The Partners
Dr. David Pascoe, BVSc, PhD, FACVSc
David Pascoe grew up as a kid with a pony, a Labrador and plenty of Darling Downs dirt between his toes. His father, a young vet called Dr Reg Pascoe, had recently opened a small practice in a country town called Oakey and David, his three brothers and the Oakey Veterinary Hospitalall grew up together. He helped his father build stone walls on weekends, earned pocket money cleaning hospital boxes and rode his pushbike down the road to school.
David studied veterinary medicine at the University of Queensland, partied hard at Kings College and later went on to work at Day and Crowhurst at Newmarket in England, where he learned a lot about track medicine, stuffy English traditions and living under gloomy grey skies. He later returned to Australia and joined a private veterinary practice at Bunbury in Western Australia where the people were friendly, tradition was minimal and the sun never stopped shining.
David headed overseas again in 1979 and became a Resident in Equine Reproduction at the School of Veterinary Medicine at Davis in California where he spent the next seven years doing his residency and his PhD.
Some of his significant research breakthroughs include twin pregnancy reduction techniques, treating infertility in broodmares, the development of ultrasound techniques and the early development of non-surgical embryo transplant techniques. His research work and treatment included sub-fertility in stallions, the role of different drugs in increasing fertility on broodmares and the early detection in the cause of abortions on mares.
Along the way, David had the opportunity of working with some of the legends in the profession, including Professor John Hughes, Professor Bob Kenny and Professor Woodie Asbury. In 1994 he was made Adjunct Professor at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Florida.
He has addressed the International Reproduction Symposium, the British Equine Veterinary Association, the Bain Fallon and New Zealand Veterinary Association.
David returned to Australia full time in 1986 and in 1987 was awarded Membership and Fellowship in Animal Reproduction specializing in Equine Reproduction. He became a partner at OVH in 1989 and also became a Registered Specialist in Equine Reproduction in the same year.
David is now an Adjunct Professor of the University of Queensland and the Oakey Veterinary Hospital is responsible for teaching the equine course to fifth year veterinary students.
Due to the rapid growth of the Australian Horse Industry – in particular, the demand for embryo transfer – David recently expanded the Reproduction section of OVH with the development of a major new Specialist Reproduction Centre.
He is married with an adult daughter. He still has Labradors and owns a farm on the Darling Downs with his wife where he breeds a few horses. He loves sharing the occasional rum with his friends at a camp draft, passionately adores sport of any description and wants to own a really fast racehorse.
He admits to being a completely biased Broncos supporter, dreams of fishing for fat barramundi in the wild rivers of the north and secretly wants to be a surfer with a brolly on the beach.
Dr. Glen Laws BVSc , MACVSc, Dip Animal Chiropractic (RMIT 2006)
Glen worked at H. Mortimer and Associates One Tree Hill, SA for 6 years following graduation. This was a mixed practice, with predominantly thoroughbred, standardbred and pleasure horse clientele, and included stud and SA Police Horse work as well as regular racing duties.
In 1987 Glen and his family travelled to Queensland and Northern Territory where Glen performed locums in equine practices at Eagle Farm, Bundall and Darwin.
He worked as an associate veterinarian at OVH from the end of that year until 1994. He then completed an initial 6 month locum as an equine veterinarian in the 12 vet Yorkshire, UK practice, Grant and Partners (now Minster Vets), which was extended for a further 3 years until 1997.
At the completion of these “Herriot Years” in 1998, Glen became a partner at OVH.
Since this time Glen has continued his father’s strong interest in racing thoroughbred and performance horses. His areas of interest include poor performance, radiography, lameness evaluations and dentistry. He has continued to develop and refine chiropractic assessment and treatment of performance animals. Glen has been a member of the Australian Veterinary Association, Australian College of Veterinary Scientists (Equine Chapter) and Equine Veterinarians Australia for many years, regularly attending their conferences.
Glen is married with 2 boys. He enjoys working on his own farm on the weekend and slashing the weeds. He follows racing and all sports avidly, despite frequently barracking for the losing team or the wrong horse.
Dr. Steve Rayner, BVSc (Hons) MACVSc (Equine Surgery)
Steve graduated with a BVSc (Hons) at the University of Queensland in 1991. He has since completed a Fellowship Training Programme in Equine Surgery and is pending examination of same.
After completing his Degree, Steve moved to Toowoomba to commence an Associate position at Oakey Veterinary Hospital, where he had the opportunity to work and train under the guidance of world renowned Equine Surgeon, Dr. Reg Pascoe. His principal interests lie in all aspects of Equine Surgery and Lameness.
Steve has since written a number of peer reviewed publications and attended numerous conferences and CE Seminars including the BEVA Colic Symposium and ADVET Fracture Repair Training course. Steve was awarded the EVA Norman Larkin Clinical Paper prize in 1997 and the ACVSc Most Commendable paper prize in 2007.
Steve is a member of the AVA and the EVA.
In his small amount of spare time, Steve likes to fly helicopters and light planes and likes to chill out at the beach.