Robert has postgraduate qualifications in equine practice and equine orthopedics and was awarded the Diploma of Fellowship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for his thesis “Radiological measurements involved in the prognosis of equine laminitis”. He is the author of “Explaining Laminitis and its Prevention” which has sold over 12,000 copies and is regarded as the horse owner’s bible on laminitis. In 1998 he founded the Laminitis Trust as a registered charity whose purpose is to raise funds for research into laminitis. The Trust has established a feed approval mark to help horse owners identify feeds which are safe for the laminitic. He established the clinic, the UK’s only specialist treatment and advice centre for equine hoof disorders.