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Dr Emily Dutton, BVM&S DVC MRCVS, RCVS (Cardiology), Recognised Specialist in Veterinary Cardiology

Emily Dutton is Director of Cheshire Cardiology, offering a specialist cardiology referral service for veterinary practices throughout the North West England. Emily has been heavily involved in CPD training for vets, has contributed to international clinical trials and written a number of articles for professional and peer-reviewed journals.

Jonathan Elliott is currently Professor in Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology at the Royal Veterinary College. A Cambridge Veterinary Graduate, his PhD was in vascular biology at the Department of Pharmacology in Cambridge and post-graduate clinical training was undertaken at the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the RVC in 1990 as a lecturer in Veterinary Pharmacology and developed research interests in feline kidney disease and hypertension and equine laminitis.  His research has resulted in a number of awards recognising the impact of his work on clinical practice, including the Pfizer Academic Award (1998), BSAVA Amoroso Award (2001), Petplan Charitable Trust Award (2005), ESVNU Scientific Award (2007) and BSAVA Woodrow Award (2019).  His is a board member of the International Renal Interest Society and was president of the European College of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology (2018-2021).  He has published more than 235 international peer reviewed original papers and reviews and supervised 37 PhD students to completion.  He is editor of a number of text books, most recently (2020) Hypertension in the dog and cat published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG (ISBN 978-3-030-33019-4).  From 2004-2021 he served as Vice Principal for Research and Innovation at the RVC leading the research strategy for the College and taking responsibility for the submission of last three research excellence framework (REF) exercises.

Dr David Connolly, DVM, RCVS (Cardiology), Dipl.ECVIM-CA

Professor in Cardiology at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals

He qualified from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) having intercalated at King College London. Following a short time in charity small animal practice he completed a Welcome sponsored PhD at the Medical Research Council’s (MRC) Clinical Research Centre in transplantation biology. He was then appointed a Research Fellow in developmental biology at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research. He then returned to the RVC as a Resident and completed his training and became an ECVIM diplomate in Cardiology. He has remained at the RVC since and is now Professor in Veterinary Cardiology.

His research covers both basic and clinical science and he is on the authorship of over 70 peer reviewed publications in clinical veterinary and scientific journals and many scientific abstracts submitted to veterinary and non-veterinary congresses.