Dr. Boscan obtained his DVM degree in 1996 from a veterinary school in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. After a small animal anesthesia internship at Utrecht University, Netherlands, he did his neuroscience MSc at University of Andalucia (Spain) with a strong emphasis on pain processing. Dr. Boscan obtained his PhD at University of Bristol, UK and concentrated his efforts in studying the CNS integration of pain, cardiovascular and respiratory systems. After his PhD, he returned to veterinary medicine and did an anesthesia residency at UC Davis. Dr. Boscan worked as an anesthesia clinical fellow for 1 year at UC Davis and then accepted an assistant professor position at Colorado State University. Since 2006, he has been a faculty member at CSU (anesthesia department) with a current positions of Professor and CSU anesthesia service chief, overseeing a  team of 7 anesthesiologists and over 30 anesthetists.

Peter graduated from the University of Munich (Germany) after studies in Pisa (Italy) and Munich.  Thereafter he completed a Doctorial degree at the University of Pisa while working in a busy small animal referral center in tuskany where he developed his love for Anaesthesia, Analgesia and Intensive Care. He went on to train at the Brigham and Women’s Research Center in Boston (MA,USA) and completed his residency at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA) where he stayed on as a junior faculty member. From there he conducted research and teaching projects in Viet Nam and on Guam Island.

He moved further west to become a lecturer in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at the University of California (Davis, CA, USA). Coming back to Europe he worked for the University of Berne (Switzerland)and completed a Swiss Thesis as well as his European Specialty Boards.  In 2006 , together with Urs Schatzmann, he founded VAS as the first internationally available Anaesthesia and Analgesia Specialty Service outside the USA. Numerous research, teaching and clinical collaborations have arose since then, but Peter also works for the University of Zürich and is Group leader for Experimental Anaesthesia and Analgesia in the CABMM (Center for Applied Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine), a joint Competence Center of the ETH and the University of Zürich.

Peter is also very involved in the professional organisation of Anaesthesia and Analgesia around the world as he is current President of the AVA, Member of the Board of Directors of the IVAPM, President of the IVAPM Research and Scholarship Foundation, honorary secretary of the IASP Special intersest group for non-human species and member of the WSAVA’s Global Pain Council.

Ioannis Savvas has graduated from the School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He gained his Doctoral Diploma on Veterinary Anaesthesia from the same School. He has been employed in Aristotle University since 2002.

Ioannis Savvas has been educated/trained at the Cornell University Hospital for Animals, College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, NY, USA; at the Klinik für Anästhesiologie und periopera tive Intensivmedizin, Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien, Austria; and at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium.

His main duties at the School of Veterinary Medicine are teaching in pre- and post-graduate students, giving lectures in local and international conferences, and anaesthesia training via continues and life-long education projects to practitioners.

His research activity is in the topics of gastro-oesophageal reflux during anaesthesia, peri-oper ative analgesia, shock, trans-diaphragmatic pressure measurement, and pulmonary atelectasis. He also runs the “Pain Service” at the Companion Animal Clinic of the School of Veterinary Medicine.

Dr. Katie Tolbert completed her small animal internal medicine residency and Ph.D. at North Carolina State University. She is an associate professor in the Gastrointestinal Laboratory at Texas A&M University and is a member of the Dog Aging Project consortium. She completed an alternate-track residency in small animal nutrition at the University of Tennessee. Her clinical interests and research program are focused on the treatment of acute and chronic gastrointestinal diseases in dogs and cats. She was the recipient of the Zoetis Award for Veterinary Research Excellence and is an author on over 100 peer-review publications.