Speakers

Discover the speakers and the chairs at the WCVAA Paris 2025

SPEAKERS

Jérôme Arnauld des Lions

Frederic AUBRUN

Baptiste BALANCA

Christine Ball

Perrine Benmansour

Valérie BILLARD

Mireille BOSSY

Belaid Bouhemad

Emmanuelle CANET-SOULAS

Xavier CAPDEVILA

David CHARIER

AlexANDRE CHEBROUX

Eddie Clutton

Clara Conde

Jean Michel CONSTANTIN

Philippe CUVILLON

Apostolos
D. Galatos

Mikhail DZIADZKO

Christelle FOURNEL

Emily FYFE

Anne-Claire GAGNON

Tom Greensmith

Sarah HEATH

Jennifer Hunter

Sabine Kästner

Latifa KHENISSI

Mannaïg de KERSAUSON

Matthias Kohlhauer

Florence LALLEMANT

Olivier Levionnois

Marc Lilot

Kursheed MAMA

Tasha McNerney

Gérard MICK

Enzo MINGHELLA

PIERRE PASQUIER

Sacha ROZENWAJG

AnJa STHYM

Polly Taylor

Jaime VISCASILLAS

Ellie West

Kathryn ZATROCH

CHAIRS

Sébastien Bauquier

Hervé Bouaziz

Mandoline Chesnel

Morgane Debuigne

Caroline Didier

Nicolas Girard

Delphine Holopherne

Géraldine Jourdan

Latifa Khenissi

Delphine Le chevalier

Tristan Merlin

Ludovic (Zym) Pelligand

Vincent Piriou

Mathieu Raillard

Charlotte Sandersen

Ioannis Savvas

GWENOLA
TOUZOT-JOURDE

Patrick Verwaerde

Luca Zilberstein

Jérôme Arnauld des Lions

Frederic AUBRUN

Baptiste BALANCA

Christine Ball

Perrine Benmansour

Valérie BILLARD

Mireille BOSSY

Belaid Bouhemad

Emmanuelle CANET-SOULAS

Xavier CAPDEVILA

David CHARIER

Alex CHEBROUX

Eddie Clutton

Clara Conde

Jean Michel CONSTANTIN

Philippe CUVILLON

Apostolos
D. Galatos

Mikhail DZIADZKO

Christelle FOURNEL

Emily FYFE

Anne-Claire GAGNON

Tom Greensmith

Sarah HEATH

Jennifer Hunter

Sabine Kästner

Latifa KHENISSI

Mannaïg de KERSAUSON

Matthias Kohlhauer

Florence LALLEMANT

Olivier Levionnois

Marc Lilot

Kursheed MAMA

Tasha McNerney

Gérard MICK

Enzo MINGHELLA

PIERRE PASQUIER

Sacha ROZENWAJG

Anya STHYM

Gwenola Touzot

Jaime VISCASILLAS

Ellie West

Katherine ZATROCH

CHAIRS

Sébastien Bauquier

Hervé Bouaziz

Mandoline Chesnel

Morgane Debuigne

Caroline Didier

Morgane Gavet

Nicolas Girard

Delphine Holopherne

Géraldine Jourdan

Latifa Khenissi

Delphine Le chevalier

Tristan Merlin

Ludovic (Zym) Pelligand

Vincent Piriou

Mathieu Raillard

Charlotte Sandersen

Ioannis Savvas

GWENOLA
TOUZOT-JOURDE

Patrick Verwaerde

Luca Zilberstein

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Jérôme Arnauld des Lions

Graduating in 1988, Chief Veterinarian Jérôme Arnauld of the Lions began his military career that same year, specializing in equine medicine and surgery. As head of the 41st Veterinary Group in Fontainebleau, within the Military Riding School, he was responsible for the healthvsupport of horses in Military Equestrian Sports (750 horses throughout France) and for horse procurement from 1992 to 2021. A certified practitioner with the Army Medical Service, he participated in several overseas operations, working closely with anesthesiologists and surgeons, and in various international cooperation missions for veterinary support of military equine personnel. Creator of the Military Horse Museum in Fontainebleau and author of numerous articles on equestrian history, he manages over 5,500 objects and the project to install these collections in the Senarmont Riding School, built by Napoleon.
Since 2021, he has been the Regional Veterinary Manager for the Paris region (Zonal
Veterinary Coordinator).

Frédéric Aubrun

Frédéric Aubrun, Professor of anesthesia and intensive care, perioperative medicine, head of the anesthesia and intensive care department at the Croix Rousse hospital in Lyon and the Renée Sabran hospital in Hyères. He has been President of the SFETD and is currently a member of the Pain Committee of the the French Society of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and perioperative Medecine (SFAR). He is Chairman of the CLUD central des Hospices Civils de Lyon. His research focuses mainly on postoperative pain, but also on opioids. He is also interested in anesthesia and analgesia for elderly patients.

Baptiste Balança

Dr. Baptiste Balança is Associate Professor (MCUPH) of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at Lyon University and Head of the Department of Neurological Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at the Hospices Civils de Lyon, in France.
Trained in medicine and anesthesiology at Lyon University, he followed the MD-PhD program of the Ecole de l’INSERM Lilianne Bettencourt. He conducted his PhD in Neuroscience, focusing on cerebral blood flow and metabolism changes induced by cortical spreading depolarizations in an experimental model of brain injury. He has completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center and in the Pr Dreier’s team at the Center for Stroke Research in Berlin.

Christine Ball

Christine Ball is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University where she runs part of a Master of Perioperative Medicine. She recently retired from clinical anaesthetic practice at the Alfred Hospital. Chris has been involved in the study of the history of the specialty for over 30 years and has many publications on the subject, including the book The
Chloroformist, published by Melbourne University Press in 2021. She has been an Honorary Curator of the Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History since 1989, a position she still holds. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Wood-Library Museum Laureate of the History of Anesthesiology.

Perrine Benmansour

Perrine graduated from the University of Liège. After a rotating internship and an anaesthesia internship, Perrine undertook a residency and Masters of Veterinary Sciences in veterinary anaesthesia and analgesia. She became a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia in 2015. Since then, Perrine has worked in multidisciplinary veterinary hospitals in the UK, providing anaesthesia, analgesia, critical care, pain clinic and workflow services. More recently, Perrine’s interests have evolved towards human factors and leadership. After serving as head of anaesthesia, physiotherapy and imaging at a multidisciplinary hospital, she became Clinical Director at an ophthalmology referral hospital.

Emmanuelle Canet-Soulas

After veterinary training, I obtained a PhD in Human Biology in 1993 at the University of Lyon 1 for studies on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of myocardial ischemia using MR perfusion imaging and iron oxide nanoparticles. After a post-doctorate at the University of California, San Francisco and a research position at CNRS, the French Research Center, I was recruited as a Professor of Physiology at the University of Lyon in the Sports Science Department. I’m involved in biomedical engineering with research and teaching activities at the interface of physiology, multimodal imaging, medicine (cardiovascular diseases), and pharmaceutical developments (contrast agents). In my research team “Cardioprotection” of CarMeN (research laboratory in Cardiovascular, Metabolism, Diabetologia and Nutrition at INSERM U1060 and University of Lyon), we are currently investigating ischemia-reperfusion in heart and brain using multimodal imaging to propose more efficient care after myocardial or cerebral ischemia. Research studies have consisted in multidisciplinary collaborations with both academic and industrial partners to validate new nanoparticulate and multi-modal contrast agents as in vivo imaging markers of the cardiovascular risk. Main research objectives are to use in-vivo molecular imaging in animal models and in translational studies to understand biological processes involved in cardiovascular diseases and to follow the effect of treatments and life-style interventions (diet, exercise). Scientific production includes 125 articles, 60 invited conferences, and co-authorship of a book entitled “NMR, concepts, methods and applications”.

Academic work also includes the direction of the doctoral school EDISS at the University of Lyon (300 PhD students, 2013-2019) and the presidency of the scientific council of VetAgro Sup, the Institute of higher education in food science, animal health, agricultural and environmental sciences.

David Charier

David CHARIER, Professor of Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Saint-Etienne University Hospital (Loire, France).
I work on monitoring the depth of anesthesia, and in particular on the monitoring of the nociception-antinociception balance, and on PK/PD modeling of dexmedetomidine and its use in awake neurosurgery.

Alexandre Chebroux

I graduated from Nantes Veterinary School in France in 2010. I initially wanted to work with goats (quite popular in the region where I am from) but then fell in love with
anaesthesia during the practical years of veterinary training. I then dedicated my career to anaesthesia, by working as a clinical assistant in the anaesthesia division at Nantes Vet School and then moving to the UK to start a residency.
I spent five years at the University of Cambridge, first as a resident of the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia for three years and then as an
anaesthesia clinician in the following two years and became an affiliated lecturer. I passed the diploma to become a specialist (DipECVAA) in 2016. I then worked for Davies
Veterinary Specialists for five years. For personal reasons I went back to France in 2021 and worked for CHV Atlantia (a referral hospital in Nantes) until early 2023.

Eddie Clutton

Eddie Clutton is the Clinical Director of the Wellcome Trust Critical Care Laboratory
for Large Animals (Roslin Institute), Edinburgh. He graduated (BVSC) from the
University of Liverpool (1981) and undertook post-graduate training in the
Department of Anaesthesia, The Royal Liverpool Hospital. He worked at the
University of Virginia – Maryland, USA for 5 years. He gained the RCVS Diploma in
Veterinary Anaesthesia in 1985. He became Head of Veterinary Anaesthesia in the
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (Edinburgh) 1990 – 2015. He became a
Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia in 1996. He was
editor-in-chief of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia (2000 – 2005) and President

Clara Conde

Dre. Clara Conde Ruiz got her degree in Veterinary Medicine in 2007 in
Cordoba, Spain. In 2013, she enrolled and completed three years of residency
in anaesthesia and analgesia in Lyon, France. It is in 2018 that she became
specialist by the European College of Anaesthesia and Analgesia (ECVAA).
She has worked as a consultant anaesthetist in Spain, Scotland and France
before joining, in 2022, the Anicura Armonia Referral Hospital (Vaulx-Milieu,
France). She collaborates with Anicura in a postdegree educational program in
anaesthesia and she is the co-author of a new tool to evaluate quality of life in
dogs and cats suffering from chronic pain, the QOA-LYON.

Apostolos D. Galatos

A.D. Galatos, Professor of Animal Surgery & Anaesthesia, graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, AUTh, Thessaloniki, Greece, where he also obtained his PhD on perianaesthetic GOR in the dog. In 1997 he became DiplECVVA, Assistant Professor at the newly founded Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Thessaly, Greece, and Head of its Department of Surgery. Among other administrative activities, he was Vice-Dean and Dean of the Faculty for 4 years. He supervised 8 PhD theses and was/is member of the advisory committee of 6  PhD and 2 Master of Science theses. He reviewed for 27 scientific Journals and is member of the Editorial Board of three. His clinical and teaching responsibilities focus on companion animal and small ruminant anaesthesia. His main research interests, besides perianaesthetic GOR in companion animals, include fish and small ruminant anaesthesia, and the effect of music on anaesthesia and analgesia.

Mikhail Dziadzko

Mikhail Dziadzko, MD, PhD, is an anesthesiologist and pain specialist, serving as Deputy Chief of the Anesthesiology Department at Croix Rousse University Hospital (Hospices Civils de Lyon). His research at RESHAPE U1290 (INSERM, Lyon 1 University) focuses on obstetric anesthesia, patient-reported outcomes, big data, and medical informatics. He also an experience in translational animal research, including acute murine and canine models, as well as anesthesia management in survival studies in porcine models.

Anne-Claire Gagnon

Anne-Claire Gagnon is Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, graduated from National Veterinary School of Toulouse (France) in 1984. She has been a scientific journalist since then and has a strong interest in cat behavior, publishing her first co-authoring book in 1993. After settling
her own small animal practice (1989-1996), she was in charge of RFID and feline biologicals within MERIAL from 1996 to 2001. She then settled a Cat only practice from 2003 to 2011.
She published about cat friendly handling in 2000, on clipnosis in 2008. She is now a
housecall cat behaviourist (ISFMAdvCertFB), a scientific journalist, cat book author and
recently became a certified Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT, taping) for human beings, dealing with animal grief, and also for cats with behavioural issues. As a volunteer, she is the president of the Association against animal and human abuse (AMAH, www.amah-asso.org).

Tom Greensmith

Tom is an American, European and United Kingdom recognised specialist in small animal emergency and critical care and has been a member of faculty at the Royal Veterinary College in London since 2018. Tom is one of the senior members of the extracorporeal therapies programme (providing haemodialysis and therapeutic plasma exchange procedures) and was the clinical lead in cardiothoracic critical care from 2018-2025 for patients undergoing open heart surgery. Tom is well versed in mechanical ventilation, having designed a 3 year programme for critical care residents at the RVC on this topic.

Jennifer Hunter

Jennifer M. Hunter is Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the University of Liverpool.
She graduated with commendation from the University of St. Andrews in 1971. Her research interests are the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of neuromuscular blocking drugs in health and disease. Her clinical responsibilities have included the management of the critically ill and patients with chronic kidney disease.
Professor Hunter has been Honorary Secretary of the Anaesthetic Research Society (1991-6) and in 1997 became Editor-in-Chief of the BJA. She was Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee of the ESA from 2006 to 2009, and in 2016 was made an Honorary Life Member of the Society.
She has over 240 peer-reviewed publications, and has edited three textbooks. She was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 2011; and was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen in 2015.

Sabine Kästner

Sabine Kästner graduated from the Justus Liebig University of Giessen (Germany). She worked in a busy horse clinic in Southern Germany before starting a Master of Veterinary Science in Large Animal Medicine at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada. She completed a residency program of the ECVAA and her Habilitation Thesis at the Vetsuisse Faculty in Zürich, Switzerland and became Professor of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover in 2008. Sabine Kästner is a past president of the Association of Veterinary Anaesthetists (AVA) and current chair of the veterinary anaesthesia, analgesia and intensive care group (VAINS).

Matthias Kholhauer

Prof. Matthias Kohlhauer is a professor of clinical pharmacology at the National
Veterinary School of Alfort in France. He completed his PhD in pharmacology at the
University of Paris-Est Créteil in 2016, as well as a residency in veterinary
pharmacology and toxicology in 2020. Since its post-doctoral fellowship at the
University of Cambridge (UK), his research primarily focuses on the development of
new therapeutic strategies for post-cardiac arrest care in humans, as well as the
pharmacology of antimicrobials in veterinary medicine.

Olivier Levionnois

Prof. Olivier Levionnois graduated from veterinary studies in 2001 at the Veterinary School in Nantes, France. He completed a rotatory internship (2001-2002) in Equine Medicine at St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada, followed by a residency in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia at the Vetsuisse Faculty in Bern, Switzerland. In 2007, he became an EBVS-recognized Specialist. Since then, he has been working as a senior lecturer at the University of Bern. Olivier obtained his PhD in 2011, focusing on the PK/PD of ketamine at sub-anaesthetic doses. In 2012, he completed a post-doctoral fellowship on the PK/PD of flunixin in piglets at the University of Oslo. Current research interests include equine

Marc Lilot

Marc Lilot, an anaesthetist-resuscitator, is in charge of a paediatric cardio-thoracic anaesthesia-resuscitation unit at the Hospices Civils of Lyon. He is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Lyon and is involved in immersive teaching in a professional healthcare context. He is also Chairman of the Scientific Committee of SimULyon, a scientific interest group for healthcare simulation in Lyon. After moving to California, he trained in France and Canada in management and leadership applied to healthcare services. Healthcare simulation and its solution-focused approach to the human factor, risk management, stress, non-technical skills and professional attitudes in a stressful environment, as well as his managerial experience in a hyperspecialised context of critical care for complex patients, are his areas of interest and professional development.

Mama Kursheed

Dr. Mama received her DVM in 1989 from Washington State University and then completed a large animal rotating internship at the University of Guelph. This along with her experiences during her senior year in veterinary school confirmed a passion of anesthesia. She pursued an anesthesia and critical care residency at the University of California-Davis and following its completion in 1993, chose to stay and work at UC Davis for 3 years before moving to Colorado State University where she has been a faculty member since 1996. She enjoys managing a diverse variety of species while also teaching DVM and graduate students, and has pursued research interests directed at improving patient care and safety. She feels fortunate that as part of her job she has had the opportunity to advance anesthesia and pain management through continuing education for veterinarians in many different venues both nationally and internationally.

Tasha McNerney

Tasha McNerney is a Certified Veterinary Technician from Philadelphia, PA, USA.

She is also a Certified Veterinary Pain Practitioner and works closely with the IVAPM to educate the public about animal pain awareness.

Tasha became a veterinary technician specialist in anesthesia in 2015. Tasha is an award-winning presenter on anesthesia and pain management topics. Tasha travels internationally to consult with veterinary hospitals on best anesthesia practices. Tasha has authored numerous articles and textbooks on anesthesia and analgesia for both veterinary professionals and pet parents.

In her spare time, Tasha enjoys reading, spending time with her husband and son, and recording the Veterinary Anesthesia Nerds Podcast.


Enzo Minghella

After graduating from the University of Perugia (Italy) with full marks in 2006, Enzo embarked on his aspiration to become a qualified anaesthetist. In 2009, he relocated to the United Kingdom to complete a one-year internship in small animal anaesthesia at the University of Liverpool, followed by a four-year residency in veterinary anaesthesia and analgesia at the University of Glasgow. Subsequently, Enzo worked as a University Clinician at the University of Glasgow and as a clinical anaesthetist at various referral practices across the United Kingdom. In 2019, he established his own anaesthesia and analgesia consultancy and locum business, TIVAVET. He is also the founder of the free veterinary TCI simulator web application, simtiva.vet.


Enzo is a Diplomat of the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia and a recognised EBVS® European and Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Specialist.
Enzo derives immense satisfaction from his profession and enjoys all aspects of anaesthesia. He firmly believes that every case, irrespective of the American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) classification, brings a unique learning opportunity. Enzo is a an experienced user of total intravenous anaesthesia, particularly Target Controlled Infusion (TIVA/TCI), and has been actively promoting its clinical application for the past 15 years.

PIERRE PASQUIER

Prof. Pierre Pasquier (47; married with two children) is a French military anesthesiologist and intensivist, currently serving as the Head of medical education at the French health schools and a full-professor at the École du Val-de-Grâce. He is also chairman for anesthesiology, critical care and emergency medicine applied to the Armed forces. With multiple deployments in various theaters of military operations, Prof. Pasquier has a significant experience in medical crisis management, including warfare, terrorist attacks, and infectious threats like Ebola and COVID-19. He specializes in medical and surgical support of military operations, traumatic hemorrhagic shock, and far forward transfusion. Prof. Pasquier has presented at different international conferences and serves as the scientific leader of the Paris Special Operations Forces – Combat Medical Care conference.

Anja Sthym

A seasoned veterinary professional with over two decades of experience in clinical practice, hospital management, staff training, and international consultancy. Specializing in veterinary anesthesia and critical care—particularly in equine medicine—Anja has built a successful consultancy serving clients globally, while also organizing continuing education courses and collaborating with key opinion leaders. Her career includes leadership in global product management for veterinary consumables, contributing to market growth and innovation across categories such as infusion, injection, wound care, and anesthesia. Currently heading European Sales at a leading veterinary company, she combines clinical expertise with strategic commercial insight. Anja has managed one of Northern Europe’s largest equine hospitals, overseeing staff development and international training programs. Additional contributions include volunteer work in zoo anesthesia and guest lecturing in veterinary education. She holds a Business Administration degree, certification in Anesthesia and Critical Care, and is a qualified Veterinary Nurse. Actively involved in professional veterinary networks and committees.

Polly Taylor

Dr PM Taylor MA VetMB PhD DipECVAA FRCVS
European & RCVS Veterinary Specialist in Anaesthesia
Taylor Monroe, Little Downham, Ely, UK

Polly graduated from Cambridge (UK) last century. She worked in general practice then
clinical academia (Cambridge University and the Animal Health Trust). Since 2002 she
has been an independent consultant in veterinary anaesthesia, covering clinical
anaesthesia, teaching, drug registration and research; numerous papers on anaesthesia
and analgesia have resulted. Polly is a director of Topcat Metrology Ltd, developing
bespoke nociceptive threshold testing systems for several animal species. She is now old enough to “put her head above the parapet” on matters of concern, particularly animal welfare ethics and the environment. She is part of the CEPEF team whose studies ultimately aim to benefit veterinary anaesthesia.

Ellie West

Ellie graduated from the Veterinary School, University of Cambridge, in 2003 and passed her European Diploma in Veternary Anaesthesia and Analgesia in 2017. She has a wide experience of practice, teaching and clinical research, having worked in academic, independent and corporate groups, primary care and referral veterinary practice, and in the UK and EU. Since 2020, Ellie has held the position of Environmental Sustainability Lead for Linnaeus, MVH UK, and since 2024, additionally is the Healthy Planet Lead for AniCura, MVH Europe, both part of the global Mars Veterinary Health group. She is a Practitioner of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment. She has 2 daughters, and they have 2 guinea pigs.

Katherine ZATROCH

Katie Zatroch is a practicing veterinary anesthesiologist from Philadelphia, PA, USA. She obtained her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2013, and subsequently went on to complete a small animal internship in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. After enjoying some time practicing small animal emergency medicine in Calgary, she ultimately decided to pursue a specialty in anesthesia. She completed a residency in anesthesia and pain management from Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine and became a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia in 2019.
Katie is now the head of the anesthesia service and co-medical director at Philadelphia Animal Specialty and Emergency, a veterinarian-owned referral and emergency practice in South Philadelphia. Katie has a particular professional interest in training, education and patient safety. She enjoys speaking at various events and is passionate about improving literacy, confidence and safety in anesthetic techniques in anesthesia learners of all kinds.
In her free time, Katie enjoys gardening, staying active and spending time with her husband (and their three rambunctious cats).

Mandoline Chesnel

Mandoline is an ECVAA specialist and head of the Anaesthesia and Analgesia department of the Centre Hospitalier Veterinaire Atlantia in Nantes. After completing her residency in Edimbourg, she created in 2012 the first dedicated anaesthesia and analgesia department in a private referral hospital in France. She is also dedicated to improve the quality of veterinary anaesthesia and analgesia care at a national level through delivering continuous education to nurses and GPs, and as a consultant and advisor for veterinary referral hospitals.

Morgane Debuigne

Morgane Debuigne received her veterinary degree from the veterinary school of Lyon (France). She completed an alternate residency of Anaesthesia and Analgesia at the Centre Hospitalier Vétérinaire Atlantia (small animal referral hospital, Nantes, France), with externships in large animal anaesthesia in several European countries (Universities of Nantes, Ghent, Vienna and Bern). She passed her exam in 2024 and is now a diplomate (Dipl. ECVAA). She worked as a clinician in public and private practices (Centre Hospitalier Vétérinaire Advetia, Paris, France ; Université de Saint-Hyacinthe, Montréal, Québec). She currently works as a multispecies clinician at the veterinary School of Lyon (France).

Nicolas Girard

Nicolas Girard qualified in 2004 from the University of Liège (Belgium) and passed his European diploma in Anaesthesia and Analgesia in 2009 after a residency at the Animal Health Trust (UK) and working as a consultant anaesthetist at Dick White Referrals (UK). In 2010 he went back to France where he founded the first French Veterinary Group “Mon Véto” and now manages 320 vet practices (2700+ employees) nationally and in Belgium. Aside is daily practice of Anaesthesia, He is the Chief Medical Officer of the company and he’s responsible for the continuous education and wellbeing of the vets and the nurses of the group.

Ludovic (Zym) Pelligand

is a Professor of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Clinical Pharmacology at the Royal Veterinary College, London, UK. He completed his anaesthesia residency at the RVC, followed by a pharmacology PhD on the roles of cyclooxygenase (COX) isoenzymes in the regulation of inflammation and the renal function in the cat. He promotes the use of pharmacometrics (the PK/PD modelling approach) to help resolve clinical questions.

Charlotte Sandersen

Charlotte Sandersen obtained her veterinary degree from the University of Veterinary Science in Budapest in 1997. She studied towards her PhD degree in equine cardiology while working in the Equine Hospital of the University of Liege and also became a diplomate of the European College in Equine Internal Medicine (ECEIM) in 2007. Shifting her professional focus progressively from emergency medicine to anaesthesia, she also became a diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia (ECVAA) in 2013. She is now the head of the veterinary anaesthesology service of the University of Liege where she is teaching undergraduate students, PhD students and residents. Charlotte Sandersen is the author of more than 100 scientific publications in the field of veterinary anaesthesiology, intensive care, pain and animal welfare. In her free time, she is a passionate amateur level eventing rider.

GWENOLA TOUZOT-JOURDE

I graduated from the French Vet School of Alfort (ENVA) in 1995 and went in equine private practice after a 2-year internship in equine medicine and surgery with a special focus on equine lameness. I then went onto a north- american journey during which I completed a residency in Anesthesia and Analgesia at the University of Georgia and obtained my ACVAA diplomate status in 2004. I worked in different university settings while I was abroad (Colorado State University, Ross University, Louisiana State University, University of Montreal) as a clinician and/or an associate professor before coming back to France full
time in 2012 at Oniris VetAgroBio, National College of Veterinary Medicine, Food Science and Engineering, where I was the head of the anesthesia service. In 2018, I gained the ECVAA diplomate status and completed a phD program studying the impact of cervical nerve root anesthesia onto equine locomotion (University of Bretagne-Loire, France). I transferred to the National Veterinary School of Maisons-Alfort (EnvA) in September 2024 for a full professor position in Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia with a special focus on Equine.
During my clinical work and research, I focus mainly on equine anesthesia and pain management including rehabilitation with a special interest in neurologic horses. I’m also involved in developing good practice guidelines in bovine anesthesia and pain management. I participate a great deal to working groups on welfare issues for production and research animals. Through my research experience, I have been recognized as a French specialist in Science and Medicine for Laboratory Animals (DESV-SMAL) in 2020.

Mathieu Raillard

Mathieu graduated from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2010. After
completing a rotating internship at the École Nationale Vétérinaire de
Maisons-Alfort, France, followed by a specialty internship in Veterinary
Anaesthesia and Analgesia at ONIRIS Nantes, France, Mathieu completed
an ECVAA residency at the University of Bristol, UK. He also undertook a
“Diplôme d’Université” in artificial ventilation at the University of Angers,
France. He worked as a clinician at the University of Bern, Switzerland, as a
Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia at the University of
Sydney, and as an Anaesthesia advisor for one of Europe’s largest
corporates. He served as an Associate Editor of the journal Veterinary
Anaesthesia and Analgesia between 2018 and 2024. Mathieu recently
completed his PhD on the dynamic compliance of the respiratory system in
anaesthetised dogs at Murdoch University. He is now an Associate
Professor in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia and the current Senior
Vice President of the Association of Veterinary Anaesthetists. Mathieu’s
main clinical and research interest is in the field of respiratory mechanics
and mechanical ventilation across species.

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