1. Nick is an independent herd health veterinary consultant based in Dorset, UK and Honorary Associate Professor at Nottingham University. He grew up on a small sheep and beef farm in Herefordshire, qualified from Cambridge University in 1999. In 2002 he took on a PhD project at Bristol on dairy lameness control programmes in 2002–6 followed by the Healthy Feet Project in 2007 and then the Cow Tracking project at the Royal Veterinary College in 2011. He is a member of the European Board of Veterinary...
2. David has been a dairy farmer on the family farm in Nottinghamshire for 16 years, he's a partner and herdsman at the business and a special interest in lameness control. He was a participant in Nottingham's trial as part of James Wilson's PhD
3. Emily is the ruminant clinical director at Oakwood Veterinary Group, part of the Vet Partners network. She is particularly interested in mobility and leads the Vet Partners mobility special interest group
4. Steven Crowe is a partner at Nantwich Farm Vets in Cheshire. He has a particular interest in cattle lameness, and enjoys farmer education and training, helping to run the popular 4-day Dairyland foot trimming course in Nantwich
5. Reuben Newsome leads the Park Vet Group's farm department, a team of 10 servicing Leicestershire and the surrounding counties. While studying at Nottingham University, he undertook a PhD intercalated into his veterinary degree, researching claw horn disruption lesions in dairy cattle. After graduating in 2017 Reuben moved to Synergy Farm Health, first as an RVC clinical training intern and then as a veterinary surgeon and researcher. He moved to Park in 2019, where he enjoys incorporating his interest in...
6. Prof Georgios Oikonomou is Professor of Cattle Health and Welfare at the Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool. He graduated from the School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and during his PhD studies, he investigated the genetics of energy balance and fertility in Holstein cows. He spent a few years managing a 600 cow dairy herd in Greece before moving to the USA where he worked as a research associate at Cornell University and...
7. Sara graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 2005 and has worked in the farm animal sector ever since. Before she returned home to South Wales in 2014, she spent time in farm practice in a number of different areas of the UK. During this time she gained her RCVS Certificate in Cattle Health and Production, Diploma in Bovine Reproduction and became an RCVS Recognised Specialist in Cattle Health and Production. She now runs Farm Dynamics Ltd, a consultancy business that provides training and...
8. Jon Reader is Managing Director of Synergy Farm Health, a 41 farm animal only veterinary practice in the South West of England. He is an RCVS recognised specialist in Cattle Health and Production. Jon has a particular interest in lameness and works closely with the 13 foot trimmers working within Synergy. In 2015, Jon was involved with setting up the Cattle Lameness academy
9. James is a Foot Health Consultant based in Cornwall (UK) working with Herd Health Consultancy. After graduating from The University of Nottingham with a degree in Agriculture and Livestock Science, he went to work in dairy herd management. Following this, he undertook a PhD in the treatment and prevention of claw horn lesions at UoN's vet school, which he completed in 2021. During his PhD, James spent a large proportion of his time trimming, both as part of his trial work and also commercially. He is...