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Speakers
BEN SYKES
BSc BVMS MS MBA Dip
ACVIM Dip ECEIM PhD
Ben Sykes is a veterinarian with over 22 years clinical experience. He is boarded with both
the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in large animal internal medicine and
the European College of Equine Internal Medicine in equine internal medicine.Throughout his
career, he has worked with a wide range of horses, focusing on high performance horses in
racetrack, breeding and sport horse settings. In addition to his interest in the management of
high performance equine athletes, he has a strong interest in clinical research. His research
has focused on gastrointestinal diseases of the horse with a speci昀椀c focus on Equine Gastric
Ulcer Syndrome (EGUS) and he is widely published on the subject including being the lead
author to the 2015 ECEIM Consensus Statement on EGUS in the Adult Horse. Ben Sykes also
maintains a strong interest in post-graduate education and speaks regularly at numerous
conferences around the world on subjects relating to equine health.
Ciarán obtained his veterinary degree at University College Dublin in 2014 and completed
a small animal rotating internship at Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of
Saskatchewan in 2015. Following his internship year, he moved to Washington State University
where he completed a three year ACVS surgical residency and masters programme and was
awarded numerous scholarships including for teaching and for his research in exercise
science.
Ciarán became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgery (DACVS) in Small
Animal Surgery and a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Surgery (DECVS) in
Small Animal Surgery in 2019. Ciaran has worked as a specialist surgeon in North America, the
UK and Ireland and currently works at MyVet Referrals, Dublin.
CIARÁN JONES
MVB, MS, Dipl. ECVS,
Dipl. ACVS. MRCVS
GRACE MULCAHY
Outside of work, he is passionate about rugby, tennis, golf, and travelling with friends and
family. Ciarán has a particular interest in arthroscopy, minimally invasive techniques, fracture
repair and spinal surgery.
Grace is Full Professor of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology, and spent almost 10 years
(Jan 2007- Sept 2016) as Dean of Veterinary Medicine at UCD and from Sept 2011-Sept 2016
Head of the newly-formed UCD School of Veterinary Medicine. She served two terms as a
member of the Veterinary Council of Ireland, and was for two years a member of the American
Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges Board of Directors, as well as six years as a Board
Member of the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Northern Ireland. She has an active
research group focussing on helminth immunobiology, vaccines for veterinary parasites, and
One Health. She is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.
Jackie Ryan has been working as a veterinary nurse for more than 19 years. She obtained her
diploma in Veterinary Nursing from University College Dublin in 2009 and has since worked
in equine hospitals in Ireland, Germany and Australia. She moved to Qatar in 2018 where
she joined the team at the Equine Veterinary Medical Center, where she now works as Head
Surgery Nurse.
JACKIE RYAN
RVN
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