Internal Medicine team

Jane Eastwood

MA VetMB DVR DSAM MRCVS

RCVS Specialist in Small Animal Medicine

After graduating from Cambridge University in 1984 Jane worked in mixed practices, both on the south coast and then in Derbyshire. She then moved to a sizeable small animal practice in London where she gained the RCVS Certificate in Veterinary Radiology. Jane then returned to Cambridge Veterinary School for a year and obtained the RCVS Diploma in Veterinary Radiology in 1992. However, she missed the client contact and the challenge of managing cases after making a diagnosis - life as a diagnostic imager was not for her! She returned to small animal practice, working at Willows for 3 years, where she attained the RCVS Certificate in Small Animal Medicine, and then at a multidisciplinary referral practice where she gained the RCVS Diploma in Small Animal Medicine in 2003. Jane then moved to the Royal Veterinary College in 2005. This posed new challenges of mixing undergraduate and post-graduate teaching with a referral case load, but also allowed her to develop specific areas of research, including that of feline acromegaly. Jane was Head of the Clinical Medicine Service from 2007, until leaving the RVC in 2009.

Jane was an RCVS examiner for a number of years for both radiology and small animal medicine and has served on both related RCVS Boards. She has also been an active supporter of the BSAVA Petsavers charity both as a 10K runner and perhaps more importantly on the Petsavers Grant Awarding Committee from 2005-2008. She enjoys teaching and has been a regular speaker at BSAVA Congress in recent years.

With her move back to Willows in August 2009, Jane is enjoying working as part of an efficient, enthusiastic and committed multidisciplinary team of specialist vets and nurses in a state-of-the-art facility. Her special interests include endocrinology, gastro-intestinal disease, medical oncology and immune mediated disease - but essentially she can never say 'no' to any medicine case, be it a cat or a dog!

Jane's first Spaniel had Cushing's disease until she died at the age of 16, and as a result she is fully in tune with just how precious these 'silly old fool' cats and dogs are. Jane now has a younger, more active model, 'Maddie', who is suitably named and suitably insured against all veterinary eventualities, but (touch wood) so far, so good! As Jane's partner, Paul, is allergic to cats, sadly the feline 'fix' has to come from her work.

Kirsty Roe

BVSc DipACVIM MRCVS

Specialty of Small Animal Internal Medicine

Kirsty graduated as a Veterinary Surgeon from the University of Bristol in 2000. She spent five years working in small animal practice in London and Northampton, where she developed a keen interest in canine and feline general medical problems. In 2005 she was selected as a Junior Clinical Fellow in Internal Medicine at The Animal Health Trust in Newmarket, where she completed her Royal College Certificate in Small Animal Medicine. She then completed a three-year residency at The Royal Veterinary College in London and gained the Diploma of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in February 2010.

Kirsty enjoys both the challenge of the Internal Medicine discipline, and also the care element of her role with the seriously ill animals that she treats. Kirsty is particularly interested in feline medicine and endocrinology. She very much enjoys being part of the top-notch team of multi-disciplinary specialists at Willows, and contributing to the high level of support and expert care provided for her patients, their owners and the referring veterinary surgeons who use the Willows service.