Em Prof D N Logue, BVM&S, PhD, FRCVS, Dip ECBHM, FRAgS,
David Logue graduated from the R(D)VC, Edinburgh University in 1970 and subsequently moved to Glasgow as a houseman in Reproduction & Surgery, where he then undertook a PhD in cytogenetics and continued this as a Wellcome Research Fellow studying the effects of Robertsonian translocations upon the reproductive fitness of cattle and sheep.
He then joined the Meat & Livestock Commission working at the Pig Breeding Centre near Selby, which was also developing sheep AI, and after 3 years including a study tour of Australia & New Zealand he moved to the Hampshire Cattle Breeders AI Centre at Lyndhurst. From there he moved to the West of Scotland College of Agriculture (subsequently part of the Scottish Agricultural College) variously working at Ayr & Dumfries including work with scientists at the Hill farm at Kirkton Auchtertyre on improving sheep productivity and the Crichton Royal Farm primarily on lameness and reproduction in dairy cattle. Subsequently he ran the SAC's Dairy Health Centre before becoming regional veterinary manger for the SW of Scotland encompassing the Ayr and Dumfries Disease Surveillance Centres.
Moving on to become a Professor of Food Animal Disease at GUVS for seven years he retired on 31st December 2011 as Professor Emeritus, where he retains a role as an Honorary Senior Research Fellow. He has also been a scientific advisor to the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute in N Ireland on their cattle lameness programme. Thus his scientific interests have primarily centred on ruminants with a focus on the interfaces between productivity and disease and their relationship with welfare, on which he has undertaken numerous presentations and published widely in peer-reviewed journals.
David is a past president of the Ayrshire Veterinary Society and British Veterinary Association Scottish Branch and still represents the latter on a number of Scottish Stakeholder groups.
You can contact David by emailing david.logue@glasgow.ac.uk