Dr. Thomas Hordle

MA(Cantab) VetMB MRCVS

Pronouns: he/him

Positions

Assistant Professor (Teaching & Research) - Veterinary Anesthesiology

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Fulltime

Contact information

thomas.hordle@ucalgary.ca

Background

Credentials

Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons , 2020

Educational Background

Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine University of Cambridge , 2020

Master of Arts Biological and Biomedical Sciences , University of Cambridge, 2021

Biography

Thomas Hordle is a veterinary surgeon and an Assistant Professor of Veterinary Anesthesiology at the University of Calgary. In 2020, he graduated from the Queen's Veterinary School Hospital, University of Cambridge. After a year spent as a general practitioner, he returned to the same institution for a small animal rotating and anesthesia internship. Whilst here, he led a clinical trial into the use of an anxiety-relieving medication in dogs. Thomas then went on to complete a residency with the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, based at Lumbry Park Veterinary Specialists, United Kingdom, 2022-2025. His research here incorporated heading a second clinical trial in dogs. Thomas' primary current research interest is postoperative nausea and vomiting.

Courses

Course number	Course title	Semester
VETM 523	Anesthesiology and Therapeutics	Fall 2025
VETM 505	Clinical Skills III	Fall 2025/ Winter 2026

Publications

A Comparison of Two Different Methods for Inducing Apnoea During Thoracic Computed Tomography of Dogs. Thomas Hordle, Maria Navarro-Carrillo, Imogen Schofield, Mark Plested, Maria Chie Niimura del Barrio. (2025)
Successful management of two horses with suspected pulmonary haemorrhage in recovery from general anaesthesia. Thomas Hordle, Elisabeth Ranninger, Regula Bettschart-Wolfensberger. (2025)
Trazodone may reduce propofol induction dose and anxiety in dogs . Thomas Hordle, Jacqueline Brearley, Kate Walters, Alice Bird . (2023)
Ventricular fibrillation in a dog with refractory hyperkalaemia due to uroabdomen following extradural anaesthesia. Thomas Hordle, Maria Chie Niimura del Barrio, Joanne Michou. (2023)