Suzannah is a Registered Equine Veterinary Nurse with over a decade of experience working in the veterinary industry. Suzannah has a keen interest in surgical nursing and prior to joining the Hartpury ‘VN Team’, in 2014, she was the Senior Equine Theatre Nurse at a large mixed practice.

Suzannah’s most recent publication, an article in Volume 10, Edition 3, (April 2019) of the Veterinary Nurse, titled, ‘Don’t forget the foal: The nursing requirements of foals when the mare is the primary patient’, highlights the intensive nursing needs of young foals even when they are healthy. Previous publications include an article focussing on infection control protocols for equine neonatal nursing and a co-authored investigation of the efficacy of different surgical site preparation agents. At the, 2015, British Veterinary Nursing Association Congress Suzannah delivered a lecture on Common Traumatic Injuries of the Competition Horse.

Suzannah is part way through an MA in Education and hopes to complete this in the next couple of years.

Suzannah is the Programme Manager for the Diploma in Professional Studies Veterinary Nursing Programmes and for the Foundation Degree in Veterinary Nursing Science. She teaches across a range of level 4 and 5 veterinary nursing modules, subjects include anaesthesia, surgical nursing and pharmacy management.

Advance HE Fellowship, FHEA

Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons - Registered Equine Veterinary Nurse, REVN