Professor Edward Hall.

Professor Edward Hall recognised for international contributions to small animal medicine

Edward Hall, professor emeritus of small animal medicine and a regular speaker at veterinary conferences, has been named winner of the prestigious BSAVA 2020 Bourgelat Award.

Named after Claude Bourgelat, founder of the world’s first veterinary school in Lyon, France in 1761, the Bourgelat Award recognises ‘outstanding international contributions to the field of small animal practice’.

Professor Hall is a teacher on the BSAVA’s postgraduate certificate programme and has recently finished co-editing the third edition of the BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Gastroenterology. He will be formally presented with his award at BSAVA Congress in April (2-5).

Professor Hall said: “I have had an enjoyable relationship with the BSAVA ever since attending my first Congress in Hammersmith as a student, through to becoming Congress Chair, and then President in 2008/9. It is the friendships I have made through my volunteering for the Association that I treasure most.

“I feel that receiving this award from the BSAVA is a recognition that my academic career has also been of merit, but again it is the collegiality and friendship of students, interns, residents and peers which mean the most to me."

The first RCVS Recognised Specialist in Small Animal Medicine (Gastroenterology), Professor Hall graduated from Cambridge University in 1979, after which he took an Internship and Residency at the University of Pennsylvania. He followed this with a PhD at Liverpool Veterinary School, where he stayed on as a postgraduate researcher and lecturer in veterinary pathology.

Professor Hall later went on to lecture at Bristol University Vet School, where he became Professor of Small Animal Medicine in 2004 and is currently a clinician with the university’s referral service, Langford Vets. He frequently delivers talks both at home and abroad and, during his career, has helped to train thousands of veterinary students and guided 25 more in their efforts to achieve Specialist status.

He will deliver four lectures on topics in gastroenterology as part of the Bourgelat stream at BSAVA Congress 2020.

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