Niamh graduated from University College Dublin in the year of 2001.

Following a surgical internship at University College Dublin, she undertook a year in equine stud practice in Southwest Ireland. Niamh then undertook a Residency in Equine Internal Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. During her residency, she was awarded a Master of Science with distinction for research into equine recurrent laryngeal neuropathy. Niamh was part of the equine medicine service at Rossdales Equine Hospital, Newmarket for two foal seasons before joining the team at Scone Equine Hospital’s Clovelly Intensive Care Unit in July 2008.

Niamh became a Diplomate of the European College of Equine Internal Medicine in 2011 and the Superintendent of the Scone Equine Hospital ICU in 2015. Niamh’s clinical interests include neonatology, critical care and cardiology. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and veterinary textbooks on a variety of equine medicine and surgery topics and been awarded a number of prizes for her research and publications, including the EVA Peter Irwin Literary Award in 2012 and the EVA Equine Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Award in 2014.

Laura is a registered specialist in Equine Medicine. She graduated with honours from the University of Sydney in 2003. Early in her career Laura worked in first opinion equine practice and reproduction and stud medicine in Australia and the UK and attained a certificate in Stud Medicine from the Royal Veterinary College in the UK in 2008. Laura completed her specialist training in equine medicine through a residency at the University of Melbourne and gained fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in Equine Medicine in 2010.

During her residency training Laura completed a Masters degree investigating cardiac troponin in horses. She has recently completed a PhD through the University of Adelaide investigating exercise associated arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death in Thoroughbreds.

Laura has given research presentations and lectures within Australia, UK, USA and Canada on topics such as cardiology, atrial fibrillation, interpretation of heart murmurs, gastric ulceration and gastroduodenoscopy, management of coughing horses, diagnosis of lower respiratory disease, pleuropneumonia, weight loss, foal medicine, reproductive efficiency, equine metabolic syndrome and neurological examination. She has contributed several chapters to textbooks and published research on these topics.

Laura has extensive experience in cardiology and respiratory medicine and intensive care.

She also has interests in sports medicine, neonatal care of foals, neurology, dermatology, gastrointestinal disease; weight loss, colic, diarrhoea and gastric ulceration and endocrine disorders such as PPID (also known as Cushing’s disease).

Francesca received her veterinary degree from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (RDSVS), the University of Edinburgh in 2011. She started work in rural mixed practice in her home county of Aberdeenshire for a couple of years. This was followed by venturing south to complete a busy rotating hospital internship at Leahurst, University of Liverpool. After this, and following a spell in racing practice, she thoroughly enjoyed being a medicine fellow at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute, Kentucky USA. Francesca then relocated back to Scotland for specialist training. There, Francesca completed a prestigious Horserace Betting and Levy Board funded residency in Equine Internal Medicine at the RDSVS. During her residency Francesca was awarded a Masters by Research Degree with Distinction and the 2019 ECEIM Luis Monreal Prize for best residents abstract presentation on research into real-time three-dimensional echocardiography in Thoroughbreds in training. She became a Diplomate of the European College of Equine Internal Medicine in 2021.

Since completing her residency Francesca has worked as a specialist at different equine referral hospitals and clinics in the UK and NZ before joining us.