Richard Meeson
Prof Richard Meeson is Head of Orthopaedics and Professor of Orthopaedics at the Royal Veterinary College, University of London. He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2007 having also intercalated a degree in immunology in 2004. He then moved to the Royal Veterinary College to undertake specialist clinical training, and became a European board-certified surgical specialist in 2012. He has remained at the RVC as clinical faculty since, other than several years as an MRC funded Clinical Research Fellow working at the internationally renowned Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science, UCL (Stanmore, London). This led to the award of a PhD on stem cell mobilisation and fracture healing.
Since 2018, Prof Meeson has been Head of the Orthopaedic Service at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals. In the clinic, he enjoys traumatology and joint surgery, including total hip replacement. He has trained over 25 surgical residents and is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and assessment. He manages a research programme focused on One Medicine including advanced imaging of osteoarthritis to detect early biomarkers, osteosarcoma and tendon degeneration research. He held the post of Scientific Chair for the British Veterinary Orthopaedic Association (BVOA) from 2015-2022, and has been an associate editor for BMC Veterinary Research and The Veterinary Record. He lectures nationally and internationally and has published over 100 papers and abstracts on a variety of topics relating to veterinary orthopaedics, with many on the subject on feline orthopaedics, and has been awarded over £1M in grant funding. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (FRCVS) for his meritorious contributions to clinical practice in 2020, which is the highest level of recognition in the UK.