Speakers - Practical village

Amy graduated from Royal Veterinary College, London with a MSCI in Bioveterinary Science in 2021. She joined the Veterinary Pathology group that same year as a laboratory technician in Ringwood where she found her passion for Veterinary Diagnostics. After being promoted to senior technician Amy got the opportunity to visit the Cork lab where she fell in love with Ireland and was offered the position of manager at VPG Cork. Her expertise is in Hematology, and she has interests in Microbiology and Biochemistry.

Professor Mark Dunning  qualified from Cambridge in 1997 and went on to spend time in both mixed and small animal practice. He interrupted a small animal medicine residency at the University of Liverpool to pursue a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. After that he remained at Cambridge and finished his small animal medicine residency. He then worked in private specialist practice for four years in England before moving to the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science at the University of Nottingham, where he is now Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine. 
Mark holds the European Diploma in small animal internal medicine and is an RCVS and EBVS recognised specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine. Mark has a particular interest in teaching endoscopy and allowing practitioners to appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of the techniques available.

Pedro graduated from Lisbon Vet School, Portugal, in 1999. He then stayed at the Vet School Teaching Lab as a junior pathologist from January 2000 to late September when he migrated to the UK to join a large commercial lab in the Northwest where in 2015, he passed the RCPath exam.

In 2016 he joined the VPG Exeter pathology team continuing his interests in Haematology, Clinical Biochemistry and Cytology. In 2018, he successfully passed the American Board exams and became a diplomate of the ACVP (Clin Path).

Pedro moved to Ireland in April 2019 to join VPG Cork (then VLSI) where he supervised one Resident. He is currently the only pathologist at our Cork lab where, with the help of a small team provide meaningful results in a timely fashion for the veterinary community, both local and nationwide.

Sam is a registered veterinary nurse with a background in teaching, training and supporting nurses within practice. She spent most of her career working in a large referral hospital, North Downs Specialist Referrals, where she held several positions - beginning her journey as a rotating RVN, Wards Supervisor and eventually becoming Clinical Services Manager.

During her time in practice, she loved nursing critical and intensive patients. In the management roles she overhauled induction programme to support new joiners, developed a supportive onboarding programme and created a CPR training plan.

She holds her Graduate Diploma, her ECC Certificate, is a trained teacher and RECOVER instructor. Alongside her role for Linnaeus, she owns and runs her own company, the PetMed CPR Education company which delivers high-quality CPR training in practices across the UK.