Meet the Team
Perth Equine Vets / Meet the Team
Director & Equine Veterinary Surgeon: Camilla Church BVMS MRCVS
Camilla settled in Perthshire after her graduation from Glasgow Vet School in 2015. Since then, she has worked with mainly horses in mixed and small animal/equine practices. In 2020, she made the difficult but exciting decision to leave a job that she loved, and set up on her own.
Camilla has additional qualifications as a Permitted Treating Vet for the FEI, and is a qualified racecourse vet. She enjoys providing vet cover for endurance and hunter trial events, and is part of the International Blair Horse Trials veterinary team every year. She is currently completing a postgraduate certificate in equine dentistry with the University of Liverpool.
As a mad keen Pony Clubber, horses have always been important to Camilla growing up. She passed the PC A-test in 2017 and since then has become an accredited Stage 4 professional coach with the BHS, with the Stable Managers Certificate. When not working, Camilla is kept super busy with her little baby boy Oliver, who she hopes will love horses as much as she does!
Director & Equine Veterinary Surgeon: Anna Hammond BVM&S DACVIM-LAIM Cert EM (Int Med) FHEA MRCVS
Anna grew up in Fife, graduating from Edinburgh Vet School in 1994 and immediately started a 2-year interns job in the Liphook Equine Hospital. She then headed to the Southern hemisphere working in equine referral hospitals in Australia for 2 years, and New Zealand for 2. It was during this time that she developed her love of stud medicine and after several foaling seasons she became the queen of the pony studs, never had her long, skinny arms been so useful! She returned to the UK to enter a 3 year post-graduate specialist training program at the Royal Vet College in London collecting her Certificate in Equine Internal Medicine along the way. Following this spell in academia she returned to her first love of first opinion equine practice and worked in Sussex for many years, working for several studs, seeing internal medicine cases, lots of vettings and all the routine equine work.
Family reasons forced the move to Bristol University Vet School where she spent 7 years, working both as lead vet in the first opinion practice and also working in the equine referral hospital. she is a specialist in equine internal medicine, and is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. During her time at Bristol University she re-designed the curriculum for equine reproduction for which she was awarded a teaching prize in 2017.
Anna has presented at national and international conferences, published several papers and is currently external examiner to Nottingham Vet School final year and teaches and examines on the medicine certificate course for the University of Liverpool Vet School.
She is pictured here next to Murphy who is a pony she found in a field and subsequently rescued with the help of World Horse Welfare. In her spare time she loves spending time with her rescue ponies and running marathons.
Equine Veterinary Surgeon: Carly Martin-Pope BVM&S MRCVS
Carly was born in Somerset and grew up on a busy livery yard. She spent
most of her childhood on ponies, attending Pony Club from the age of five, and later on producing her own horses to event.
Carly graduated from The Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies, Edinburgh in 2010. For the last 13 years Carly has been working as a vet in the South West of England.
Carly is passionate about horses and equine veterinary medicine, with a particular interest in sports horses and lameness. She has a broad range of equine experience ranging from happy hackers, hunters, cobs and ponies to event horses and racehorses. Most recently Carly has been the primary yard vet for two large National Hunt Race yards, and has a growing interest in stud work.
Carly is a qualified and experienced RCVS Riding Establishment Inspector, Racecourse Vet and FEI Vet.
Senior Admin Assistant: Sam Wilson
Sam is pictured with her beloved ex racer, Scoobie, who she since has sadly lost, and the cheeky little Fin. Since this picture was taken, she has significantly grown her equine collection: Finn keeps Sherby, a lovely Welsh Section A on her toes, and Donkey the ex-show jumper too.
Sam is also a trained hairdresser, so the team have already taken advantage of keeping their forelocks trimmed 
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Admin Assistant: Alison Craig
Alison has a reassuring and efficient manner, and joined the team as our admin assistant. She lives locally with her husband and two children, two dogs, 20 Cheviot sheep and lovely horses, Hope and Bracken. She is on the committee for the local Pony Club and spends lots of time ferrying Hope to rallies with her daughter!
Admin Assistant: Clare Richards
Clare is another lovely, warm and bubbly character to add to our wonderful office team as a part-time admin assistant helping with the day to day running of the office.
She has a wealth of office experience having previously worked for another vet practice so understands how things are done and shares the same ethos as us at PEV that client care is of the upmost importance.
Clare lives on a beautiful small holding just outside Bankfoot with her husband, 2 children,
9 dogs, small herd of alpacas and 4 gorgeous donkeys. When not working with us here at PEV HQ, she can often be found out and about in a field with her fur babies and has the same passion as the rest of us for all things four legged and fluffy!
We are sure you will find her just a wonderful as we do as she helps us to help you look after your horses 😊
Admin Assistant: Alison Macleod
Alison is our most recent recruit and is covering Sam’s maternity leave. 
She has many years experience working within in an office environment and like the rest of us, has a wealth of equine experience also so makes the perfect combination for our ever growing team :-).
Alison lives in locally with her husband and teenage son and is also horsey mum to the beautiful Irish Draught x, Indi and cheeky Welshy, Rocco.
We are sure you will find her patient manner and caring approach to your horses care just as fabulous as we do!
OUR SERVICES
VACCINATIONS
It is recommended that all horses are vaccinated, whether they go out competing or not. All horses can succumb to the fatal disease, Tetanus (lock jaw), which is preventable by a vaccination every 2 years.
DENTAL EXAMINATIONS
Dental examinations are a vital part of the veterinary preventative healthcare for your horse. It is recommended that all horses have their teeth checked at least every 6 to 12 months in order to prevent problems building up and causing pain.
FAECAL WORM EGG COUNTS (FWEC)
Worming based so FWEC results is vital to prevent resistance becoming a real problem in our horse population. Blanket worming all horse regularly is no longer recommended, and should be based on FWEC results, and risk factors that make them more predisposed to have a higher worm burden.