The AMCR’s veterinary referral service is provided and supervised by highly experienced veterinary surgeons, who have undertaken extensive post-graduate training and obtained various additional qualifications. Pip qualified in 1984 and then completed a general surgical internship and ophthalmic residency and has been seeing referred ophthalmic and neurologic patients for over 25 years. He has had over 200 papers and abstracts published in veterinary and medical literature and continues to develop new treatments and techniques in these fields. He reviews papers for several veterinary journals and has been an invited speaker at many national and specialist veterinary and medical conferences and meetings.