BDVA Committee

A partner at Ark Veterinary Centre, his specialisms are in farm animal medicine and surgery in particular bovine reproduction and all aspects of deer work. Gareth obtained his Diploma in Bovine Reproduction in 2009. He enjoys his deer farm, country pursuits and spending time with his family.

Aiden qualified from Bristol and worked in general practice for several years before completing a PhD at the University of Bristol and undertaking a residency in veterinary dermatology in the USA. He spent 10 years working for APHA undertaking surveillance and advisory activities, including “exotic” farmed species including deer. He is Honorary Senior Lecturer at Bristol Veterinary School, University of Bristol.

Kit Heawood is a large animal veterinarian currently practicing in Gloucestershire. Kit has a particular interest in deer, camelids, large exotics and wildlife species. Since graduating from Nottingham, he has worked in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Morocco and Mongolia with a wide variety of game and wildlife species, however deer is his primary focus.

Peter Green has maintained an interest in deer throughout his professional life. After 25 years in predominantly equine veterinary practice, he established a full-time veterinary consultancy in deer health, welfare and management in 2007. The majority of his clients are deer parks or farms. He also provides consultancy services in respect of deer and other wildlife to Government agencies. He is the honorary veterinary surgeon for the British Deer Society and veterinary surgeon to the deer of the Royal Parks of London and the deer parks of the National Trust. He lives on the edge of Exmoor.

Sam qualified from Nottingham in 2014 and has worked as a farm animal vet in the South West ever since. He works in all areas of farm practice but mostly splits his time between deer and advanced cattle breeding, working with bovine embryos on farm and in the practice’s IVF lab. Sam especially enjoys working with farmed deer and spent 8 months working on a large deer farm and stud in New Zealand in 2019/2020.

Ken has been involved with the management of wild deer since childhood in the Scottish highlands. After qualifying in 1977, his early veterinary career was in equine medicine until he, along with his wife, set up their companion animal practice in Edinburgh in 1982. He has not troubled the academic press with many publications during his career and prefers to talk rather than to type. After retiring in 2015, the Urquharts relocated to Devon where Ken undertakes a range of deer control activities on his own land, private farmland, along with afforested land in the state forestry, commercial forestry and charitable forestry sectors.