Tamsin Williams
Cardiff
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven professional with a strong foundation in leadership, time management efficiency, and mentoring expertise. Demonstrates exceptional skills in clinical pathology and point of care diagnostics, complemented by a proven track record in research and publication. Excels in multitasking within busy environments and showcases adaptability under pressure, supported by excellent communication skills. Committed to leveraging these competencies to drive innovation and excellence in the healthcare sector.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
18
18
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Principal Veterinary Surgeon
Vets Now
High Wycombe
2024.09 - 2026.04
- Providing 1st opinion OOH and ECC care to multiple surrounding practice
- Leading a team of veterinary surgeons, providing mentorship to Cutting Edge (new to ECC) clinicians. Controlled drugs protocol and auditing. Regular meetings with higher managers. Handling complaints and liaisons with partner practices.
- Review of clinical benchmarking, ATVs and case handling for team.
- Providing training to the team for CPR and other clinical procedures
- Regularly presenting cases at regular M&M rounds for the region, and at subject specific conferences.
- Member of clinical strategy board, managing clinical standards and providing care frameworks for the company as a whole
- Work with complaints team handling client complaints to the company as a whole
- Working closely with clinical standards team and Edge team to help formulate strategies for teaching and improved patient care moving forwards.
Locum Veterinary Surgeon
self employed
various
2022.09 - 2024.09
- Since stepping down as Head of ECC at Eastcott referrals, I continued to work in the ECC department, alongside other locum roles
- Competent and capable of providing services for first opinion practices (including basic mixed practice), OOH providers and in the referral ICU setting.
- Particular interests include critical care, emergency medicine, clinical pathology, cytology and pain management.
ECC Veterinary Surgeon (Head of Service)
Eastcott Referrals
Swindon
2021.04 - 2024.09
- Referral ICU clinician supporting critical referral patient requiring the highest level of support and monitoring.
- Provision of OOH service to 1st opinion practices. Ongoing management and work up of these patients who remain hospitalised with the ECC service until discharge.
- Receiving and stabilisation of referral patients for other disciplines, alongside primary ECC referrals
- This role allowed me to appreciate and learn advanced imaging and more specialist critical care techniques.
- Leading the ECC team and ICU, liaising with other referral clinicians within the hospital with regards to patient care and flow.
- Active role in case studies, M&M meetings, policy shaping and CPD provision.
- The night shift constitutes the ECC rotation for the rotating Interns. AS ECC night vet, I provide mentorship and clinical coaching to the night intern. As Head of Service, I ensure that this is maintained across my team, liaising closely with the overall Intern manager.
OOH Lead Veterinary Surgeon
MiNightVet
Winchester
2019.11 - 2021.05
- Clinical Lead from the inception of this service, building this close knit and motivated small team from scratch.
- Provision of clinical mentorship, guidance and support to this new team through the initial start up period, and later through the challenges faces during the COVID pandemic.
- Rota management, staff training, clinical governance and complaints management within the team, and liaison with the day practice where necessary and appropriate.
- Liaison with member practices, potential member practices and other local practices, continuing to maintain good relationships.
- Targets continually met and exceeded in this role, whilst maintaining excellent clinical standards.
OOH Veterinary Surgeon
Veterinary Emergency Treatment Service (VETS)
Ystrad Mynach
2016.06 - 2019.10
- Busy sole charge OOH provider where decision making and time management are key.
Lead Veterinary Surgeon
Caerphilly Vet Clinic
Caerphilly
2016.08 - 2017.04
- Clinical lead, frequently sole charge in busy small animal clinic.
Research Fellow
Cardiff University School of Medicine
Cardiff
2011.09 - 2017.04
- Awarded Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellowship enabling study for PhD in Immunology / Biomedical Sciences.
- Experiences in research, record keeping, experiment design and techniques, cytology, patent consent (human) and sampling.
- Multiple publication in high impact scientific journals with some first authorship.
- Presentations (oral and poster) at National and International Conferences.
- Teaching experience; lecturing and tutoring medical students, teaching and student support in the wider community through workshops, open days etc.
- Health and safety experience; first aid officer, phlebotomist, fire safety, radiation safety, hazardous waste, categories 2 and 3 laboratory usage.
Locum Veterinary Surgeon
self employed
various
2008.12 - 2017.04
- Emergency/OOH, sole charge, small animal, mixed practice, LVI.
Branch Veterinary Surgeon
Goddards Veterinary Group
Enfield
2008.01 - 2008.11
- Sole charge; running of local branch feeding into the main hospital.
- Gained experience of business and team management, building up loyal client base and greatly improving clinic performance.
- Regular OOH shifts at the main Wanstead Hospital.
Veterinary Surgeon
IH Sergeant
Caerwys
2006.11 - 2007.12
- Mixed practice, sole charge, on call, emergencies.
- New and recent graduate support and mentoring.
Veterinary Surgeon
Cranmore Veterinary Services / Chestergates Referral Hospital
Wirral
2004.09 - 2006.11
- Emergency / OOH veterinary surgeon
- Anaesthesia and critical care of referral patients
Veterinary Surgeon
County Veterinary Group
Alsager
2003.11 - 2004.09
- Companion animal veterinary surgeon.
- Sole charge in busy branches.
- On call for emergencies OOH
Veterinary surgeon
Derw Vets
Builth Wells
2001.09 - 2003.11
- Mixed practice veterinary surgeon
- On call for emergencies.
Education
CertAVP(ECC) -
Harper Adams University
2021.01 - 2023.07
PhD - undefined
Cardiff University School of Medicine
Cardiff 2011.11 - 2017.07
BVSc Veterinary Science - undefined
University of Bristol
Bristol 1995.09 - 2001.07
A-levels - undefined
Exmouth Community College
Exmouth 1993.09 - 1995.07
GCSEs - undefined
The Maynard School
Exeter 1991.09 - 1993.07
Skills
- Leadership and mentoring
- Clinical pathology expertise
- Point of care diagnostics
- Research and publication
- Communication skills
- Time management
- Multitasking in busy environments
- Adaptability under pressure
Accomplishments
- Presentation 'On the Front Line; Case reports from Vets and Nurses', ECC Congress, Leeds, 2025
- Poster Presentation (commended Award). One Health Immunology Conference, 2014.
- Speaker (Best Oral Presentation Award). British Society for Immunology Conference, South Wales, 2013.
- Poster presentation. British Society for Immunology Conference, Liverpool, 2013
- Speaker. Frontiers in Immunology Research Network International Conference, Monaco, 2013
- Poster presentation and student oral presentation. European Conference for Immunology, Glasgow, 2012
- Poster presentation. British Society for Immunology Conference, Liverpool, 2011
- Wellcome Research Training Fellowship, The Wellcome Trust/Cardiff University, 2012
- Entry Level Training Fellowship, The Wellcome Trust/University of Bristol, 2011
- Fundamentals of Veterinary Research Training Programme, The Wellcome Trust/Cambridge University, 2000
Affiliations
- I enjoy most outdoor pursuits such as camping, hill walking and caving, and I am a keen mountain biker. I follow Welsh rugby and have spent time helping coaching minis rugby; my eldest son having played since the age of 6, and currently playing semi-professionally.
- I enjoy skiing, trying to get away to Scotland or the Alps each winter. When I am unable to find sufficient time in my schedule for a holiday, I take to my touring skis in the local mountains of the Brecon Beacons.
- I run several times a week, and practice yoga daily to unwind.
- When I have time, I sew and crochet, and enjoy cooking and entertaining.
References
References available upon request.
PUBLICATIONS
- Dockree T, Holland CJ, Clement M, Ladell K, McLaren JE, van den Berg HA, Gostick E, L Miners K, Llewellyn-Lacey S, Bridgeman JS, Man S, Bailey M, Burrows SR, Price DA, Wooldridge L. CD8+ T-cell specificity is compromised at a defined MHCI/CD8 affinity threshold. Immunol Cell Biol. 2017 Jan;95(1):68-76. doi: 10.1038/icb.2016.85. Epub 2016 Nov 8. PMID: 27670790; PMCID: PMC5215152.
- Clement M, Pearson JA, Gras S, van den Berg HA, Lissina A, Llewellyn-Lacey S, Willis MD, Dockree T, McLaren JE, Ekeruche-Makinde J, Gostick E, Robertson NP, Rossjohn J, Burrows SR, Price DA, Wong FS, Peakman M, Skowera A, Wooldridge L. Targeted suppression of autoreactive CD8+ T-cell activation using blocking anti-CD8 antibodies. Sci Rep. 2016 Oct 17;6:35332. doi: 10.1038/srep35332. PMID: 27748447; PMCID: PMC5066216.
- Clement M, Knezevic L, Dockree T, McLaren JE, Ladell K, Miners KL, Llewellyn-Lacey S, Rubina A, Francis O, Cole DK, Sewell AK, Bridgeman JS, Price DA, van den Berg HA, Wooldridge L. CD8 coreceptor-mediated focusing can reorder the agonist hierarchy of peptide ligands recognized via the T cell receptor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Jul 20;118(29):e2019639118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2019639118. PMID: 34272276; PMCID: PMC8307375.
- Knezevic L, Wachsmann TLA, Francis O, Dockree T, Bridgeman JS, Wouters A, de Wet B, Cole DK, Clement M, McLaren JE, Gostick E, Ladell K, Llewellyn-Lacey S, Price DA, Wooldridge L, Tabi Z, Sessions RB, Heemskerk MHM, Wooldridge L. High-affinity CD8 variants enhance the sensitivity of pMHCI antigen recognition via low-affinity TCRs. J Biol Chem. 2023 Aug;299(8):104981. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.104981. Epub 2023 Jun 28. PMID: 37390984; PMCID: PMC10432799.
- Szomolay B, Williams T, Wooldridge L, van den Berg HA. Co-Receptor CD8-Mediated Modulation of T-Cell Receptor Functional Sensitivity and Epitope Recognition Degeneracy. Front Immunol. 2013 Oct 21;4:329. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2013.00329. Erratum in: Front Immunol. 2014;5:443. PMID: 24151493; PMCID: PMC3801161.
- Ekeruche-Makinde J, Miles JJ, van den Berg HA, Skowera A, Cole DK, Dolton G, Schauenburg AJ, Tan MP, Pentier JM, Llewellyn-Lacey S, Miles KM, Bulek AM, Clement M, Williams T, Trimby A, Bailey M, Rizkallah P, Rossjohn J, Peakman M, Price DA, Burrows SR, Sewell AK, Wooldridge L. Peptide length determines the outcome of TCR/peptide-MHCI engagement. Blood. 2013 Feb 14;121(7):1112-23. doi: 10.1182/blood-2012-06-437202. Epub 2012 Dec 18. PMID: 23255554; PMCID: PMC3653566.
- Clement M, Ladell K, Ekeruche-Makinde J, Miles JJ, Edwards ES, Dolton G, Williams T, Schauenburg AJ, Cole DK, Lauder SN, Gallimore AM, Godkin AJ, Burrows SR, Price DA, Sewell AK, Wooldridge L. Anti-CD8 antibodies can trigger CD8+ T cell effector function in the absence of TCR engagement and improve peptide-MHCI tetramer staining. J Immunol. 2011 Jul 15;187(2):654-63. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1003941. Epub 2011 Jun 15. PMID: 21677135; PMCID: PMC3152095.
Timeline
Principal Veterinary Surgeon
Vets Now
2024.09 - 2026.04
Locum Veterinary Surgeon
self employed
2022.09 - 2024.09
ECC Veterinary Surgeon (Head of Service)
Eastcott Referrals
2021.04 - 2024.09
CertAVP(ECC) -
Harper Adams University
2021.01 - 2023.07
OOH Lead Veterinary Surgeon
MiNightVet
2019.11 - 2021.05
Lead Veterinary Surgeon
Caerphilly Vet Clinic
2016.08 - 2017.04
OOH Veterinary Surgeon
Veterinary Emergency Treatment Service (VETS)
2016.06 - 2019.10
PhD - undefined
Cardiff University School of Medicine
2011.11 - 2017.07
Research Fellow
Cardiff University School of Medicine
2011.09 - 2017.04
Locum Veterinary Surgeon
self employed
2008.12 - 2017.04
Branch Veterinary Surgeon
Goddards Veterinary Group
2008.01 - 2008.11
Veterinary Surgeon
IH Sergeant
2006.11 - 2007.12
Veterinary Surgeon
Cranmore Veterinary Services / Chestergates Referral Hospital
2004.09 - 2006.11
Veterinary Surgeon
County Veterinary Group
2003.11 - 2004.09
Veterinary surgeon
Derw Vets
2001.09 - 2003.11
BVSc Veterinary Science - undefined
University of Bristol
1995.09 - 2001.07
A-levels - undefined
Exmouth Community College
1993.09 - 1995.07
GCSEs - undefined
The Maynard School
1991.09 - 1993.07