Professor Sheila Crispin

Sheila Crispin was awarded an Agricultural Research Council Veterinary Training Scholarship after obtaining an honours degree in Zoology and Applied Zoology, and qualified from the University of Cambridge.

After a period of mixed, mainly large animal, practice in Cumbria she returned to education, ending with a full-time academic career as Head of the Ophthalmology Service and Professor of Comparative Ophthalmology at the University of Bristol.

Sheila has been a member of RCVS Council since 1997, served on most Committees and chaired a number of them. She was President in 2006-07.

Currently, Sheila is Chief Panellist of the BVA/Kennel Club/International Sheep Dog Society Eye Scheme. She has published numerous scientific papers in peer-reviewed academic journals, is co-author and editor of three standard textbooks on veterinary ophthalmology and sole author of another.

She has many scientific interests including necessity for one-planet living, comparative aspects of animal health and disease, ethics and welfare, environment, ecosystem management and biodiversity.

Her outside interests include mountaineering and sailing.