Harriet Syme
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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.
Biography
Harriet graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 1994 and then completed a Junior Clinical Training Scholarship at the RVC. She went on to do a Small Animal Internship and then a Small Animal Medicine Residency at Purdue University in the USA from 1995 to 1999. She studied for a PhD at the RVC from 1999 to 2003. Harriet gained her Diplomate ACVIM in 1999 and her Diplomate ECVIM-CA in 2002.
She was awarded the International Renal Interest Society (IRIS) Award in 2002 for her contribution to the field of veterinary nephrology & urology and the Dame Olga Uvarov award for clinical research in 2008.
Research
Harriet’s main research interests are diseases of the geriatric cat; namely chronic renal failure, hypertension and hyperthyroidism.
Teaching
The bulk of Harriet’s didactic teaching is to the fourth year BVetMed students in the urogenital system module. She also provides a small amount of teaching on other years of the BVetMed. Other teaching includes the elective courses on feline medicine and endocrine therapeutics. In the coming year Harriet will be developing a new nephrology/urology module for the MVetMed course. In addition Harriet supervises a number of clinical research projects done by final-year elective students, masters students, PhD students and residents (SCTSs). It is this, one-to-one teaching, together with the informal teaching that is done while on clinics that she most enjoys.
Harriet is involved in some RVC CPD courses, both in the form of conventional lectures and also via the internet, mainly in the fields of nephrology/urology and endocrinology.
Clinical
Harriet enjoys all areas of clinical medicine but particularly nephrology, urology and endocrinology. She is particularly keen to expand the internal medicine service so that laser lithotripsy and other endoscope-guided interventions can be offered in the near future.
Selected Publications
JEPSON, R. E., SYME, H. M., VALLANCE, C. & ELLIOTT, J. (2008) Plasma asymmetric dimethylarginine, symmetric dimethylarginine, l-arginine, and nitrite/nitrate concentrations in cats with chronic kidney disease and hypertension. J Vet Intern Med 22, 317-324. PubMed ID 18371026
CONNOLLY, D. J., MAGALHAES, R. J., SYME, H. M., BOSWOOD, A., FUENTES, V. L., CHU, L. & METCALF, M. (2008) Circulating natriuretic peptides in cats with heart disease. J Vet Intern Med 22, 96-105. PubMed ID 18289295
SYME, H. M., FLETCHER, M. G., BAILEY, S. R. & ELLIOTT, J. (2007) Measurement of aldosterone in feline, canine and human urine. J Small Anim Pract 48, 202-208. PubMed ID 17381765
SYME, H. M. (2007) Cardiovascular and renal manifestations of hyperthyroidism. Vet Clin North Am Small Anim Pract 37, 723-743, vi. PubMed ID 17619008
NIESSEN, S. J., VOYCE, M. J., DE VILLIERS, L., HARGREAVES, J., BLUNDEN, A. S. & SYME, H. M. (2007) Generalised lymphadenomegaly associated with methimazole treatment in a hyperthyroid cat. J Small Anim Pract 48, 165-168. PubMed ID 17355609
JEPSON, R. E., ELLIOTT, J., BRODBELT, D. & SYME, H. M. (2007) Effect of control of systolic blood pressure on survival in cats with systemic hypertension. J Vet Intern Med 21, 402-409. PubMed ID 17552443
CHANDLER, M. L., ELWOOD, C., MURPHY, K. F., GAJANAYAKE, I. & SYME, H. M. (2007) Juvenile nephropathy in 37 boxer dogs. J Small Anim Pract 48, 690-694. PubMed ID 17727634
SYME, H. M., MARKWELL, P. J., PFEIFFER, D. & ELLIOTT, J. (2006) Survival of cats with naturally occurring chronic renal failure is related to severity of proteinuria. J Vet Intern Med 20, 528-535. PubMed ID 16734085
ELLIOTT, J. & SYME, H. M. (2006) Proteinuria in chronic kidney disease in cats--prognostic marker or therapeutic target? J Vet Intern Med 20, 1052-1053. PubMed ID 17063695
ELLIOTT, J., SYME, H. M., REUBENS, E. & MARKWELL, P. J. (2003) Assessment of acid-base status of cats with naturally occurring chronic renal failure. J Small Anim Pract 44, 65-70. PubMed ID 12622470
ELLIOTT, J., SYME, H. M. & MARKWELL, P. J. (2003) Acid-base balance of cats with chronic renal failure: effect of deterioration in renal function. J Small Anim Pract 44, 261-268. PubMed ID 12831103
SYME, H. M., BARBER, P. J., MARKWELL, P. J. & ELLIOTT, J. (2002) Prevalence of systolic hypertension in cats with chronic renal failure at initial evaluation. J Am Vet Med Assoc 220, 1799-1804. PubMed ID 12092951
MATHUR, S., SYME, H., BROWN, C. A., ELLIOT, J., MOORE, P. A., NEWELL, M. A., MUNDAY, J. S., CARTIER, L. M., SHELDON, S. E. & BROWN, S. A. (2002) Effects of the calcium channel antagonist amlodipine in cats with surgically induced hypertensive renal insufficiency. Am J Vet Res 63, 833-839. PubMed ID 12061529
SYME, H. M., SCOTT-MONCRIEFF, J. C., TREADWELL, N. G., THOMPSON, M. F., SNYDER, P. W., WHITE, M. R. & OLIVER, J. W. (2001) Hyperadrenocorticism associated with excessive sex hormone production by an adrenocortical tumor in two dogs. J Am Vet Med Assoc 219, 1725-1728, 1707-1728. PubMed ID 11767922
ELLIOTT, J., BARBER, P. J., SYME, H. M., RAWLINGS, J. M. & MARKWELL, P. J. (2001) Feline hypertension: clinical findings and response to antihypertensive treatment in 30 cases. J Small Anim Pract 42, 122-129. PubMed ID 11303854
SYME, H. M. & SCOTT-MONCRIEFF, J. C. (1998) Chronic hypoglycaemia in a hunting dog due to secondary hypoadrenocorticism. J Small Anim Pract 39, 348-351. PubMed ID 9693421