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Vet, Medical Educator, Company Director
Dr Mary Fraser BVMS MRes PhD CertVD MAcadMEd MIoD PGCHE FHEA FRSB FRCVS
Mary has had a varied career, starting out in mixed practice, then focussing on veterinary dermatology, veterinary nursing, medical education, animal welfare, owner support and clinical decision making. She was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2017 for Meritorious Contributions to Practice and is a past Chair of the RCVS Fellowship Science Advisory Panel.
Working both as a clinician and academic, Mary has a PhD in immunological aspects of canine atopic dermatitis and the RCVS Certificate in Veterinary Dermatology, worked in referral practice, and also set up her own first opinion/referral small animal practice in rural Perthshire.
In between this, she had the opportunity to work in veterinary nursing at both FE and HE levels becoming a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Member of the Academy of Medical Educators, and alongside Simon Girling, setting up the Advanced Programme in Veterinary Nursing of Exotics a postgraduate training programme for veterinary nurses that has now been running for over 20 years and trained over 1000 vet nurses.
She is a accomplished researcher and author, with over 100 published articles, book chapters, books and papers. Areas of work include veterinary dermatology, medical education, preparing students for practice, the challenges of clinical decision making, providing better support in practice for clients with sight loss, and the application of evidence based medicine in practice.
During her time as a veterinary nursing lecturer she also taught ‘human nurses’, and more recently moved into human medical education, now working with medics, as Executive Director of Education, Training and Assessment at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Working across human and veterinary medicine and nursing has given her a unique insight into One Health & Medicine.
She is also an Honorary Associate Clinical Professor at Glasgow Vet School, focussing on Evidence Based Practice and a Trustee of the Humanimal Trust.
As founder and host of the Animal Welfare Conversations podcast she has the opportunity to chat to some of the most influential people in the animal world and raise awareness of amazing individuals who are making animals’ lives better.
