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2012 BEVA Award Winners Announced

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13th September, 2012 17h58


This year’s prestigious BEVA Awards take place at the BEVA Congress on Thursday 13 September. Established by BEVA, in conjunction with sponsors in some categories, these diverse Awards reflect BEVA’s recognition of and support for members’ outstanding veterinary achievements. This year they will be presented by Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal. Keith Meldrum CB BVM&S MRCVS DVSM Hon. FRSPH will be presented with the BEVA Equine Welfare Award, sponsored by Blue Cross, in recognition of his tireless work to improve animal welfare through the development and enactment of regulation. Keith Meldrum is widely known and respected throughout the equine charity sector and in government circles for his encyclopaedic knowledge of animal health and welfare legislation and no committee on these subjects is complete without the benefit of his experience and probing questions. Previously Chief Veterinary Officer for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, over the past decade Keith has been veterinary consultant for organisations such as World Horse Welfare, and has been involved in issues ranging from transportation regulation, through contraception for semi-feral ponies, to disease control. Clare Scantlebury, PhD researcher at the University of Liverpool, will receive the important BEVA Richard Hartley Clinical Award in recognition of her research on recurrent colic. Her paper, entitled “Recurrent colic in the horse: Incidence and risk factors for recurrence in the general practice population” was produced in conjunction with D.C. Archer, C.J. Proudman and G.L. Pinchbeck and published in the August 2011 Special Issue: Equine Colic of Equine Veterinary Journal. The award is given in memory of Richard Hartley, a founder member of BEVA and president from 1974 to 1975. It is awarded for evidence-based papers and the prize is intended to support travel of the senior author and/or co-authors. Dr. Emmanuelle Van Erck, DVM PhD Diplomate ECEIM and PhD an equine internal and sports medicine referral vet practising in Belgium, will receive the BEVA Trust Peter Rossdale Equine Veterinary Journal (EVJ) Open Award for her paper “Dynamic respiratory videoendoscopy in ridden sport horses: Effect of head flexion, riding and airway inflammation in 129 cases” published in the November 2011 issue of Equine Veterinary Journal. This award is given for the paper that best achieves the EVJ’s mission to publish articles which either influence and improve clinical practice and/or add significantly to the scientific knowledge that underpins and supports veterinary medicine in relation to the horse. The award is made by the BEVA Trust in recognition of Peter Rossdale’s immense contribution to BEVA and EVJ. Elizabeth Hurd, who has just graduated from Cambridge, will receive the BEVA Trust Queen Mother Award for her report on her four week large animal externship at the New Bolton Centre, University of Pennsylvania, USA. The award is given for the best travel report by a recipient of the Queen Mother Student Travel Award, which Elizabeth was granted in 2011. Tinne Verheyen, of the faculty of large animal internal medicine at the University of Ghent, will be presented with The Voorjaarsdagen and BEVA Awards for her paper “Extreme tachycardia and QRS broadening during exercise in horses with atrial fibrillation.” The Voorjaarsdagen and BEVA Awards are selected and presented biannually, once at the Voorjaarsdagen Congress and once at BEVA Congress, and are open to all those presenting a Clinical Research paper. Dr Alexander Rabitsch, a practising vet in Austria, will become the first recipient of the BEVA Trust / FVE Equine Transport Enforcement Award. The annual Award was introduced by the BEVA Trust in 2010, in recognition of the individual or group working in the field, doing the most to improve enforcement of the current transport Regulation. Dr Rabitsch, a practising vet, is based on the main route for horses sourced for slaughter travelling from Eastern Europe to Italy. For the past 13 years, in cooperation with the Federal Police, he has carried out random checks on transporters of live animals to assess compliance with the current Regulation (EC) 1/2005. He has also made significant contribution to the training and education of those involved with the transport of live animals, such as farmers, drivers and vets.

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