Kieran graduated in 2005 with degrees in Zoology and Veterinary Science, and worked in general practice for 6 years. He was awarded the RCVS Certificate in Veterinary Cardiology in 2010, and undertook a Residency and combined Master degree at the Royal Veterinary College in 2011. He became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in 2014, and was awarded the ECVIM-CA Diploma later the same year and achieved RCVS Specialist status in 2015. Kieran has worked in a variety of referral hospitals, from private referral clinics to academic teaching hospitals, from clinics to senior leadership, and he joined the Cardiology department at BVS in 2025.
Over the last decade, Kieran has published a wide variety of research in the field of cardiology, with a particular focus on feline cardiomyopathy and congenital heart disease. He was one of the first vets in Europe to perform trans-catheter edge to edge repair for mitral valve disease in dogs in 2023, and pioneered the stent angioplasty procedure for pulmonary stenosis in dogs. He has taught veterinary teams from Europe, Asia, the middle-East and the USA to perform this minimally invasive surgery, and lectured at congresses on five continents. Alongside his clinical work and ongoing research collaborations, Kieran runs a micro-CPD Instagram account for veterinary professions with over 14,000 followers (@vet_cardio_), and is co-host and producer of The Animal Heartbeat, the only podcast dedicated to veterinary cardiology. In 2024, Kieran and his co-host were joint winners of the UK Bright Minds Industry Influencer Award for their work on the podcast, and by early 2025 it has over 45,000 downloads across 117 territories.
Publications and research:
- W Davis, A Francis, K Borgeat (2025). Echocardiographic classification of dogs with aortic stenosis: potential utility of a novel staging system. Journal of Veterinary Cardiology 58, 17-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvc.2024.12.001
- OP Gilman, K Borgeat, HE Wilson (2024). The effect of prophylactic tranexamic acid on the incidence of postoperative hemorrhage in greyhounds. The Veterinary Journal 308, 106226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2024.106226
- J Seo, TA Kurosawa, K Borgeat, J Novo Matos, JC Hutchinson, OJ Arthurs, V Luis Fuentes (2024). Clinical signs associated with severe ST segment elevation in three cats with a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy phenotype. Journal of Veterinary Cardiology 54, 30-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvc.2024.05.003
- Catherine C Stowell, Valeria Kallassy, Beth Lane, Jonathan Abbott, Kieran Borgeat, David Connolly, Oriol Domenech, Joanna Dukes‐McEwan, Luca Ferasin, Josefa Fernández Del Palacio, Chris Linney, Jose Novo Matos, Ilaria Spalla, Nuala Summerfield, Tommaso Vezzosi, James P Howard, Matthew J Shun‐Shin, Darrel P Francis, Virginia Luis Fuentes (2024). Automated echocardiographic left ventricular dimension assessment in dogs using artificial intelligence: Development and validation. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvim.17012
- Jenny Reeve, Jose Novo Matos, Elle Haskey, Richard Corrigan, Kieran Borgeat (2023). The ethics of managing heart failure in cats.
- Emily Thomas, Kieran Borgeat, Elle Haskey, Jenny Reeve (2023). Emergency management of dyspnoeic cats.
- Emily Thomas, Kieran Borgeat (2023). Investigating dyspnoea in cats.
- J Novo Matos, J Sargent, J Silva, JR Payne, J Seo, I Spalla, K Borgeat, J Loureiro, N Pereira, IC Simcock, JC Hutchinson, OJ Arthurs, V Luis Fuentes (2023). Thin and hypokinetic myocardial segments in cats with cardiomyopathy. Journal of Veterinary Cardiology 46, 5-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvc.2023.02.002
- Anna Hammond, Victoria Savage, Ross Harley, Kieran Borgeat (2023). Aortic valve stenosis associated with valvular heterotopic ossification with extramedullary haematopoiesis in a horse. Equine Veterinary Education 35 (4), e260-e267. https://doi.org/10.1111/eve.13709
- Sara J Lawrence-Mills, Melanie J Hezzell, Sophie E Adamantos, Iris Chan, Kieran Borgeat, Jessie Rose Payne, Simon Satchell, Gavin I Welsh, Rebecca R Foster, Natalie Finch (2022). Circulating hyaluronan as a marker of endothelial glycocalyx damage in dogs with myxomatous mitral valve disease and dogs in a hypercoagulable state. The Veterinary Journal 285, 105845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2022.105845
