ESCG Oral Abstract Presenters Bio

ESCG-O-01
Rachel Pilla

ESCG-O-02
Grégory Bouillet
Grégory Bouillet is currently a resident in internal medicine at the Saint-Martin Veterinary Referral Hospital. He graduated from Oniris, the National Veterinary School of Nantes, where he also completed a rotating internship.

ESCG-O-03
Adam Rudinsky

ESCG-O-04
Patrick Barko
Partick Barko completed his veterinary medical training at Washington State University in 2013. He went on to complete a residency in Small Animal Internal Medicine at the University of Illinois in 2018. Following completion of the clinical residency, he graduated from the University of Illinois with a PhD in the Department of Pathobiology in 2024. His investigations are focused on the role of microbiome-host interactions in the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of chronic gastrointestinal disorders in dogs and cats, with a particular focus on the role of microbial amino acid metabolites.

ESCG-O-05
Anais Farges
Anais graduated from Toulouse Vet School (France) in 2012. After working 8 years in mixed general practice, she moved to Scotland in 2020 and completed a rotating internship. She joined the University of Glasgow in 2021, initially as a Junior Clinician in Internal Medicine, before starting her residency in Internal Medicine in 2022. She is also doing a Master assessing biomarkers in dogs with chronic enteropathy.

ESCG-O-06/ ESCG-O-07
Katerina Moraiti
Katerina Moraiti is Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. She graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of University of Thessaly in 2021. Now she is a PhD student at the Clinic of Medicine of the same department. Her areas of interest are the Small Animal Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and, especially, the area of feline chronic enteropathies.

ESCG-O-08
Emma Wright
Emma is a resident in Small Snimal Internal Medicine at the Royal Veterinary College.

ESCG-O-09
Quentin Thenard
My name is Quentin and I am a 27-years-old veterinarian, graduated in 2022.
I am currently in the second year of my specialized internship in veterinary medicine, following a year of rotational internship, and I aspire to pursue a residency program in internal medicine next year to further my specialization.

ESCG-O-10
Anna Halka
Anna graduated in 2020 from Jagiellonian and Agriculture University in Krakow, Poland. After draguation, she worked for four years in a busy emergency practice, where she dealt with internal medicine, emergency, and critical care cases. In 2024 she started a rotating internship in small animal medicine in UCD Veterinary Hospital, Dublin. Her main area of interest is internal medicine, particularly immunlogy, uronephrology and immunology."

ESCG-O-11
Mara Vittoria
Alonzo Mara graduated with honors in 2018 from the University of Naples, Italy. She gained experience in private veterinary clinics, primarily focusing on emergency and critical care. From March to October 2019, she worked in the Intensive Care and Hospitalization Unit at Anicura Ospedale Veterinario I Portoni Rossi (OVIPR) in Bologna, Italy. From 2019 to 2022, she completed both a Rotational Internship and a Specialist Internship in the Internal Medicine Unit at OVIPR, with a particular interest in gastroenterology and hepatology. Since 2022, Mara has been working in the Internal Medicine Unit at OVIPR and she is currently in her third year of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ECVIM) Residency program under the supervision of Dr. Fabio Procoli. In 2023, she presented the results of a study comparing bile cytology and cultures in hepatobiliary diseases at the International Hepatology Congress for Dogs and Cats in Venice. She is currently conducting research on protein-losing enteropathy (PLE) in dogs.

ESCG-O-12
Linda Toresson
Linda Toresson graduated from the Swedish University of Agricultural Science in 1995, became a Swedish Specialist in diseases of dogs and cats in 2002 and a Swedish Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine in 2007. She has combined clinical practice, focusing on gastroenterology, at a referral animal hospital in Sweden, with research throughout most of her career. In 2018, Linda defended her PhD in gastroenterology at Helsinki University on oral cobalamin supplementation in dogs with chronic enteropathies. She is currently a Post Doctoral Research Associate, focusing on fecal microbiota transplantation and bile acid diarrhea at the Gastrointestinal Laboratory at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, USA. She is the author of 20+ scientific papers and has contributed to several book chapters. Dr Toresson was a board member of the European Society of Comparative Gastroenterology from 2018-2024 and is a member of several advisory boards, including the Companion Animal Fecal Bank Consortium and the Scientific Committee of the Swedish Medical Product Agency.

ESCG-O-13
Ivan Montanes Sancho
I graduated from The University of Zaragoza (Spain) in 2016. After spending some time in GP and completing a rotating internship in Spain, I moved to UK to pursue a residency in Small Animals Internal Medicine. I am currently a 3rd year resident working at The Small Animal Hospital of The University of Edinburgh with a particular interest in canine and feline gastroenterology. When I am not at work, I love spending time outdoors with my family, friends, and dog.

ESCG-O-14
Ermioni Kyriakopoulou
I graduated from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2019. I then worked for two years as a general practitioner before completing a rotating internship, followed by two specialized internships in Internal Medicine at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Glasgow. In April 2024, I began my residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Glasgow. Internal Medicine has always been my passion, with a particular interest in gastroenterology.