Dr Colin Roberts BVSc PhD FRCVS
Colin Roberts is a graduate of the University of Bristol Veterinary School. After graduation, he spent just over eight years in an equine practice at Ashford in Kent, during which time he obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons by examination (subject: Equine Internal Medicine).
Leaving practice, he joined the Physiology Unit of the Animal Health Trust in 1987. In 1993 he became a RCVS Recognised Specialist in Equine Internal Medicine and in 1995 was awarded a PhD for a thesis entitled “Aspects of respiratory function during exercise in the Thoroughbred horse in health and disease”. As a Senior Scientist in the Centre for Equine Studies of the Animal Health Trust he was responsible for the clinical treadmill exercise testing programme as well as being engaged in research in the field of equine respiratory function and disease.
From 2001 to 2006 he was a member of the equine clinical team in the Department of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Cambridge. Since 2007 he has been an independent consultant in equine veterinary matters.
Colin is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Director of Studies in Veterinary Medicine at Sidney Sussex College and Trinity College. He is a member of both the Veterinary Advisory Committee and the Scientific Advisory Group of the British Equestrian Federation, a consultant in equine internal medicine to the Animal Health Trust at Newmarket and a member of the Fédération Equestre Internationale’s Medication Control Panel. He is an author on over eighty scientific papers and has acted as a treating veterinarian at many top-level horseracing, show jumping and eventing competitions. He has competed in point-to-pointing, show jumping, dressage and hunter trials. His professional areas of interest include equine internal medicine, disorders of the equine upper airway, equine welfare and performance-related disorders.
Colin’s leisure interests include chess, cricket, rugby union, theatre, cinema and history.
