Ken Hinchcliff
A graduate of the Melbourne Veterinary School, Ken is former Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Melbourne. After several years in large animal practice in Victoria, Ken completed an advanced training program in large animal internal medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a PhD in equine exercise physiology at the Ohio State University with Ken McKeever and Bill Muir. Ken was a faculty member in the College of Veterinary Medicine at OSU until 2007. He is currently the Warden (CEO) of Trinity College, Melbourne.
Professor Hinchcliff is the author of over 190 peer- reviewed scientific publications, the 9th, 10th (2007) and 11th (2017) editions of “Veterinary Medicine: A textbook of the diseases of cattle, horses, sheep, pigs and goats”, which is the most highly cited textbook in veterinary medicine, and three editions of “Equine Sports Medicine and Surgery: basic and clinical sciences of the equine athlete” (April, 2023), “Five Minute Veterinary Consult – Equine” (2009) and Saunder’s Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary (2021). He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, the official journal of the ECEIM, ACVIM, ECVN and ECVIM-CA.
Professor Hinchcliff was a member of the Zoological Parks and Gardens Board (2008-2021, 2022 – present), where he chaired its Science Advisory Committee, and is a member of the Listing Committee of the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI). He was previously chair of the National Committee of ICEEP (2002 Kentucky), a member of the International Committee (2002-2014), Chair of the International Committee (2010-2014, Chester) and member of the National Committee (2018, Lorne, Australia).