ESVE Oral Abstract Presenters Bio

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Marit van den Berg

After receiving her master's degree in veterinary medicine at Utrecht University (2016), Marit van den Berg started a rotating internship at Ghent University, followed by a residency in small animal internal medicine (2016-2020). She has been involved in multiple research projects, mostly focusing on endocrine oncology (canine adrenocortical tumors, canine thyroid cancer). After becoming a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine-Companion Animals (ECVIM-CA), she started a PhD on canine pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas at Utrecht University. In addition, she works parttime as an internal medicine specialist at Utrecht University. By combining her clinical career with research, she hopes to make a contribution to the advances in science in the field of veterinary endocrine oncology.

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Maria Joana Dias

Maria Joana Dias graduated with the Master in Veterinary Science from the Veterinary Faculty of Lisbon in 2017. After a one-year internship at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Maria Joana Dias was enrolled in a specialized internship in small animal internal medicine (2018-2019). Since 2020, she is doing a Residency in Small Animal Internal Medicine, under the same university (ECVIM-CA approved program).

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Maxime Kurtz

Maxime Kurtz is a 3rd year resident at the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort (Maisons Alfort, France).

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Isabel Calvo

Isabel, originally from Valencia, Spain, completed her veterinary undergraduate degree at the University Cardenal Herrera CEU in 2017. Later that year she moved to the UK and worked in a busy first opinion practice for over two years before enrolling on a small animal rotating internship at Pride Veterinary Centre in 2020 followed by an internal medicine internship at Southfields Veterinary Specialists where she continued with the residency program.

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Maxime Kurtz

Maxime Kurtz is a 3rd year resident at the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort (Maisons Alfort, France).

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Nadja Sieber-Ruckstuhl

Nadja Sieber-RuckstuhlActual position
Assistant Professor and leader of the endocrinology service at the Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, Vetsuisse faculty, University of Zurich, Dipl. ECVIM-CA, Dipl. ACVIMEducation1998 School of Veterinary Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty University of Zurich1999-2000 Doctoral Thesis: DNA-Vaccination against FeLV with IL-12 as adjuvant. Clinical Laboratory, Vetsuisse Faculty University of Zurich 2000-2001 Internship at the Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, Vetsuisse faculty, University of Zurich2001-2004 Residency at the Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, Vetsuisse faculty, University of Zurich2002-2003 Visiting Internal Medicine Resident at the Animal Teaching Hospital, University of Georgia, USASince 2004 “Oberärztin” at the Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty University of ZurichSince 2014 Assistant professor at the Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty University of Zurich

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Karin Sanders

After becoming a DVM, Karin started her PhD on canine Cushing's syndrome in 2015 at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She finished her PhD cum laude in 2019, after which she continued her research on this fascinating subject as a postdoctoral researcher. She did this partly as a postdoc in the oncology group led by Dr. Sara Galac at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Utrecht, and partly as a guest postdoc in the research group led by Prof. Hans Clevers at the Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology in Utrecht. Karin is currently employed as organoid biobank coordinator/postdoc in the Clevers group at the Princess Máxima Center.

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Tardo

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Jennifer St Eiermann

April 2021 - Current: Doctoral thesis (Subject: Accuracy of a flash glucose monitoring system in cats with diabetic ketosis or ketoacidosis)
April 2020- March 2022: Rotating Interschip in Companion Animals
January 2020 - March 2020: private practise small animal vet
2017-2019 Master of Veterinary Medicine (subspecialisation: companion animals) university Zürich
2013-2016 Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine univeristy Zürich

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Sara Falcone

Sara is a veterinary surgeon with a keen interest in molecular biology. She graduated in veterinary medicine in 2010 from the University of Perugia. After a PhD in Molecular Genetics at the MRC Harwell Institute, University of Oxford, she is now a postdoctoral researcher based in the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Physiology working with Prof Chris O’Callaghan and Prof Lucy Davison.
Her work focuses on the impact of novel mutations on the onset and development of endocrine disorders in a range of species, with a particular focus on diabetes mellitus.

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Stijn Niessen

Stijn graduated from Ghent University. After an internship at Glasgow University and a residency at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), he became a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. Stijn completed a PhD in diabetes mellitus, quality of life assessment and gene therapy at Newcastle University Medical School and the RVC. During his faculty career at the RVC, Stijn has been active in referral clinics, teaching students and research, ultimately becoming Professor of Internal Medicine, as well as one of the Clinical Directors of Europe’s largest small animal referral hospital. Stijn has found new cures for old diseases, published numerous scientific papers, written chapters and co-edited key textbooks. He believes that every practitioner should be able to enjoy the unique level of clinical support, personal development and mentorship normally only encountered within University settings. For this reason he co-founded Veterinary Specialist Consultations, which now works with the Veterinary Information Network to fulfill this dream.

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Barbara Lombardo

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Sabine Thalmeier

Sabine successfully completed her studies in veterinary medicine in 2012 at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen. After her studies, she worked as a doctorate and graduate assistant at the Clinic for Small Animals of the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen and completed her doctoral thesis on the topic of method validation of ammonia measurements in April 2017. In the same year, she obtained the title of national specialist in internal medicine. From 2017 to 2018, she worked as a clinical supervisor at the Clinic for Small Animals in Giessen. After a short excursion as senior clinician at the Kalbach Veterinary Clinic in Frankfurt am Main in Germany, Sabine returned to Giessen in 2020 as resident of internal medicine.