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We welcome twenty international feline experts who will consider all angles, from imaging and clinical pathology to histology, for an in-depth look at the ‘ever-complex cat’.

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Kenny graduated from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Edinburgh University, in 1984, and gained a PhD in gastroenterology at the University of Leicester in 1988. He hopped the pond for an internship at the University of Pennsylvania (1989), and residency in small animal medicine at THE Ohio State University (1991), then hopped back as a lecturer at the other Royal Veterinary College. He fled the hostile climes of Londinium in 1995 to join the faculty at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

He is a Diplomate of the American and European Colleges of Veterinary Internal Medicine and is currently Chief of the Section of Small Animal Internal Medicine at Cornell. He is a recipient of the National Phi Zeta and Pfizer awards for research, and a past-president of the comparative gastroenterology society.

His research interests are centred below the diaphragm, with a focus on inflammatory diseases of the GI tract (including the pancreas and liver), host bacterial interactions in health and disease, and culture independent bacteriology.

Kenny lives with his wife and three children in Ithaca, NY.

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Jill Maddison

Jill is currently Professor of General Practice at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) and Director of Professional Development overseeing the college’s continuing education programmes. She is course director for the CertAVP programme.

She is actively involved in undergraduate teaching and continuing professional development (CPD) at the RVC in the areas of clinical reasoning in small animal medicine and clinical pharmacology. She is the senior editor of Small Animal Clinical Pharmacology, the 2nd edition of which was published by Elsevier in 2008. She is also senior editor of Clinical Reasoning in Veterinary Practice, the 2nd edition of which was published by Wiley-Blackwell in April 2022.

Jill is coordinator for the main small animal clinical CPD streams at The London Vet Show. To keep in touch with the realities of private general practice she regularly consults at the RVC’s first opinion practice, the Beaumont Sainsbury Animal Hospital.

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Dr. Quimby is board certified in small animal internal medicine and completed a PhD studying feline CKD and was on faculty at Colorado State University until 2017. She is now an associate professor of small animal internal medicine at the Ohio State University. Current research areas include the study of renal pathophysiology, novel treatment strategies and evidence-based supportive care strategies. She has an interest in feline clinical pharmacology focusing on improving supportive care and quality of life in cats with CKD. Dr. Quimby has received the International Renal Interest Society Award and the AVMF/Winn Feline Foundation Research Award for her contributions to nephrology and feline medicine. In 2021 she was selected to serve on the IRIS board.

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Carmel Mooney graduated from University College Dublin, Ireland in 1986 and spent the next 12 years working at Edinburgh and Glasgow Veterinary Schools. She has completed both MPhil and PhD theses on feline hyperthyroidism and has gained RCVS Specialist Status in Small Animal Medicine (Endocrinology). She was awarded DipECVIM-CA in 1999. Since 1998 she has worked at University College Dublin where she is currently Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine and Section Head for Small Animal Clinical Studies. Her major research and teaching areas are in endocrine disorders of dogs and cats. She has lectured widely both nationally and internationally and has published many research articles in small animal endocrinology. Carmel has been President of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association and the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine – Companion Animals. She has been Editor of the Journal of Small Animal Practice and is currently Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Comparative and Clinical Medicine.

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Sally graduated from the University of Liverpool and spent several years as a general practitioner in small animal practice. During this time, she developed a keen interest in ultrasound and undertook a certificate in advanced veterinary practice with an emphasis on imaging. In 2011, she began a residency in veterinary diagnostic imaging at the University of Bristol and successfully passed both the Certificate and the European Diploma in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging, attaining European Specialist status in 2014 and subsequently RCVS recognised specialist status in 2017. She joined Willows Referral Service in 2014 as a clinical radiologist and has published numerous papers, including several on the topic of feline abdominal ultrasound.

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Peter, Dr. med. vet, graduated from the University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover and also finished his doctoral dissertation and small animal internship in Hannover. After several years in private practice and trying to become a surgeon, Peter decided to do internal medicine and completed a 4 year small animal internal medicine internship/residency program at the Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich and College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, USA.

Since 2008, he is a faculty staff member at the Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich and shares his time seeing patients, lecturing students and residents and doing clinical research.

Peter is board-certified in small animal internal medicine (ACVIM, ECVIM-CA) and received his teaching certificate (Privatdozent, Habilitation) for small animal internal medicine in 2015.

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Professor Danièlle Gunn-Moore

BSc(Hon), BVM&S, PhD, MANZCVS (Feline), FHEA, FRSB, FRCVS, RCVS Specialist in Feline Medicine
Professor in Feline Medicine, Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies and The Roslin Institute

Danièlle Gunn-Moore graduated from the R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh, with the Dick Vet Gold Medal (1991). After a year in small animal practice she joined The Feline Centre, University of Bristol, initially as the Feline Advisory Bureau Scholar, then the Duphar Feline Fellow, and completed a PhD study into Feline Infectious Peritonitis in 1997. After a short period as Lecturer in Veterinary Pathology, University of Bristol, she returned to Edinburgh to establish the Feline Clinic and became Professor of Feline Medicine in 2006. She is interested in all aspects of feline medicine; she is an internationally recognised expert in her area, has lectured extensively and published over a 150 peer-reviewed research papers, plus many reviews and book chapters. In 2009 she was awarded the BSAVA Woodrow Award for outstanding contribution in the field of small animal veterinary medicine, in 2011 she was awarded the International Society for Feline Medicine/Hill’s award for Outstanding Contributions to Feline Medicine, in 2012 the Royal Dick students voted her “The clinician I would most like to be”, in 2016 FECAVA awarded her “Increased Vocalisation in Elderly Cats” the most original paper in the European Journal of Companion Animal Practice that year, and in 2017 she became a Fellow of both the RSB and the RCVS. She shares her home with her husband Frank, a tiny little 20 year old black cat called Sheba-Ardbeg, and a one year old Maine Coon boy called Brora (named after a Scottish single malt whisky).

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Dr Melanie Dobromylskyj qualified from Bristol University in 2004, having also intercalated a BSc in Veterinary Pathology at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) in 2002. Following a small animal internship at the Animal Health Trust, she completed her PhD in bovine molecular immunology at the Institute for Animal Health and the University of Cambridge in 2009, studying the receptors expressed on natural killer cells. She spent a year as a pathology resident at Glasgow University before joining Finn Pathologists in 2012, where she continued her training in conjunction with a part-time residency at the RVC. She became a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in 2014 and an honorary lecturer in anatomic pathology at the RVC in 2015. In 2016 she became a RCVS-recognised specialist in veterinary pathology (small animals), and a Fellow of the RCVS for Meritorious Contributions to Clinical Practice in 2020. She has also completed the feline medicine distance education course (ISFM/University of Sydney), one of the first pathologists to undertake this course. She is currently an Education Co-ordinator for the British Society of Veterinary Pathology and a trustee for the British College of Veterinary Specialists, representing the paraclinical disciplines. She works as a diagnostic histopathologist for Finn Pathologists, a large commercial diagnostic laboratory based in the UK, and covers both first opinion and referral practice cases, predominantly canine and feline. She has a particular interest in feline pathology and medicine, immunohistochemistry, and in teaching and research collaborations.

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Natalie graduated from the University of Liverpool and completed her PhD at the Royal Veterinary College researching chronic kidney disease (CKD) in cats. Natalie undertook her residency training at Bristol Veterinary School sponsored by International Cat Care. Natalie is a European Veterinary Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine and Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Specialist in Feline Medicine. Natalie has numerous publications related to CKD in cats and has been awarded the International Renal Interest Society award in recognition of her contribution to the advancement of this field. Natalie is also one of only a few vets to be awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust Fellowship. Natalie’s clinical research interests include renal filtration function, CKD, the endothelial glycocalyx and diabetic nephropathy.

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Alex German holds the position of Royal Canin Professor of Small Animal Medicine at the University of Liverpool. He is a Diplomat of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Recognised Specialist in Internal Medicine, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His main clinical and research interest is the management of obesity in pets. For 15 years, he has run the Royal Canin Weight Management Clinic at the University of Liverpool. This specialist clinic aims to improve the quality of life of all overweight pets through clinical excellence, research and education.

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Kelly started her career with cats almost 13 years ago, when she became a Cat Care Assistant for the Cats Protection. Kelly qualified as a Registered Veterinary Nurse in 2015 and began to delve deeper into the feline world. Kelly has completed the ISFM Diploma in Feline Nursing and is currently studying towards the ISFM Advanced Certificate in Feline Behaviour. Kelly now manages the Royal Canin Feline Healthy Ageing Clinic at the University of Liverpool which is a project aiming to extend the quality of life in ageing cats through research and education.

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Georgia Woods-Lee qualified as a Veterinary Nurse in 2004 from Myerscough College, Preston UK. After working in Cheshire as a Head nurse and clinical coach, developing successful obesity care and other nursing clinics, in June 2015, Georgia took the position of ROYAL CANIN® Weight Management Clinic Nurse at the University of Liverpool, Small Animal Teaching Hospital. Here she is now dealing exclusively with obesity care and nutrition.

In addition to the day to day running of the clinic, Georgia also assists with the research the clinic undertakes and has provided education to vets and nurses throughout many countries on the topics of obesity care and nutrition.

Georgia gained her Certificate in Canine and Feline Veterinary Health Nutrition in 2017 and the American Veterinary Technician Specialist in nutrition award in 2019.

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Professor Séverine Tasker, BSc BVSc(Hons) PhD DSAM DipECVIM-CA FHEA FRCVS, graduated from Bristol Veterinary School and worked for the PDSA before completing a Residency in Feline Medicine, funded by the Feline Advisory Bureau (now International Cat Care) at the Dick Vet School in Edinburgh before moving to Bristol University to complete a PhD on feline haemoplasmas. She has the RCVS Diploma in Small Animal Medicine, is an RCVS Specialist in Feline Medicine and is a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. Séverine remained at Bristol until 2018, where she worked in the Feline Centre of Langford Vets and Bristol Veterinary School. She is now Chief Medical Officer for the Linnaeus Group, part of Mars Vet Health, and is honorary Professor of Feline Medicine at Bristol. She is especially interested in feline infectious diseases and haematology and edited the BSAVA Manual of Feline Practice: A Foundation Manual. She sits on the European Advisory Board on Cat Diseases. Séverine is a recipient of the BSAVA Woodrow Award for outstanding contributions in small animal veterinary medicine and the Petplan Charitable Trust Research Award for outstanding contributions in the field of veterinary research. She is passionate about all things cats and having a holistic approach to feline medicine from adopting cat friendly practice techniques to pragmatic decision-making focusing on the cat’s and the client’s needs.

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Dr. Bradley Simon received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine in 2007 and completed a residency in anesthesia and analgesia at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. Following his residency, he received his Master’s degree from Ross University with focus on opioid-opioid combinations and their impact on analgesic efficacy in cats. Currently, he is a board-certified anesthesiologist and Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Texas A&M University. He has written over 20 peer-reviewed journal articles and contributor to several books on canine and feline anesthesia and analgesia. His most notable research focuses on the effects of age and opioid-opioid combinations on analgesic efficacy in cats. He has also published several impactful reviews on the present and future of opioid analgesics in small animal practice, the lack of analgesic use (oligoanalgesia) in small animal practice, and feline procedural sedation and analgesia. Dr Simon is a national and international lecturer and has presented at the International Conference on Opioids, World Small Animal Veterinary Association Conference, NIH Pain in Animals Workshop, ACVS Surgery Summit, Congreso Veterinario, and World Congress of Veterinary Anesthesia. Dr Simon hopes to continue his path of spreading knowledge and awareness about feline pain management and anesthesia to the veterinary profession and the general public.

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Rachel Korman is a recognized specialist in feline medicine. She graduated from the University of Queensland and completed a residency in feline internal medicine at the University of Bristol. She is a Fellow of the Feline Medicine Chapter of the ANZCVS, treasurer of the Feline Medicine Chapter, tutor for the CVE Feline Medicine Course and forum mentor for the International Society of Feline Medicine Academy. Rachel has been working at Veterinary Specialist Services in Brisbane since returning to Australia in 2012 where she heads the feline medicine service. She is the ringmaster of 2 children, 3 cats and a chihuahua she can be contacted at Veterinary Specialist Services on (07) 3841 7011 or via email [email protected]

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Kath, BVSc (Hons I) MVetStud (Small Animal Clinical Studies) FANZCVS (Feline Medicine), graduated from the University of Sydney in 2003. Kath worked in private small animal practice in Sydney and the UK before completing an internship and residency at the University Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Sydney. In 2008, Kath attained membership of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in feline medicine. In 2012 she attained Fellowship of the same college. During her residency, Kath completed a research project on the pathology of feline low-grade alimentary lymphoma and IBD. Kath has a keen interest in all aspects of feline medicine and is also passionate about providing continuing education for veterinary practitioners. Kath has worked in both university and private referral practice, but has recently made a sea-change and is working in primary accession practice on the Mid-North Coast of NSW, Australia. Years of referral practice have allowed unique insights into ways in which a primary accession clinic might improve the health of its feline patients and provide superior services to their owners. Dr Briscoe is also keen to ensure general practitioners are well versed in what can be achieved in their own clinics and at what stage one should consider referral.

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Rosanne graduated from the University of Bristol and did both her PhD and residency training at the Royal Veterinary College where she remains as Associate Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine and co-head of the Internal Medicine service. Rosanne divides her time between clinical work and research. Her main clinical interests include all aspects of small animal nephrology and urology whilst her research has been focussed on feline chronic kidney disease and hypertension.

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Dr Sarah Ellis

Head of Cat Advocacy at International Cat Care

Sarah has a keen interest in the behaviour and welfare of the domestic cat. After completing a degree in Zoology and Psychology (University of Bristol, 2001) and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Companion Animal Behaviour Counselling (University of Southampton, 2006), Sarah specialised in cats and was awarded a PhD for investigating ways to improve the welfare of cats housed in rehoming centres.

Sarah spent several years at the University of Lincoln as a Research Scientist working on numerous projects including investigating novel ways to improve feline welfare, and furthering our understanding of feline behaviour and the cat-human relationship. In 2015, Sarah decided to concentrate on the application of research and joined International Cat Care as their Feline Behaviour Specialist to help develop their work in the areas of feline behaviour and welfare. In 2019, Sarah moved to the role of Head of Cat Advocacy within International Cat Care.

She also is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Lincoln where she remains involved in several feline related projects. Sarah has had numerous radio and TV appearances, covering many aspects of feline behaviour and welfare. She has published a NY Times Best-Selling book with John Bradshaw entitled The Trainable Cat which details how training can be used to improve cats’ well-being.

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Myles graduated from University College Dublin (UCD) in 2013. After some time in general practice, he completed a small animal internship at Cornell University and a small animal internal medicine residency at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). During these years he also completed Masters degrees at the University of Edinburgh and the RVC, focusing on the subjects of One Health and the early diagnosis of renal disease respectively. He worked in private referral practice in the UK and Australia before returning to Ireland where he was appointed as an assistant professor at UCD. In 2021, he joined Zoetis Diagnostics where he is director of the global clinical consultation service. He is an American and European specialist in small animal internal medicine and has special interests in renal disease and feline medicine. 
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Dr Lara Boland, BVSc (Hons 1), DipECVIM-CA, FANZCVS (feline medicine), graduated from the University of Sydney in 2004 and initially worked in feline and general small animal practice in Australia. She completed specialist training at the University of Bristol, UK and has been working at the Valentine Charlton Cat Centre at the University of Sydney since 2013 as a Senior Lecturer. Lara is both an Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists specialist in feline medicine and a European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine specialist in small animal medicine. Lara has always been fascinated by all things feline including endocrine, urinary tract and geriatric diseases of cats.

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Nathalie Dowgray

Head of ISFM

Nathalie graduated from Massey University, New Zealand in 2002. In 2012 she sat the Membership exams for the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in Feline Medicine and is a RCVS Advanced Practitioner in Feline Medicine. She received a post-graduate diploma in international animal welfare ethics and law from Edinburgh University in 2016 and completed a PhD in the ageing of cats at the University of Liverpool in 2021. Nathalie’s areas of interest are all things feline including feline health screening, musculoskeletal disease and age-related disease. Nathalie joined ICC as Head of ISFM in August 2020.

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Samantha Taylor

BVetMed(Hons) CertSAM DipECVIM-CA MANZCVS FRCVS

Sam graduated from the Royal Vet College in 2002 and completed internships in private referral practice before starting a Feline Advisory Bureau Residency at Bristol University. She was awarded the RCVS Certificate in Small Animal Medicine in 2006 and the European Diploma in Veterinary Internal Medicine in 2009.  In 2011 she became an RCVS Recognised Specialist in Feline Medicine and in 2019 was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for outstanding contributions to the profession. Sam is the Feline Specialist Advisor for ISFM, and the ISFM Academy of Feline Practitioners Lead. She also works in clinical referral practice at Lumbry Park Veterinary Specialists in Hampshire, is editor of the BSAVA journal Companion and is an examiner for the Membership of the Australia and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists (Feline Medicine).  She is an editorial board member for the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery and has authored 2 books and numerous book chapters as well as publishing a number of papers on both canine and feline internal medicine.

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Tony graduated from University College Dublin in 1996 and worked in general practice in Ireland and the UK until 2003. Following an internship at the Animal Health Trust, he completed a surgical residency at the Royal (Dick) School for Veterinary Studies in Edinburgh and then worked as a Clinician in Soft Tissue Surgery at Liverpool University. He is a European Specialist in Small Animal Surgery and currently works at Southern Counties Veterinary Specialists, multidisciplinary referral practice in Hampshire.

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Sarah Collins

DipAVN (Medical) RVN, VTS(ECC), Cert CFVHNut, ISFM DipFN
ISFM Programme Manager

Sarah qualified as a Veterinary Nurse in 1995. Following 11 years in 1st opinion/referral practice, Sarah moved to the University of Bristol Vet School to work in the intensive care unit. During her 7 years in this role, Sarah obtained both the Diploma in Advanced Veterinary Nursing (Medical) and the Veterinary Technician Specialist in Emergency and Critical Care. After a further 7 years as a Veterinary Marketing Executive at Royal Canin (during which she gained the Certificate in Canine and Feline Veterinary Health Nutrition), Sarah joined International Cat Care in 2017 to look after the nurse distance education courses. In 2020, Sarah moved to the role of ISFM Programme Manager looking after the Cat Friendly Clinic and Cat Care for Life programmes as well as running the webinar programmes, creating and updating content for the online veterinary nurse courses, and providing advice across the charity on veterinary nursing matters. Sarah is also the managing editor for ISFM’s nurse journal Feline Focus and has had several articles published in nursing journals as well as having lectured at many veterinary congresses and events including BSAVA, BVNA and LVS.

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Linda Ryan

Linda is a Veterinary Technician Specialist in Behaviour and Oncology, and is an ASAB-accredited Certificated Clinical Animal Behaviourist (for cats and dogs). She is a passionate Veterinary Nurse, and welfare-focused animal trainer and behaviourist, who, through years of working with cancer and internal medicine canine and feline patients, became interested in learning more about welfare and behaviour within the clinic, and how this could fit in alongside excellent veterinary care. The animal health and wellbeing benefits of the essential veterinary-behaviour connection is now central to Linda’s work.

Linda currently runs Inspiring Pet Teaching, dividing her time between seeing clinical behaviour cases, working alongside pets’ vets, and providing continuing education for veterinary and training/behaviour professionals. She also works part-time in the Cat Advocacy team at International Cat Care.