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Ahmed Al Ansari - Second Year PhD Student
Ahmed Al Ansari from Oman is a second year PhD student at the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine. Ahmed’s research topic is Aspects of Equine Metabolic Syndrome. His research focuses on investigating this condition and its effect on the Irish native breed, the Connemara pony. As part of his PhD project, Ahmed travels around Ireland to collect samples from ponies and help advise pony breeders and riders on this condition and on how to manage affected ponies. One of the main areas he will visit throughout his studies is Clifden (Connemara) in the west of Ireland, from which this pony breed originates. Ahmed visited Clifden in September 2021 and while he was there he met the local vet and Connemara pony breeders and owners who were all very interested in his work, which made it a really successful research trip. Ahmed is planning to make multiple visits to that area, in addition to other parts of Ireland, as part of the study he is completing.
Ahmed is pictured with some beautiful Connemara ponies in their native land.
UCD’s Equine Clinical Studies Research group’s work on Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS) in Connemara ponies will inform two PhD projects being conducted by students in the School, both supervised by Dr Vivienne Duggan. Ahmed Al Ansari is exploring the heritability and gut-related aspects of EMS while Emma Golding is looking at prevalence of the condition. Find out more about this work here.
Recent Student Publications
Congratulations to Laura Keogh who is the lead author on a recent publication in the Irish Veterinary Journal. ‘Self-reported awareness of the legal status of eight responsibilities of dog owners in Ireland: are dog owners different from non-dog owners?’ can be accessed at the link below:
Nicole W. Y. Rosenberger, Zhi Hao Tan, Stephanie D. M. Payet and Mahishi Santbakshsing are co-authors on an article recently published in PeerJ – the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences. ‘The reporting of p values, confidence intervals and statistical significance in Preventive Veterinary Medicine (1997–2017)’ can be accessed at the link below:
(opens in a new window)https://peerj.com/articles/12453/
Recent CVERA Publications
See below for some recent publications from the UCD Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology and Risk Analysis (CVERA):
Barroso, P., Breslin, P., McGrath, G., Madden, J.M., Tratalos, J.A., More, S.J., Ryan, E., Byrne, A.W., Barrett, D., 2022. Is there an association between road building and bovine tuberculosis herd risk? A three time-points study in Ireland, 2011-2020. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 198, 105542. (opens in a new window)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2021.105542
Collins, Á.B., Floyd, S., Gordon, S.V., More, S.J., 2022. Prevalence of Mycobacterium bovis in milk on dairy cattle farms: an international systematic literature review and meta-analysis. Tuberculosis (in press). (opens in a new window)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tube.2022.102166
McAloon, C.G., Wall, P., Butler, F., Codd, M., Gormley, E., Walsh, C., Duggan, J., Murphy, T.B., Nolan, P., Smyth, B., O'Brien, K., Teljeur, C., Green, M.J., O'Grady, L., Culhane, K., Buckley, C., Carroll, C., Doyle, S., Martin, J., More, S.J., 2021. Numbers of close contacts of individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 and their association with government intervention strategies. BMC Public Health 21, 2238. (opens in a new window)https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12318-y
More, S.J., Marchewka, J., Hanlon, A., Balzani, A., Boyle, L., 2021. An evaluation of four private animal health and welfare standards and associated quality assurance programmes for dairy cow production. Food Policy 105, 102169. (opens in a new window)https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102169
More, S.J., McCoy, F., McAloon, C.I., 2022. The new Veterinary Medicines Regulation: rising to the challenge. Irish Veterinary Journal 75, 2. (opens in a new window)https://doi.org/10.1186/s13620-022-00209-6