Reto Neiger
Prof., DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, Dipl. ECVIM-CA, PhD
Reto Neiger
Prof., DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, Dipl. ECVIM-CA, PhD
Reto Neiger erwarb 1988 das Staastexamen an der Universität Bern und arbeitete danach ein Jahr als Assistenzarzt in einer Gemimschtpraxis (Kühe, Pferde, Kleintiere) und ein Jahr als Doktorand (in Veterinärpathologie). Nach Internship und Residency in Innerer Medizin in Bern und Louisiana, USA, absolvierte er ein PhD in Bern am Inselspital zum Thema "Helicobacter-Infektionen bei Hunden und Katzen". Von 1999 bis 2003 war Reto Neiger Dozent am Royal Veterinary College in London, UK und von 2003 bis 2016 war er Professor und Leiter der Abteilung für Innere Medizin Kleintiere der Universität Gießen, Deutschland. Von 2017 bis Ende 2019 war er als Facharzt für Innere Medizin in der größten privaten Kleintierklinik Deutschlands in Hofheim tätig. Derzeit ist er Country Medical Director von Evidensia DACH (Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich), der größten Veterinärgruppe in Europa. Er ist Diplomat des American and European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine.
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Rhea Haralambus
DVM et scient., Dipl. ECVS
Rhea Haralambus
DVM et scient., Dipl. ECVS
Rhea Haralambus absolvierte das Studium der Veterinärmedizin von 1995-2001 an der VetMed Uni Wien und arbeitete zunächst parallel in der Zentralen Notambulanz der Kleintierklinik und in der Weichteilchirurgie der Pferdeklinik (-2003). Nach dem rotierenden Internship an der Pferdeklinik (2003/04) war sie zwei Jahre (2005/06) als Assistenzärztin in der Weichteilchirurgie tätig. Von 2007-2009 absolvierte sie ein ECVS Residency Programm an der Pferdechirurgie der Vetsuisse Fakultät Bern in der Schweiz. 2010 kehrte sie an die Wiener Pferdechirurgie zurück und absolvierte die Diplomprüfung 2012. Seit 2014 ist sie Oberärztin der Pferdechirurgie.
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Rhonda Ponder
RVN, AVN, DipVN(GP), DipVN(Surgery)
Rhonda Ponder
RVN, AVN, DipVN(GP), DipVN(Surgery)
Rhonda has been working in the veterinary industry for almost 20 years. She achieved her Cert IV in Veterinary Nursing in 2007; a Diploma in Veterinary Nursing (General Practice) in 2018; and a second Diploma in Veterinary Nursing (Surgery) in 2019. Rhonda has maintained unbroken Accreditation since 2009 and was one of the first nurses in Australia to become an AVNAT Registered Veterinary Nurse. Rhonda spent 12 years in general practice (including a stint in management) but made the move to emergency and speciality practice in late 2015, where she spent nine years as a full-time Surgical and Anaesthesia Nurse. This year Rhonda has taken on a temporary role in Learning and Development to further explore her love of training and education. In her spare time, Rhonda is a VNCA committee member for South Australia, a discussion board moderator for the ViN Veterinary Support Personnel Network, lectures and delivers workshops both locally and nationally, and is also a lead educator for several workshops with VetPrac. She was awarded VNCA Veterinary Nurse of the Year in 2023. Rhonda is passionate about advanced veterinary care and has a special interest in anaesthesia, surgery and critical care. She is a firm believer that there is always something new to learn in this industry, and actively seeks that new knowledge whenever she can.
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Richard Hammond
Prof., BSc(Herts), BVet Med(RVC), PhD(London), MedEd(Nott)
Richard Hammond
Prof., BSc(Herts), BVet Med(RVC), PhD(London), MedEd(Nott)
Qualifying as a veterinary surgeon in 1991, Richard Hammond has a broad experience across clinical, academic and commercial sectors having previously been a specialist in the area of veterinary anaesthesia and an academic clinician. He was awarded a first class honours degree in applied biology in 1987, a degree in veterinary medicine in 1991, a PhD in 1999 in the area of biochemical pharmacology and a masters in medical education in 2012. He holds both Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) and European Diplomas in Veterinary Anaesthesia. As well as having experience of clinical general veterinary practice, Richard has worked as part of the commercial operation of a major pharmaceutical company.
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Richard L’Estrange
BVSc (hons), MANZCVS (Vet Pharmacology)
Richard L’Estrange
BVSc (hons), MANZCVS (Vet Pharmacology)
Richard L’Estrange is a 1987 graduate of the University of Queensland. He worked in mixed and small animal practices in South East QLD and the UK before purchasing a Small Animal practice in Brisbane in 1996. Membership of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists in Veterinary Pharmacology was achieved in 2008. After 22 years of general practice he sold his practice and entered Industry in February 2010 as a Technical Services Veterinarian with what was then Pfizer Animal Health, but is now Zoetis. He is one of a team of vets within the Companion Animal Business of Zoetis Australia and been an integral part of the launches of many recent products in Australia, including Trocoxil.
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Richard Ploeg
DVM, BVSc, MACVSc, MPhil
Richard Ploeg
DVM, BVSc, MACVSc, MPhil
Graduating from the University of Sydney in 1996, Richard as an associate lecturer in veterinary pathology and anatomy at the University of Queensland, Queensland government's vet-erinary laboratory, Utrecht University in Holland and IDEXX in both Brisbane and Melbourne until 2014. He has just spent a year working as a pathologist at the University of Melbourne before joining ASAP Lab last year. Richard has a special interest in dermatopathology.
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Richard Rogenhofer
Mag. iur.
Richard Rogenhofer
Mag. iur.
Richard Rogenhofer ist Jurist, Mediator, Lehrbeauftragter, Persönlichkeits- und NLP-Trainer, Berater und Psychotherapeut in Ausbildung unter Supervision (KBT). Er ist im Rahmen von Aus- und Weiterbildungen sowie Coaching für Universitäten, Fachhochschulen, WIFIs etc. sowie bekannte Unternehmen (Brau Union Österreich AG, REWE etc.) tätig.
2008 – 2014: Vortragsreihe „vets4vets-Praxismanagement“ (VetMed Uni Wien), Vortrag „Kommunikation mit MitarbeiterInnen und KundInnen“; Kundenbetreuung und Praxismanagement-Beratung für vets4vets; Vorträge zu "Euthanasie und Trauerbegleitung in der tierärztlichen Praxis" u.a. beim 8. Frankfurter Tierärztekongress 2010
2000 – heute: Aus- und Weiterbildungen in den Bereichen Kommunikation, NLP, Rhetorik, Präsentations-, Argumentations-, Moderations-, Verhandlungs- und Konfliktvermittlungstechniken, Marketing, soziale Kompetenzen und Selbsterfahrung; Konfliktmanagement; Psychotherapie-Recht, Berufsethik; alpiner Skilauf
1993 – 2002: Studium der Rechtswissenschaften und Mediationsausbildung (Uni Wien); Konzipientenstelle; Gerichtspraxis
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Richard Saunders
BVSc, BSc, CertZooMed, DZooMed(Mammalian), MRCVS
Richard Saunders
BVSc, BSc, CertZooMed, DZooMed(Mammalian), MRCVS
Richard Saunders holds the RCVS certificate and diploma (Mammalian), in Zoological Medicine, and is the author of several chapters on exotics in BSAVA manuals, and co-author of Notes on Rabbit Internal Medicine. He is the RWAF Veterinary Adviser, and teaches Rabbit Medicine at the University of Bristol.
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Richard Squires
BVSc (Hons), PhD, DVR, Dip.ACVIM, Dip.ECVIM-CA, GCertEd
Richard Squires
BVSc (Hons), PhD, DVR, Dip.ACVIM, Dip.ECVIM-CA, GCertEd
Richard Squires leads the veterinary clinical sciences team at James Cook University in Townsville, northern Australia. Richard graduated as a veterinarian from Bristol University. After a short spell in general practice he obtained postgraduate clinical training at the Universities of Cambridge and Pennsylvania and research training at Glasgow. His PhD was awarded for research in which he sought a retroviral aetiology for canine lymphoma. He is a Diplomate of both the American and European Colleges of Veterinary Internal Medicine and he holds the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons’ Diploma of Veterinary Radiology. Richard held faculty positions at the Universities of Liverpool, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and at Massey University in New Zealand prior to taking up his current position in 2007. Throughout much of his career Richard has taught and assessed veterinary students in a clinical setting while providing referral clinical services in the broad discipline of canine and feline internal medicine. Most of his research has been on canine and feline infectious diseases. In addition, for five years in New Zealand, Richard taught and carried out research in veterinary virology. Richard is a member of the World Small Animal Veterinary Association’s eight-member Scientific Advisory Committee and of its four-member Vaccination Guidelines Group.
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Richard Woolley
BVetMed, DipECVIM-CA(Cardiology), MRCVS
Richard Woolley
BVetMed, DipECVIM-CA(Cardiology), MRCVS
Director of CardioRespiratory Pet Referrals, Richard Woolley BVetMed DipECVIM-CA (Cardiology) MRCVS is the only specialist veterinary cardiologist in Victoria, and one of only a handful registered specialist veterinary cardiologists in Australia. Richard has many years of experience in cardiology and respiratory medicine of all animals, from mice to gorillas. He has worked in academia and in private practice, lectured extensively, and his present focus is on specialist cardiorespiratory medicine of dogs and cats.
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Ricky Cashmore
DVM, BVSc, FANZCVS (SAS)
Ricky Cashmore
DVM, BVSc, FANZCVS (SAS)
Following graduation from the University of Melbourne (2005) Ricky worked in general practice for 18 months prior to completion of a rotating internship at the University of Cambridge, surgical internship at the Veterinary Specialist Centre and surgical residency at the Small Animal Specialist Hospital in Sydney (2010-2013). Ricky remained at SASH until 2017 before joining the Southpaws Speciality Surgery for Animals team in Melbourne (current practice).
Ricky is a Fellow of the Australian New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientist in Small Animal Surgery. He has published and presented around the world with a strong and active interest in clinical and biomechanical research relating to the canine hip, stifle and spine, the focus of his current and previous research projects. He is a past recipient of the prestigious VOS Wade O Brinker Orthopaedic Resident Research Award (presented WVOC, Colorado 2014) and previous examiner for the ANZCVS small animal surgical chapter. He thoroughly enjoys all aspects of teaching, having taught at numerous workshops and conferences nationally and internationally while mentoring many residents and interns over the years.
Ricky’s primary surgical interests lie in orthopaedics and include arthroscopy, partial and total joint replacement, minimally invasive fracture repair and neurosurgery.
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Rimini Quinn
DVM, BSVs (hons), MANZCVS (Veterinary Behaviour)
Rimini Quinn
DVM, BSVs (hons), MANZCVS (Veterinary Behaviour)
Rimini Graduated from the University of Queensland, Australia in 1995 and has worked in Adelaide then throughout southeast Queensland in small animal Veterinary practice with stints of animal refuge work. Fueled by her own problem animal and long-term interests she gained Membership with the ANZCVS in Veterinary Behaviour in 2016 and now runs Kind Animal Behaviour Services on the Sunshine Coast. She is a Fear Free Certified Practitioner and enjoys educating and being educated by clients, colleagues, and her patients. Rimini is Guardian to 3 cats, 2 rats, 2 bantams, 4 ducks and a very special Papillon.
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Rita Goncalves
DVM, MVM, DipECVN, FHEA, MRCVS
Rita Goncalves
DVM, MVM, DipECVN, FHEA, MRCVS
After working as a small animal practitioner in Yorkshire and undertaking an internship at the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket, Rita completed her residency in Neurology and Neurosurgery at the University of Glasgow. She became a European and RCVS Recognised Specialist in Neurology in 2008 and currently heads the Neurology and Neurosurgery service of the University of Liverpool where she works as a Senior Lecturer. Rita was the founding president of the British Veterinary Neurology Society (BVNS) and has been chairperson of the scientific and currently the credential committee of the European College of Veterinary Neurology (ECVN). She is currently undertaking a part-time PhD in identification of novel biomarkers in meningoencephalitis of unknown origin in dogs as she has a special interest in inflammatory conditions affecting the nervous system.
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Rob Silver
DVM, MS
Rob Silver
DVM, MS
Dr. Rob Silver, a 1982 graduate of Colorado State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine is the Chief Medical Officer of RxVitamins, a veterinary nutraceutical company that sells exclusively to licensed veterinary practitioners, is the past president of the Veterinary Botanical Medical Association, a former board member of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association, the author of the book, Medical Marijuana and Your Pet, and currently is contributing to a chapter on Veterinary Nutraceuticals: Cannabis in a veterinary textbook soon to be published by Springer.
Dr. Silver established one of the first integrative veterinary practices in Boulder Colorado, where he pioneered herbal and dietary approaches to many of the more difficult chronic conditions seen in veterinary practice. As an herbalist and integrative veterinarian in Colorado since the early 80’s, Dr. Silver was able to observe first-hand the benefits of many herbal and nutraceutical approaches to pet health including the use of cannabinoid therapeutics in pets.
Dr. Silver has provided post-graduate education to veterinarians for the past 20 years, writes a blog for pet parents, has served on a Stakeholder’s commission for the Colorado Department of Agriculture to determine the suitability of industrial hemp for animal feed in Colorado, is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hemp Industries Association Research Foundation, and is currently working with the Hemp Industries Association to submit a Feed Additive Petition to FDA-CVM for hemp.
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Rob Webster
BVSc (hons), FANZCVS (emergency medicine and critical care)
Rob Webster
BVSc (hons), FANZCVS (emergency medicine and critical care)
Rob Webster graduated from The University of Queensland in 2000. He went straight into emergency practice at the Animal Emergency Centre in Brisbane and never left! Rob embarked on a training program in emergency medicine and critical care under the guidance of Prof Steve Haskins in 2006. As well as studying towards his Australian certification, Rob started the Animal Emergency Service in 2005. Rob passed the fellowship examinations and registered as a veterinary specialist in 2014. Animal Emergency Service currently has 5 practices on The Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, and Perth. Robs clinical interests are mechanical ventilation and critical care of patients with tick paralysis (Ixodes holocyclus).
