Jackie Cardwell
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Jackie is a Lecturer in Epidemiology. Her research interests include equine infectious disease, zoonotic disease, companion animal clinical epidemiology and (human) mental health. She is co-course Director for the MSc in Control of Infectious Disease in Animals (CIDA).
Biography
Jackie qualified from The University of Cambridge in 1994. She spent six years in mixed general practice, during which time she developed an interest in preventive and evidence-based medicine.
In 2000 she joined the Epidemiology Unit at the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket. There she was responsible for equine infectious disease surveillance, the provision of advice and support to practitioners dealing with equine infectious disease outbreaks and the clinical care of a large herd of Welsh Mountain ponies. She also worked on risk assessments for the investigation of potentially zoonotic equine infections and the development of a syndrome-based decision-tree approach to surveillance for incursions of exotic equine infectious diseases into the UK.
In 2007 she completed a PhD on the epidemiology of Inflammatory Airway Disease (IAD) in National Hunt racehorses, a study that encompassed tracheal endoscopy, multilocus sequence typing of equine S. zooepidemicus isolates, sequencing of the equine transferrin gene and multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression modelling. Throughout her PhD she continued to provide locum cover for local small animal practices and an RSPCA wildlife hospital. Jackie joined the RVC Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health (VEPH) group as a Lecturer in April 2008.
Research
Jackie’s research interests include equine infectious disease, zoonotic disease and companion animal clinical epidemiology. In collaboration with Dr Sarah Blott and Dr June Swinburne of the Animal Health Trust, she has funding from the Horserace Betting Levy Board for a study of genetic susceptibility to equine Inflammatory Airway Disease. She has led an internally funded study of undergraduate mental health and wellbeing in collaboration with Dr Sarah Baille (RVC), Mr Nick Short (RVC) and Ms Rosie Allister (Edinburgh) and has recently been awarded funding for a Bloomsbury Consortium PhD studentship to develop this work into a mixed-methods comparative study of different undergraduate populations, in collaboration with Prof. Jonathan Smith (Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck). She also supervises a BBSRC CASE PhD studentship project investigating risk factors for failure of blow-fly strike (myiasis) control in UK sheep and collaborates on studies assessing biosecurity practices on UK beef suckler farms and risk factors for Bovine Neonatal Pancytopaenia.
Teaching
Jackie teaches aspects of epidemiology on the RVC MSc courses in Veterinary Epidemiology, Wild Animal Health, Wild Animal Biology, and Control of Infectious Diseases in Animals. She is co-course Director of the MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases in Animals and a module leader for the CIDA 'Disease Contingency Planning & Communication' module and the MSc in Veterinary Epidemiology 'Epidemiological aspects of laboratory investigations' module.
Undergraduate teaching includes quantitative research methods for BVetMed and BSC Veterinary Nursing students and sessions on emerging and endemic zoonotic infectious diseases for BVetMed and intercalating VetPath BSc students. Jackie hated epidemiology as a veterinary student but now believes that even those expecting to be full-time clinicians should understand the relevance of epidemiology, for the benefit of future disease research and evidence-based clinical practice.
Jackie is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Selected Publications
BEAUVAIS, W.A., CARDWELL, J.M. & BRODBELT, D.C. (In Press) The effect of neutering on the risk of mammary neoplasia in bitches: a systematic review. J Small Anim Pract 53(4)
BEAUVAIS, W.A., CARDWELL, J.M. & BRODBELT, D.C. (2012) The effect of neutering on the risk of urinary incontinence in bitches: a systematic review. J Small Anim Pract 53(4) 198-204
CARDWELL JM, CHRISTLEY RM, GERBER V, MALIKIDES N, WOOD JLN, NEWTON JR, & HODGSON JL. (2011) What's in a name? Inflammatory Airway Disease in racehorses in training. Equine Vet J Nov 43(6) 756-8
CARDWELL JM , WOOD JLN, SMITH KC and NEWTON JR (2011) Descriptive results from a longitudinal study of airway inflammation in British National Hunt racehorses. Equine Vet J Nov 43(6) 750-5
ROUSSEAU K, CARDWELL JM, HUMPHREY E, KNIGHT D, NEWTON R, CLEGG PD, THORNTON DJ (2011) Muc5b is the major polymeric mucin in mucus from Thoroughbred horses with and without airway mucus accumulation. PLoS ONE 6(5): e19678
BINNS, M.M., BOEHLER, D.A., BAILEY, E., LEAR, T.L., CARDWELL, J.M.,and LAMBERT, D.H. (2011) Inbreeding in the Thoroughbred horse. Animal Genetics (Available on Early View: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2052.2011.02259.x/full).
LODERSTEDT S, BENIGNI L, CHANDLER K, CARDWELL JM, RUSBRIDGE C, LAMB CR, VOLK HA (2011) Distribution of syringomyelia along the entire spinal cord in clinically affected Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. Vet J. 190(3); 359-63
PRIESTNALL SL, ERLES K, BROOKS HW, CARDWELL JM, WALLER AS, PAILLOT R, ROBINSON C, DARBY AC, HOLDEN MT, SCHONIGER S (2010) Characterisation of pneumonia due to Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus in dogs. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2010 Nov;17(11):1790-6.
GIRARD NM, LEECE EA, CARDWELL J, ADAMS VJ, BREARLY JC. (2010) The sedative effects of low dose medetomidine and butorphanol alone and in combination intravenously in dogs. Vet Anaesth Analg. 2010 Jan;37(1):1-6.
CARDWELL, J. M. (2008) An overview of study design. J Small Anim Pract 49, 217-218
WOOD, J. L. N., CARDWELL, J., CASTILLO-OLIVARES, J. & IRWIN, V. (2006) Transmission of diseases through semen. In Current Therapy in Equine Reproduction. Eds J. C. SAMPER, J. PYCOCK, A. O. MCKINNON, W.B.Saunders. pp 266-274
DALY, J. M., WHITWELL, K. E., MILLER, J., DOWD, G., CARDWELL, J. M. & SMITH, K. C. (2006) Investigation of equine influenza cases exhibiting neurological disease: coincidence or association? J Comp Pathol 134, 231-235
WOOD, J. L., KELLY, L., CARDWELL, J. M. & PARK, A. W. (2005) Quantitative assessment of the risks of reducing the routine swabbing requirements for the detection of Taylorella equigenitalis. Vet Rec 157, 41-46
SMITH, K. C., WHITWELL, K. E., BLUNDEN, A. S., BESTBIER, M. E., SCASE, T. J., GERAGHTY, R. J., NUGENT, J., DAVIS-POYNTER, N. J. & CARDWELL, J. M. (2004) Equine herpesvirus-1 abortion: atypical cases with lesions largely or wholly restricted to the placenta. Equine Vet J 36, 79-82
NEWTON, J. R., GERAGHTY, R. J., CASTILLO-OLIVARES, J., CARDWELL, J. M. & MUMFORD, J. A. (2004) Evidence that use of an inactivated equine herpesvirus vaccine induces serum cytotoxicity affecting the equine arteritis virus neutralisation test. Vaccine 22, 4117-4123
MUMFORD, J., CARDWELL, J., DALY, J. & NEWTON, R. (2003) Efforts to pre-empt an equine influenza epidemic. Vet Rec 152, 405-406
GERAGHTY, R. J., NEWTON, J. R., CASTILLO-OLIVARES, J., CARDWELL, J. M. & MUMFORD, J. A. (2003) Testing for equine arteritis virus. Vet Rec 152, 478-479
GERAGHTY, R. J., NEWTON, J. R., CASTILLO-OLIVARES, J., CARDWELL, J. M. & MUMFORD, J. A. (2003) Testing for equine arteritis virus. Vet Rec 152, 755
CARDWELL, J., SMITH, K., NEWTON, R., BLUNDEN, T., BESTBIER, M. & WHITWELL, K. (2003) EHV paralytic disease in the south of England. Vet Rec 152, 441-442
CARDWELL, J. M., WOOD, J. L., MUMFORD, J. A., GERAGHTY, R. J., HILLYER, L. L. & PASCOE, R. J. (2002) Equine viral arteritis in the UK. Vet Rec 150, 819-820
CARDWELL, J., NEWTON, R., WOOD, J., GERAGHTY, B. & ELLIS, R. (2000) Equine influenza in donkeys in the New Forest. Vet Rec 147, 400
CARDWELL, J. M. & THORNE, M. H. (1999) Hydronephrosis and ureteral duplication in a young alpaca. Vet Rec 145, 104-107