About Us
The Holter Monitoring Service is provided by two experienced UK cardiologists with a broad range of expertise, both working as Specialists at Dick White Referrals, a multidisciplinary referral centre in Cambridgeshire. A strength of the service is the access to very many years combined experience in Specialist referral practice and, where appropriate, multidisciplinary input from other Specialists within the practice.
Ruth Willis
BVM&S DVC MRCVS, RCVS Recognised Specialist in Cardiology
Hon. Associate Professor, University of Nottingham
Ruth graduated from the Royal (Dick) College of Veterinary Medicine in Edinburgh and worked in small animal practice for 2 years before returning to Glasgow University to study for a post-graduate qualification in cardiology and respiratory medicine. She was awarded the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Diploma in Veterinary Cardiology in 2002 and is a RCVS Recognised Specialist in Veterinary Cardiology.
She founded Holter Monitoring Service in 2005 and therefore has considerable experience of ambulatory ECG analysis and has published a number of articles and book chapters on this subject. Ruth is co-author of the forthcoming Textbook of Canine and Feline Electrocardiography.
Jon Wray
BVSc CertVC DSAM MRCVS
RCVS Specialist in Small Animal Medicine (Internal Medicine)
Hon. Associate Professor, University of Nottingham
Jon graduated from Bristol University and worked in mixed animal practice for 2 years. He completed his Residency at Bristol and held clinical and academic posts at Willows Referral Service and the Animal Health Trust before returning to Bristol as Clinical Fellow in Cardiorespiratory Medicine. He holds the RCVS Certificate, Diploma and Specialist Recognition in Small Animal Internal Medicine, the Certificate in Veterinary Cardiology and is enrolled as a candidate for the Diploma in Veterinary Cardiology. He joined DWR in 2008 and is Head of the Cardiology Service.
Jon has been Chief Examiner for the RCVS Certificate and Diploma in Small Animal Medicine and is author of Canine Internal Medicine: What’s Your Diagnosis. As well as publishing widely, he has lectured extensively both in the UK and internationally in the fields of Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Interventional Radiology. His particular fields of interest are all aspects of cardiorespiratory medicine, interventional radiology and interventional cardiology, and in investigation of episodic weakness and collapse.
Helen Reeve
Telemedicine Manager
Helen returned to DWR in 2017 having first joined us in 2009. In the intervening period, she gained valuable experience while working for a global Telemedicine company which has put her in an ideal position to run our Telemedicine department and Holter Monitoring service.
Helen may be contacted for any logistical issues or enquires regarding the Holter Monitoring service.
Veterinary colleagues wishing not only to receive Holter interpretation but to discuss onward referral of cases to the Cardiology Service at Dick White Referrals (for example for assessment for suitability for permanent pacemaker implantation) should contact DWR on 01638 572012.
Cardiology Referral Service
Please see section on ‘Cardiology Referral Service’ for further details