Judy MacArthur Clark
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Judy MacArthur Clark {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FRCVS}} is a British veterinary surgeon, and former President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. She has held government posts in the regulation of veterinary medicine.
Career
Clark was chairwoman of the Farm Animal Welfare Council, now the Animal Welfare Committee, from 1999.{{cite news |title=Morley names new FAWC chairman |url=https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/morley-names-new-fawc-chairman |access-date=24 January 2023 |work=Farmers' Weekly |date=8 January 1999}}{{cite web |title=Select Committee on Animals In Scientific Procedures Minutes of Evidence |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200102/ldselect/ldanimal/999/2020502.htm |publisher=House of Commons |access-date=24 January 2023 |date=5 February 2002}}{{cite book | title=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Commons official report | publisher=H.M. Stationery Office | year=2007 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M2IrQK-n-qMC | access-date=24 Jan 2023 | page=}} She was appointed Chief Inspector of the Home Office unit for Animals in Science Regulations in 2007 and remained in that post until standing down in 2016.{{cite book | title=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Commons official report | publisher=H.M. Stationery Office | year=2007 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M2IrQK-n-qMC | access-date=24 Jan 2023 | page=}}{{cite book |title=Animals (Scientific Procedures) Inspectorate - Annual Report 2007: Introducing the New Chief Inspector Judy MacArthur Clark |date=2008 |publisher=Home Office |pages=4–5 |url=http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2008-1996/DEP2008-1996.pdf |access-date=24 January 2023}}{{cite news |last1=Gibney |first1=Elizabeth |title=Animal testing figures jump sharply |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/animal-testing-figures-jump-sharply/2005785.article |access-date=24 January 2023 |work=The Times |date=16 July 2013}} As part of that role, she led the Three Rs (animal research) programme.{{cite web |last1=Kelder |first1=Regina |title=Between 3Rs: Improving Animal Welfare through Public Policy |url=https://www.criver.com/eureka/between-3rs-improving-animal-welfare |publisher=Charles River Laboratories |access-date=24 January 2023 |date=3 October 2018}}{{cite web |title=Dr Judy MacArthur Clark CBE FRBS FRCVS |url=https://www.rstmh.org/about-us/who-we-are/policy-advisers/dr-judy-macarthur-clark |publisher=The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene |access-date=24 January 2023}}{{cite book | last1=National Academies of Sciences | first1=E.M. | last2=Studies | first2=D.E.L. | last3=Research | first3=I.L.A. | last4=Use | first4=R.S.W.L.A. | last5=Anestidou | first5=L. | last6=Alper | first6=J. | title=Design, Implementation, Monitoring, and Sharing of Performance Standards for Laboratory Animal Use: Summary of a Workshop | publisher=National Academies Press | year=2015 | isbn=978-0-309-37927-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bydPCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT100 | access-date=24 Jan 2023 | page=100}}
Clark was president of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons from 1992 to 1993.{{cite web |title=Past-Presidents |url=https://www.rcvs.org.uk/who-we-are/rcvs-council/past-presidents |publisher=The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons |access-date=24 January 2023}}
Clark is a policy advisor for the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She is Chair of the Trustees of the Soulsby Foundation.{{cite web |title=New President redoubles commitment to diversity in the professions and embracing change |url=https://www.rcvs.org.uk/news-and-views/news/new-president-redoubles-commitment-to-diversity-in-the |publisher=The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons |access-date=24 January 2023 |date=18 July 2018}}{{cite news |title=Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/lord-soulsby-of-swaffham-prior-qvvzcg8pn |access-date=24 January 2023 |work=The Times |date=19 April 2018}}
She worked on the development of legislation for the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.{{cite book |title=Animals (Scientific Procedures) Inspectorate - Annual Report 2007: Introducing the New Chief Inspector Judy MacArthur Clark |date=2008 |publisher=Home Office |pages=4–5 |url=http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2008-1996/DEP2008-1996.pdf |access-date=24 January 2023}}
Clark was the first president, in 2006, of the International Association of Colleges of Laboratory Animal Medicine.{{cite web |title=Discussion Paper: Issues and options involving a future international role for the OIE in laboratory animal welfare |url=https://www.woah.org/fileadmin/Home/eng/Animal_Welfare/docs/pdf/Others/Lab_animals/A_Lab_animals.pdf |publisher=OIE ad hoc Group on Laboratory Animals Welfare |access-date=24 January 2023 |date=2007}}
Clark was employed as Vice-President of Worldwide Comparative Medicine for Pfizer, and runs her own company, JMC Welfare International. She has also worked for the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare.{{cite news |title=Newsletter |url=https://www.ufaw.org.uk/downloads/ufaw-newsletter-april-19-v6-final.pdf |access-date=24 January 2023 |publisher=Universities Federation for Animal Welfare |date=2019}}
Honours
Clark was made a CBE in the 2004 Birthday Honours.United Kingdom list: {{London Gazette |issue=57315 |supp=y |pages=1–26 |date=11 June 2004}}{{cite news |title=UK Vets Honoured |url=https://www.cabi.org/animalscience/news/13318 |access-date=24 January 2023 |publisher=British Veterinary Association |date=17 June 2004}} She was made an honorary fellow of the British Pharmacological Society in 2016, "for her sustained leadership in the regulation of animal research".{{cite book |title=Annual Review 2016 |date=2016 |publisher=British Pharmacological Society |url=https://www.bps.ac.uk/getmedia/6bbdb118-43df-45d4-8945-5d1dde7939be/Annual-Review-2016.pdf.aspx}} The University of Glasgow awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2001.{{cite news |title=University announces honorary degrees to celebrate 550th anniversary |url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/archiveofnews/2001/february/headline_29920_en.html |access-date=24 January 2023 |publisher=University of Glasgow |date=2001}} She was made an honorary member of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine in 2007.{{cite web |title=Past Award Winners |url=https://www.aclam.org/about/awards/past-award-winners |publisher=American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine |access-date=24 January 2023}}
Publications
- [https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-90000380355;jsessionid=C5998A4D06F110A47703123853435A0E Soulsby, (Ernest Jackson) Lawson, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior (1926–2017), veterinary scientist], article by Clark for the Dictionary of National Biography
- [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/3rs-in-research-a-contemporary-approach-to-replacement-reduction-and-refinement/6ED70F637C9D4D80260B0CEC942C14F2 The 3Rs in research: a contemporary approach to replacement, reduction and refinement], British Journal of Nutrition, 2017
- [https://bioone.org/journals/bioscience/volume-63/issue-1/bio.2013.63.1.13/Why-Animals-Matter--Animal-Consciousness-Animal-Welfare-and-Human/10.1525/bio.2013.63.1.13.pdf Why Animals Matter: Animal Consciousness, Animal Welfare, and Human Well-Being], BioScience, 63(1): 57-59
- [https://academic.oup.com/ilarjournal/article/50/1/85/745113 Adequate veterinary care for animals in research: a comparison of guidelines from around the world], with Joanne Zurlo and Kathryn Bayne, Institute for Laboratory Animal Research Journal, 2009
References
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External links
- [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK338395 Design, Implementation, Monitoring, and Sharing of Performance Standards for Laboratory Animal Use: Summary of a Workshop] given by Clark
- [https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/dr-judy-macarthur-clark-president-19921993-216009 Dr Judy MacArthur Clark, President (1992–1993)], portrait by Jane Allison
- [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08spvzn BBC Radio 4 Last Word], MacArthur Clark interviewed about Lord Soulsby
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