Nick Bacon

Professor Nicholas J Bacon

MA VetMB CertVR CertSAS DiplECVS DACVS FRCVS

RCVS Recognised Specialist in Small Animal Surgery (Oncology)

EBVS® European Specialist in Small Animal Surgery

ACVS Specialist in Small Animal Surgery

ACVS Founding Fellow of Surgical Oncology

Professor, Surgical Oncology, University of Surrey School of Veterinary Medicine

Nick qualified from Cambridge Vet School and after two years in general practice returned to Cambridge as the PetSaver’s resident in Soft Tissue Surgery and Oncology. He spent two years in soft tissue referral practice in the UK before completing a Fellowship in Surgical Oncology at the Animal Cancer Center at Colorado State University. He then spent 9 years as Surgical Oncology Faculty at the University of Florida in the Oncology department, becoming Head of Oncology in 2011.

Nick moved back to the UK in 2014 and was appointed Professor of Surgical Oncology at the University of Surrey School of Veterinary Medicine and co-founded what is now AURA Veterinary, also in Guildford, Surrey. He is a Diplomate of the European and American Colleges of Veterinary Surgeons, a Past-President of the Veterinary Society of Surgical Oncology, an ACVS Founding Fellow of Surgical Oncology, and is the only surgeon working in the UK to have completed a Fellowship in Surgical Oncology.

Nick is Clinical Director of AURA Veterinary, a centre for excellence in oncology (medical, surgical, interventional, and soon radiation), soft tissue surgery, internal medicine and interventional radiology. Patients are treated from across the UK and Europe.