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.