Professor Tim Greet Receives British Veterinary Association's Prestigious Chiron Award

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Article Date: 29 Sep 2008 - 3:00 PDT

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Professor Tim Greet BVMS MVM Cert EO DESTS Dip ECVS FRCVS was on Saturday announced as the recipient of the British Veterinary Association's prestigious Chiron Award.

The award, which marks outstanding contributions to veterinary science or for outstanding services to the profession, judged in either case as being of a calibre commanding international or inter-professional recognition, was presented to Professor Greet during the Awards Ceremony at the BVA's Annual Congress in London today (Saturday).

Prof. Tim Greet graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1976. Obtaining a Horserace Betting Levy Board Training Scholarship, he was awarded a Master`s Degree for work carried out in the Surgery Department of that university in 1977. He then went to the Equine Research Station of the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket, to work with Professor Bob Cook on equine ENT disease. He was awarded in 1982 a Fellowship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, for a dissertation on a radiological study of deglutition, carried out during his tenure at the Research Station.

In 1982 he joined the Newmarket private equine practice of Dr Peter Rossdale, becoming a partner in 1984. Since that time he has been the partner responsible for the surgery department. His interests are in general and minimally invasive equine surgery, and his surgical caseload is divided equally between orthopaedic and soft tissue patients. He was instrumental, with his partners, in developing a large purpose built equine hospital near Newmarket in 1997.

He has been awarded a Certificate in Equine Orthopaedics and a Diploma in Equine Soft Tissue Surgery by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and is a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Surgeons. He is recognised as a Specialist in Equine Surgery by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and the European College of Veterinary Surgeons. He is a member of the Credentials Committee of the ECVS.

He has won the Centenary Award of the British Veterinary Association and the Richard Hartley Clinical Prize of the British Equine Veterinary Association. He gave the sixth Saki Patsaama lecture in Finland in 1987, and has lectured around the world on a variety of equine surgical topics. He has published papers on a variety of topics in peer-reviewed veterinary journals and contributed several chapters to veterinary textbooks.

He is an Honorary Professor in the Clinical Department of the Veterinary School at the University of Glasgow and an Associate Lecturer in the Clinical Department of the Veterinary School at the University of Cambridge. He is a Trustee of the Comparative Clinical Science Foundation.

His political interests have involved education and the future of the veterinary profession, in particular, and he has sat on a number of influential RCVS working parties, including the group looking into deregulation and veterinary paraprofessionals and the Education Strategy Steering Group.

He was President of the British Equine Veterinary Association in 2000, President of the British Veterinary Association in 2003/4, and is a member of the board of the World Equine Veterinary Association and also its President-elect.

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