Internal Medicine
The Internal Medicine Service offers a comprehensive canine and feline medical referral service to veterinary surgeons in general practice.
Clinics are run daily from Monday to Thursday with a
an emergency service available at other times.
Residents and interns work under supervision of academic staff whilst studying to obtain postgraduate qualifications.
Clients can expect to have full investigations of their pets' problems. Medicine patients are generally admitted to the hospital to facilitate a complete workup. This might include clinical pathology, radiography, ultrasonography, endoscopy or endocrine function tests.
Where appropriate, internal referrals can be made within the hospital to other services such as Soft Tissue Surgery, Oncology, Neurology, Emergency and Critical Care and Dermatology.
Diagnostic and Treatment Facilities
Facilities include:
- Flexiblehigh definition video endoscopy for the investigation of respiratory, urinary and gastrointestinal disease. We have new state-of -the-art equipment and facilities to perform endoscopic specialist examinations, including rhinoscopy, bronchoscopy, pharyngoscopy, upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy, urethroscopy, cystoscopy and lithotripsy services.
Please call our dedicated referral veterinary surgeon telephone service (01707 666 365) if you require any further information. - Scintigraphy
- Fluoroscopy
- Computed Tomography and Magnetic resonance imaging
- Intensive therapy unit for emergency and critical care
- Feline medicine, including a dedicated cat hospitalization and treatment room
Special Clinical Interests
Many of our clinicians have a special interests in a particular field of internal medicine, including:
- Gastrointestinal diseases in cats and dogs, especially inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in dogs (Dr. Karin Allenspach and Dr. Oliver Garden)
- Investigation and treatment of endocrine disease, including acromegaly clinic (Prof. David Church and Dr. Stijn Niessen)
Nephrology and urology, including lithotripsy for treatment of bladder and urethral stones and specialist renal biopsy evaluation according to WSAVA standards (Dr. Harriet Syme)- Radioactive iodine treatment for hyperthyroid cats (Dr Harriet Syme and Barbara Glanemann)
- Interventional radiology services including ureteral and urethral stenting procedures (Dr Harriet Syme)
Clinical Trials
We have several clinical trials ongoing and are especially interested in recruiting dogs with chronic enteropathies and cats with diabetes mellitus and possible acromegaly to our various treatment trials. Please see Clinical Investigation Centre for details of current trials.
Key Clinicians
Karin Allenspach
Karin is a Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine and Head of the Internal Medicine Service. She currently spends part of her time on clinics in the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals and the rest of her time on research and teaching. Her main research interest is in canine inflammatory bowel disease.
Research Programmes: Infection & Immunity and Lifestyle
Clinical Service: Small Animal Internal Medicine
Harriet Syme
Harriet is a Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine. She is currently director of the Royal Veterinary College’s Internal Medicine residency (SCTS) programme and supervises several PhD students working on clinically-based projects.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Clinical Service: Small Animal Internal Medicine
Barbara Glanemann
Barbara is a Lecturer in Small Animal Medicine. She currently spends the main part of her time on the referral clinical service in the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals and the rest of her time on teaching and clinical research.
Research Programmes: Infection & Immunity and Lifestyle
Clinical Service: Small Animal Internal Medicine
Rosanne Jepson
Rosanne is a Temporary Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine.
Clinical Service: Small Animal Internal Medicine
Stijn Niessen
Stijn is a Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine with a special interest in endocrinology. He is currently involved in under- and postgraduate teaching, the internal medicine referral clinic, supervising the Internal Medicine residents and many activities surrounding diabetes mellitus and acromegaly research at the Royal Veterinary College as well as the Medical School in Newcastle.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Clinical Service: Small Animal Internal Medicine
Kristin Anfinsen
Clinical Service: Small Animal Internal Medicine
Ruth Gostelow
Ruth is a Senior Clinical Training Scholar, for internal medicine, at the Queen Mother Hospital for Small Animals.
Clinical Service: Small Animal Internal Medicine
Kristine Jensen
Kristine is a Senior Clinical Training Scholar, working in the Queen Mother Hospital for Small Animals.
Clinical Service: Small Animal Internal Medicine
Fabio Procoli
Fabio is a Senior Clinical Training Scholar in Small Animal Internal Medicine and is currently studying towards the ACVIM diploma.
Clinical Service: Small Animal Internal Medicine
David Church
David is the Vice Principal of Academic and Clinical Affairs at the Royal Veterinary College.
Research Programme: Lifestyle
Clinical Service: Small Animal Internal Medicine
Oliver Garden
Oliver is a Senior Lecturer in Internal Medicine and Molecular Immunology. His research focuses on regulatory T cells and autoimmune disease in dogs, mice and human beings.
Research Programmes: Infection & Immunity and Lifestyle
Clinical Service: Small Animal Internal Medicine
Lucy McMahon
Lucy has been a Lecturer in Small Animal Medicine at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA) since 2007. Recently her duties changed to focusing on post-graduate education and the Certifcate in Advanced Veterinary Practice.
Clinical Service: Small Animal Internal Medicine