Dr Tim Brazil

Qualifications: BVSc PhD CertEM(Int Med) DECEIM MRCVS.
Qualified: University of Liverpool. Institution/Practice: Equine Medicine on the Move Ltd.
Career: Tim Brazil qualified as a Veterinary Surgeon from Liverpool University in 1988 and has spent all of his career working with large animals of different shapes and sizes. That time has been divided between University posts in equine medicine/respiratory medicine research and private equine practice. He was the first holder of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Certificate in Equine Internal Medicine and is a Diplomate of the European College of Equine Internal Medicine. He was awarded a PhD from Edinburgh University in 1999 for studies on inflammatory cell biology and lung inflammation in the horse. Although he has worked in private practice for the last 15 years, he still regularly contributes to continuing education meetings and conferences for practicing equine vets both in the UK and internationally. He has published articles in textbooks and clinical and basic science journals. In 2005 he established an ambulatory equine internal medicine consultancy service (Equine Medicine on the Move) based in the Cotswolds, UK providing consultancy, diagnostic and second opinion services to the pharmaceutical industry, Defra as well as equine practices throughout the UK and Europe. He is a consultant to The Brooke, a charity that provides free health care and education to working equids and their owners in some of the world’s poorest communities for whom he helped to establish a clinical audit programme worldwide.