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Dr. Alex Livingston - Portrait
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1995 (Creation)
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2 photographs : b&w ; 3.5 x 2.5 cm
2 negatives : b&w ; 3 x 2 cm
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Head and shoulders image of Dr. Alex Livingston, dean, Western College of Veterinary Medicine.
Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Alex Livingston was born in 1940 and grew up in Luton, England. He graduated from London University in 1962. Dr. Livingston received his veterinary medical degree and MRCVS in 1964 and his PhD from the University of Bristol in 1968. He gained a place at the Royal College of Veterinary Medicine in the University of London, where he intercalated a BSc in Physiology in 1962. Dr. Livingston continued his course to complete a veterinary medical degree, B Vet Med, and MRCVS in 1964. He then moved to Bristol to study for a PhD in CNS pharmacology, which he completed in 1968. Dr. Livingston became lecturer, then senior lecturer and then in 1991 acting head of Pharmacology in Bristol. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (FRCVS) in 1993 and Diplomat of the European College of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology in 1999. Dr. Livingston was recognized for his leadership and research advances in the areas of animal pain, animal welfare and pharmacology of analgesics and was awarded the Merial Grand Prize Outstanding Research Program in Animal Pain in 2001. Dr. Livingston was dean of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine from 1992-2002, after which he returned to the Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences where he became involved in several research studies and mentoring of clinical residents and graduate students. Dr. Livingston was active in the scientific community as board member on the Canadian Council for Animal Care and editor in chief for Research in Veterinary Science, to name a few. During Dr. Livingston’s career he supervised 15 PhD students and contributed to the scientific community with over 100 publications in internationally recognized peer-reviewed journals, over 70 conference proceedings and abstracts, and over 20 book chapters. His passion was science; even when he was dean, he was still involved with teaching and graduate student research. After his official retirement in 2007, he remained involved in research. Dr. Livingston died in 2014.
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Photographer: DAVS
Copyright holder: University of Saskatchewan
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