Dr Adele Williams-Xavier

Adele Williams-Xavier is an artificial intelligence (AI) and clinical data expert in the vet profession.
She is an equine internal medicine specialist, having a PhD and worked in various veterinary academic institutions. 
Adele has led the creation of AI tools in the pet care space, and getting data right for building AI tools and getting meaningful insights out of data.
She is fascinated by data and building tools to help improve the lives of animals and also making life in the veterinary profession easier. 
Adele owns AWX Consultancy, an AI and clinical data consultancy to the veterinary profession, where she educates veterinary professionals, and advises veterinary businesses on AI and clinical data.
She also is a board advisor to veterinary technology start ups on development and deployment of vet tech products. She advocates for governance of AI tools and responsible and ethical adoption of AI in the veterinary space. 

Prof. Andreas Moritz

Univ.-Professor for Clinical Pathophysiology and Clinical Pathology

Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany

Head of the Small Animal Clinic, Internal Medicine and the Central Laboratory

Dipl ECVIM-CA (Internal Medicine), Associate Member ECVCP,

President of the German Small Animal association

Dr Carlo Masserdotti

Carlo Masserdotti graduated in Veterinary Medicine in 1990 at the University of Milan.
From 1993 his interest was mainly focused on clinical pathology, particularly in diagnostic cytopathology, attending specialistic courses and references institutions in Italy and in foreign countries. 
From 1998 he is teacher and lecturer at course of Cytology, organized by SCIVAC.
From 2001 to 2004 he was President of SICIV (Italian Society of Veterinary Cytology).
From 2003 to 2006 he was Vice-president of European Society of Veterinary Clinical Pathology.
In 2005 he received the de-facto recognition as Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology.
In 2008 achieves post-graduate Specialization in Clinical Biochemistry, at the University of Brescia.
Currently he is consultant in anatomic and clinical pathology at IDEXX Laboratories.
He is the author of the book “CANINE AND FELINE LIVER CYTOLOGY”, published in 2024.

Dr Charalampos Attipa

Dr. Attipa is an Associate Professor of Veterinary Clinical Pathology at The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh.
After becoming a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists and an RCVS-recognized specialist in Veterinary Clinical Pathology, he was awarded a Welcome Trust Clinical PhD Fellowship at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
His research focused on the role of neutrophils and neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in paediatric cerebral malaria in Malawi, utilizing -omics approaches in clinical samples, ex-vivo cell models, and mouse models.
His primary research interest lies in understanding how abnormal granulopoiesis and NETs influence immune responses in chronic infections. He is also leading ongoing research projects in Malawi on malaria and zoonotic infections.
More recently, he has been heading a project investigating an outbreak of feline coronavirus.
Dr. Attipa has authored or co-authored several publications in international peer-reviewed journals (including Nature Medicine) and has been a speaker at several international conferences.

Clare Roberts

Clare Roberts has over 25 years’ experience within veterinary practice. After graduating from Swansea University with a degree in Marine Biology, she subsequently qualified as a Veterinary Nurse in 1998.

Whilst nursing within several UK Veterinary hospitals she became interested in pathology often finding herself responsible for the analysers. Then in 2014 she joined Rowe Veterinary Group in Bristol as a laboratory technician. There she has developed her skills and the laboratory into a thriving addition to the practice. In 2024 she was in the first cohort to gain the ISPVS Ncert in laboratory techniques.

In practice she enjoys educating both undergraduate and qualified vets and nurses in the correct use of analysers and result interpretation focusing on sample quality. Cytology and haematology are Clare’s true passions, and she is never far from a microscope. 

Prof. Ed Hall

MA, Vet MB, PhD, Dipl.ECVIM-CA, FRCVS

Emeritus Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine, University of Bristol

A Cambridge graduate, Ed then trained in Philadelphia and Liverpool before moving to Bristol Veterinary School in 1995. He is a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, an RCVS Recognised Specialist in Small Animal Medicine (Gastroenterology), and a Past President of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association.

Dr Elpida Sarvani

Elpida graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Thessaloniki, Greece in 2005. Following 1.5 years of internship training at the same Faculty, she moved to the UK and worked as a first opinion vet for several years.
Elpida then undertook a residency in Clinical Pathology at the University of Bristol Veterinary School and has since worked in different private labs, being involved in clinical work and in training of residents and interns in Clinical Pathology.
Elpida obtained board certification in clinical pathology in 2018 becoming a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP), in 2022 she became a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology (ECVCP) and is an RCVS-recognized specialist in Veterinary Clinical Pathology. 

Dr Emma Dewhurst

Emma qualified in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, in 1994. After which she spent 2 years in the Basic Science Department at the Royal Veterinary College before returning to her hometown of Bristol where she then worked in small animal practice for 3 years.
In 2003 Emma completed a residency in Veterinary Clinical Pathology at the University of Bristol Veterinary School under the tutelage of Dr Kostas Papasouliotis. In 2003 Emma was awarded the Diploma in Veterinary Clinical Pathology from the Royal College of Pathologists.
In 2008 through dissertation and viva Emma became a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. In 2008 Emma was also awarded the European Diploma in Veterinary Clinical Pathology.
Emma has worked in the commercial veterinary diagnostic industry since 2003.
She is particularly interested in the diagnostic utility of laboratory tests, having published in this area.
Outside of work, much of Emma’s free time is taken up with joining her husband sailing. Emma and her family currently live 7 minutes from the beach in Teignmouth, South Devon.

Dr Emma Dickey

MS BVMS (Hons) DipACVIM DipACVP MRCVS

Emma qualified from Glasgow Veterinary School in 2003 after which she completed an equine internship at the Curragh in Ireland.
Emma then undertook an Equine Medicine Residency at the Marion DuPont Scott Equine Medical Center, Virginia, USA and became a Diplomate of Large Animal Internal Medicine in 2009.
Emma then worked as a clinician in Scone Veterinary Hospital, Australia followed by a period of research at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne.
In 2012 Emma returned to the UK and started a Clinical Pathology Residency, and became boarded in Veterinary Clinical Pathology in 2016.
Emma currently works as Equine Clinical Pathologist at Axiom Laboratories, UK. 

Dr Emma Hooijberg

BVSc CertGP(SAP) PhD DipECVCP

Emma graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa with a BVSc in 2001 and spent 6 years in small animal practice in the UK.
She subsequently completed a residency in Veterinary Clinical Pathology in Vienna, Austria, and became a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology in 2012.
Emma joined the Dept. of Companion Animal Clinical Studies at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria at the end of 2014. During her 10 years in academia, she completed a PhD and supervised several post-graduate students and residents, took part in teaching activities, and eventually headed the clinical pathology section and laboratory.
Emma returned to the UK at the beginning of 2025 to work for Nationwide Laboratories, where she is part of the Clinical Pathology team.
She is the author of over 50 scientific articles and several book chapters, is a Section Editor for the Veterinary Clinical Pathology journal and a member of the ECVCP Diplomate Certification Committee and ASVCP QALS committees.
She is still active in research and remains an affiliate of the University of Pretoria.
Areas of special interest include inflammatory markers and acute phase proteins, clinical pathology of wildlife, reference intervals and laboratory quality assurance.

Prof. George Oikonomou

Prof Georgios Oikonomou is Professor of Cattle Health and Welfare at the School of Veterinary Science, University of Liverpool.
He is a vet and has spent a few years managing a 600 cow dairy herd in Greece before moving to the USA where he worked at Cornell University and got involved in various research projects on calf health and cattle lameness, mastitis, and reproductive diseases.
 He is currently managing several research projects on dairy cattle lameness and calf health and is also providing consultancy services to UK dairy farmers.

Dr Ioannis Oikonomidis

Ioannis (Yannis) Oikonomidis graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) in 2011 and following a 1.5-year internship, he undertook a PhD in clinical pathology at the same institution.
 Yannis joined the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, as a Senior Clinical Training Scholar (resident) in clinical pathology in 2017 and upon completion of his residency, he became a Lecturer in clinical pathology at the same university.
In 2021, Yannis obtained a board certification in clinical pathology, becoming a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP) and in 2022 he also became a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology (ECVCP).
In 2023, Yannis achieved the status of RCVS recognised specialist in veterinary clinical pathology. He worked at IDEXX Laboratories for three years before joining the University of Liverpool in 2023 as a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in veterinary clinical pathology. Yannis is author of many publications and he is a regular speaker in congresses and CPD events. He enjoys all aspects of clinical pathology, and he loves research and teaching.

Dr Jorge Pena-Ramos

LdoVet PGDip(SAM) CSAVP(Internal Medicine) MRCVS

Jorge qualified from Leon, Spain, in 2013.
Over the next eight years he combined general practice in Spain and the UK, with two rotating internships, one at a private referral hospital in Surrey and another at the University of Cambridge.

In 2019, he completed the ESAVS post-graduate certificate in Small Animal Internal Medicine. Jorge recently finished the ECVIM (European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine) residency in internal medicine at Langford Vets, University of Bristol, in January 2025.

Prof. Josep Pastor

Graduated form the Univeristat Autònoma de Barcelona in 1989 where we also obtained his PhD in 1994.

Associate professor of the Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Head of the Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Co director of Animal Hematology Laboratory of the Autonomous University of Barcelona

Member of the Laboratory Standard Committee of the ECVCP

Dr Kathy Freeman

Dr. Freeman completed her veterinary training (DVM) and completed her MS and PhD in veterinary pathology at Oklahoma State University College of Veterinary Medicine. She has  been on faculty at Oklahoma State, Cornell University and Ithaca College and has been the Director and Head of Pathology or Senior Veterinary Clinical Pathologist at Animal Reference Laboratory (USA), Lab Corp (Veterinary Division)(USA), Animal Health Trust(UK), IDEXX Laboratories(UK) and SynLab-VPG(UK).

She has lived and practiced veterinary clinical pathology in the United Kingdom for the past 27 years. She is a Founding Diplomate for the European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology and is the Founding Chair for the American Society of Veterinary Clinical Pathology Quality Assurance and Laboratory Standards Committee and for the European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology Laboratory Standards Committee. She received the ASVCP Educator Award in 2014 and was elected to the ECVCP Hall of Fame in 2024.

She has been a consultant for Veterinary Information Network since 1997 and currently works part-time for VIN as a staff veterinarian. She is a contractor for Companion Animal Health Cellfie (USA), providing remote patient-side cytologic evaluations.  She is a member of the nonprofit website committee for www.vetbiologicalvariation.org and is a Director of CustomClinPath, a group working to develop applications in veterinary biological variation. She received the American Society of Veterinary Clinical Pathology Teaching Award in 2014. Her areas of special interest include laboratory quality, cytology, and competency-based veterinary specialty education. 

Prof. Mathios Mylonakis

Mathios Mylonakis is a graduate of the School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (SVM-AUTh), Greece.
In the same institution, he completed a one-year internship in small animal internal medicine and received a PhD degree focusing on the cytologic diagnosis of canine monocytic ehrlichiosis.
He is currently a Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine at the SVM-AUTh.
He has spent several years in first and second opinion private companion animal Clinics.
 As part of his sabbatical, he has joined the Clinical Pathology Laboratory, Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, University of California-Davis, USA, and the Medical Oncology Clinic, University of California-Davis, USA.
His main clinical and research interests include hematology, diagnostic cytology, and vector borne diseases of the dog and cat.
He has authored or co authored more than 100 international peer-reviewed journal publications or book chapters. 

Matt Garland

Matthew Garland is a laboratory director and veterinary laboratory manager with over 20 years’ experience in the veterinary field. Matthew is passionate about all things laboratory and has a keen interest in QA/QC and haematology. Matthew has also contributed to several published research projects. Holding a degree in chemistry and molecular biology he is a qualified Veterinary Nurse, a registered Science technician with the Royal society of biology (RSB) and holds various post graduate certificates.
Currently working for VPG (The veterinary Pathology group) he also enjoys his time as a lecturer teaching student veterinary nurses the laboratory skill syllabus for the Royal College Veterinary surgeons’ qualification. Matthew also delivers regular CPD and has also been lucky to present at all the major UK congresses (BSAVA, BVNA and LVS) as well as having several articles published on veterinary haematology and clinical biochemistry. Being passionate about team development and the development of others Matthew sits on the registers assessors board of the RSB and is also a judge for the RSB biology apprentice of the year.  

Dr Nazaré Pinto da Cunha

Nazaré Pinto da Cunha graduated in Veterinary Medicine from University of Porto in 2005 and later earned a PhD in Animal Pathology, with a thesis on immunocytochemistry, from the University of Milan in 2010.
She completed a residency at the University of Milan by the European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology (ECVCP) and in 2011 became the first Portuguese European specialist in Veterinary Clinical Pathology.
Nazaré actively contributes to the field as a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Veterinary Clinical Pathology (ESVCP). She has organized several meetings, including the first ECVCP Summer School and the European Congress in Lisbon in 2023.
She is the author of several articles published in international journals, a guest speaker at national and international congresses and courses, and a scientific reviewer.
She is a founding partner of Vedis laboratory, where she is currently clinical director, and an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Lusófona University in Lisbon.
Her main areas of interest are diagnostic cytology and immunocytochemistry.

Dr Nektarios Siachos

DVM MSc PhD

Originally from Greece, Dr Nektarios graduated as a veterinarian in 2010 and completed an MSc in Ruminant Husbandry and Internal Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
He then pursued a PhD at the same university, investigating protein metabolism and muscle tissue mobilization in periparturient dairy cows.
After completing his PhD, he worked as a nutritionist consultant before joining the University of Liverpool, where he spent two years as a postdoctoral research associate on a project developing an automated cattle lameness detection and body condition scoring using artificial intelligence.
He has recently joined SRUC’s School of Veterinary Medicine in Aberdeen as Lecturer in Animal Husbandry contributing to teaching and research.
His primary interests lie in dairy cattle health, welfare and precision livestock farming. 

Dr Richard Saunders

Richard graduated from Liverpool university in 1994, having intercalated in Zoology during his veterinary course.
He has worked in small animal, exotic and British wildlife practice. He holds the RCVS Certificate and Diploma (Mammalian), in Zoological Medicine, is an RCVS Specialist in Zoo And Wild Animal Medicine, and is the author of several chapters on exotic animals in BSAVA manuals, including the BSAVA Manual of Rabbit Medicine, and the BSAVA Manual of Rabbit Surgery, Dentistry and Imaging.
He is a co-author of Notes on Rabbit Internal Medicine, and Rabbit Behaviour, Husbandry and Welfare. He is the RWAF Veterinary Adviser.

Dr Sian Frosini

Sian-Marie Frosini graduated from the Royal Veterinary College, London, in 2013 and has since focused on microbiology as an emerging para-clinical discipline in veterinary medicine.
She completed a PhD focused on the clinical impact of methicillin-resistant staphylococci in veterinary dermatology and then broadened her outlook into multidrug-resistant pathogens more widely in her post-doctoral work.

Sian is the RVC’s Lecturer in Veterinary Clinical Microbiology, and her expertise in antimicrobial resistance and multidrug-resistant pathogens leads her to consult on complicated antimicrobial decision making and case interpretation with clinical colleagues.
Sian provides academic leadership to the RVC’s microbiology diagnostic service, and she has overseen the introduction of new technologies and continued interdisciplinary liaison to provide clinically focused results.
Sian is a keen proponent of promoting the understanding of clinical microbiology to provide diagnostic stewardship as a first step towards antimicrobial stewardship

Dr Sonia Sanchez-Redondo

Sonia graduated from the University of León, Spain, in 2013.

She moved to the UK shortly after and spent several years working in small animal general practice and completed two rotating internships. In 2019, she earned a postgraduate certificate in Small Animal Internal Medicine (ESAVS, University of Luxembourg).

She then completed a master's degree and a three-year residency training programme in Clinical Pathology.

Sonia subsequently passed her board examinations and became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists.

Prof Tobias Schwarz

PgCAP FHEA FRSB DipECVDI DACVR DVR FRCVS

Professor of Veterinary Radiology



Tobias Schwarz studied veterinary medicine at the Humboldt and Free University of Berlin in Germany.
He did a diagnostic imaging residency at Glasgow University Veterinary School and became a Diplomate in Diagnostic Imaging with the RCVS (DVR), ECVDI and ACVR. 
He has been an academic radiologist at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin-Madison and is the head of the Diagnostic Imaging Service at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies since 2009.
In 2017, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (FRCVS) and in 2019 he was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB) in the UK. In 2022, he was promoted to Professor and Chair of Veterinary Radiology.
He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and his particular interests are in thoracic imaging and computed tomography.
On both topics he has published a comprehensive textbook.

Dr Tomasso Furlanello

DR. MED. VET, PHD, EBVS® EUROPEAN SPECIALIST IN VETERINARY CLINICAL PATHOLOGY

A graduate from the University of Bologna, with a thesis on Infectious Feline Peritonitis in 1990, he has attended the University of Georgia (USA) and other veterinary centres in the United States.
He has dedicated over thirty years to sharing his clinical experience and scientific research.  He frequently presents at study groups, scientific societies, and meetings, and has authored and co-authored numerous scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, including three recent papers on the clinical applications of mass spectrometry.
Since 2005, he has been a diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology. In 2011, he earned a Doctorate in Research from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Padua, where he has lectured for many years.
His professional interests centre on laboratory medicine and its practical applications, with a strong focus on clinical pharmacology. He is a founding member of the Italian Society of Feline Medicine.
He practices exclusively internal medicine and clinical pathology at the Private Veterinary Clinic San Marco in Veggiano (Padua), Italy, where he is the clinical director of both the San Marco Veterinary Analysis Laboratory and the San Marco Veterinary Clinic.
He is married to a veterinary behaviour specialist and is a proud father of two daughters.  He shares his home with numerous pets and enjoys modern history and mountain hiking.

Dr Zoe Polizopoulou

Zoe Polizopoulou graduated from the School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.), in 1986 and subsequently continued her postgraduate studies at the Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Clinical Studies, of the same institution as an intern and as a PhD student.
 After receiving the PhD degree (1991), she worked as a junior research fellow and joined the academic staff of the Department of Clinical Sciences of A.U.Th. in 1999. Following her election as full professor (2015) and onwards, she is the Director of the Diagnostic Laboratory at the Department of Clinical Studies.
She was accepted as Charter Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology (ECVCP) upon the establishment of the College in 2001. In the following years she was elected and served as vice president and president of ECVCP. She was also elected and served as vice president and president (2021- 2023) of the European Board of Veterinary Specialisation (EBVS).
She is representing Greece at FECAVA and has been involved in the production of several factsheets (Vector Borne diseases, Zoonoses), which are offered to be used by practicing veterinarians.
Her main research field is veterinary clinical pathology (mostly clinical biochemistry of companion and farm animals). Special topics of interest include the long term changes of cardiac biomarkers in canine mitral valve disease, the study of selected biomarkers in chronic renal disease, senile cognitive dysfunction of companion animals, epilepsy and degenerative CNS disorders, and trace elements in farm animals.