Canine Chiari and Syringomyelia

Join SSAVS for a talk by Clare Rusbridge of Fitzpatrick Referrals and the University of Surrey, on Canine Chiari-like Malformation and syringomyelia (CMSM). Zoom login info will be sent to registrants before event. 

More about our speaker:

Prof. Clare Rusbridge BVMS PhD DipECVN FRCVS RCVS and European Specialist in Veterinary Neurology Clare graduated from University of Glasgow in 1991 and following an internship at University of Pennsylvania and general practice in Cambridgeshire, she completed a BSAVA / Petsavers residency and was staff clinician in Neurology at the Royal Veterinary College. She became an ECVN Diplomate in 1996, a RCVS Specialist in 1999 and RCVS Fellow in 2016. She has researched Chiari-like malformation and syringomyelia (CMSM) for over 20 years. In 2007 she was awarded a PhD from Utrecht University for her thesis on CMSM and in 2011 she received the J. A. Wright Memorial Award by The Blue Cross Animal Welfare Charity. Clare joined Fitzpatrick Referrals and the University of Surrey in 2013; for 16 years prior she operated a neurology and neurosurgery service in Wimbledon. She has authored or co-authored over 140 scientific articles (over 50 on CMSM) in addition to several book chapters and co-edited a human medical textbook on syringomyelia. Her other professional interests include neuropathic pain, neurological diseases related to conformation, epilepsy, the interplay between neurology and behaviour, polymyositis and rehabilitation following spinal injury.