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Vets Celebrated At The Start Of World Veterinary Year

Author: BVA
Posted: Thursday 6th January, 2011. 15:54:23

World Veterinary Year (Vet 2011) is off to a fantastic start in the UK with the recognition of three veterinary surgeons in the New Year’s Honours.

• Dr Lydia Akrigg Brown, President of the Veterinary Benevolent Fund has been awarded an MBE for services to the veterinary profession;
• Lewis George Grant, former veterinary manager in the Meat Hygiene Service, Food Standards Agency and animal welfare representative of the Veterinary Public Health Association (VPHA) has also been awarded an MBE;
• Professor Quintin McKellar, Principal of the Royal Veterinary College has been awarded a CBE for services to science;

BVA Honorary Member the Earl of Selborne was also recognised with a GBE for services to science.

These honours recognise the enormous breadth of work undertaken by vets in the service of the country. It is this work that World Veterinary Year 2011 seeks to celebrate and publicise across the globe.

Here in the UK the BVA will be working with its divisions and the RCVS to mark Vet 2011 by championing the achievements of the veterinary profession.

BVA Congress 2011 will be held in London on 22-24 September under the theme ‘Vets in a changing world’. It will include sessions giving a global perspective on veterinary medicine and the Wooldridge Memorial Lecture will be delivered by the eminent veterinarian Dr Peter Roeder on the eradication of rinderpest; one of the veterinary profession’s greatest achievements.

Commenting, Harvey Locke, President of the BVA, said:

“On behalf of the BVA I would like to congratulate Dr Brown, Lewis Grant, Professor McKellar and Lord Selborne on their fantastic achievements. These national honours underline the importance of veterinary medicine.

“As well as recognising the work of these individuals, World Veterinary Year 2011 provides an opportunity for the veterinary profession as a whole to celebrate its achievements.

“The profession has changed a huge amount over the last 250 years but many of the principles upon which it was founded are still strong today. Claude Bourgelat had a vision for veterinary medicine which was science-based and he was one of the first scientists to relate animal and human pathology and biology. Both of these ideas remain at the heart of the profession in 2011.

“The theme for my presidential year is ‘Vets in a changing world’ which fits very well with World Veterinary Year. We are seeing change at an ever faster pace, but the past 250 years have revealed that the profession is more than capable of adapting.”

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