Professor Peter Cockcroft

Biography/ Background

Peter is a University of Cambridge veterinary graduate. He has spent 8 years in veterinary private practice and 14 years in academia, 11 years at the Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge within the Farm Animal Medicine Unit. He is a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons' Registered Specialist in Cattle Health and Production and a European College Specialist in Bovine Health Management. Peter is a member of the Institute for Teaching and Learning.

Qualifications

B.A., (Cantab.)
M.A., (Cantab.)
Vet. M.B. (Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge)
M.Sc. (Tropical Animal Health and Production, University of Edinburgh)
Dip. Dat. (Diploma in Datametrics, University of Southern Africa)
DVM&S (Doctorate of Medicine and Surgery, University of Edinburgh)
DCHP (Diploma in Cattle Health and Production (RCVS))
Dip. ECBHM (Diploma European College of Bovine Health Management)
 

Teaching Interests

Clinical diagnostics, evidence-based veterinary medicine, clinical research methods, population medicine and clinical informatics 

Research Interests

Rumen health and production diseases in the transitional ruminant.
Tools to optimize disease surveillance and monitoring.

Publications

Books

Title: Clinical Examination of Farm Animals
Authors: Dr P. Jackson and Dr P. Cockcroft
Publisher: Blackwell Science
Publication date: July 2002
Details: 311pp 250 illustrations

Title: Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine
Authors: Dr P.Cockcroft and Dr M.A. Holmes
Publisher: Blackwell Science
Publication date: March 2003
Details: 210 pages 25 illustrations

Title: Handbook of Pig Medicine
Authors: Dr P. Jackson and Dr P. Cockcroft
Publication date June 2007
Details 296 pages, 250 illustrations

Title: Handbook Clinical Veterinary Research
Authors: M.A. Holmes and Dr P. Cockcroft
Publication date: October 2007
Details: 240 pages

 Journals (5 most recent papers)

Kuncheva L. I, Hoare Z.S.J, Cockroft, P.D.(2005) Selection of Independent Binary Features Using Probabilities: An example from Veterinary Medicine. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods Vol 4 No1 p34-37

Holmes, M.A, Cockcroft, P.D. Boothe, C.E. and Heath, M.F. (2005) Report of a controlled, randomized, double-blind, clinical trial to examine the effect of a commercially available homeopathic nosode on the somatic cell counts in milk from clinically normal dairy cows, Veterinary Record 2005 156(18):565-7.

Cockcroft, P.D. and A.M. Clark A.M. (2006) The Shetland Islands scrapie monitoring and control programme: analysis of the clinical data collected from 772
scrapie suspects 1985-1997.Res Vet Sci. 80(1):33-44.

Cockcroft,P.D. (2007) Clinical reasoning and decision analysis Vet Clin North Am Small Anim Pract. 37(3):499-520

Cockcroft, P.D. and Holmes M.A. (2007) An Introduction to practice-based veterinary clinical research, Irish Veterinary Journal, 495-500

 

 

Entry last updated: Wednesday, 26 May 2010