Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Fellowships Awarded to Professor Carmel Mooney & Associate Professor Emma O’Neill
Professor Carmel Mooney and Associate Professor Emma O’Neill from our Small Animal Clinical Studies Section have been awarded Fellowships of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) - Carmel for Meritorious Contributions to Knowledge and Emma for Meritorious Contributions to Clinical Practice. Since 2016, the RCVS Fellowship has been awarded in recognition of outstanding contributions to the veterinary profession. The purpose of the Fellowship is to advance veterinary standards by providing a resource of independent knowledge for the benefit of the veterinary profession. Dr Chris Tufnell, current Chair of the RCVS Fellowship and former RCVS President, congratulated the 34 new Fellows, stating that ‘each one of them is an example of veterinary excellence, whether they came into the Fellowship through their contribution to clinical practice, through their advancement of veterinary knowledge, or through their contribution to the veterinary professions and wider society.’ An award ceremony will be held in London on 27 November, at which the former UK Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, will be the guest speaker. Her talk, entitled ‘One Health, One High-Level Meeting: the global movement on AMR,’ will be delivered to the Fellowship to coincide with World Antimicrobial Awareness (AMR) Week.
Professor Carmel T Mooney MVB MPhil PhD DipECVIM-CA MRCVS
EBVS European Veterinary Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine, RCVS Specialist in Small Animal Medicine (Endocrinology)
Carmel graduated from University College Dublin in 1986 and spent the next 12 years working at both Edinburgh and Glasgow Veterinary Schools. She has completed MPhil and PhD theses on feline hyperthyroidism and has gained RCVS Specialist Status in Small Animal Medicine (Endocrinology). Since 1998, she has worked at University College Dublin where she is currently Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine. Her major research and teaching areas are in endocrine disorders of dogs and cats. She has lectured widely both nationally and internationally and has published many research articles in small animal endocrinology. Carmel has been President of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association and the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine – Companion Animals.
Associate Professor Emma O’Neill BSc BVSc PhD DSAM ECVIM-CA PGDipUTL PGDipEE
EBVS European Specialist in Small Animal Medicine
Emma graduated from the University of Bristol with a BSc (Hons) in Physiology (1992) and a BVSc (1994), completing a residency in Small Animal Medicine there in 1998. She was awarded a Wellcome Trust Veterinary PhD Studentship to study at Bristol Medical School, gaining a PhD in Immunology in 2003. In 2002, Emma joined UCD as a Lecturer in Small Animal Medicine, becoming Associate Professor in 2018, having gained both the RCVS and European College Diplomas in Small Animal Medicine. Emma holds two Post Graduate Diplomas in Teaching and Learning and gained a UCD Fellowship in Teaching and Academic Development (2019-21), completing an institution-wide research project that explored student metacognitive skills development.
Emma designed, developed and directs the UCD Graduate Certificate in Small Animal Medicine, a distance education programme for veterinarians. A recipient of a 2021-22 University Teaching Excellence Award, Emma is passionate about teaching and equipping students with the appropriate skills to help them realise their full potential. Her teaching spans the undergraduate Veterinary Medicine and Veterinary Nursing programmes, the Doctor of Veterinary Medical Specialisation programme and ECVIM residency training, with extensive experiential clinical teaching within UCD’s Veterinary Hospital. Emma has had substantial involvement with ECVIM specialist examinations and her primary areas of interest are canine liver disease, veterinary education and evidence based practice.