Current Position

Locum Soft Tissue Surgeon (Veterinary Specialists Ireland)

Education and Experience

Experience:
Locum Consultant in Soft Tissue Surgery (2024-present)

Head of Cardiac Surgery (2020-2023)
Dick White Referrals, Cambridge, UK

Head of Soft Tissue Surgery and Small Animal Surgery Residency programme (2021–2023)
Dick White Referrals, Cambridge, UK

Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery (Cardiothoracics)
Royal Veterinary College, University of London, UK (2017–2020)

Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Royal Veterinary College, University of London, UK (2017 – 2019)

Visiting Cardiothoracic Surgery fellow
Royal Veterinary College, University of London, UK (2016 – 2017)

Small Animal Surgeon (Soft tissue and Orthopaedics)
Eastcott Referrals, Swindon, UK (2016 – 2017)

Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery, (Soft tissue and Orthopaedics)
Matthew J Ryan Veterinary Hospital, University of Pennsylvania, USA (2014 – 2016)

Education:

Royal Veterinary College, University of London, UK 2017-2019

Fellowship in Cardiac Surgery

Royal Veterinary College, University of London, UK 2017-2018

Post-Graduate Certificate in Veterinary Education

Royal Veterinary College, University of London, UK 2011-2014

Residency in Small Animal Surgery

Master of Veterinary Medicine (Distinction)

Royal Veterinary College, University of London, UK 2010-2011

Junior Clinical Training Scholar (Rotating intern)

Royal Veterinary College, University of London, UK 2005-2010

Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine

Teaching Experience

Poppy has been head of the Small Animal Surgical Residency programmes at both Dick White Referrals, Cambridgeshire, UK and the Royal Veterinary College. This role involved education and pastoral care of the surgery residents. Poppy has been a lecturer in Surgery at two large University teaching hospitals where she taught a large variety of both undergraduate and postgraduate students in small animal surgery. Poppy continues to teach small animal surgery residents and interns as well as visiting students in her current role. Poppy also lectures around the world in cardiac surgery and general soft tissue surgery. Poppy has taught on ESAVS soft tissue II as well as soft tissue V (thoracic surgery).

Research

Poppy’s main area of research is in cardiothoracics. Poppy has several publications in the works currently as well as multiple papers published in the peer reviewed veterinary literature, including:

Pratschke K, Bristow P, Paczesna A. et al. The Uncomfortable Truth about Gender Inequity: Invited Speakers at the European College of Veterinary Surgeons Annual Scientific Congress 2012-2022. January 2024
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4971776.

Blacklock K, MacKay J, Bristow P et al. Silent Voices: Uncovering Women’s Absence in Veterinary Surgery Publications. January 2024. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4956313

P. Bristow, Markovic L. Mitral Valve Repair–The Development and Rise of Options in the Veterinary World November 2023. Veterinary Clinics of North America Small Animal Practice 53(6):1343-1352. DOI: 10.1016/j.cvsm.2023.07.001.

Pennington C, Bristow P, Navarro-Cubas X, Kurosawa TA. Improved owner quality of life following surgical repair of canine myxomatous mitral valve disease. J Am Vet Med Assoc 262(suppl 1):1-6. DOI: 10.2460/javma.23.08.0433.

Min-Young Kim et al. Immunohistochemical characteristics of local sites that trigger atrial arrhythmias in response to high-frequency stimulation. October 2022. Europace 25(2) DOI: 10.1093/europace/euac176 LicenseCC BY 4.0

Pennington C, Kurosawa TA et al. Use of the Functional Evaluation of Cardiac Health questionnaire to assess health-related quality of life before and after mitral valve repair in dogs with myxomatous mitral valve disease. J Am Vet Med Assoc 2022 May 20;260(14):1806-1812. doi: 10.2460/javma.22.02.0053.

Beer A, Hernon T, Halfacree Z, at al. Complications associated with and outcome of surgical intervention for treatment of esophageal foreign bodies in dogs. J Am Vet Med Assoc 2022 260(6):1-6. DOI: 10.2460/javma.21.01.0060

Seo J, Kurosawa TA, Bristow P. et al. Surgical Management of Three Dogs with an Interatrial Communication and Atrioventricular Valve Abnormalities
June 2021CASE 5(4). DOI: 10.1016/j.case.2021.05.002

Kurosawa TA, Bristow P. et al. Interventricular Septal Hematoma Associated with Surgical Mitral Valve Repair in Four Dogs. December 2020 CASE 5(1)
DOI: 10.1016/j.case.2020.11.001

Seneviratne M, Longue C, Harringotn N, P.Bristow. Arteriovenous Malformation of the Tongue Resulting in Recurrent Severe Hemorrhage in a Young Dog
November 2020Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association 56(6):336
DOI: 10.5326/JAAHA-MS-7080

Brook J, Min-Young Kim M, Koutsoftidis S, et al. Development of a pro-arrhythmic ex vivo intact human and porcine model: cardiac electrophysiological changes associated with cellular uncoupling. October 2020. Pflügers Archiv – Euro J of Physiology 472(Pt 1)
DOI: 10.1007/s00424-020-02446-6
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Kurosawa, V.Luis Fuentes, L.Rutherford, D.Brockman. Surgical valvulotomy for tricuspid valve stenosis in a dog. J Vet Cardiol March 2019

M. McKenna, P. Bristow, B.Glanneman. Clinical spirocercosis in a dog in the UK. Accepted to V Record Case Reports January 2019

P. Bristow, M.Tivers, V.Lipscomb et al. Health Related Quality of Life following surgical attenuation of congenital portosystemic shunt versus a healthy control population of dogs. Journal of Small Animal Practice 2018. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsap.12927

P. Bristow, J Sargent, V Luis Fuentes, D Brockman. Surgical treatment of pulmonic stenosis in dogs under cardiopulmonary bypass: outcome in nine dogs. Journal of Small Animal Practice 2018 59 (1), 38-44

P. Bristow, M.Tivers, V.Lipscomb et al. Long term serum bile acid concentrations in 53 dogs after complete extrahepatic congenital portosystemic shunt ligation. Journal of Small Animal Practice 2018 59 (1), 70

P. Bristow, J.Sargent, V.Luis Fuentes, D.Brockman. Outcome of bioprosthetic valve replacement in dogs with tricuspid valve dysplasia. Journal of Small Animal Practice 2017 58 (4), 205-210

M.Tivers, V.Lipscomb, P. Bristow, D.Brockman. Intrahepatic congenital portosystemic shunts in dogs: short and long-term outcome of suture attenuation. Journal of Small Animal Practice 2018 59 (4), 201-210

B.Flores, M.Boudreaux, B.Vasquez, P. Bristow, L.Aronson, K.Santoro-Beer, M.Callan. Heterozygosity for P2Y12 receptor gene mutation associated with impaired ADP-induced platelet activation in vitro and postoperative hemorrhage in a Greater Swiss Mountain dog. Vet Clin Path 2016 46 (4), 569-574

P. Bristow. Cervical masses in dogs and cats 1. Investigation and management. In Practice 2015

P. Bristow, Z.Halfacree, S.Baines. A retrospective study of the use of active suction wound drains in dogs and cats. JSAP 2015

P. Bristow, R.Meeson, G. Arthurs et al. Clinical Comparison of the Hybrid Dynamic Compression Plate and the Castless Plate for Pancarpal Arthrodesis in 219 Dogs. Veterinary Surgery 2014

K.Perry, P. Bristow. The Approach to the Feline Disrupted Stifle Joint. Veterinary Ireland Journal 2014

P.Bristow, K.Perry, Z.Halfacree, V.Lipscomb. Use of Vacuum-Assisted Closure in a traumatic flank wound to maintain viability of the skin flap in a dog. JAVMA 2013