John F. Innes

About the Author

Dr. Innes graduated in veterinary sciences from the University of Liverpool in 1991. He worked at the University of Bristol for 10 years before returning to Liverpool as a professor of small animal surgery. From 2013 to 2022, Dr. Innes was on the executive committee for a large corporate group before cofounding Movement Veterinary Referrals, an independent specialty group in the U.K. Dr. Innes has published more than 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts in the area of veterinary and comparative orthopedics. He developed an interest in client-reported outcome measures during his PhD in the Bristol Medical School in the mid-1990s and he subsequently developed the Liverpool Osteoarthritis in Dogs (LOAD) tool, a validated client-reported outcome measure.