Dr Sue Dyson MA VetMB DEO PhD FRCVS
Sue Dyson is a Senior Orthopaedic Clinician in the Centre for Equine Studies at the Animal Health Trust. Sue qualified from the University of Cambridge in 1980 with a first class honours degree in Applied Biology, and a degree in Veterinary Medicine, with distinction in Medicine and Surgery. Following award of a Thouron Scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, she completed an Internship in Large Animal Medicine and Surgery at New Bolton Centre. Sue is constantly sought after to lecture internationally and she has published widely on equine orthopaedics and diagnostic imaging. She has published more than 140 refereed papers in scientific journals.
In 1986 Sue was awarded the Richard Hartley Clinical Prize by the Equine Veterinary Journal. In 2000 Sue was awarded the British Equine Veterinary Association John Hickman Orthopaedic Award for outstanding contributions to equine orthopaedics. In 2005 Sue was made an Honorary Member of the British Equine Veterinary Association. She also received, together with Mike Ross, the American Publishers award for excellence in professional and scholarly publishing for ‘Diagnosis and management of lameness in the horse' in the Nursing and Allied Health Division. In 2006 Sue was a co-recipient of the Home of Rest Clinical Evidence Literary Prize awarded by the Equine Veterinary Journal.
Sue has competed in eventing and showjumping at a high level, and produced three horses to advanced level that subsequently competed at European and World Championships, and Olympic Games. She is a co-author of the standard veterinary texts on radiography, scintigraphy and lameness diagnosis and management in the horse, and is recognised as a world-class leader in her field.