Intervertebral Disc Disease

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. Clare joined Fitzpatrick Referrals and the University of Surrey in 2013 - after operating a neurology and neurosurgery referral service in Wimbledon for 16 years. She has researched Chiari malformation and syringomyelia for 20 years. She has authored or co-authored over 140 scientific articles (over 50 on canine Chiari) in addition to several book chapters and has co-edited a human medical textbook on syringomyelia.  Her other professional interests include neuropathic pain, neurological diseases related to conformation, epilepsy, polymyositis and rehabilitation following spinal injury.