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Committee – BAHVS
President – Chris Day chrisdayvet@hotmail.com
Senior Vice-President – Jane Keogh j.keogh5@btinternet.com
Junior Vice-President – Ilse Pedler ilse.pedler@zen.co.uk
Hon. Secretary – Nazrene Moosa nazmoo@icloud.com
Treasurer – Sara Fox-Chapman sfc.holistic@gmail.com
Publications Editor – Malene Jørgensen malene@laforcevitale.eu
IAVH Representitive / Faculty Veterinary Dean – Peter Gregory pg.ahimsa@virgin.net
Faculty veterinary representative – Barbara Jones barbjones570@gmail.com
Committee Member –
Mark Elliott homeopathicvet@btinternet.com
Committee Member – Geoff Johnson somersetvet@yahoo.com
The British Association of Homeopathic Veterinary Surgeons (BAHVS) was formed in 1981, to advance the understanding, knowledge and practice of homeopathy. It aims to stimulate professional awareness of homeopathy and to encourage and to provide
Board – IAVH
President – Ilze Pētersone ilzevet@inbox.lv
Vice President – Minako Kuroda minakocooper@gmail.com
Treasurer – Mirjam Blatnik mirjam.blatnik@gmail.com
General Secretary – David Bettio david.bettio@omeopatia.org
Vice-General Secretary — Cinzia Ciarmatori cinzia.ciarmatori@gmail.com
Political subcomittee – Petra Weiermayer petra.weiermayer@gmx.at
Education subcommittee – Stefan Kohlrausch stefan.kohlrausch@arcor.de
Newsletter subcommittee –Malene Jørgensen malene@laforcevitale.eu
Research Subcommittee Marcela Muñoz Montoya mmunozmontoya@yahoo.fr
Website & Forum Subcommittee Don Hamilton donhamiltondvm@posteo.net
LIGA contact – Marc Bär info@homeopatte.ch
Materia Medica Subcommittee — Edward De Beukelaer edebeukelaer@outlook.com
for the training of veterinary surgeons in the practice of homeopathy.
This publication is copyright. No part of it may be reproduced without the permission of the Editor. Material published does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the BAHVS or the Editor.
It is an open forum for differing approaches to the subject of veterinary homeopathy and it’s application, allowing for constructive interchanges of ideas.
The BAHVS does not necessarily endorse products or the companies advertised.
President’s letter
Since I last sat and typed a President’s Letter, we have all suffered a grievous loss. I don’t wish to be morbid but, in losing Stuart Marston, we have lost a wonderful Hon. Sec., an ardent supporter of and worker for homeopathy (and veterinary homeopathy) and a friend.
To many of us Stuart was a very dear friend and his passing has left a huge hole. I don’t think it remiss of me to suggest that anyone reading this who knew Stuart should just create a quiet space for a few minutes to remember his contributions to fun, to laughter, to veterinary homeopathy and to life at the bar with jar in hand.
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I have become very uncomfortable in using anything ‘google’ now, since that leviathan appears to have waged war on prominent ‘alternative’ websites. Their new algorithms have demoted top-ranking websites to out-of-sight levels in a search. They claim it is a crackdown on sites with messages unsupported by adequate references but when you see many sites that are still prominent, that is simply not the case and one drastically demoted site in particular is thoroughly and heavily referenced. This has resulted in quite a bit of research on my part for alternatives to the Google Groups we currently enjoy and changes
should happen before the big ‘C’, if Committee agrees. You will be kept informed.
We have worked on a pretty tough letter to RCVS and need to decide whether to send it soon now (after counsel approval) or to await developments on the Ombudsman/NHMRC
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