Vet fund newsletter Spring 2015

Vet Fund Newsletter Spring 2015 for the alumni of Glasgow Vet School

How you have made a difference See pages 2 & 3

Meet our new James Herriot Scholar See page 3

Help for pets of homeless people See page 4

The Annual Reunion Weekend See page 5

Welcome

The Small Animal Hospital Fund

What your support has helped us to do

The Vet Fund was created to support the work of the Vet School whereby donations are directed to one of the Vet School’s priority projects that are currently; The Small Animal Hospital, Weipers Equine Centre and James Herriot Scholarship Fund.

Gifts to these projects allow us to purchase the most advanced equipment meaning better and more effective treatment for the animals we help, as well as continue our excellence in research and teaching to ensure we can pioneer future standards in animal treatment and welfare.

I am extremely proud to say that we have disbursed over £170,000 from the Vet Fund since 2012 to valuable projects at the Small Animal Hospital (pictured front cover) and Weipers Equine Centre.

We have also been able to award five James Herriot Scholarships to some of our excellent postgraduate students. You will read about our latest James Herriot Scholar, Mark Spilman, in this issue.

I was delighted to learn of a project set up by our vet students that provides a monthly drop in centre for the pets of homeless people. This project highlights the importance of the animal human bond especially in this case for people living on the periphery of society. It is also an endorsement of the calibre and caring nature of our students.

My sincere thanks to everyone who chooses to support the Vet Fund. As you will read, your fundraising efforts and contributions make a huge difference.

Thank you.

Professor Peter Holmes BVMS OBE FRCVS FRSE

Chair, The Vet Fund 2

Many of the projects that the Small Animal Hospital Fund supports relate to improved treatment for our dogs and cats. However, our staff are sometimes called upon to treat other types of companion animals including ferrets.

Given their playful and inquisitive nature, it is hardly surprising that the domestic ferret is gaining in popularity. There may be as many as one million ferrets in the UK, vying with rabbits as the UK’s third most popular companion animal.

The Small Animal Hospital Fund has recently supported a project to help

combat ferret coronavirus, a new virus affecting ferret populations worldwide.

Along with studies into the virus itself it will also assist in providing up-to-date information and advice to ferret owners and their veterinary surgeons.

Further information To support The Small Animal Hospital Fund please contact: • Sarah Hunter Development Officer • T: +44 (0)141 330 7145 • E: sarah.hunter@glasgow.ac.uk

Small Animal Hospital in focus

Opening Scotland’s first dedicated seizure clinic The management of canine and feline epilepsy can be extremely frustrating and cause owners significant levels of anxiety. The Small Animal Hospital has just launched Scotland’s first dedicated animal seizure clinic.

The support provided through the clinic aims to improve the level of support for owners and referring vets as well

as assist with collating vital information that will help combat this disease in the future.

The Small Animal Hospital marked the opening of the Clinic with a public lecture on Idiopathic Epilepsy and its treatment.

This lecture was fully booked but further lectures are planned. Please see our events section for more details.

Giving Tuesday

Providing Travel Scholarships for our students

Weipers Equine Fund

What your support has helped us to do

Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving around the annual shopping and spending season.

On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 we asked some of our North American alumni to get into the Giving Tuesday spirit by taking part in our very own campaign.

Our goal was to raise 10,000 USD to create ten new Travel Scholarships and all donations received on the day were matched by the University of Glasgow Trust.

We are delighted to announce our first Giving Tuesday campaign was a huge success thanks to our alumni and friends who supported us. In total our alumni gave just over 15,500 USD, exceeding our original goal!

A number of our vet undergraduates will be benefitting from Giving Tuesday thanks to a generous donation from Melvyn Pond (BVMS 1966). Melvyn told us why he and his wife Amanda, were happy to support Giving Tuesday and help our veterinary students gain from a truly international experience, ‘I am delighted that our support will allow veterinary students to gain important experiences abroad that can expand their horizons, further their research and enhance employability’.

Thanks to a travel scholarship Camilla Ramsoy, a final year student was able to travel to Alamo Pintado Equine Centre in California. She explained just how valuable the experience was: ‘Having yet to complete my clinical rotations, everything I saw was new and exciting.

I saw colic surgeries, arthroscopies, a limb amputation, ovariohysterectomies, enucleations, stem cell therapy, and assisted with foaling.

‘There was a huge variety of cases and the vets and interns were more than happy to tell you about them and take any burning questions that I had.

‘My time there was fantastic; I saw such an incredible amount of diverse cases in a very short space of time and I learnt some invaluable skills that I cannot wait to put into good use during my clinical rotations.’

Be sure to keep an eye out for information about Giving Tuesday 2015!

Recent donations to the Weipers Equine Fund have provided generous support for one of our postgraduate students, Caroline Chauché (above).

Her work will investigate the complex molecular mechanisms by which equine influenza infects horses. It will be overseen by Dr John Marshall, Senior University Veterinary Clinician in Equine Surgery and Dr Pablo Murcia from the University’s Centre for Virus Research.

Little is known about how this virus adapted to horses from its origin in birds,

so the support of the Weipers Equine Fund will allow the development of better vaccination and treatment strategies to reduce the impact of equine flu.

Further information To support the Weipers Equine Fund please contact: • Sarah Hunter Development Officer • T: +44 (0)141 330 7145 • E: sarah.hunter@glasgow.ac.uk

Introducing our fifth James Herriot Scholar The success of our fundraising for the James Herriot Scholarship Fund has enabled the Vet School to award a scholarship to Mark Spilman.

Mark grew up on a mixed farm in North Yorkshire. He is working with a cattle breeding team which uses embryo transfer, ultrasound-guided oocyte aspiration, and new technologies for bull fertility assessments.

The James Herriot Scholarship Fund will allow him to generate and analyse data using in-practice flow cytometry and CASA technologies, with the aim to define what ‘good fertility’ semen is,

and also to highlight any detrimental influences of on-farm storage and handling of semen used in AI. The outcomes of his findings will be fed back to farm animal veterinarians.

Further information To support the James Herriot Scholarship Fund please contact: • Sarah Hunter Development Officer • T: +44 (0)141 330 7145 • E: sarah.hunter@glasgow.ac.uk

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Pictured: Ruby Shorrock, President and founder of Trusty Paws with fellow members.

Supporting the pets of homeless people A group of our fourth year vet students have established the Trusty Paws Clinic which provides free services for pets belonging to homeless people. The monthly drop-in clinic has been set up in conjunction with Simon Community Scotland, a charity supporting people experiencing homelessness.

The students are providing vaccinations, flea and worming treatments and microchips for dogs, as well as handing out 4

food, clothing and bedding for the pets and their owners.

Ruby Shorrock, 4th year veterinary student, and President and founder of the clinic, said: ‘Glasgow is in desperate need of a project like this as there is very little support for homeless people with dogs. The clinic will provide much-needed preventative care for the dogs. It will also be a friendly environment for the people where they can get a warm drink, a sandwich and

a friendly chat. To many of these people their dogs are the only things willing to love them unconditionally. They provide muchneeded company and are very special to their owners. Preventing the dogs from catching nasty diseases and parasites is an easy way to make sure their lives are comfortable.’ More information about the clinic can be found at: www.facebook.com/trustypaws.

Alumni events Events roundup Annual Reunion Weekend • Friday, 31 October & Saturday, 1 November 2014 • Another memorable weekend took place for our graduates celebrating a significant anniversary in 2014. Professor Elizabeth Simpson gave a fascinating McCall Lecture on Friday 31 October. Over 70 delegates attended our CPD event on Saturday 1 November followed in the evening by our celebration dinner and ceilidh with 200 of our graduates from across the world.

Glasgow get-together at the London Vet Show • Thursday, 20 November 2014 • 80 graduates attended our first gettogether at the London Vet School at the Society Bar, Hilton London Olympia.

NAVC Drinks Reception, Florida • Sunday, 18 January 2015 • Professor Ewan Cameron, Head of the School of Veterinary Medicine was delighted to welcome over 20 of our graduates to our drinks reception run in conjunction with colleagues from the Royal Veterinary College.

Western Veterinary Conference, Las Vegas • Tuesday, 17 February 2015 • Joyce Wason and Neil Evans met up with graduates attending the 2015 Western Veterinary Conference. Joyce and Neil also had time to meet up with members of the Class of 2007 on their travels • They were really pleased for the opportunity to catch up with so many of our graduates while out in North America.

Royal Highland Show • Thursday, 18 to Sunday, 21 June 2015 • Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh EH28 8NB • Visit the Vet School’s stand at the Royal Highland Show.

• We are situated in the Agriculture area on Avenue H (beside Ingliston House).

Dates for your diary

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

We look forward to meeting you at our events throughout the year.

BSAVA • Friday, 10 April 2015 • 4.30pm - 6.00pm • The Malthouse, 75 King Edwards Road, Brindley Place, Birmingham B1 2NX • Annual Glasgow Vet Alumni get-together.

Annual GUVMA Rodeo • Saturday, 18 April 2015 • Glasgow Vet School, Garscube Estate, Glasgow G61 1QH • 11am to 5pm (open to the public) • Our vet students once again have a number of great events lined up from horse vaulting to duck herding.

Annual Reunion Weekend 2015 • Friday, 30 & Saturday, 31 October 2015 • See below for more details.

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

Further information For further information on any of the above events, please contact: • Sarah Hunter Development Officer • T: +44 (0)141 330 7145 • E: sarah.hunter@glasgow.ac.uk

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

Booking will soon be open for the Annual Reunion Weekend 2015 incorporating The Weipers Lecture and CPD programme.

Weipers Lecture • Friday, 30 October 2015 • Further details to be announced 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 For further information on this event, please contact: • Sarah Hunter Development Officer • 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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A family affair Many of the bequests made to the Vet School are made due to family associations, and in the case of a gift received from Margaret Jean MacGregor, the family association goes right back to the early years of Glasgow Vet College, founded in 1862.

Margaret died in March 2014 aged 94 years and it was her wish to leave some money to Glasgow Vet School as her

father, George Ogilvie MacGregor, had trained at Glasgow Vet College from 1879 to 1884 before embarking on a career as a veterinary surgeon.

The Glasgow University Vet School, as it became in 1949 when it was incorporated into the University, was delighted to receive a gift of £2,000 from Margaret in memory of her father. These funds were directed to the Small Animal Hospital.

The facilities available to our vet students in the days of George MacGregor may not have been as advanced as they are today, however, the underlying objectives of the Vet School remain the same; to provide the best possible experience for our students and the best possible treatment for the animals committed to our care.

Pictured: Glasgow Vet College circa 1920s.

Forthcoming public events Small Animal Hospital Public Lectures 2015 • How to keep calm and carry on when your pet seizures: a guide to Idiopathic Epilepsy and its treatment • Wednesday, 18 March 2015 • This lecture is now fully booked!

• Minimally invasive procedures at The Small Animal Hospital • Wednesday, 21 October 2015 • 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.

• To book your place, please contact Sarah Hunter on T: +44 (0)141 330 7145 or E: sarah.hunter@glasgow.ac.uk.

Annual Service of Thanksgiving for the place of pets and companion animals in our lives • Tuesday, 1 December 2015, 6.30pm • The University Chapel • To book your place, please contact Sarah Hunter on T: +44 (0)141 330 7145 or E: sarah.hunter@glasgow.ac.uk.

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Pictured A patient being given hydrotherapy treatment at the Small Animal Hospital.

Thanks to all our donors Thanks to all those who made gifts to the Vet Fund from 1 September 2014 to 16 March 2015.

Small Animal Hospital Fund • Major • The Estate of Flora Kennedy • The Estate of Noreen JE Scobie • Silver • The Estate of Irene Forster Campbell • In memory of Christina R Sinclair • One anonymous donor

• Bronze • In memory of our beloved scottie Wallace • John W Armstrong • Sheba, Socks, Justy & Saskia Cox • Morag & Jim Lang • Saxo and Susie much loved pets • Susan J Wilson • Noted • The Aird Foundation • Marilyn R B Bell • Victoria J Dymock • In loving memory of Simon, Merlin and Polly. Dr Helen Sclare

Weipers Equine Fund • Silver • The Estate of Myra Leatham Hunter • Susan M Taylor • Bronze • Christine A Clark • Noted • In Memory of David Keane

James Herriot Scholarship Fund • Silver • Professor Michael H Goldschmidt† • Bronze • One anonymous donor • Noted • In loving memory of Simon, Merlin and Polly. Dr Helen Sclare † Denotes American Alumni of Glasgow University donor

Making a gift to the Vet School in your will Throughout its history the Vet School has been the fortunate and appreciative beneficiary of many bequest gifts from its alumni and friends.

By making a gift in your will you will help the Vet School 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 gift in your will to the Vet School can benefit a specific area of research, support a scholarship or chair, fund a piece of equipment or be unrestricted, allowing us to direct it to where the need is greatest. Gifts of all sizes are extremely valuable and will make a lasting contribution to our work.

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.

Further information For further information about leaving a gift in your will please contact: • Sarah Hunter Development Officer • T: +44 (0)141 330 7145 • E: sarah.hunter@glasgow.ac.uk

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