Speaker bio page for Brendan Corcoran

Bio

Professor Corcoran MVB, DipPharm, PhD MRCVS graduated from the Veterinary College of Ireland in 1981, and after a period in practice in the USA and London joined the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer in 1986. He has subsequently held posts as a Wellcome Research Leave Fellow, Director of the Hospital for Small Animals and Head of Companion Animal Sciences at Edinburgh. He was awarded a Personal Chair in Veterinary Cardiopulmonary Medicine in 2006 and is currently  Deputy Head of School at the R(D)SVS. His clinical and research interests are in respiratory medicine and cardiology, particularly Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and Myxomatous Mitral Valve Disease.