Vet Fund Newsletter - Autumn 2015

Vet Fund Newsletter Autumn 2015 for alumni and supporters of Glasgow Vet School

Your support making a difference Pages 2 & 3

Celebrating our links with James Herriot Page 3

Dates for your diary

Pages 4 & 5

Making a gift to the Vet School in your will Page 6

Welcome

The Small Animal Hospital Fund

What your support has helped us to do

Glasgow Vet School has always had a strong international reputation for research as well as its teaching and clinical expertise.

One of its great research strengths has been the close links with the Medical School, which go back to when Glasgow Veterinary College joined the University in 1949 under the outstanding leadership of Sir William Weipers who was a pioneer in the concept of ‘One Medicine’ in which vets and doctors work together to benefit both humans and animals. He insisted that the Vet School should be part of the Medical Faculty. These links have strengthened over the years and the Vet school is now part of the College of Medical Veterinary & Life Sciences (MVLS) with veterinary researchers closely integrated with medical and biomedical scientists.

One of the other pioneering themes of William Weipers was the fostering of close links with developing countries, especially in Africa, which get stronger and exemplify the ‘One Health’ approach with research into zoonotic diseases such as rabies in which our colleagues are leading the global campaign to eliminate this disease from dogs by vaccination and hence from humans.

Another zoonotic disease in which Glasgow Vet School is a world leader is trypanosomiasis and you will read how gifts to the Weipers Equine Fund are currently supporting a study into equine trypanosomiasis in West Africa.

My sincere thanks to everyone who supports the Vet Fund. Your contributions make a huge difference.

Professor Peter Holmes BVMS OBE FRCVS FRSE

Chair, The Vet Fund 2

The Small Animal Hospital Fund has helped Professor Ian Ramsey and his team to buy a sensitive new analyser that it is hoped will change the way diabetes is monitored and managed in dogs.

One of the most important ways of monitoring diabetes in humans is to measure the number of sugar molecules that have become attached to the haemoglobin in red blood cells (creating haemoglobin A1c or HbA1c for short).

However it has been hard to do this for our canine friends until now.

Post graduate students Susanna Spence and Flo Goemans (pictured above) have been able to show that this analyser

repeatedly measures HbA1c using an accurate and sensitive assay in a wide variety of dogs - both affected and unaffected by diabetes.

The next task will be to see if monitoring diabetic dogs with this analyser improves their clinical control and ultimately outcome in the same way as it does in humans.

If you’d like to support the Small Animal Hospital Fund

• Contact: Sarah Hunter • T: +44 (0)141 330 7145 • E: sarah.hunter@glasgow.ac.uk

Small Animal Hospital in focus

Jake and the tracheal stent placement Interventional Radiology & Endourology (IR/IE) involves the use of advanced imaging techniques to diagnose and treat conditions which would previously require invasive surgery.

At the Small Animal Hospital we are able to offer a minimally invasive stenting procedure to aid tracheal collapse, a progressive and often life threatening condition seen in breeds such as the Yorkshire terrier, Papillion and Pomeranian. Many cases can be medically managed however in some cases like Jake’s this was not the case.

Jake had a stent fitted as despite medical therapy he was requiring hospitalisation for oxygen therapy at least once a week. Now he is enjoying an excellent quality of life at home with only occasional coughing. Studies have shown that clinical improvement should be seen in 80-90% of cases after the stent has been fitted.

The next Small Animal Hospital Public Lecture, Interventional Radiology: Veterinary Medicine of the Future, is covering this subject and is taking place on Wednesday, 21 October. Please see Page 5 for more information.

Weipers Equine Fund

What your support has helped us to do

Celebrating our links with James Herriot

On Thursday, 31 July we held an event for our Glasgow Vet Graduates at the World of James Herriot in Thirsk, North Yorkshire. The event was hosted by James Herriot’s son, Jim Wight, himself a Glasgow Vet School graduate and daughter Rosie Page.

Above Working equids in The Gambia.

Gifts have provided essential funding for PhD student Demelza Kingston enabling her to continue research into Central Nervous System Trypanosomiasis in Working Equidae.

Trypanosomiasis is one of Africa’s most devastating diseases in man and animals. It is transmitted by infected tsetse flies and control of the disease is very difficult.

Demelza’s study continues initial work carried out by University of Glasgow researchers in determining the cause of an emerging neurological disease causing increasing mortality among working horses and donkeys in The Gambia, a region of West Africa known for its high incidences of trypanosomiasis.

Professor David Sutton based at the Weipers Equine Centre said, ‘The aims of this work are ultimately to produce a more effective prevention and control programme for this devastating condition.

‘Working equids are of vital economic importance to a large proportion of people in Sub-Saharan Africa. The interdisciplinary group at Glasgow School of Veterinary Medicine aims to produce a measurable improvement in the welfare of the working equids at the centre of the study, with successive research studies.’

Working equids are of vital importance to a large proportion of Sub-Saharan Africa.

If you’d like to support the Weipers Equine Fund

• Contact: Sarah Hunter • T: +44 (0)141 330 7145 • E: sarah.hunter@glasgow.ac.uk

Dr Tim Parkin based at Glasgow Vet School and who oversees the disbursements of funds to our James Herriot Scholars was able to tell our graduates and supporters that the first James Herriot Scholarships were awarded to five selected postgraduate students to provide essential support for their chosen research programmes and enhance Glasgow’s research portfolio and reputation.

Tim told us, ‘The work that has been enabled by our supporters to the James Herriot Scholarship Fund is varied, important and potentially lifechanging. Not only will the studies they are undertaking improve the health and well-being of animals but the funds have also enabled five early career veterinary researchers the opportunity to ether undertake post-graduate scholarship or extend that work in a novel direction.’

Above Jim Wight, the son of James Herriot author, Alf Wight, with some of the attendees at the event for Vet School graduates in Thirsk.

If you’d like to support the James Herriot Scholarship Fund

• Contact: Sarah Hunter • T: +44 (0)141 330 7145 • E: sarah.hunter@glasgow.ac.uk

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For our

North American Alumni!

Giving Tuesday Giving Tuesday 2015 is coming soon!

On 1 December we’ll be asking our alumni in North America to take part by supporting our Travel Scholarship Fund. Gifts to Giving Tuesday will help give our students international learning experiences, inspiring the next generation of World Changers.

‘My trip was so much more than what I imagine would be a typical “once in a lifetime experience”. I have learnt an incredible amount and have found skills that I know I will be able to utilise in all aspects of my life to come, not only my future career. I will forever have these incredible memories, and I hope that one day I can help provide this for a student, as someone did for me this year.’

Fiona Kipling (pictured left) Vet student and Giving Tuesday Travel Scholarship Recipient 2015

For more information on Giving Tuesday

• Contact: Caroline Gould • T: +44 (0)141 330 7071 • E: caroline.gould@glasgow.ac.uk

Book your place at the Annual Reunion Weekend 2015 Incorporating The Weipers Lecture and CPD programme Sir William Weipers Memorial Lecture Professor Gary England Educating Professionals for the Future • Friday, 30 October 2015 • Kelvin Gallery, Gilbert Scott Building, University of Glasgow • Doors open 5.30pm CPD programme • Saturday, 31 October 2015 • The streams are Small Animal, Equine and Farm Animal.

Annual Veterinary Alumni Reunion Dinner • Saturday, 31 October 2015 • Hunterian Museum and Bute Hall • All our vet graduates and friends are invited to attend and we welcome in particular our graduates celebrating a milestone anniversary. In 2015 it is year groups ending ‘0’ and ‘5’.

Further information and booking

• Contact: Sarah Hunter • T: +44 (0)141 330 7145 • E: sarah.hunter@glasgow.ac.uk Pictured: The ceilidh in full fling at the Vet 150 event in 2012.

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Public events Small Animal Hospital Public Lectures 2015/16

Our supporters and devoted pets

• Interventional Radiology: Veterinary Medicine of the Future • Wednesday, 21 October 2015 • Comparative Oncology: How Cancer in Pets Compares to Humans • Wednesday, 16 March 2016 • Small Animal Hospital, University of Glasgow School of Veterinary Medicine, Bearsden Road, Glasgow G61 1QH • Doors: 6.30pm. Lecture: 7pm - 8pm.

• Lectures include a behind-the-scenes tour of the hospital.

• Get in touch to book your place.

Annual Service of Thanksgiving

for the place of pets and companion animals in our lives • • • •

Tuesday, 1 December 2015 6.30pm The University Chapel Get in touch to book your place.

Alumni events Annual Reunion Weekend • Friday, 30 & Saturday, 31 October 2015 • Featuring the Sir William Weipers Memorial Lecture, CPD programme and the Annual Veterinary Alumni Reunion Dinner.

• See Page 4 for further details.

London Vet Show Drinks Reception • Thursday, 19 November 2015 • For Glasgow graduates.

Alumni Gathering at NAVC, Florida • Sunday, 17 January 2016 • Full details to be announced.

Reunions • If you’d like to organise a reunion as part of our annual reunion weekend please get in touch.

Further information and booking

• Contact: Sarah Hunter • T: +44 (0)141 330 7145 • E: sarah.hunter@glasgow.ac.uk

Many of our supporters decide to make generous donations to the Vet Fund after their pets have been cared for by our dedicated staff.

Sadly for Patsie Bunyan, her lovely dog Midas (pictured top and on our front cover) had to be put to sleep as he had a very rare type of nasal tumour. Patsie was very grateful for the support of the Small Animal Hospital and generously made a donation that will support their studies into nasal tumours.

Ann Blacker’s lovely dog Misty, pictured above left and centre, was looked after by Professor Anne French for her ongoing bronchitis.

Oliver, pictured above left and above right, was looked after by Professor Clare Knottenbelt in the Oncology Service after he was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer.

Top Image © Alasdair Bunyan.

Lower images © Paul Walker, Paws Pet Photography.

Both dogs are doing well and as you can see from the photo as active as ever! Ann has chosen to support the Hospital with a monthly regular gift allowing us to plan for the future.

• Contact: Sarah Hunter • T: +44 (0)141 330 7145 • E: sarah.hunter@glasgow.ac.uk

If you’d like to support the Small Animal Hospital Fund

Please remember to update your contact details so we can keep you informed of news and events.

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Making a gift to the Vet School in your will Throughout its history, the Vet School at the University of Glasgow has been the fortunate and appreciative beneficiary of many bequests from its clients, friends and supporters.

By making a gift in your will, you will help the Vet School to remain at the forefront of veterinary medicine

by allowing us to support future generations of vets and the animals in their care, and contribute to pioneering future standards in animal treatment and welfare.

a piece of equipment, or you can direct your gift to where the need is greatest.

Your gift can be made in your name, or in honour of another individual or a much loved pet or pets.

Gifts of all sizes are extremely valuable and make a lasting contribution to our work. You may leave a gift to benefit a specific area at the Vet School, or fund

Making a gift in your will could also reduce your inheritance tax liability.

Gifts left to charitable bodies such as the University are also tax exempt.

Thanks to the staff at the hospital my beloved Eddie, a bearded collie, got seven extra years of life. Eddie is no longer here however I have decided to leave a gift in my will to the Vet School in memory of Eddie and in gratitude to the staff at the Small Animal Hospital. It is my way of paying them back. I am very happy to know that a gift from me in the future will be put to the best possible use by the Vet School.

Cathie Hughes, client of the Small Animal Hospital

If you’d like to find out how to make a gift to the Vet School in your will

• Contact: Sarah Hunter • T: +44 (0)141 330 7145 • E: sarah.hunter@glasgow.ac.uk

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Thanks to all our donors Thanks to all those who made gifts to the Vet Fund from 17 March to 15 September 2015.

Small Animal Hospital Fund • Gold • In memory of Professor Andrew S Nash • In loving memory of Professor Sally Solomon (Tippett) - from her family, friends and colleagues • Silver • For the support of Oliver & Misty Blacker - Ann & David Blacker • Rose A Galt

• Bronze • In memory of my beloved Ebony and Zoe Channer • Donald Coutts • Tom Ellis • In memory of Anne Gilchrist † • Sheila M Gray • Ian R Kerr • In memory of Donald Callendar Mackintosh BVMS MRCVS 1956 • Sylvia Murray • For Alfie • In memory of our boys Maui & Reilly

• Noted • Gentle Nigel Cameron • Mia Hortin • Hazel Kennedy • William Maxwell • Margaret Muir • Gertie of Tweedsmuir Weipers Equine Fund • Major • The Estate of Thomas Boyd Marshall BVMS MRCVS

James Herriot Scholarship Fund • Silver • 2015 GUVMA Rodeo Committee • Dr John Masterson Hamilton BVMS • From the Estate of Angus Roderick MacDonald • Bronze • David W Rea • Noted • Pamela T Cartwright † Denotes American Alumni of Glasgow University donor

Make a lasting contribution towards the care of sick and injured animals By making a gift in your will to the Vet School you will be supporting future generations of vets and the animals in their care.

To find out more • Visit our website at www.glasgow.ac.uk/givingtoglasgow • or contact Sarah Hunter on E: sarah.hunter@glasgow.ac.uk T: +44 (0) 141 330 7145.

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University of Glasgow Trust Donation Form

2015 Win Vet News

Please fill in this form with a ball point pen and return it to us, using the contact details below.

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