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Personal Chair: Anna Meredith

Anna Louise Meredith has been made Personal Chair in Zoological and Conservation Medicine.

Anna Meredith

Professor Meredith has an MA in Physiological Sciences from Magdalen College, Oxford, and a VetMB from Wolfson College, Cambridge.

In 1992, after a year in general veterinary practice, she joined the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies.

She set up and heads the Exotic Animal and Wildlife Service, the only clinical and teaching service of its kind in a UK veterinary school.

Until 2006 she was also Head Veterinary Surgeon at Edinburgh Zoo and the University’s Named Veterinary Surgeon.

Professor Meredith holds the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons’ Diploma in Zoological Medicine and is an RCVS Recognised Specialist in Zoo and Wildlife Medicine.

She holds the British Small Animal Veterinary Association Blaine Award for outstanding contributions and chairs the UK Government’s Zoos Expert Committee.

Her current research interests are in wildlife disease surveillance and conservation of native Scottish wildlife. She is Programme Director of a new online MVetSci in Conservation Medicine.

Professor Meredith lives in the Scottish Borders with her partner and two young children. She enjoys running, mountain biking, hillwalking and playing the flute in the Peebles Flute choir.