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Professor Emma Love
B.V.M.S(Glas.), PhD, DiplECVAA, DVA
Current positions
Associate Professor in Veterinary Sciences
Bristol Veterinary School
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Research interests
My interest in pain in animals led to my PhD, "Advances in the objective evaluation of pain and analgesic efficacy in horses", which I completed in 2009. This involved the refinement of methods of nociceptive threshold testing originally developed by the anaesthesia / analgesia research team (led by Prof Waterman-Pearson) for use in horses and the investigation of the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of buprenorphine in this species. I also developed ethograms to try to determine behaviours potentially associated with pain following castration and this behaviour based work led to post-PhD work on the facial expression of pain in horses funded by the BVA, Animal Welfare Foundation, Norman Hayward Fund.
Impact
I provide lectures and practical sessions for vets and nurses undertaking continuing professional development. Subjects include pain in all domestic species and clinical anaesthesia.
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Projects and supervisions
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/08/2022Inspiring the next generation of veterinarians at Bristol Veterinary School
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
A case-based learning curriculum: progress, potential and pitfalls Workshop
Development of an ethogram for hutch-housed dairy calves and determination of factors influencing their behaviour
Applied Animal Behaviour Science
The effect of neuraxial morphine on postoperative pain in dogs after extrahepatic portosystemic shunt attenuation
Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia
Management of massive blood loss in a dog under general anaesthesia during a sternotomy
UK Vet - Companion Animal