Honorary Professor: Elspeth Mary Milne

Elspeth Mary Milne has been awarded an Honorary Professorship.

She graduated from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies in 1979.

After a spell in practice she undertook a PhD at Edinburgh investigating the clinical pathology of sheep.

She then spent three years as a small animal resident in Edinburgh before moving to equine medicine where she was a clinician from 1986 to 1996.

In 1996 she joined the Scottish Agricultural College Veterinary Services in Dumfries where she became Centre Manager.

She returned to the Vet School in 2002 and was appointed Head of Veterinary Pathology in 2004, a post she held until September 2011.

She is currently senior clinical pathologist at Biobest Laboratories in Edinburgh.

In 1997, Professor Milne was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for studies on equine dysautonomia.

In 2002 she became a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology and in 2011 a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists.

She is also both a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and European recognised specialist in veterinary clinical pathology. She contributes to development of clinical pathology internationally.

Her main research interests are in clinical pathology and equine dysautonomia.