Dominic Barfield - EMERGENCY AND CRITICAL CARE
BSc BVSc MVetMed DACVECC DECVECC FHEA MRCVS
Deputy Clinical Director QMHA & Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care
Dom is a senior lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care (ECC) at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA) and co-head of the ECC service.
Dom graduated from the University of Sydney in 2002 and spent the following 5 years working in small animal practice in Sydney where he developed an interest in emergency work. He returned to the UK in 2008 to undertake a senior clinical training scholarship (residency) in Emergency and Critical Care at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA). After finishing his studies in June 2011 and having been awarded a Masters of Veterinary Medicine (MVetMed) Dom stayed on at the QMHA initially as staff clinician and then in December 2012 was appointed as a lecturer within the Emergency and Critical Care section. Dom is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care (ACVECC) a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care (ECVECC) and an RCVS Recognised Specialist in Emergency and Critical Care.
Gonçalo da Graça Pereira - BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE
DVM, MsC, PhD, Dip ECAWBM (BM), Dip ECAWBM (AWSEL)
President of the European College of Animal Welfare and Behavioural Medicine (ECAWBM) and Vice-President of the European Society of Veterinary Clinical Ethology (ESVCE)
Veterinary Degree at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Lisbon. Master in Clinical Ethology and Animal Welfare at the Faculty of Veterinary from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. PhD in Veterinary Science at the Institute of Biomedical Science Abel Salazar in O’Porto. EBVS specialist in Behavioural Medicine and Diplomate by the European College of Animal Welfare and Behavioural Medicine in Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Legislation.
Invited Professor of Animal Welfare, Ethics and Behaviour in the Veterinary Master Degree of the University of Évora and in the Veterinary Nurse Degree of the Higher Agrarian School from Elvas (ESAE) from the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (IPP), among other different Faculties in Portugal and abroad. Lecturer in Seminars, Conferences and Congresses national and internationally. Founder and Past-President of PsiAnimal – Portuguese Association of Behavioural Therapy and Animal Welfare. Past-President of the European College of Animal Welfare and Behavioural Medicine (ECAWBM) and Vice-President of the European Society of Veterinary Clinical Ethology (ESVCE). Director of the Center for Animal Knowledge (Centro para o Conhecimento Animal). Author, Co-author and Coordinator of several studies in animal behaviour and welfare science.
Hans Kooistra - ENDOCRINOLOGY
DVM, PhD, Dipl. ECVIM-CA
Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine-Companion Animals (ECVIM-CA)
Hans Kooistra followed an internship and a residency in internal medicine of companion animals at the Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University (from 1991-1994). Thereafter, he became Assistant Professor (1994-2003) and Associate Professor (2004- now) at the same department.
Duties include patient care, education (to students, post graduate training and training of interns and residents) and research in internal medicine of companion animals, with special emphasis on endocrinology and reproduction.
In 1997 he became Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine-Companion Animals (ECVIM-CA). He successfully (“cum laude”) defended his PhD thesis entitled “Adenohypophyseal function in healthy dogs and in dogs with pituitary disease” in December 2000.
Hans is (co-)author of more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and several book chapters.
Mike Martin - CARDIOLOGY
MVB, DVC, MRCVS
RCVS Recognised Specialist in Veterinary Cardiology
Mike qualified from University College Dublin, Ireland in 1986. He gained the RCVS Diploma in Veterinary Cardiology and Specialist status in 1995 and has successfully been re-validated every five years ever since. Since 1992 to 2015, he ran his own private referral practice (The Veterinary Cardiorespiratory Centre, Kenilworth).
Since October 2015 he moved his Cardiology Service into Willows Referral Centre, Solihull, UK. Since the beginning of 2018 he has again gone self-employed, providing consultancy work, training cardiac interventions at specialist centres around Europe, lecturing and education at CPD events around the world. He has published over 40 scientific peer reviewed papers. He is author of two small textbooks: Small Animal ECGs: An Introductory Guide (3rd edition) and Cardiorespiratory Diseases of the Dog and Cat (2nd edition) published by Wiley-Blackwell. He is author of the chapter on ‘Syncope’ in the Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Ettinger, Feldman & Cote, 2016). He is the proud recipient of some BSAVA awards: in 1993 the Dunkin Award, in 2000 the Melton Award, in 2006 the Petsavers Award, in 2010 the Dunkin & Blaine Awards and in 2017 the JSAP Achievement Award. He has been examiner for Diploma in Veterinary Cardiology for the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. He has been both Honorary Secretary and Chairman of the Veterinary Cardiovascular Society (UK).
Sylvie Daminet - ENDOCRINOLOGY
EBVS® European Veterinary Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine
Member of European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine - Companion Animals
Professor Sylvie Daminet graduated in 1992 from the University of Liège in Belgium. Thereafter she performed an internship followed by a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Montreal in Canada. In 1996 she became a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM&ECVIM). She obtained a Master’s degree over canine thyroid function tests from the University of Montreal. She was an assistant Professor at the universities of Montreal and Prince Edward Island in Canada and at the Royal Veterinary College in London in England. She obtained her PhD on thyroid function tests in dogs at the University of Ghent in Belgium in 2002.
Currently she is a full Professor at the same University. She is responsible for the small animal internal medicine and her clinical and research interest are in endocrinology and nephrology.
Sylvie Daminet authored or co-authored over 120 publications in international and national journals. She was president of the European Society of Veterinary Endocrinology (2009-2011) and head of the Specialty of Internal Medicine of ECVIM (2011-2014).