Speaker bio page for Penny Watson

Bio

Dr Penny Watson MA, VetMD, CertVR, DSAM, DipECVIM-CA, FRCVS EBVS® European Veterinary Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine RCVS Recognised Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine Emeritus Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge President, Society of Comparative Hepatology After graduating from Cambridge in 1989, Dr Penny Watson spent 4 years in farm, equine and small animal practice before returning to Cambridge to undertake a small animal medicine residency funded by a Pet Food Company. She became interested in small animal nutrition as a result of this. She spent 29 years at the Queen’s Veterinary School Hospital, becoming an RCVS and ECVIM Diplomate and recognised specialist in Small Animal Medicine. She became a Fellow of the RCVS in 2016. She recently retired from clinical practice and moved to France but continues with research and lecturing in her areas of interest: gastroenterology, hepatology and clinical nutrition. Penny is ECVIM Past President and a former chair of the ECVIM Internal Medicine Diploma examination committee and former Honorary Secretary of BSAVA. Penny’s research focuses on liver and pancreas disease in dogs and cats, particularly chronic disease and fibrosis and she has published widely in these areas. Recent research has focused on copper storage disease in a variety of breeds and feline chronic cholangitis.