Brendan Clarke qualified from London Vet School in 1994. He joined the partnership of Towerwood Vets, in his home town, in 1998. Here, he was fortunate to work with John Saxton whose name will be known to most members as a highly regarded homoeopathic vet. Brendan became the head vet at practice in 2003 and has developed Towerwood into a leading centre of integrative veterinary medicine. The core principle of the whole team is to look at each individual patient with an open mind and to respect the human animal bond at all times.

In 2002 Brendan was secretary of the BVA’s Yorkshire Veterinary Society, becoming its president in 2014 and was BVA regional representative for Yorkshire & Humberside between 2007 & 2014 so he is well aware of the wider veterinary community and its issues. He is a Director of the Raw Feeding Veterinary Society and RawSAFE and serves as the Chief Veterinary Advisor to Bella and Duke.

Out of a very busy work life, Brendan loves to travel, especially taking dogs Pippa, Arti and Clementine to the Lake District, a childhood home away from home! He keeps a small flock of goats using regenerative farming principles to manage the land where they live and enjoys sport, in particular rugby and growing his own fruit and veg.

Brendan's favourite saying is ‘If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail’ emphasising the value of widening the range of skills and tools in your professional tool kit.

Emily McAteer lives in Dublin where she owns and runs an integrative veterinary practice offering holistic and conventional approaches. Her main field is homeopathy. She was introduced to it by her uncle who was a Homeopathic GP in Yorkshire where her family is from. Her interest in practicing homeopathy was sparked when she used it to treat her children. Then she discovered how miraculous it was for helping animals. She has been using homeopathy successfully in her veterinary practice for over 20 years.
She graduated from University College Dublin with a degree in Veterinary Medicine in 1990. She studied in the Integrative School of Medicine in Bristol and got her MFHom in 2018. More recently she studied with the Irish School of Homeopathy and now has a qualification to treat their owners. She is currently studying in The Dynamis School, a post grad course for homeopaths.
She loves music festivals, hiking, sea swimming and traveling in her campervan with her dog. She has 3 adult children, a dog and a cosmic cat called Betty Boop.
Her current mission is to educate more vets about the efficacy of this system of medicine and to encourage the profession to come together internationally to support each other to help animals and their owners to heal.

Nazrene Moosa was born and educated in South Africa. She graduated from the University of Pretoria and began her career in a small animal practice in Durban, South Africa.

She moved to the U.K. in the late nineties and has been in small animal practice in the south east since then. She qualified as a VetMFHom in 2003.

Her interests include medicine and acupuncture and she enjoys keeping fit, spending time with her cats and travel.

Nick Thompson graduated from Edinburgh University with a degree in Veterinary Pathology (Immunology, Virology, Microbiology, Parasitology and many other fascinating ‘ologies’) and his BVM&S vet degree in 1992. He went into practice, starry-eyed and confident he could treat anything. Within six months he was beginning to get disillusioned with the conventional medical model where so many diseases are just ‘managed’, where the root causes of diseases are untreatable, if they are ever sought.

He started his training at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital in 1994 with dozens of other doctors and vets. He loved the principles, the breadth and scope of homeopathy and the holistic nature of the discipline. For the next four years he became obsessed with the field. In 1998 he very proudly gained his VetMFHom (veterinary membership of the Faculty of Homeopathy) by examination.

Since then he has been practicing homeopathy alongside herbal medicine, natural nutrition (he’s the founding President of the Raw Feeding Veterinary Society) and acupuncture. He started his own practice, Holisticvet Ltd., in 1999 (www.holisticvet.co.uk) in Bath, UK, and has been going from strength to strength since then.

He has lectured in homeopathy in, England, Scotland, Wales, Portugal, Lithuania and New Zealand. He has given lectures at the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bristol and Southampton.

He lives in Wiltshire with his wife Elly, and their two children Arthur and Ophelia, Ziggy the cat and Lady Grey and Charlotte, the chickens.

Mark Elliott qualified from Bristol University Veterinary School in 1989 and immediately embarked upon an intensive period of study at the Faculty of Homeopathy in London. He achieved his qualification in this field in 1996. He established a practice near Chichester in West Sussex in 1994, which quickly became one of the largest centres for Alternative Medicine, as applied to animals, in the UK.

In 2001 he sold the practice which allowed more time to focus on his specialist fields – Homeopathy and Acupuncture – as well as furthering his research interests and allowing time for further in-depth study.

In 2010, he decided that to further evolve the integrated medical philosophy, a return to first opinion practice had to be made. Mark took the step of opening a new practice at Oving, in West Sussex, with the aim of developing a premier centre of excellence for alternative therapies integrated within a first opinion service to the local community. Hence Mark Elliott and Associates opened on 6th June 2011.

He has written several books on Homeopathy and Holistic care of animals, as well as numerous articles published in many journals. In addition he’s held a number of advisory posts, including government appointment and was 3 times elected by the profession to the role of a Council Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. He is also a Past-President of the British Association of Homeopathic Veterinary Surgeons.