The following are the BDVA committee members.
President: Gareth Boyes BVMS DBR MRCVS
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.
Junior Vice President: Kit Heawood BVMedSci BVM BVS MRCVS
Kit is a production animal veterinarian at Tyndale Vets, Gloucestershire with a strong clinical bias towards deer. Kit’s clinical caseload includes deer farms, parks, zoological collections and wild deer all over the UK and his particular areas of interest are sedation/anaesthesia and advanced breeding.
Treasurer: Pablo Mujica MRCVS
Pablo qualified from the University of Madrid in 2013 and moved to the UK in 2015. He is a large animal vet, also involved in product export work and an OV for disease outbreaks. He has been involved with game, wildlife and conservation work his whole life and is co-founder of Sylva Deer and Veterinary Services.
Secretary: Peter Little MA VetMB MRCVS
Peter qualified from Cambridge in 2023 and works as a large animal vet in south-west Scotland. His main interests are the management and diseases of wild deer.
Committee Member: Peter Green BVSc, Cert EO, MRCVS
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.
Committee Member: Sam Ecroyd BVMedSci BVM BVS MRCVS
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.
Committee Member: Ken Urquhart BVMS MRCVS
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.
Committee Member: Ed Fullick BVetMed MRCVS
Ed qualified from the Royal Vet College in 2016, and since 2017 has worked as a Veterinary Investigation Officer for APHA, undertaking disease surveillance in North Yorkshire and the surrounding counties. Ed has a particular interest in deer, and is part of the GB Wildlife Health Partnership, providing disease surveillance in wildlife. Ed’s work focuses on disease investigations aimed at detecting new and re-emerging threats to animal and human health, and he has recently been undertaking a histopathology fellowship within APHA.
Committee Member: Katrina McCrory BVMSci MRCVS
Katrina qualified from the University of Surrey in 2020. Her interest in deer was sparked during her undergraduate research project, which involved using GPS and ecological data to track a herd of red deer. She spent a few years in small animal practice before joining the APHA as a veterinary researcher, where she is involved with the diagnosis and surveillance of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE) in livestock. She has a particular interest in Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), Camelid Prion Disease (CPD) and TSE genetics, and is a member of the Wildlife Expert Group at APHA.