Speakers
PETE MANTIS
Dick White Referrals
About
- European Specialist in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging
- RCVS-Recognised Specialist in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging
- Honorary Associate Professor, University of Nottingham
Panagiotis (Pete) Mantis graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1994. He completed a Diagnostic Imaging Residency at the Royal Veterinary College and then worked in first opinion practices and referral hospitals in London. He spent a year at the Swedish Agricultural University in Uppsala and in 2000 he moved to the Royal Veterinary College. He became Senior Lecturer in Radiology and remained at RVC until joining DWR in 2017. In 2019, he was appointed Head of Diagnostic Imaging. Pete is a European and RCVS Specialist in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. He is a regular author, speaker and CPD tutor on small animal radiology, ultrasonography, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.
Publications
LUCA FERASIN
DVM PhD CertVC PGCert(HE) DipECVIM-CA (Cardiology) GPCert(B&PS) FRCVS
European & RCVS Specialist in Veterinary Cardiology
Specialist Veterinary Cardiology Consultancy (SVCC Ltd), Hampshire, UK
About
Luca graduated with honours in 1992 from the University of Bologna (Italy). After 3 years research in endocrinology at the BBSRC Institute in Cambridge, he was awarded his PhD in 1996. Following 3 years as Assistant Professor at Padua University (Italy), Luca moved to Bristol University, where he taught cardio-respiratory medicine of the dog and cat for more than 6 years. In 2005-2007, he was Associate Professor in Cardiology at the University of Minnesota (USA). He returned to the UK in 2008 to set up an independent cardiology company (Specialist Veterinary Cardiology Consultancy/ SVCC Ltd) providing cardiology services in various referral institutions, as well as offering telemedicine service and post-graduate teaching. He obtained the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) certificate in cardiology in 2001, the certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education in 2002, the ECVIM diploma (cardiology) in 2004 and a Certificate in Business & Professional Studies in 2011. In 2019, Luca was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for his Meritorious Contributions to Clinical Practice. Luca has also vastly contributed to the veterinary literature with more than 100 articles, abstracts, and book chapters, including the chapter on coughing in the two latest editions of Ettinger’s textbook of Internal Medicine. He also acted as chairman of the ECVIM examination committee and was member of the RCVS examination board and BSAVA congress committee. Luca is a regular speaker in Europe, USA and Asia. His main professional interests include feline cardiology, exercise physiology, interventional cardiology, as well as investigation and clinical management of syncope and coughing.
ESTHER KLOK
Paraveterinair and Fear Free certified Elite.
About
Passion for her job as a vet-tech brought her so much more than her super job at vet clinic Winsum already for 28 years. Becoming vet-tech of the year in the Netherlands was a trigger to see if there were more possibility’s for a vet-tech. Now she also has besides her full-time job in the clinic, her own company; Improve On the Move. It allows her to do national and international all the things she loves.
Speaking, teaching, training and write articles for magazines. She loved to organise 4 conferences for vets and vet techs and 3 wet-labs. Also it allowed her to write a few articles in Today's veterinary technician. Lecturing on conferences and training sessions in the Netherlands, Dubai, South-Africa, Finland and Peru, and Belgium. And of course on-line webinars started in 2020 for her. Making connection on that way to vets and techs in Russia, Czech republic, Slovakia and for IVSA worldwide was a great opportunity.
One of the topics she loves the most to speak about is; Fear Free. It changed her daily life as a full time vet-tech and as an animal owner. Less stress, fear and anxiety is something that made her life so much better and that is something she wants to share, and inspire people to join the world of the Fear Free way of living together with animals. Because of her daily job as a vet-tech she stays up-dated about what’s new in our vet-clinics.
JACK LAWSON
ABOUT
EDUCATION
2017-2020 Royal Veterinary College - Master of Veterinary Medicine, Diploma in Small Animal Internal Medicine
2013-2017 Royal Veterinary College - PhD Studentship “Transforming growth factor ß1 and its relationship with phosphate homeostasis in feline CKD”
2004-2009 Royal Veterinary College - Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021- Queen Mother Hospital for Animals – Lecturer in small animal medicine
2020-2021 Queen Mother Hospital for Animals – Staff clinician in small animal medicine
2017-2020 Queen Mother Hospital for Animals – Residency in small animal internal medicine
2013 -2019 Cromwell Veterinary Group – Assistant veterinary surgeon
2011 -2012 Queen’s Veterinary School Hospital - Rotating internship
2009 - 2011 Mercer and Hughes Veterinary Surgeons – Assistant veterinary surgeon
SELECTED CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
Lawson, J.S., Syme, H.M., Karttunen, J.M., Stewart, S.E., Karet Frankl, F.E., Williams, T.L. (2021) Isolation of urinary extracellular vesicles from healthy cats and cats with chronic kidney disease [Abstract], 2021 ACVIM Forum Research Abstract Program. J Vet Intern Med, 35: 2943–3079
Lawson, J.S., Syme, H.M., Purcell, R., Wheeler-Jones, C.P.D., Elliott, J. (2017) Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 (FGF-23) Regulates HK-2 Cell Proliferation, Migration, and Response to TGF-β1 [Abstract] J Am Soc Nephrol 28, 2017: 1016.
Lawson, J.S., Syme, H.M., Purcell, R., Wheeler-Jones, C.P.D., Elliott, J. (2016) The Cat as a Model of Renal Interstitial Fibrosis: Characterisation of Primary Cultures of Feline Tubular Epithelial Cells [Abstract]. J Am Soc Nephrol 27: 671A.
Lawson, J.S., Syme, H.M., Wheeler-Jones, C.P.D., Elliott, J. (2016) Investigation of a cell culture model for the study of fibrosis in the feline kidney [Abstract], Research Communications of the 25th ECVIM-CA Congress. J Vet Intern Med, 30: 348–439.
Lawson, J.S., Syme, H.M., Wheeler-Jones, C.P.D., Elliott, J. (2015) Urinary Active TGF- β1 in Feline Chronic Kidney Disease [Abstract], 2015 ACVIM Forum Research Abstract Program. J Vet Intern Med, 29: 1122–1256.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Lawson, J.S., Syme, H.M., Antrobus, P.R., Karttunen, J.M., Stewart, S.E., Karet Frankl, F.E., Williams, T.L. (2023) Urinary extracellular vesicles as a source of protein-based biomarkers in feline chronic kidney disease and hypertension. Journal of Small Animal Practice, 64(1), 3–11.
Lawson, J.S., Syme, H.M., Wheeler-Jones, C.P.D., Elliott, J. (2021) Investigation of the transforming growth factor-beta 1 signalling pathway as a possible link between hyperphosphataemia and renal fibrosis in feline chronic kidney disease, The Veterinary Journal, 267: 105582
Lawson, J.S., Jepson, R.E. (2021) Feline comorbidities: The intermingled relationship between chronic kidney disease and hypertension, Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, 23(9), 812-822
Lawson, J.S., Syme, H.M., Wheeler-Jones, C.P.D., Elliott, J. (2019) Characterisation of Crandell-Rees Feline Kidney (CRFK) cells as mesenchymal in phenotype. Research in Veterinary Science, 127, 99-102
Lawson, J.S., Liu, H.H., Syme, H.M., Purcell, R., Wheeler-Jones, C.P.D., Elliott, J. (2018) The cat as a naturally occurring model of renal interstitial fibrosis: Characterisation of primary feline proximal tubular epithelial cells and comparative pro-fibrotic effects of TGF-β1. PLoS ONE, 13(8), e0202577
Lawson, J.S., Syme, H.M., Wheeler-Jones, C.P.D., Elliott, J. (2018) Characterisation of feline renal cortical fibroblast cultures and their transcriptional response to transforming growth factor β1, BMC Veterinary Research, 14(1), 76
Lawson, J.S., Syme, H.M., Wheeler-Jones, C.P.D., Elliott, J. (2016) Urinary active transforming growth factor beta in feline chronic kidney disease, The Veterinary Journal, 214, 1-6
Lawson, J.S., Elliott, J., Wheeler-Jones, C.P.D., Syme, H., Jepson, R. (2015) Renal fibrosis in feline chronic kidney disease: Known mediators and mechanisms of injury, The Veterinary Journal, 203, 18-26
NIKOLA KATIĆ
European Specialist in Small Animal Surgery
ABOUT
EDUCATION:
Residency ECVS: Vetmeduni Vienna, Austria; Supervision Prof. Dr. Gilles Dupré, DECVS
Doctorate: Vetmeduni Vienna, Austria;
Undergraduate studies: Veterinary Faculty, Belgrade Serbia and Vetmeduni Vienna, Austria
CURRENT POSITION:
Owner and Head Surgeon of Fachtierärzte Althangrund - Veterinary Specialists referral center in Vienna, Austria
PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
Head of Surgery at VetChirurgie
Head of Surgery at the AniCura Tierklinik Hollabrunn, Austria
Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery, Clinic for Small Animal Surgery, University Teaching Hospital for
Small Animals, Department for Small Animals and Horses, Vetmeduni Vienna, Austria
SPECIALTY:
Consummate small animal surgeon (soft tissue, orthopaedics, neurosurgery) with special emphasis on minimal invasive surgery (laparoscopy, thoracosopy) as well as advanced orthopaedic procedures (arthroscopy, TPLO, fracture management)
RESEARCH FIELD:
Minimally Invasive Surgery
Use of Antibiotics in Surgery
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Autor and Co-Autor of various publications in the field of small animal surgery. Reviewer in
several relevant veterinary journals.
Speaker and instructor at different international conferences and courses (basic and advanced).
Husband and father of two boys.