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Independent consultant with more than 15 years experience in veterinary medicine, epidemiology and statistics.
The principles of epidemiology are essential in the study of the ecology and description of the natural history of disease, health surveillance, disease detection, disease outbreak investigation and clinical medicine.
Dr. Vicki Adams’ research interests focus on the study of diseases of importance in companion animals. With our pets living longer, the chronic diseases such as cancer, heart disease, kidney disease and diabetes have become ever more important, particularly due to their effects on quality of life and outcomes (such as reasons for euthanasia). What we are doing in small animal epidemiological research is similar to what has been done in human research into chronic diseases. The difference being that we are some years behind the human medical epidemiologists in terms of what we know about the prevalence and incidence of disease, the risk factors for disease, efficacy of treatments and preventive measures, and prognosis or predicted outcome for many of the important conditions in our pets.
Services available include extensive skills in epidemiology, statistics, teaching and much more.
Dr. Vicki Adams has planned, assisted with and undertaken studies of the epidemiology of feline, canine and equine diseases.