Dr Fernando Constantino-Casas is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Veterinary Medicine and a former postgraduate student of St Edmund’s. He studied for his Batchelor’s degree as a Veterinarian and Zootechnist Physician at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he graduated in 1985 and was awarded a PhD at Cambridge in 1991. Among his scientific and professional distinctions, Dr Constantino-Casas has been a full time lecturer at the Dept of Pathology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Mexico and is a Veterinary Pathologist at the Mexican Council of Anatomopathologists. He was also Head of the Department of Pathology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Mexico before taking up his present post as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Veterinary Medicine.