
Gareth graduated from Cambridge University Veterinary School in 1996. He worked in mixed practice in Buckinghamshire for four years, then moved into small animal practice where he began developing his interest in orthopaedic surgery.
He returned to Cambridge University Veterinary School between 2003 and 2006 to train as a specialist, passing his specialist exams and becoming an RCVS Recognised Specialist in Small Animal Orthopaedics in 2007.
Gareth has worked at a number of specialist centres in the UK and Ireland, including Liverpool Veterinary School, Cambridge University Veterinary School, Willows Referral Service, the Royal Veterinary College (London), the Animal Health Trust, University College Dublin Veterinary Teaching Hospital and Dick White Referrals.
In most of these centres he has acted as the senior (chief of service) orthopaedic surgeon, taking responsibility for running the service and training interns and residents.
Gareth has spent the last 15 years teaching small animal orthopaedics to students, interns, residents and post-graduate veterinary surgeons. He delivers CPD nationally and internationally for a variety of providers, including BSAVA, the University of Nottingham School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, Veterinary Instrumentation and Covetrus in Europe.
He has contributed a chapter to the BSAVA Manual of Small Animal Fracture Fixation (2nd edition), and co-edited and contributed chapters to the BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Musculoskeletal Disease (2nd edition). Gareth also reviews manuscripts for a number of international journals.
Gareth is past chairman of the British Veterinary Orthopaedic Association and has been an examiner for the RCVS Diploma in Small Animal Surgery (Orthopaedics). He works as a consultant for Veterinary Instrumentation, giving product advice to veterinary surgeons, advising on fracture fixation and contributing to new product development.
He is a European board member of AOVET International and a member of AOVET's International Research and Development commission. Gareth is also Professor of Small Animal Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Nottingham School of Veterinary Medicine and Science.
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