Speaker Profile: Philip Ivens
Updated: 5 days ago
We are really pleased to announce that Philip Ivens will be speaking at BEVA Congress 2023.

About Philip
Philip qualified from Cambridge University in 2003 and worked initially in mixed/equine practice in Norfolk and Dorset. He then joined (in 2006–2009) the team at the Equine Referral Hospital at the Royal Veterinary College as senior clinical training scholar in equine medicine and equine infectious disease, where he gained his RCVS Certificate in Equine Internal Medicine (2008). In 2011 he gained by examination the European Diploma in Equine Internal Medicine (DipECEIM) and became a European Specialist in Equine Internal Medicine.
In 2016 he became an RCVS Specialist in Equine Internal Medicine. He is founder and director of Buckingham Equine Vets and part of their ambulatory team. He has a specialist interest in equine infectious diseases, respiratory medicine and oncology. He acts as a medicine consultant within the practice and heads up Buckingham Equine Medicine Referrals. He has lectured on infectious diseases in the UK and abroad. He has published on equine infectious diseases and written several chapters in veterinary text books.
Hear Philip at BEVA Congress 2023
Thursday at 1:15pm - 2:45pm: Primary Care Guidelines - Laminitis and Strangles Management
Chair: Celia Marr
1:15pm
Goal of BEVA Primary Care Guidelines & GRADE framework
Celia Marr
1:25pm
Progress Report from BEVA PCG on Strangles
TBC
1:45pm
Discussion on Strangles progress report
Philip Ivens & Kris Hughes
2:10pm
Final report: Highlights of BEVA PCG on Laminitis management in primary care practice
Harry Carslake
2:30pm
Audience discussion PCG on Laminitis management in primary care practice
2:40pm
Sum up and call for future PCG topics
Celia Marr
Thursday at 1:40pm - 3:10pm: Pre-Purchase Dilemmas
Chair: Malcolm Morley
1:40pm
Interpreting radiological findings in sound horses
Marcus Swail
2:00pm
How lame is too lame?
Alice Croxford
2:20pm
Do we need to change owner perceptions of the PPE?
Tim Phillips
2:40pm
Medical pitfalls in the PPE
Philip Ivens
3:00pm
Discussion
Thursday at 4:00pm - 5:25pm: Dermatology Workshop
Chair: Mike Hewetson
April Lawsons, Julia Shrubb and Philip Ivens
Friday at 8:40am - 10:10am: Respiratory Medicine
Chair: Harry Carslake
8:40am
CAT: What does a BAL really tell us?
Philip Ivens
9:00am
How to: Ultrasonography and radiography of the lungs - what is achievable in the field
Sarah Smith
9:20am
Managing equine asthma: if only they would listen...
Tamzin Furtado
9:40am
Non responder: the asthmatic horse
Philip Ivens
10:00am
Discussion
Friday at 10:50am - 12:10pm: Colic
Chair: Emily Floyd
10:50am
Quick as a FLASH: abdominal ultrasonography refresher
Celia Marr
11:10am
What can lactate tell us about colics?
Philip Ivens
11:30am
Nutrition for the recurrent colic
Louisa Taylor
11:50am
CAT: Colic surgery over time: Are we doing better?
Tim Mair
12:10pm
Discussion