Zoological Medicine Ltd has run Continuing Proffesional Development (CPD) courses for the British Veterinary Small Animal Association (BSAVA), and other companies and organisations. Director Romain Pizzi, is Special Lecturer in Zoo and Wildlife Medicine at the University of Nottingham School of Veterinary Medicine and Science. He also taught at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, the University of Edinburgh, for almost 3 years, and currently also lectures to Veterinary Nurses at Telford College Edinburgh. He is also a frequent speaker at International and National Conferences. Director Yolanda Martinez Pereira taught at both the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, the University of Edinburgh, as well as the Small Animal Hospital of the Veterinary Faculty, the University of Liverpool
We are unfortunately unable to accomodate student placements due to the nature of our work and travel comittments.
If interested in Zoological Medicine you may wish to contact the British Veterinary Zoological Society (BVZS), or consult the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeon's website (www.rcvs.org.uk) to locate a practice near you.
Continuing Education Presented
· Co-presented a two-day course on advanced rabbit medicine and surgery for the British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA) with Simon Girling (2007).
· Presented a lecture on Husbandry and handling of snakes at the British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA) Congress, Birmingham, April 2006.
· Presented a talk on Captive penguin medicine to the Bristol University Veterinary Zoological Society (BUVZS), January 2005.
· Presented a talk on the Decline in Indian Gyps spp vultures to the Glasgow Veterinary Zoological Society, October, 2004
· Presented a talk on the Veterinary Care of Penguins to the Cambridge Veterinary Zoological Society, October, 2004.
· Presented a talk on common diseases of Parrots, to the Scottish Parrot Society, Dunbar, August, 2004.
· Presented a course on Veterinary care of pet invertebrates, for the Deutsche Veterinärmedizinische Gesellschaft (DVG) - German Veterinary Medical Society, Nurnberg, Germany, 15 May 2004.
· Presented a talk on "Squamate Diagnostics" at the Glasgow University Veterinary Zoological Society annual conference, 21 February 2004.
· Presented a talk on "Anaesthesia and analgesia of small mammals" at the Edinburgh Veterinary Zoological Society annual conference, 10 January 2004.
· Presented a talk on Penguins to the Glasgow University Veterinary Zoological Society, 2003.
· Presented a Masterclass on Invertebrate diseases at the British Veterinary Zoological Society's (BVZS) 2 day Autumn conference 8-9 November 2003, Edinburgh Zoo, on Infectious diseases of Exotics.
· Presented a talk on "Playing with pythons: how to run a quality reptile service in practice" to the Edinburgh Veterinary Zoological Society, Edinburgh University, 28 October 2003.
· Present the annual course Lecture to the third year veterinary students at the Edinburgh University Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies on "Exotics Haematology".
· Talk and slide presentation on the "Veterinary Approach to Reptiles and Amphibians", at the Veterinary Clinical Pathology Group meeting of North West Labs, Myerscough College, 15 March 2001.
Student Projects Supervised
· Viginia Middleton (2006) MSc in Wild Animal Health, University of London: Cardiac disease in zoo felids.
· Ana Gouveia (2006) MSc in Wild Animal Biology, University of London: Factors affecting population dynamics in endangered captive Partula clara and Partula tohiveana Polynesian tree snails.
· Robert Lawrie (2006) University of Edinburgh, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, final year project: Surgical approaches to the hindlimb of the domestic rabbit (Orytolagus cuniculi)
· Graham Wintour (2006) University of Edinburgh, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, final year project: Effect of enclosure changes on respiratory disease incidence and mortality rates in Callitrichidae.
· Katherine Hardman (2006) Royal Veterinary College, London University, final year veterinary student elective project: Captive African vulture parasitology.
· Amie Storr (2006) Cambridge University, final year veterinary student project: Epidemiology of avian malaria (Plasmodium spp.) mortalities in zoological collections in the United Kingdom.
· Sheena Haywood (2005) University of Edinburgh, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, final year project: Radiographic parameters used as a prognostic indicator for dental disease in chinchillas.
· Juan Grey (2005) University of Edinburgh, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, final year project: Assessing the risk of veterinary induced co-dependant Mallophagan lice extinction in endangered Psittacine species.
· Nicola Harris (2004) Napier University, MSc project: The influence of air temperatures on penguin mortality rates at Edinburgh zoo.
· Joanne Sheen (2004) University of Edinburgh, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, final year project: Acid Hematin Determination of Avian Haemoglobin as a Field Technique - a Pilot Study.