Ian is a Liverpool graduate and a European, and RCVS Specialist in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, and has worked in both private practice and in several UK and Ireland universities, including as head of anaesthesia at the RVC and the University of Cambridge Vet School and as a Reader in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia at the Harper-Keele vet school. He has a keen interest in anaesthesia of unstable patients and runs regular pain management clinics. He mentors and supervises undergraduates training to be veterinary surgeons and postgraduate students training for specialist pain qualifications. He is currently the chair of BSAVA Education Committee, vice president of the ECVAA and is very interested in evidence-based approaches to pain treatment.