Chiron Award
The BVA Chiron award is presented by the BVA for outstanding contributions to veterinary science or for outstanding services to the veterinary profession, judged in either case as being of a calibre commanding international or interprofessional recognition.
The most recent recipient of the Chiron Award in Mr Peter C Jinman. The senior partner of a mixed veterinary practice in Herefordshire Peter has a wide range of professional accreditations. Elected as President of the BVA in 2002 he currently chairs the Association's newly constituted Ethics and Welfare Group, as well as being actively involved within the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons as a Council Member. Deputy Chairman of the Government's Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC) he also chairs the TB Advisory Group for England and serves on the England Implementation Board for the Animal Health & Welfare Strategy. Peter was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in June 2004 for services to the veterinary profession and in presenting him with the BVA's Chiron Award his peers are delighted to recognise a remarkable man's achievements.
Peter's biographical details can be read here.
Below is a list of previous winners:
| 2007 | Mr Peter C Jinman OBE BVetMed DipArb MRCVS FCIArb | |
| 2006 | Professor William J Reilly BVMS BSc DVSM FFPHM DipECVPH HonFRCVS | |
| 2005 | Miss Mary Brancker CBE BUniv(hc) FRCVS | |
| 2004 | Mr Desmond J Thompson OBE TCD MVB BA MRCVS | |
| 2000 | Professor John Wilesmith BVSc MRCVS | |
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1999 |
Professor Peter Biggs CBE DSc DVM FRCPath CIBiol FIBiol FRS FRCVS | |
| 1998 | Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior MA PhD DSc AM DVSM DVM&S DVM DVSc | |
| 1997 | Professor Sir James Armour CBE PhD DVMS FmedSci HonFRCVS | |
| 1996 | Mr Francis Anthony BVMS MRCVS | |
| 1993 | Dr Hans Bendixen | Danish |
| 1992 | Mr Alf Wight (James Herriot) | (deceased) |