“Now that we’re coming out of the pandemic, it’s about managing patient expectations. You can try to instil a routine, but things change. “No two days are the same – when you manage a clinical service you never know what’s going to happen. It’s a busy service which currently has a follow up list of approximately 16,500 follow up appointments and around 2,500 new patients. When asked why he chose the NHS after leaving the Army, David said: “Coming from a medical background in the military and with my operational planning skills, moving to the NHS seemed like a natural transition, although it has been a steep learning curve!”Īs deputy operations manager for rheumatology, David helps to oversee the day-to-day running of the rheumatology service, organising clinics and ensuring patients are seen in the correct order. 90% of those we trained were from the NHS and I firmly believe the NHS benefitted from the military training that was delivered to them.”
“One of my favourite roles while in the regular Army involved training reserve soldiers. I have worked in operational planning for deployments across the world, including being part of a Training & Advisory Group which instructed the Vietnamese People’s Army prior to their Aid Relief Deployment to South Sudan supported the civil power in Kenya, conducting a vaccination programme to the nomadic population which included vaccinating 14,500 children in one six-week period worked as a medical logistical support specialist and provided logistical support for both the Olympics and the Covid pandemic. “During my time as a soldier I deployed on operational tours in several conflict zones including Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Iraq and Afghanistan in both medical and logistical roles.
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Cross graduated veterinary school at MU in 2000 and was in private large animal practice in Michigan in addition to having his own equine practice in West Michigan.“I joined the Army in 1995 as a Combat Medical Technician and went on to serve 24.5 years as a regular soldier followed by two years as a Full Time Reserve at the Cambridge University Officers’ Training Corps.
Cross was the horse facility manager at Ohio State while in graduate school and stallion manager at Morehead State University prior to entering graduate school in 1983.ĭr. Prior to veterinary school he was an Assistant Professor of Equine Science at Truman State University. Cross’s PhD research at Ohio State involved radiotelemetric assessment of uterine electromyography activity and body temperature changes in periparturient mares. His research at Michigan State and Wisconsin centered on twinning in mares and uterine contractility in the early pregnant mare as determined with ultrasonography. Cross’s graduate training was in equine reproductive physiology.
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Previous to that he was a Clinical Assistant Professor at the CVM from December 2001 through May 2007 teaching a variety of undergraduate courses at the CVM as well as in the professional curriculum.ĭr. Cross has been part of the team teaching anatomy to the first year veterinary students since August of 2009.
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