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Meet the Committee
SCVA Committee 2025
Chair: Victoria Henry BVetMed MRCVS
Vicky graduated from the RVC in 2013 and since then has been working in small animal practice, mostly in the UK but with a short stint in Australia. She left private practice in 2021 and joined Dogs Trust’s central veterinary team. Her role as a vet at Dogs Trust is very varied but involves supporting all of the teams across the organisation including the large network of rehoming centres in the UK and Ireland, and the international branch of the charity. She believes strongly in promoting pragmatic care for animals and feels that it is particularly important to try to engage with young vets and VNs early in their careers through platforms such as ACV.
Declaration of interests: Employed by Dogs Trust, Trustee for Service Dogs UK
Treasurer: Lisa Morrow DipAppChemBiol BMLSc DVM MSc (Vet Epi) DLSHTM PGCHE FHEA MRCVS
Lisa graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph, Canada in 2000 and has a Master’s degree in Veterinary Epidemiology from the Royal Veterinary College and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Prior to training as a vet, she taught and did research and method development in the field of Medical Laboratory Science.
Lisa has provided services to and been an employee of Cats Protection in various capacities: providing clinical services as a private practitioner, as Head of Veterinary Services from 2003 - 2005, and as Field Veterinary Officer from 2009-2018. She has also worked at the Royal Veterinary College as a research associate for various contract research projects. In 2018, Lisa joined the team at the University of Nottingham School of Veterinary Medicine and Science. Lisa's professional interests include shelter medicine, clinical epidemiology, evidence-based medicine and feline medicine. She teaches Shelter Medicine and is part of the Vets in the Community team.
Declaration of interests: Employed by University of Nottingham
Secretary: Alex Castro BA BS BVetMed MRCVS
Alex graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 2022 and has been working at the Animal Trust hospital in Bolton since then. Before qualifying she volunteered with multiple shelters in the United States while gaining her Animal Science degree.
She is passionate about accessible care and promoting the idea that every pet deserves quality veterinary care.
Declaration of interests: Employed by The Animal Trust
Emma Dobson
Emma graduated from Nottingham in 2016 and started her career in a wonderful first opinion hospital whereby she took on a lot of RSPCA charity work. After two years she undertook a rotating internship at Cambridge. After finishing this she spent some time doing locum shelter work which led her to making some fantastic contacts! She then took on the role of First Opinion Veterinary Surgeon at QVSH. Here she has pushed the implementation of 2 x 1 week first opinion rotations based largely at their local RSPCA centre, working with multiple local charities and aims to provide as much student exposure to charity based primary care practice as possible.
She is passionate about charity practice/accessible veterinary care and utilising this as a teaching resource.
Ali Limentani BSc(Hons) PGDipCABC MA AFHEA RVN
Ali started working in the kennels at Wood Green as a teenager. She went on to study animal behaviour to post-graduate level, while training as a veterinary nurse and working part-time in the surgery at Wood Green. She has been an RVN for over 10 years and still works one day per week at Wood Green, splitting the rest of her time between working as a Veterinary Radiographer at Cambridge University’s Queens Vet School Hospital and running her own illustration business.
Her interests include shelter medicine, low-stress handling, imaging and veterinary illustration.
Isobel McCarroll MVB MRCVS
Isobel qualified from University College Dublin in 2009 and has worked mostly in charity practice ever since, at Blue Cross and in her current role at Cats Protection as Field Veterinary Officer. She is also a regular Street Vet volunteer.
Isobel’s interests include infectious disease management in shelters, and pragmatic medicine and she is ably assisted at work by her one-eyed rescue cat Bobby.
Declaration of interests: works for Cats Protection
Lauren Guthrie-Murray Bsc (Hons) BVMS (Hons) MRCVS
Lauren qualified as a vet in 2010 at Glasgow University and during her time as a vet student undertook an Intercalated Degree in Animal Behaviour and Welfare. She worked for 3 years in Devon as a mixed animal practitioner and then moved back home to Scotland and worked for 3 years in private practice as a small animal GP. She started working with the Scottish SPCA as a charity vet in 2016 and since then has continued to thoroughly enjoy shelter medicine and all of the variety and challenges it offers. She runs a small holding at her farm looking after her rescue pet sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, dogs and cats.
Declaration of interests: Employed by the Scottish SPCA
Jocelyn Toner BVSc MSC, MRCVS
Jocelyn qualified from Bristol University in 1998 and has spent most of her career working in the charity sector. She has held various roles within the RSPCA, worked for the PDSA, and currently works for Cats Protection as a Regional Veterinary Officer. She also has an MSc in One Health. Her interests include the human animal bond and pragmatic veterinary care.
Conflicts of interest: employed by Cats Protection, Trustee of the IVO trust
Student Member: Amani Kabeer-Ali
Amani is a 5th-year veterinary student at the University of Cambridge with an Intercalated Degree in Pathology. She has completed over 7 weeks of clinical placements with PDSA, Celia Hammond Animal Trust, and Cats Protection, focusing on cost-sensitive care and stress-free handling in resource-limited settings.
As a Cats Protection Student Ambassador, Amani advocates for feline welfare and is currently researching ways to improve the diagnostic accuracy and staging of feline hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).”