Speakers

He graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW) in 2005. Until 2024, he worked at the Sfora 24-Hour Veterinary Clinic in Warsaw, where he gained extensive experience treating patients with a wide range of internal medicine conditions, both chronic cases and those requiring emergency and inpatient care. His particular areas of interest and everyday clinical practice include hematology, biopsy diagnostics, and oncology, with a primary focus on the cytomorphological evaluation of blood and the treatment of oncology patients. He places great emphasis on continuous professional development in these fields, regularly attending postgraduate courses and symposia and drawing on advances in human medicine, including the expertise and scientific achievements of the Polish Society of Haematologists and Transfusiologists. He completed the first edition of the veterinary hematology course offered by the European School for Advanced Veterinary Studies (ESAVS). For more than 17 years, he has performed diagnostic and interventional endoscopic procedures involving the gastrointestinal tract, including gastroscopy and colonoscopy, as well as the respiratory tract, including laryngoscopy and bronchoscopy. As an author or co-author, he has contributed to articles on hematology, oncology, and endoscopy published in professional veterinary literature.

She graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Warsaw in 2007. In 2012, she became a certified Specialist in Veterinary Laboratory Diagnostics. Hematology holds a particularly important place in her professional practice. Every day, she continues to be fascinated by this microscopic world and by how much blood can reveal about a patient. She is a practicing veterinary internist with a particular passion for hematology. For many years, she worked as an internist and later as a hematology consultant at Jacek Bany’s veterinary clinic, Bokserska Veterinary Clinic, and SpecVet Veterinary Clinic in Warsaw. She also served as the head of the ALAB veterinary laboratory for 12 years. Since 2024, she has been seeing patients at her own veterinary clinic, Hemateam-vet, which she co-founded with Dr Sebastian Borowik with the aim of providing patients with the highest standard of comprehensive veterinary care.

Dr Guillaume Domain is a Diplomate of the European College of Animal Reproduction (ECAR) and is responsible for the small animals reproduction team at Ghent University, Belgium. He holds a PhD in canine sperm cryopreservation and combines clinical work, teaching and research in small animal reproduction. Alongside his academic activities, he is also the founder of Optimize Freezing, a veterinary service dedicated to semen preservation, semen shipment and assisted reproduction.

Born in Barcelona in 1969, he holds a degree in Veterinary Medicine and a PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is a Diplomate of the European College of Animal Welfare and Behavioural Medicine. From 2010 to 2025, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Forensic Medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In 2012, alongside his academic role, he was appointed Director of the Affinity Foundation Chair for Animals and Health at the same department, a position he continues to hold. In 2025, he advanced to the position of Distinguished Researcher in the department. He is the co-founder of Ethometrix Ltd. and Director of Ethogroup, a behavioural medicine referral service based in Barcelona. Since 2023, he has been Head of Behavioural Medicine and Animal Welfare at VetPartners Iberia. His research interests focus on understanding the relationships between people and animals, developing tools to assess canine and feline behaviour, and conducting comparative studies of human psychiatric disorders and behavioural problems in companion animals.

Graduated in veterinary medicine in 2011 at Cardenal Herrera-CEU University, Valencia, Spain. Subsequently, he obtained a master’s degree in biology and biotechnology of mammalian reproduction in 2012 from the University of Murcia, Spain. In the following years he worked at the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona where he obtained his PhD at the end of 2016 on the transfer of water and sugars through the uterus and placenta in different stages of pregnancy of the cat. In the following years he was focused much more on the daily clinic with particular interest in reproductive endocrinology. From 2017 to 2020 he was resident at the European College of Animal Reproduction of the University of Padua, Italy, under the supervision of Dr. Stefano Romagnoli and became an ECAR Diplomate (EBVS certificate) in November 2021. Since January 2021 he coordinates the Reproduction and Pediatrics Unit of the San Marco Veterinary Clinic and Laboratory in Padua, Italy. In recent years he has collaborated with Virbac and Royal Canin in several training courses, congresses and product launches both in Europe and in Latin American countries. Today he is part of the board of the European Society of Small Animal Reproduction (EVSSAR) and he is the author of 19 scientific publications in indexed journals. His main interests in both clinical and research are focused on reproductive endocrinology, prostatic pathologies and control of reproduction.

Tadeusz Frymus graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW) in 1974. That same year, he began his academic career at the Faculty as a clinician, researcher, and lecturer in animal infectious diseases. From 1984 to 1986, as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he completed a research fellowship in Hanover, West Germany. Since the early 1990s, his main clinical and scientific interests have focused on viral diseases of cats, including feline leukemia, FIP, and rabies, as well as infectious diseases of dogs, including canine distemper and other conditions. His research interests also encompass post-vaccination immunity in both species. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Small Animal Diseases with Clinic at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW). In 1995, he established a postgraduate specialization program for veterinarians in “Diseases of Dogs and Cats,” which he subsequently headed for 25 years. In 2005, he was invited to join the European Advisory Board on Cat Diseases (ABCD), an international panel of experts in feline infectious diseases, of which he remains an active member. The Board develops evidence-based guidelines for veterinary practitioners on the diagnosis, prevention, and management of major feline infectious diseases. For more than 20 years, he has also served as a scientific consultant to the editorial board of Magazyn Weterynaryjny. Drawing on his extensive clinical experience, Professor Frymus has authored and co-authored several textbooks for veterinary students and practitioners, including: Frymus T., 1997: Choroby zakaźne kotów; Frymus T., 1999: Choroby zakaźne psów; Frymus T., 2005: Wirusowe, bakteryjne, grzybicze i prionowe choroby kotów. He is also a co-author of Canine Infectious Diseases – Self-Assessment Color Review (2018), edited by K. Hartmann and J. Sykes and published by CRC Press.

Dr Levy started his specialisation by an internship in dog and cat internal medicine and surgery in Alfort Vetschool in 2003. Then, he did his residency in reproduction under the supervision of Alain Fontbonne and in parallel be involved as a clinician in urology-nephrology in the medicine department of Alfort vet school until 2007. In 2006, he became the head of CERCA (Center of Research and Clinics in Small Animal Reproduction, ENVA). In 2007, he became ECAR diplomate. He was elected (2010) in the European Board of Small Animal Reproduction (EVSSAR). Dr Levy is President of the French Veterinary Society of Small Animal Reproduction, Breeding and Genetics since 2012 (GERES, AFVAC). He is member of the Reproduction Council of the French Kennel Club. Since his residency, he is deeply involved in clinical research as schedule C-section, prostatitis diagnosis, BPH blood markers (ODELIS CPSE® test), wild felids intra-uterine insemination (CRESAM), pediatric surgery and breeding soundness. In 2008, he associated with Dr Mimouni (past-president of GERES) and developed the first private center dedicate to reproduction and pediatrics in dogs and cats in South of France (CRECS). He is still very involved in veterinarian education through a website (www.vetreproduction.com), teaching in French vet schools, and regular lectures/workshops in France and Europe.

A graduate of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences. Since graduation, he has been a faculty member at the Department and Clinic of Surgery at his alma mater, where he combines research and teaching with clinical practice. He is a specialist in veterinary surgery and works as a clinical surgeon on a daily basis. He is the author and co-author of numerous scientific articles and conference presentations and has participated in many research projects. In collaboration with leading surgeons in human medicine, he has introduced proven laparoscopic surgical techniques into veterinary practice and developed new minimally invasive surgical procedures.

Dr. Tal is lecturer at the Department of Animal Science at Tel-Hai University in-the-making, as well as a senior clinical lecturer and the head of the Small Animal Theriogenology department at the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine at the Hebrew University. She earned her B.Sc. (1987) in biology from the Hebrew University, her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (1992) from the University of Guelph, her diplomacy in animal reproduction from the American College of Theriogenologists (2011) and the European College for Animal Reproduction (2014), and her Ph.D. at the Hebrew University for external review (2022). Her current areas of research are pregnancy/periparturient period in the dog (mainly fetal fluid) and in canine neonates (focusing on fading puppy syndrome), as well as wildlife reproduction as a platform for species conservation, mainly in the Eurasian otter and Assisted Reproductive Techniques in bats. Dr. Tal is a past president of the ECAR Exam Committee and a member of the Scientific council of the Israeli Veterinary Medical Association, as well as supervises graduate students in both institutes.