Nathalie Dowgray

Nathalie Dowgray, BVSc, MANZCVS (feline), PGDip IAWEL, PhD, MRCVS

Assistant Professor

Nathalie graduated from Massey University, New Zealand in 2002. She worked in mixed practice in New Zealand and the UK for a number of years before moving to small animals only in 2006. In 2010 she moved to feline shelter medicine running the veterinary clinic at the largest adoption centre of the UK charity Cats Protection and then moving to teach final year veterinary students on the shelter medicine rotation for the Royal Veterinary College. In 2012 she sat the Membership exams for the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in Feline Medicine and became a RCVS advanced Practitioner in Feline Medicine in 2015. Nathalie received a post graduate diploma in international animal welfare ethics and law from Edinburgh University in 2016 and completed a PhD in the ageing of cats at the University of Liverpool in 2021. As part of her PhD Nathalie established the Feline Healthy Ageing Clinic and continues to work on the project as an honorary researcher. Nathalie was the head of the International Society of Feline Medicine from 2020-2024 and represented the parent charity International Cat Care as a delegate and speaker at numerous international events, promoting feline welfare and the Cat Friendly ethos.
Nathalie’s areas of interest are all things feline including feline health screening, musculoskeletal disease and age-related disease. She has published primary research and review articles in the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, Frontiers of Veterinary Science and Plos One and was the co-chair of the 2022 AAFP and ISFM Cat Friendly Interaction Guidelines.