Dr Peter Down
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Pete is a specialist veterinary surgeon with extensive experience of private clinical practice, academia and consultancy. He has an international reputation in his field, delivering invited presentations throughout the UK and worldwide with a wide range of publications and outputs related to his research and clinical activities. Pete is an RCVS and European Veterinary Specialist in Bovine Health and Production and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He uses this expertise to develop and enhance teaching and learning here.
Pete is responsible for the development, delivery and assessment of the new BVMS curriculum. This includes the integration and assessment of clinically relevant activity throughout the BVMS course to achieve the RCVS Day One Competencies. Pete's research interests include bovine mastitis and calf health. He has published in a range of peer-reviewed journals and authored several textbook chapters. He has sat on a number of national and international committees focussed on the health and welfare of cattle and provides business support consultancy advice to dairy farm businesses throughout the UK.
Pete qualified from the University of Bristol Veterinary School in July 2004. He worked as a general practitioner at a large mixed practice in Suffolk for 6 years. In May 2010, he took up a dairy residency at The University of Nottingham School of Veterinary Medicine and Science which entailed a combination of clinical work and research/undergraduate teaching. During this, he successfully completed the ECBHM residency programme to become a Diplomate of the European College of Bovine Health Management. He completed a full-time 4 year PhD project funded by the BBSRC and AHDB Dairy in 2016 investigating decision-making around mastitis control in dairy cows. He was a Clinical Lecturer in Farm Animal Population Health at the University of Nottingham School of Veterinary Medicine and Science for 6 years prior to joining us.
His clinical activity, international profile and extensive KE activities, have enabled him to play a major role in translating research into impact, and delivery of high-quality evidence-based clinical teaching.
- PhD. University of Nottingham, 2016
- European Diploma in Bovine Health Management. ECBHM, 2013
- BVSc. University of Bristol, 2004
- FHEA, Higher Education Academy, 2020
- Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Recognised Specialist in Cattle Health & Production. RCVS, 2015
- European Veterinary Specialist in Bovine Health Management. ECBHM, 2013
- Farm animal population health
- Veterinary education
- Bovine mastitis
- Calf health
- ECBHM Assessments working group
- Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
- British Cattle Veterinary Association
Pete's main research interests are related to decision-making in bovine mastitis control and improving calf health and welfare. He has a combined grant income (PI/CoI) of>£2M and his research/KE activities have made a measurable difference to the health and welfare of cattle in the UK, as demonstrated by the 4* impact cases that his work has contributed to.
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