Mr Ian Stewart McCrone graduated from the University of Liverpool with a degree in veterinary science and has completed further postgraduate qualifications with a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons’ certificate in cattle health and production and a Masters Degree in epidemiology and a Diploma of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Before joining the department of veterinary medicine Ian worked almost exclusively as a farm animal (veterinary) practitioner in North Norfolk, South Yorkshire and the Lancashire-Yorkshire border.  Ian joined Cambridge in 2006 initially as a Clinical Farm Animal Veterinarian, then as a Clinician Teaching Fellow in Veterinary Public Health and Farm Animal Medicine, and since October 2013 as University Physician, a reader level position with responsibility as Farm Animal Clinical Team Leader.