Judy MacArthur Clark
British veterinarian
Judy MacArthur Clark 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. 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. As part of that role, she led the Three Rs (animal research) programme.
Clark was president of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons from 1992 to 1993.
Clark is a policy advisor for the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She is Chair of the Trustees of the Soulsby Foundation.
She worked on the development of legislation for the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
Clark was the first president, in 2006, of the International Association of Colleges of Laboratory Animal Medicine.
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