Dr Joan Lloyd Veterinarian

Joan Lloyd Consulting provides animal health support for sustainable livestock farming.

  • With 38 years in the animal health industry, I bring broad animal health experience and networks, creative thinking and passion for the health and welfare of animals to all of my work.

  • My core belief is that when we use animals for our benefit , we have a moral responsibility to ensure they are healthy and well-cared for. Since establishing my consulting business in 2008, I have developed a reputation for providing well-thought-out animal health support to the livestock industries.

  • Prior to establishing my business in 2008, I was engaged in research and veterinary diagnostic positions in the rural research and development corporations, in the veterinary pharmaceutical industry and government.

 

Qualifications, Accreditations and Licenses

  • Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (with distinction), Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan Canada

  • Master of Veterinary Studies (Veterinary Pathology), University of Sydney, Australia

  • PhD, University of Sydney, Australia

  • Epidemiology for Government Veterinarians (New South Wales Government)

  • Consultative Committee in Emergency Animal Disease (Animal Health Australia)

  • Accredited Veterinarian through the Accreditation Program for Australian Veterinarians (Animal Health Australia)

  • Veterinary Practitioners Board of New South Wales, Registered Veterinarian

  • Leading Edge, Women & Leadership Australia

Consulting

  • I have 16 years’ consulting experience providing animal health and welfare science support services and technical advice in livestock infectious diseases and control options, including infectious disease molecular and immunological testing and food safety.

  • I have experience setting up and managing animal health infectious disease diagnostic laboratories.

  • My clients have included the pharmaceutical industry, government, the agricultural research and development corporations, veterinarians, and farmers.

  • I provided support that underpinned the first-ever registration of a non-steroidal inflammatory drug for use in sheep in three markets simultaneously (Australia, Canada, and New Zealand).

  • I have provided advice on food safety aspects of farm animal diseases, including risk assessment and antibiotic stewardship, national disease control programs, the efficacy and safety of veterinary drugs and best practice for common farm animal husbandry practices.

Mentoring, Training & Presentations

My broad education and training experience includes teaching and training veterinary students, veterinary nursing students, farm industry personnel, abattoir personnel and veterinarians. I am highly skilled at presenting complex information in a way that makes it easy for others to understand.

  • I managed the development of the Veterinary Public Health Management Program at the University of Sydney, from an approved University Academic Board proposal to delivery of the first semester of the Program.

  • I have lectured in veterinary parasitology to veterinary students and developed and delivered case studies in animal disease.

  • I recently developed and delivered a training program on Emergency Animal Disease Response to abattoir personnel.

  • I recently delivered a series of webinars on infectious diseases of sheep to farmers, advisors, and veterinarians for Sheep Connect NSW. Webinar topics included Campylobacter abortion in ewes, bacterial pneumonia, and bacterial joint infections. My webinar on Campylobacter was rated 8 out of 10 or greater by 90% of attendees.

Research & Writing

I have over 30 years’ experience providing research-based support to the animal farming industries, including managing and conducting research on an extensive range of infectious diseases of farm animals:

  • Viral diseases of sheep and goats, including orf virus (scabby mouth virus, contagious pustular dermatitis), ovine parainfluenza-3 virus and ovine respiratory syncytial virus.

  • Bacterial diseases, including Johne’s disease, bacterial pneumonia of sheep and goats, and bacterial joint infections in lambs.

  • Parasitic disease of cattle, sheep, and goats, including intestinal roundworms, liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica) and sheep flystrike (myasis) control.

Other research projects have included on analgesia for common sheep husbandry procedures and development of nonsurgical alternatives.

I am skilled at managing complex research projects across multiple organizations, for example universities, CSIRO and contract research providers. I have extensive experience managing and reviewing research programs for the Australian agricultural research and development corporations.

I have co-authored twenty-two papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, including nine as first author, as well as numerous technical publications including husbandry practices guides, magazine articles, factsheets, and sample collection guides.

Recent peer viewed scientific publications

  1. Lloyd JB, Clune T, Jacobson C and Schröder J (2023). Detection of ovine respiratory syncytial virus in pneumonic lungs from apparently healthy sheep slaughtered at 5 abattoirs in Australia. Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research 87:303-305.

  2. Jacobson CL, Larsen JW, Besier RB, Lloyd JB and Kahn LP (2020). Diarrhoea associated with gastrointestinal parasites in grazing sheep. Veterinary Parasitology 282:109139.

  3. Colditz IG, Paull DR, Lloyd JB, Johnston L and Small AH (2019). Efficacy of meloxicam in a pain model in sheep. Australian Veterinary Journal 97:23-32.

  4. Lloyd J, Yang R, Kessell A, Ryan U and Schröder J (2017). Detection of Chlamydia pecorum in joints trimmed from ovine carcases with arthritis at an abattoir in southern Australia. Small Ruminant Research 150:80-86.

  5. Lloyd J, Kessell A, Barchia I, Schröder J and Rutley D (2016). Docked tail length is a risk factor for bacterial arthritis in lambs. Small Ruminant Research 144: 17-22.