ESCG Oral Abstract Presenters Bio

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Jenessa Winston
Dr. Jenessa Winston is an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University. She received a Bachelor of Science in Integrated Biology from University of Florida in 2007. She then received her veterinary degree from North Carolina State University in 2011. She went on to complete a rotating small animal internship and residency in small animal internal medicine at NC State achieving board certification, as a diplomate in the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, in 2015. As a Clinical Investigator and NIH T32 fellow at NC State, Dr. Winston completed a PhD in Comparative Biomedical Sciences with an Infectious Disease concentration in 2019.As a clinician scientist, Dr. Winstons primary research areas of interest include microbe-host interactions during health and disease. She has a special interest in microbially derived bile acids and rational manipulation of microbial ecosystems including interventions such as fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT). Dr. Winston is chair of the international Companion Animal FMT Consortium, which is developing clinical guidelines for FMT. Since starting at the OSU, Dr. Winston has launched the Companion Animal Fecal Bank, which serves as a unique research platform to accelerate our study and translation of microbial community sciences into safe and effective clinical applications. Her laboratory is currently conducting two FMT clinical trials for feline obesity and canine parvovirus enteritis. In addition to Dr. Winstons veterinary microbiome research, she is also a recipient of an NIH NIAID K08 award focused on defining the role of the gut microbiota and the microbially derived secondary bile acids in conferring susceptibility and contributing to the severity of C. difficile infection during intestinal inflammation caused by inflammatory bowel disease.

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Jan Suchodolski

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Kenneth Simpson
Kenneth W. Simpson BVM, PhD, DipACVIM, DipECVIM-CAKenny Simpson graduated from Edinburgh in 1984, and gained a PhD in gastroenterology at the University of Leicester in1988. Internship at the University of Pennsylvania, (1989) and a medicine residency at THE Ohio State University (1991). Lecturer at the other Royal Veterinary College until 1995 when he joined the faculty at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. He is a Diplomate of the American and European Colleges of Veterinary Internal Medicine. He is a recipient of the National Phi Zeta and Pfizer awards for research, the BSAVA Bourgelat Award for outstanding contributions to the field of small animal practice,the AVMF/AKC Career Achievement Award in Canine Research and the WSAVA International Award for Scientific Achievement. He is a past-president of the comparative gastroenterology society. His research interests are centered below the diaphragm, with a focus on inflammatory diseases of the GI tract (including the pancreas and liver), host bacterial interactions in health and disease, and culture independent bacteriology.

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John Rowe
John is currently in the Clinician Investigator Program at The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. In this program, he is both a small animal internal medicine resident and PhD student. His PhD research focuses on the translational medical potential of host-microbe interactions. Prior to his current position, John completed a rotating small animal medicine and surgery internship at Cornell University. At the time of obtaining his DVM from The Ohio State University, John completed a concurrent masters degree focused on mucosal immunology with his thesis work devoted to improving mucosal vaccination strategies for respiratory pathogens.

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Jenessa Winston
Dr. Jenessa Winston is an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University. She received a Bachelor of Science in Integrated Biology from University of Florida in 2007. She then received her veterinary degree from North Carolina State University in 2011. She went on to complete a rotating small animal internship and residency in small animal internal medicine at NC State achieving board certification, as a diplomate in the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, in 2015. As a Clinical Investigator and NIH T32 fellow at NC State, Dr. Winston completed a PhD in Comparative Biomedical Sciences with an Infectious Disease concentration in 2019.As a clinician scientist, Dr. Winstons primary research areas of interest include microbe-host interactions during health and disease. She has a special interest in microbially derived bile acids and rational manipulation of microbial ecosystems including interventions such as fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT). Dr. Winston is chair of the international Companion Animal FMT Consortium, which is developing clinical guidelines for FMT. Since starting at the OSU, Dr. Winston has launched the Companion Animal Fecal Bank, which serves as a unique research platform to accelerate our study and translation of microbial community sciences into safe and effective clinical applications. Her laboratory is currently conducting two FMT clinical trials for feline obesity and canine parvovirus enteritis. In addition to Dr. Winstons veterinary microbiome research, she is also a recipient of an NIH NIAID K08 award focused on defining the role of the gut microbiota and the microbially derived secondary bile acids in conferring susceptibility and contributing to the severity of C. difficile infection during intestinal inflammation caused by inflammatory bowel disease.

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Kathrin Busch
Dr. Kathrin BuschDVM, Dr. med. vet.Dipl ECVIM-CA (Internal Medicine)Kathrin Busch completed her doctoral thesis about Acute hemorrhagic diarrhea syndrome at the Small Animal Clinic of the Ludwig Maximilians university in Munich, Germany. After an internship, she remained loyal to the small animal clinic and internal medicine and completed her residency in 2018. Since then, she has been working there as a senior physician and has rediscovered her love for gastroenterology. Her research focuses on the intestinal microbiome, its influence on other organ systems and fecal microbiota transplantation.

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John Rowe
John is currently in the Clinician Investigator Program at The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. In this program, he is both a small animal internal medicine resident and PhD student. His PhD research focuses on the translational medical potential of host-microbe interactions. Prior to his current position, John completed a rotating small animal medicine and surgery internship at Cornell University. At the time of obtaining his DVM from The Ohio State University, John completed a concurrent masters degree focused on mucosal immunology with his thesis work devoted to improving mucosal vaccination strategies for respiratory pathogens.

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Chih-Chun Chen
Chih-Chun Chen obtained her DVM diploma in Taiwan and now is pursuing Ph.D at Texas A&M Gastrointestinal Laboratory.

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Patrick Barko
After graduating from the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2013, I completed a small animal rotating internship and residency in small animal internal medicine at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine. My research is focused on the investigation of host-microbiome interactions in dogs and cats with chronic enteropathies.

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Benoit

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Yu-An Wu
Yu-An (Andy) is originally from Taiwan and received his DVM from National Taiwan University, Taiwan in 2018. He joined the Gastrointestinal Laboratory at Texas A&M University in 2019 to pursue his PhD in biomedical sciences with a research focus on feline pancreatic disease, under the guidance of Dr. Joerg Steiner. He is also pursuing a master's degree in statistical data science at Texas A&M University since 2023.

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Melanie Sidler
Since April 2023 I am pursuing my doctoral thesis in the Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine of Zurich under supervision of Prof. Dr. med. vet. Kook. The thesis is focusing on acute pancreatitis in dogs. During my studies, I was particularly interested in the clinical lectures in the field of small animal internal medicine, especially gastroenterology. I was impressed by the pathophysiological mechanisms of the various gastrointestinal diseases and the variety of clinical signs caused by them.In our prospective study, we include not only dogs suffering from acute pancreatitis but also dogs affected by acute idiopathic gastrointestinal disease in order to compare these clinically similar diseases. As part of my doctoral thesis, I am responsible for the inpatient care of the study patients including diagnostic work-up and therapeutic measures. This clinical work provides an exciting balance to my research work, which includes data collection and processing among other things, and enables me to fully assess the study patients during the course of their treatment. During the care of the study dogs, I am particularly fascinated by the potentially rapidly varying course of DGGR-lipase - from highly elevated to normal within only 24 hours.In addition to my research project and inpatient care of the study patients, I work in the gastrointestinal service which is headed by Prof. Dr. med. vet. Kook. This enables me to deal with other gastrointestinal disease pictures in addition to canine acute pancreatitis. Thereby, I am very fascinated by chronic enteropathies in cats and their possible progression into intestinal lymphomas.

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Marie Bigay
Dr. Marie BIGAY serves as a hospital assistant in medical imaging at the Veterinary School of Lyon (France). She worked in the internal medicine department for three years in Canada and France.Starting at the DMVet veterinary center in Montreal, she became interested in uronephrology, endocrinology, and gastroenterology. Her time at Fregis veterinary hospital in Paris refined her skills and dedication to patient care. Now, she uses advanced imaging technology to diagnose and treat animals. She's passionate about advancing veterinary medicine and educating others worldwide.

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Hugo Kaufmann
Graduated from the veterinary school of Lyon, France, in 2020, Hugo completed a rotating internship at the veterinary school of Alfort, France, and then specialized in internal medicine for 2 years before starting an ECVIM residency in January 2024 at the veterinary hospital center Fregisin Paris.

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Anja Freisleben
Anja Freisleben graduated in veterinary medicine in 2022 at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. She started working as a doctoral researcher at the Clinic of Small Animal Medicine, Ludwig- Maximilians-University Munich in the Department of Dermatology and Allergology in 2022. Her research focused on two areas: investigating the impact of dietary fiber on the microbiome of atopic dogs and studying the occurrence of clinical signs in Giardia-infected dogs. She is supervised by Dr. K. Busch and Prof. Dr. R. Mueller.