An Interprofessional Approach to Veterinary Nutrition

Rachel Lumbis (Author)
Rachel is a Registered Veterinary Nurse whose research interests include small animal nutrition and interprofessional education and practice. She completed the City and Guild's Certificate in Small Animal Nutrition in 2006 and helps to raise awareness of the importance of correct nutrition through veterinary and veterinary nurse education in the UK and, internationally, as a member of the WSAVA Global Nutrition Committee and past member of the European Veterinary Nutrition Educators Group. She is a former Lecturer in Veterinary Nursing and Course Director for the VN BSc and FdSc programmes at the Royal Veterinary College and one of the founding members of the RVC's interprofessional education team. She is an external examiner for veterinary nursing undergraduate programmes at two universities, an examiner for City and Guilds and Lantra, and an editorial board member for international peer reviewed journal, The Veterinary Nurse. Rachel is currently studying for a PhD in Veterinary Companion Animal Sciences on the topic of small animal nutrition.

Tierney Kinnison (Author)
Tierney is Lecturer in Veterinary Education in the LIVE Centre of the Royal Veterinary College and a member of the RVC's interprofessional education team. Her particular interests are veterinary education, research through qualitative and mixed methods, and developing interprofessional education within the RVC's curricula. Tierney undertook a PhD entitled: Insights from Veterinary Interprofessional Interactions: Implications for Interprofessional Education (IPE) in the Veterinary Curricula at the Institute of Education and Royal Veterinary College in 2012-2015.