Undertaken in practice, industry and academia, submissions are open each year offering the chance to present a Clinical Abstract, presented as a poster or an oral presentation.
Christine Pye won the Medicine Award for her longitudinal study of age, sex and health-related changes in physical biomarkers in pet cats
Alberto Sesana won the Surgery Award for his abstract: "Outcome of lip-to-lid subdermal plexus flaps to reconstruct defects of the lower eyelid in dogs and cats: 46 cases (2005-2022)."
Deborah Komianos won the Practitioner Award for "Reducing use of critically important antibiotics: A clinician-led improvement project across 21 UK small animal veterinary practices."
Rosemary Perkins won the Poster Award for: "Swimming emissions from dogs treated with spot-on fipronil and imidacloprid: assessing the environmental risk."
Lastly but not leastly, Claudia Franzini won the Student Award for: "Does the surgical method for management of Cranial Cruciate Ligament Rupture in dogs affect clinical outcome?"
Submissions for the 2026 Clinical Abstracts will open on 8th September 2025.
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Photo: L-R, Alberto Sesana, Deborah Komianos, Christine Pye, Rosemary Perkins, Claudia Franzini
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