Dr Mark Peterson receiving the ISFM/Hill’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Feline Medicine.

Dr Mark Peterson collects award at ISFM Congress 

Renowned veterinary surgeon Dr Mark Peterson has received the ISFM/Hill’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Feline Medicine.

Dr Peterson, who is well-known for his clinical work, research and teaching in veterinary endocrinology, received the award at the ISFM World Feline Veterinary Congress in Brighton.

For more than 35 years, Dr Peterson has focused on advancing understanding of endocrine disorders in dogs and cats. He has a particular interest in hyperthyroidism and diabetes mellitus in cats and was the first veterinary surgeon to document hyperthyroidism in cats (1979) and the first to treat hyperthyroid cats with radioiodine (1980).

Dr Peterson has held a number of editorial appointments and was the founding member and first President of the Society of Comparative Endocrinology.  In 2001, he founded Hypurrcat in New York - a radioiodine treatment centre for hyperthyroid cats, and now runs two specialty endocrinology clinics in the city, seeing patients at both clinics.

A graduate of the University of Minnesota, Dr Peterson has also published more than 500 journal articles, book chapters, and research abstracts.

Dr Andy Sparkes, veterinary director of ISFM comments: "Very few people can claim to have had anything like the impact that Mark Peterson has had in the field of veterinary science and feline medicine.

“We are absolutely thrilled to be able to give Mark the ISFM/Hill’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Feline Medicine – there can be no more worthy recipient, and Mark’s numerous contributions to our knowledge of and understanding of feline endocrinology have impacted the health of cats all over the world. It is a thrill and an honour to be able to present him with this award.”