Karla Lee
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Karla is a European Specialist in Small Animal Surgery. She contributes to the provision of the referral soft tissue surgery service at the Queen Mother Hospital. She enjoys the challenge of combining her clinical work with research to advance the field of veterinary surgery and teaching to promote excellence in veterinary practice.
Biography
Karla Lee graduated as a vet from the University of Cambridge in 1998. Immediately after graduation, she flew out to Philadelphia to complete an internship in small animal medicine and surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. She returned to the UK in 1999 and won a Wellcome Trust Veterinary Prize Studentship to conduct a PhD, in which she investigated the role of the oestrogen receptor in the development of post-menopausal osteoporosis in women.
In 2003, Karla began a residency in small animal surgery at the Royal Veterinary College and she became a diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2007. In 2006, Karla became a Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery at the University of Cambridge, before returning to the Royal Veterinary College in 2008.
Research
Karla has a varied research background including basic science and clinical veterinary medicine. She has conducted research in the areas of bone physiology and small animal surgery including congenital canine portosystemic shunts and canine ureteric ectopia. Her current research interests include the effect of attenuation of congenital portosystemic shunts in dogs, portal hypertension and liver failure.
Teaching
Karla lectures in the gastrointestinal module of the BVetMed course and is head of the clinical small animal surgical rotation (incorporating soft tissue surgery, orthopaedics and radiology) for the final year BVetMed students. Karla also contributes to the teaching of surgery residents studying for the ECVS diploma.
Clinical
Karla is a member of the Small Animal Soft Tissue Surgery team at the Royal Veterinary College. She is interested in all aspects of soft tissue surgery in cats and dogs, but is particularly excited by congenital portosystemic shunts, liver surgery and oncological surgery.
Selected Publications
Lipscomb V, Lee KCL, Lamb C & Brockman DJ (2009). Association of mesenteric portovenographic findings with outcome in cats receiving surgical treatment for single congenital portosystemic shunts. J Am Vet Med Assoc 234:221-228.
Lee KCL, Lipscomb V, Lamb C, Gregory SP, Guitian J & Brockman DJ (2006) Association of portovenographic findings with outcome in dogs receiving surgical treatment for single congenital portosystemic shunts: 45 cases (2000–2004). J Am Vet Med Assoc 229:1122-1129.
Parsons KJ, Owen LJ, Lee K, Tivers MS & Gregory SP (2009) A retrospective study of surgically treated cases of septic peritonitis in the cat (2000–2007). J Small Anim Pract 50:518-524.
Langley-Hobbs SJ, Meeson RL, Hamilton MH, Radke H & Lee K (2009) Feline ilial fractures: a prospective study of dorsal plating and comparison with lateral plating. Vet Surg 38:334-42.
Mayhew PD, Lee KCL, Gregory SP & Brockman DJ (2006) Comparison of two surgical techniques for management of intramural ureteric ectopia in dogs: 36 cases (1994-2004). J Am Vet Med Assoc 229:389-393.
Lee KC & Lanyon LE (2004) Mechanical loading influences bone mass through estrogen receptor alpha. Exerc Sport Sci Rev 32:64-68.
Lee K, Jessop H, Suswillo R, Zaman G & Lanyon L (2003) Bone adaptation requires oestrogen receptor alpha. Nature 424:389.
Lee KCL & Kapatkin AS (2002) Positive intraoperative cultures and canine total hip replacement: risk factors, periprosthetic infection and surgical success. J Am Anim Hosp Assoc 38:271-278.