Dr. Robert Goggs graduated in 2004 and completed an internship and residency in Emergency and Critical Care at the RVC, London and became board-certified by the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care in 2008. He became a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care in 2015. Dr. Goggs was faculty at the RVC for 2 years before moving to the University of Bristol to undertake a PhD in platelet biology. After completing his PhD, Dr. Goggs joined the ECC team at Cornell University in 2013 and is currently an Associate Professor. In 2014, Dr. Goggs chaired an effort to standardize viscoelastic testing in veterinary medicine; he was Chair of the ACVECC Examination Committee from 2014-16; he is a member of ACVECC CURATIVE initiative and part of the ACVIM Consensus Committees for immune-mediated hemolytic anemia and immune thrombocytopenia. Dr. Goggs sits on the Board of Directors of the Veterinary and Comparative Clinical Immunology Society.

Dr. Mackin is Professor and Head of the Department of Clinical Sciences as Mississippi State University. Dr. Mackin is a graduate of Murdoch University, and is an ACVIM Diplomate (Small Animal Internal Medicine).   Research interests:  Clinical and research focus on hematology, hemostasis, immunosuppressive therapy and transfusion medicine.

Mayank qualified in 2004 and spent 2 years in first opinion practice before pursuing further training. He undertook a Fellowship in Hematology and Hemostasis an an Internal Medicine Residency at The University of Pennsylvania before returning to the UK. Mayank has worked in a variety of clinics, including the renowned Animal Health Trust, where he was Head of Internal Medicine and Clinical Director, as well as a number of private Specialist hospitals. He is currently a founding partner and the Clinical Director of Stansted Veterinary Specialists, a new independent referral clinic.

Mayank has a strong interest in hematology, particularly immunohematology. He has previously overseen a large veterinary blood bank, has conducted and published many studies in the field, regularly speaks on the subject nationally and internationally and has contributed to international guidelines on transfusion medicine. He has a dog called Steve.

Jane Sykes is a Professor of Small Animal Medicine at the University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine with a special interest in small animal infectious diseases. She obtained her veterinary degree and PhD in veterinary microbiology at the University of Melbourne in Australia, her residency in small animal internal medicine at the University of Minnesota, an MBA degree from the University of Georgia in 2020, and most recently a Graduate Certificate in Public Health at Kansas State University. She is Board-Certified in the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, and joined the faculty at UC Davis in 2002. She has coauthored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, is the editor of the Elsevier textbook “Canine and Feline Infectious Diseases” and the editor of the 5th edition of Greene’s Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat. She co-founded the International Society of Companion Animal Infectious Diseases (ISCAID), was the first President of that Society, and is currently Secretary-Treasurer of ISCAID. She was President of the ACVIM Specialty of Small Animal Internal Medicine from 2012-2015, Associate Editor (Infectious Diseases) of the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine and is currently Chair of the ACVIM Board of Regents. Her research interests are focused on infectious diseases of dogs and cats that have public health significance.