ESCG Oral Abstract Presenters Bio

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Patricia Ishii

Patricia graduated from the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil with a veterinary medicine degree in March 2016. Patricia joined the GI LAB in February 2018 to pursue her Ph.D. Pat is interested in new molecular markers in dogs with chronic enteropathy. Her main research focuses on intestinal permeability and microRNAs

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Andrea Reisinger

In March 2020, I graduated with a veterinary medicine degree at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. In June 2020, I then started my doctoral degree and fellowship in veterinary gastroenterology under the supervision of Dr. Stefan Unterer.
One aim of our study is to evaluate the development of food allergen sensitization during the phase of acute enteritis in dogs. Our hypothesis is that, in the case of severe intestinal damage, the intestinal barrier is destroyed, which allows transfer of dietary antigens across the epithelium, followed by loss of the oral tolerance, leading ultimately to food intolerance. As a secondary aim, we are evaluating whether fecal transplantation may be a useful therapeutic option in dogs with acute enteritis.
I am currently a research assistant in the gastroenterology special service and involved in clinical diagnostic and care of dogs and cats with gastrointestinal disorders.

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Romy M Heilmann

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Bettina Blatt

2022 – current: Specialized Internship in Emergency and Critical Care, Clinic od Small Animal Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
2021 – 2022: Staff veterinarian: Internal Medicine and Emergency Service, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
2019 – 2020: Staff Veterinarian: Central Intensive Care Unit, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
2019: Fellowship in small animal Intensive Care Medicine, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

2017 – 2019: Staff Veterinarian: Central Intensive Care Unit, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
2014 – 2017: Staff Veterinarian Tierarztpraxis Wess, Gloggnitz, Austria 2014 – 2015: Staff Veterinarian Tierklinik und Tierheilzentrum Aspern, Vienna, Austria

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Francesco Lotti

I obtained my veterinary degree at “Università degli studi di Pisa” (University of Pisa) on December 14th 2014. I worked in a private clinic for almost 2 years. On June 2016 I started a Master of Science at Colorado State University. After completing the program I started a one-year Internal Medicine Specialty Internship at the same University in July 2018. I started an Internal Medicine Residency program at "Ospedale Veterinario Anicura I Portoni Rossi" in Zola Predosa (Bologna) under the supervision of Dr. Fabio Procoli.

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Francesco Lotti

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Nuno Santos

Nuno Sousa Santos graduated from Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária - Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologia (Lisboa) in 2019. He is currently an intern in small animal Medicine at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - University of Lisbon, Portugal.

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Helene Stübing

My Name ist Helene Stübing. I graduated in March 2020 with a degree in veterinary medicine. My doctoral student program started in June 2020 under the mentorship of Dr. Stefan Unterer at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). Besides my research work, I am working as a staff veterinarian in the gastroenterology service at the Clinic of Small Animal Internal Medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
The overall research field of my doctoral thesis is acute diarrhea in dogs. More precise, I compared metronidazole and enterococcus faecium as options for therapy in acute diarrhea in dogs. The study serves to assess the clinical improvement of treating acute diarrhea and evaluating the intestinal microbiome.
My career goal is to do both clinical work as well as research in veterinary gastroenterology. In particular, I would like to focus on the use of antibiotics in gastroenterology since it is an exciting and emerging field with high research potential and great importance. For this purpose and in addition to the study described above, I have developed a questionnaire for owners which collects their expectations for diagnostics in general and more specifically for the therapy of acute diarrhea in dogs.
The questionnaire focuses on the use of antibiotics in a case of acute diarrhea in dogs. What do owners know about the use of antibiotics? Is antibiosis expected? It will be exciting to observe this topic in the future and how it will also have an impact on clinical work as well.

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Claudia Cueni

Claudia Cueni graduated from the Vetsuisse faculty, University of Zurich in 2016 and also did her doctoral thesis (Dr. med.vet.) in Zurich 2020 ("Methadone does not potentiate the effects of doxorubicine in canine tumour cell lines"). Claudia is currently a 2nd year internal medicine resident (ACVIM)at the Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine.

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Sharon Kuzi

Graduated, continued for internship and a residency in internal medicine, at the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Diplomate of the ECVIM-CA (Internal Medicine) since 2009.
Clinical lecturer and clinican at the internal medicine of small animals department, the Hebrew University Veterinary Teaching Hospital.
Main interest in gastro-intestinal, pancreatic and liver disease, with additional interests in endocrinology.

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Dimitra Karra

Dimitra Karra is a graduate of two academic institutions. In 2011 she graduated from the Mathematics Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and then entered the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Thessaly (UTH). In October 2017, she carried out a clinical rotation training at the Department of Companion Animals of Tierspital at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. In March 2018 she graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Thessaly and she started her internship in Companion Animal Medicine at the Clinic of Medicine of the same institute and successfully completed it in March 2019. The same month, she started to work as a veterinarian in a private veterinary clinic in Volos, Greece. Since January 2020, she is enrolled in a doctorate program by the Department of Clinic of Medicine, University of Thessaly. In her PhD thesis she investigates chronic enteropathies in cats.

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Paul Remmel

Dr Paul Remmel attended for the second year a specialized internship program in Internal Medicine at Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort, near Paris, France. He takes part in the feline lymphoma study research team conducted at the Small Animal Hospital in this institution and participate to a Master's program at Necker Hospital in Paris.