Clare Rusbridge

Prof. Clare Rusbridge,

graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1991 and following an internship at the University of Pennsylvania and general practice in Cambridgeshire, she completed a BSAVA/Petsavers Residency and was Staff Clinician in Neurology at the Royal Veterinary College. She became a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Neurology in 1996, a RCVS Specialist in 1999 and Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2016. In 2007 she was awarded a PhD from Utrecht University for her thesis on Chiari-like malformation & Syringomyelia and the J. A. Wright Memorial Award by The Blue Cross Animal Welfare Charity in 2011. After 16 years operating a neurology and neurosurgery referral service in Wimbledon, Clare joined Fitzpatrick Referrals and the University of Surrey in 2013. She has spent over 20 years researching Chiari malformation and syringomyelia. Her other professional interests include neuropathic pain, inherited diseases, epilepsy, polymyositis and rehabilitation following spinal injury. She has authored or co-authored over 130 scientific articles (over 50 on canine Chiari) in addition to several book chapters and co-editing a human medical textbook on syringomyelia.