Dr Alex Dugdale
MA, VetMB, PhD, DVA, DipECVAA, PGCert(LTHE), FHEA, MRCVS

Alex qualified from Cambridge in 1990 and then spent the next 6 years in mixed practice in Lancashire where she developed a passion for anaesthesia and gained the RCVS CertVA in 1993 at the same time as obtaining a private pilot's licence (who said anaesthesia was like flying!). She completed a Residency in Anaesthesia and Critical Care at the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket before moving to Liverpool University, where she gained the RCVS and ECVAA Diplomas in Veterinary Anaesthesia in 2001, and where she remained (as Lecturer, and then Senior Lecturer) until November 2016. Whilst at Liverpool, an interest in adipobiology led her to take a 3-year sabbatical to complete a PhD in Aspects of Adiposity in Ponies, during which she gained an interest in applied nutrition. After her father’s death and her mother’s worsening dementia put more demands upon her time as a parental carer, she moved to private referral practice at ChesterGates Veterinary Specialists in late 2016. Her interests remain wide-ranging, including all aspects of anaesthesia, analgesia and critical care and especially adipobiology, physiology and pathophysiology and their impact on anaesthesia and perioperative health.