Prof. Johan Schoeman qualified as a veterinarian from the University of Pretoria in 1991. After spending seven years working in a veterinary mixed (small and large animal) practice in the United Kingdom, he was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Cambridge, where he completed his training for the RCVS specialist diploma in small animal medicine (DSAM). He joined the Department as a senior lecturer in 2000.

In 2001, he obtained specialist qualifications in Small Animal Medicine from the RCVS (DSAM), the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ECVIM) and the University of Pretoria (MMedVet). During 2004 and 2005 he was Head of Small Animal Medicine. Prof. Schoeman is a former chair of the ECVIM examination board – a body that examines and certifies specialist veterinary physicians across Europe. He has been Head of the Department of Companion Animal Clinical Studies for two terms (8 years) until October 2017. He currently leads the Faculty’s pathobiology research theme and has rekindled his passion for clinical teaching, whilst diagnosing and treating referred small animal medicine cases, especially those with cardiac and/or endocrine disease manifestations.

Prof. Schoeman has successfully supervised 14 Masters and 4 PhD students, published 65 scientific papers, 10 textbook chapters, and presented over 80 international scientific, peer-reviewed congress presentations in Europe and the USA and he has delivered more than 100 regional and national CPD lectures.