The Internal Medicine service is headed by Rob Foale
Main clinical interests are in medical oncology (the use of chemotherapy to treat our cancer patients), endocrinology (hormone imbalances and abnormalities), haematology (blood disorders) and immune-mediated diseases (where the immune system becomes overactive for some reason and inappropriately attacks a part or parts of the body). I have published research papers in immune-mediated disease, respiratory disease and cancer management and I am also currently writing a textbook for the American publisher Elsevier on the clinical management of the veterinary cancer patient (due to be completed in April 2008).
I have two active research programmes, the first of which is an attempt to develop gene therapy for the treatment of canine diabetes mellitus and secondly an attempt to identify the genes that make certain breeds of dog prone to developing a cancer of the lymphatic system called lymphoma. In addition to these, working with our intern staff I have an on-going project trying to characterise a recently recognised swallowing problem in Hungarian Vizlas and also work attempting to establish the mechanism of inheritance of Steroid-Responsive Meningitis/Arteritis in Nova Scotian Duck Tolling Retrievers.
Rob is assisted by Simon Tappin and Jon Wray
