Philip received a veterinary degree from Cambridge University in 2003. Working initially in mixed practices in Norfolk and Dorset, he then undertook an equine internal medicine residency at the Equine Referral Hospital at the Royal Veterinary College in London where he gained the RCVS Certificate in Equine Internal Medicine. In 2011 he gained by examination the European Diploma in Equine Internal Medicine (DipECEIM) and became a European recognised specialist in Equine Internal Medicine. In 2016 he was also recognised as an RCVS Specialist in Equine Internal Medicine. He sits on the BEVA Health and Medicines Committee and represents BEVA on FEEVA Health and Medicines Committee.
In 2011 he co-founded Buckingham Equine Vets, and has spent the subsequent years developing the practice to meet the needs of local clients. He also runs Buckingham Equine Medicine Referrals to provide specialist expertise to complex medicine cases both locally and far afield. He holds the position of Managing Director within the company.
Philip particularly interests are in equine infectious diseases, gastroscopy, sarcoid removal, and ophthalmology. He regularly lectures on these conditions and more throughout the UK and is a regular contributor to the equine press, veterinary magazines and scientific publication (see below).
Much of Philip’s spare time is consumed writing scientific reports, papers and presentations, but he is also kept busy with his family commitments supporting his daughter Emilia, young son Jonathan with his wife Katie. They enjoy riding out their three horses Spook, Frosty and Badger.
Lectures and non-peer reviewed publications:
Ivens P – Strangles Vaccine and New Diagnostics – BEVA Congress 2025
Ivens P – The Swollen Sheath – BEVA Congress 2025
Ivens P and South V. Tumours of the Respiratory Tract – Vet Clinics of North America Equine Practice (2024) 40(3):501-514
Ivens P – CAT: In horses with severe equine asthma does BALF recovery improve pre-treatment salbutamol or without – BEVA Congress 2023
Ivens P – What can lactate tell us about colics – BEVA Congress 2023
Ivens P – Medical pitfalls in the Pre-purchase examination (PPE) – BEVA Congress 2023
Ivens P – Non responder: the asthmatic horse – BEVA Congress 2023
Ivens PAS, Pirie S. Streptococcus equi subspecies equi diagnosis – Equine Veterinary Journal (2021) 53(1):15-17
Ivens, Philip, David Rendle, Julia Kydd, James Crabtree, Sarah Moore, Huw Neal, Simon Knapp, Neil Bryant, and J Richard Newton. “Equine Herpesviruses: A Roundtable Discussion.” UK-Vet Equine 3, no. Sup4 (July 2019): 1–12. doi:10.12968/ukve.2019.3.S2.1.
Rendle, David, Philip Ivens, Mark Bowen, Hattie Lawrence, Richard Newton, Celia Marr, Romain Paillot, and Adam Rash. “Equine Influenza: A Current Reference for Vets in Practice in the UK.” UK-Vet Equine 3, no. Sup5 (September 2019): 1–13. doi:10.12968/ukve.2019.3.S3.1.
Equine Influenza Pioneers Circle – 2019 – https://www.boehringer-academy.co.uk
Insidious form of equine recurrent uveitis – Veterinary Times 2018 – https://www.vettimes.co.uk/article/insidious-form-of-equine-recurrent-uveitis/
London Vet Show 2017 – Is there more to equine oncology than sarcoids
Ivens, Philip. “Scoping Horses — How to Get to Where You Need to Go Every Time.” Livestock 21, no. 1 (January 2016): 62–65. doi:10.12968/live.2016.21.1.62.
Managing Equine Infectious Respiratory Disease Outbreaks 2016 – Webinar for BI academy – https://www.boehringer-academy.co.uk
London Vet Show 2016 – Strangles – Panic on the Yard!
Infectious disease: topical, new and emerging threats to UK equines – 2016 – Veterinary Times https://www.vettimes.co.uk/article/infectious-diseases-topical-new-and-emerging-threats-to-uk-equines/
• BEVA Congress Committee 2015 – Internal Medicine
• BEVA Congress 2015 – Strangles Prevention: Treating Carriers, Vaccine Use, now and in the future
• Implementing biosecurity in an equine environment – 2015 – Veterinary Times – https://www.vettimes.co.uk/article/implementing-biosecurity-in-an-equine-environment/
• Equine Herpesvirus – Best Management Practice – 2014 – https://www.vettimes.co.uk/article/equine-herpesvirus-best-management-practice/
• BEVA Central England Regional Meeting – Tumours of the head Diagnosis and Treatment – April 2013
• BEVA East Anglia Regional Meeting – Management of an infectious disease yard outbreak – April 2013
