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- Overview of practice standards
- About the Practice Standards Scheme
- Which accreditation is right for your practice and how to apply
- What happens during an assessment?
- About Stanley, our support system for the PSS
- How do I update my accredited-practice information?
- How can I promote my RCVS accreditation?
- Additional resources
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- Coronavirus (Covid-19)
- Contact the Advice Team
- Code of Professional Conduct for Veterinary Surgeons
- Code of Professional Conduct for Veterinary Nurses
- GDPR – RCVS information and Q&As
- Advice on Schedule 3
- FAQs – Common medicines pitfalls
- FAQs – Routine veterinary practice and clinical veterinary research
- Dealing with Difficult Situations webinar recordings
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Dr Silke Salavati
DrMedVet DipECVIM-CA PhD FHEA
FRCVS

- Location: Midlothian
- Route to Fellowship: Meritorious Contributions to Clinical practice
Field of work
Veterinary schools
Areas of special interest
- Gastroenterology
- Microbiome
- Immunology
Areas of support
- Collaborative research
- Innovation in professional practice
- International issues
- One Health Agenda
- Professional mentoring
- Promoting knowledge and best practice
- Public engagement
- Translating research into veterinary practice
Professional positions
- Member of the European Society of Comparative Gastroenterology
- Member of the Comparative Gastroenterology Society
- Director of the ECVIM-CA (Int Med) programme at University of Edinburgh
- Member of Easter Bush Equality Diversity and Inclusion Committee University of Edinburgh
- Member of the German Association of Veterinary Medicine – Small Animals and the associated working group “gastroenterology”
- Member of the Veterinary Ethical Review Committee (VERC) of the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies at University of Edinburgh
Awards
- Research award by the German Veterinary Society (DVG) for exceptional clinical research, Berlin, 2015 (5000 Euros)
- Best abstract for ESCG at the ECVIM congress in Liverpool, 2013
- Second place for best abstract for ESCG at the ECVIM congress in Maastricht, 2012
- Travel grant, Comparative Gastroenterology Society (2011)
- Gold sponsorship from PrimerDesign Ltd. UK for a project determining the best qPCR reference genes for canine intestinal tissue (2009)
- Best "reprint article“ in EJCAP, 2008 & 2009 (awarded by FECAVA)
- Dr.med.vet. Work sponsored by the Society for cynological research
Biography
Dr. Salavati is Small Animal Internal Medicine specialist working at a university teaching hospital, involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, and passionate about advancing small animal gastroenterology, particularly novel diagnostics and
treatments of chronic inflammatory enteropathies.
treatments of chronic inflammatory enteropathies.