Rate My Professor David Byrne

Dr David Byrne serves as Senior Lecturer in Equine Medicine and Head of the Equine Medicine Section in the School of Veterinary Medicine at Murdoch University. A Registered Specialist in Equine Medicine, he earned his veterinary degree from University College Dublin, Ireland, in 2008. In 2010, he became a Member of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in equine medicine. He completed a three-year residency in equine medicine and surgery at Murdoch University in 2017 and attained Diplomate status in Large Animal Internal Medicine from the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in 2018. After a period in private practice, he returned to Murdoch University in 2019 as Senior Lecturer in Equine Medicine. He holds Fellow of the Higher Education Academy status and is pursuing a PhD utilizing electrical impedance tomography for research in equine respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases.

Byrne's academic interests center on equine internal medicine, including cardiology, gastrointestinal medicine, respiratory assessment with electrical impedance tomography, and equine infectious diseases. He directs the Large Animal Internal Medicine residency program at Murdoch University and contributes to advanced equine diagnostic imaging at The Animal Hospital. Key publications include 'The effect of geographic location on circannual adrenocorticotropic hormone plasma concentrations in horses in Australia' (Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2017), 'Thoracic electrical impedance tomography—the 2022 veterinary consensus statement' (Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022), 'Circannual variability in adrenocorticotropic hormone responses to administration of thyrotropin-releasing hormone in clinically normal horses in Australia' (The Veterinary Journal, 2018), 'Electrical impedance tomography to measure lung ventilation distribution in healthy horses and horses with left-sided cardiac volume overload' (Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2021), and 'Genomic Analysis of Clostridioides difficile Recovered from Horses in Western Australia' (Microorganisms, 2023). His work advances clinical practices in equine veterinary medicine.