ESVIM Oral Abstract Presenters Bio

ESVIM-O-1
Perrine Henry
Perrine graduated from the National Veterinary School of Toulouse (France). After two years of general practice in France, two rotating internships in the UK and the French Certificate of Advanced Practitioner in Small Animal Internal Medicine she started her ECVIM Residency at Edinburgh University in March 2022. Her research interests are broad but with the overall aim of bringing information useful to general practitioners.

ESVIM-O-2
Mathilde Vilcot
I graduated from the National Veterinary School of Alfort in 2020, then completed a rotating internship at the Languedocia Veterinary Hospital Center in Montpellier. Particularly interested in Internal Medicine, I continued my training with two years of specialized internship before starting a residency programm at the University of Liege.

ESVIM-O-3
Henriikka Neittaanmäki
Henriikka Neittaanmaki graduated from University of Helsinki in 2017 and has been working in small animal practice focusing on internal medicine patients. Henriikka completed rotating internship in 2019. She graduated from national Finnish small animal speciality program in 2022 and after that started her PhD project on Chronic inflammatory rhinitis in dogs. March 2024, she started ECVIM-CA Residency in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of the University of Helsinki.

ESVIM-O-4
Megan Grobman
Megan Grobman is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine with special interests in respiratory medicine, dysphagia, and respiratory biometrics. She completed specialty training, a masters degree, and PhD at the University of Missouri and was a part of the faculty from 2016-2019. Her PhD focused on aerodigestive diseases in small animal medicine. She is currently an assistant professor at Auburn University.

ESVIM-O-5
July Buton
July Buton graduated from Alfort national Veterinary School (ENVA, France) in 2021. After a one-year rotating internship, she worked as an assistant in the department of internal medicine in ENVA (1 year) and is curently assistant in internal medicine in ENVT (Toulouse, France).

ESVIM-O-6
Wei-Tao Chang
Wei-Tao (Joey) Chang was born and raised in Taiwan. He obtained his DVM degree from National Taiwan University in 2021. Joey received an award for residency training and clinical research from TACS-Alliance Research Center and is currently a third-year resident (PGY3) in Small Animal Respiratory Medicine/Integrated Cardiorespiratory Care, a training program under the categorical training track (small animal internal medicine with a focus on subspecialty respiratory and cardiovascular medicine) at National Taiwan University Veterinary Hospital and allied specialty networks. He also participates part-time in research projects supported by the National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan. His residency training is set to end in July 2024, after which he will register for the certification process of future Diplomate AiCVIM. Joey has been invited to be a clinical scholar at TACS-Alliance Research Center after completing his residency program. He will consistently engage in various projects aimed at impacting animal clinical medicine in Taiwan, provide assistance in mentoring junior residents and educating veterinary students, take good care of his lovely animal patients, participate in international research cooperation and exchange, travel, and explore the world. Outside of work, he loves to spend his spare time with his two dogs, Ralphie and Lumi, and is inspired daily by them.

ESVIM-O-7
Marta Parreño
Currently completing an internship in the Department of Internal Medicine.

ESVIM-O-8
Thibaud Robin
Graduation in 2018
General internship in small animal medicine at Ecole Veterinaire Nationale d'Alfort between 2018-2019
Specialized internship in Internal Medicine at Centre Hospitalier Veterinaire Fregis from 2019 to 2022
Beginning of ECVIM-CA Internal Medicine Residency in january 2022

ESVIM-O-9
Tiarni Johnston
Dr Tiarni Johnston received her degree from The University of Queensland in 2017 and went on to complete two internships in emergency/critical care and internal medicine. Following this, she worked in the emergency department of a bustling referral center located in sunny Queensland, Australia. Tiarni then moved across the country and started her residency in companion animal internal medicine in 2023 with Western Australian Veterinary Emergency and Specialty (WAVES).

ESVIM-O-10
Arthur Petitpre
As a graduate of Vetagrosup in Lyon Veterinary School in 2020, I completed my rotating internship at Anicura Nordvet Hospital in 2021 followed by a specialized internship in internal medicine in 2022 and a residency in internal medicine in 2023.

ESVIM-O-11
Pablo Reguera Burgos
Bachelor's degree in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Cordobain 2015. In 2016, he completed the Master's Degree in Small Animal Medicine at the University of Murcia. Pablo Reguera then returned to the University of Cordobato continue his training through a general rotating internship, where he began to develop a special interest in the field of internal medicine.
Pablo Reguera moved to Madrid in 2019 to put into practice all that he had learned. In 2020, he joined the team at A&UENA ESPECIALIDADES VETERINARIAS after being selected as a specialty intern in the Internal Medicine Service. Currently, Pablo is a resident of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine.

ESVIM-O-12
Sophie Broughton
Sophie completed her ACVIM residency in small animal internal medicine at the Royal Veterinary College in 2022 and continued working at the RVC as a research assistant and then as staff clinician in internal medicine until 2024. Her areas of interest include nephrology and urology, haematology, immunology and feline diabetes.

ESVIM-O-13
Emma Beriot
Emma graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Molecular Biology from McGill University in Canada in 2023. She is currently a research assistant at the Royal Veterinary College, London. As of September 2024, Emma is a graduate Veterinary Student at Surrey Veterinary School, UK.

ESVIM-O-14
Erika Meler
Dr Erika Meler is a Senior Lecturer and Registered Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine at the University of Queensland (UQ). Erika is the current President of the Special Interest Group in Education, Research and Academia of the Australian Veterinary Association. Erika graduated from the National veterinary school in Lyon, France, then performed an internship at the University of Montreal in Canada followed by a residency at Purdue University in the United States. She is a Diplomate of the American and European Colleges of Veterinary Medicine. Erika has worked in her career both in the private and academic settings, including the US, Canada and Autralia. Erika is currently working at the University of Queensland where she trains students and works alongside local referring veterinarians to enhance companion animal health. Erika's current academic activities encompass clinical teaching and management of referral cases at the UQ Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH), classroom teaching as well as clinical research. Erika has two main research areas of interest: investigating infectious diseases and antibacterial resistance in small animals and exploring how to best balance clinical teaching and patient workflow in VTHs.

ESVIM-O-15
Myriam Knopf
Myriam Knopf studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat in Munich, Germany and is currently writing her doctoral thesis at the Small Animal Clinic of the Freie Universitat Berlin.

ESVIM-O-16
Tarek Bouzouraa
ECVIM-CA Diplomate (2019)
ECVIM-CA Resident at VetAgro Sup Lyon (2014-2017)
Clinical Assistant at VetAgro Sup Lyon (2013-2014)
Rotating Intern at VetAgro Sup Lyon (2012-2013)