Judy MacArthur Clark

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Judy MacArthur Clark

CBE FRCVS
Born
Judy MacArthur [1]
Occupation veterinary surgeon

Judy MacArthur Clark CBE FRCVS is a British veterinary surgeon, and former President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. She has held government posts in the regulation of veterinary medicine.

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Career

Clark was chairwoman of the Farm Animal Welfare Council, now the Animal Welfare Committee, from 1999. [2] [3] [4] She was appointed Chief Inspector of the Home Office unit for Animals in Science Regulations in 2007 and remained in that post until standing down in 2016. [4] [5] [6] [7] As part of that role, she led the Three Rs (animal research) programme. [5] [8] [9]

Clark was president of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons from 1992 to 1993. [9] [10]

Clark is a policy advisor for the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. [8] She is Chair of the Trustees of the Soulsby Foundation. [11] [12]

She worked on the development of legislation for the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. [6]

Clark was the first president, in 2006, of the International Association of Colleges of Laboratory Animal Medicine. [13]

Clark was employed as Vice-President of Worldwide Comparative Medicine for Pfizer, and runs her own company, JMC Welfare International. [8] She has also worked for the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare. [14]

Honours

Clark was made a CBE in the 2004 Birthday Honours. [9] [15] [16] She was made an honorary fellow of the British Pharmacological Society in 2016, "for her sustained leadership in the regulation of animal research". [17] The University of Glasgow awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2001. [18] She was made an honorary member of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine in 2007. [19]

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