The 2011 winner of the International Society of Feline Medicine (ISFM)/Hill's Pet Nutrition Award for outstanding contributions to feline medicine is Professor Danièlle A Gunn-Moore BSc BVM&S PhD FHEA MACVSc MRCVS, RCVS Specialist in Feline Medicine and Professor of Feline Medicine at Edinburgh University. This award was presented at the ISFM European Congress in Vienna on June 24 to a record breaking audience of 495 delegates from 26 different countries.

Professor Gunn-Moore is renowned for her passion for cats. She graduated with Distinction from the R(D)SVS, Edinburgh, in 1991. She spent a year in small animal practice before joining The Feline Centre at the University of Bristol as the Feline Advisory Bureau Scholar. After that she held the Duphar Feline Fellowship, and completed a PhD study into feline infectious peritonitis. Following a short period as Lecturer in Veterinary Pathology at the University of Bristol, she returned to Edinburgh to Head the Feline Clinic. She is currently Professor of Feline Medicine.

Professor Gunn-Moore spoke in Vienna on feline endocrinopathies and hyperthyroidism at the Hill’s pre-ISFM Congress Symposium on June 23. A familiar face and voice to vets around the world, Danièlle has shared her extensive knowledge of feline medicine with great enthusiasm at numerous international conferences.

‘I am proud to say that FAB helped launch Danièlle’s feline career with a scholarship – she has certainly returned the investment many times over through her teaching, clinical and research work with cats, by giving her time to us as an FAB Trustee and member of the FAB feline expert panel, as well as being associate editor of JFMS, an ISFM ambassador and a member of the ISFM veterinary committee.’
Claire Bessant, Chief Executive of the Feline Advisory Bureau, the parent body of ISFM

Next year’s ISFM European Congress programme on Feline diagnostics will be held in Budapest (June 13–17, 2012).  Details will be posted on www.isfm.net.

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Professor Gunn-Moore (centre) receiving the ISFM/Hill’s Award from Hein Meyer, Director of Professional and Veterinary Affairs, Hill’s Pet Nutrition, and Claire Bessant, chief executive of FAB

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For further details contact Karen Bessant, FAB/ISFM press officer, on telephone+44(0)1747 87187, email karen@isfm.net