Inaugural Lecture Series - The prediction of risk and the risk of prediction
Inaugural Lecture Series - The prediction of risk and the risk of prediction
Inaugural Lecture Series
Date: Tuesday 22 May 2018
Time: 17:30 - 18:00
Venue: McCall Lecture Theatre, McCall Building, Garscube Estate
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Speaker: Professor Tim Parkin
Tim Parkin is Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology at the School of Veterinary Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow. He is also the School of Veterinary Medicine Research Convenor. He qualified from the University of Bristol with degrees in Zoology (1992) and Veterinary Science (1998). He immediately took up a position at the University of Liverpool and went on to complete his PhD on the epidemiology of fractures in racehorses in 2002. Since then he has worked on numerous projects with several different racing jurisdictions around the world, including the UK, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, South America and the USA. He gained his Diploma of the European College of Veterinary Public Health in 2006 and has worked at the University of Glasgow since February 2007. He has twice been an epidemiological consultant for Racing Victoria Jumps Race Review Committees (2005 and 2008) and is a member of the Equine Injury Database Scientific Advisory Committee in the USA.
Professor Parkin currently serves on: the Veterinary Advisory Committee of World Horse Welfare; the Scientific Advisory Committee of the PetPlan Charitable Trust; the Editorial Consultant Board of the Equine Veterinary Journal. He is an Assistant Editor for the Veterinary Record and was until 2015 the Honorary Secretary of the Executive Council of the European College of Veterinary Public Health. He was President of the Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine from 2012 to 2013. Tim will demit office as Head of the Division of Equine Clinical Sciences and Clinical Director of the Weipers Equine Hospital on 31 July 2018.