Speaker bio page for Rachel Dean

Bio

Rachel is a passionate about veterinary healthcare and is a recognised international leader of evidence-based veterinary medicine. She encourages authentic collective clinical leadership and progressing care through developing professional connections, research, innovation, quality improvement and professional development.

Rachel is a graduate from University of Glasgow and has worked in mixed, dairy and small animal general practice in the private, charity and academic sectors. She holds the RCVS diploma in feline medicine, has a PhD in epidemiology and an MSc in Evidence-based Healthcare. She was the founding director of the Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine at the University of Nottingham from 2009-2018 before joining VetPartners in her current role. Rachel chairs the Clinical Board for the VetPartners group (UK and Europe) where she develops and supports international clinical communities and drives the clinical quality improvement and clinical research programmes.