Speakers

Jill Maddison

Dr. Maddison graduated from the University of Sydney in 1978. She completed an internship at the University of Sydney in 1979, spent 18 months in full time private practice then completed a residency in small animal medicine at the University of Guelph, Canada. She returned to Australia and completed a PhD on the neurochemistry of Hepatic Encephalopathy at The University of Sydney. She was a senior tutor and clinician in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences from 1987 and from 1990-2000 was a senior lecturer in the Department of Pharmacology. During this time she also worked in general and specialist veterinary practice and was a consultant for a veterinary clinical pathology lab. In 2000 she became the Director of the Veterinary Science Foundation at the University of Sydney.

Jill moved to the UK with her family in April 2001. From 2002 she was a veterinary clinician and lecturer at the Royal Veterinary College, London based at the college’s first opinion practice, the Beaumont Animals’ Hospital, and a Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge where she tutored in pharmacology. In September 2005 she became the Director of Professional Development and head of the CPD Unit at the RVC. She is co-chair of the Scientific Program Committee for the World Small Animal Veterinary association Congress in 2007.

Jill has published over 60 refereed papers in veterinary and medical journals and is the senior editor of “Small Animal Clinical Pharmacology” which was published by Harcourt Brace in 2002. A new edition is currently on progress and is scheduled for publication in 2007. She has been invited to speak at many CPD meetings (over 40 in the past 5 years) in the UK, Australia, Europe, Ireland, South Africa, Thailand and the USA. Her particular CPD interests are clinical problem solving in small animal medicine and clinical pharmacology. She believes passionately that CPD should not only build the knowledge base and technical skills of veterinarians in private general practice, but also enhance their thinking and problem solving skills.