Bridging ECC and Internal Medicine: Advanced Knowledge for Urgent Patient Care

Course Leader
Shane Bateman, DVM, DVSc, DACVECC, MSc Veterinary Forensic Science
Associate Professor, University of Guelph

Dr. Bateman graduated from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in 1991 and earned a DVSc in Emergency/Critical Care from the Ontario Veterinary College. He was a faculty member at The Ohio State University, where he developed a clinical service and residency program. Now a Professor at OVC, he specializes in Emergency/Critical Care, animal welfare, and forensic veterinary science, earning an MSc from the University of Florida in 2022. His work focuses on improving veterinary communication, expanding access to care for underserved communities, and bridging veterinary medicine with forensic science to support legal investigations and animal protection.

Alexa Bersenas, BSc, DVM, MSc, DACVECC
Professor, University of Guelph

Dr. Bersenas is a Professor at the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC), University of Guelph, Canada where she has been the Chief of the Emergency & Critical Care Service since 2008.  She completed a residency in Emergency & Critical Care alongside a Masters in Science. She has trained DVM and graduate students for nearly 20 years. She enjoys mentoring all levels of trainees and participating in continuing education nationally and internationally.  Dr. Bersenas’ clinical interests include fluid delivery and respiratory medicine specifically supporting small animal patients in respiratory distress. She has a fondness for feline medicine and promoting patient-centered care. 

Søren Boysen, DVM, DACVECC

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Serge Chalhoub, BSc (Hons), DVM, DACVIM (SAIM)
Professor, University of Calgary

Dr. Chalhoub graduated from the DVM program at the Faculté de médecine vétérinaire (FMV) of the Université de Montréal in 2004. Serge followed this with a one-year rotating small animal clinical internship at the same institution. After working for two years as a general practitioner and emergency veterinarian in Montreal, Serge pursued a residency in small animal internal medicine at the Animal Medical Center (AMC) in New York City. Once his residency completed in 2009 he stayed on at the AMC as their first renal/hemodialysis fellow and then as a staff doctor. Dr. Chalhoub has been a faculty member at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCVM) since 2012 and currently holds the rank of Professor Teaching. He was the recipient of the 2021 and 2013 Canadian Veterinary Medical Association’s Teacher of the Year Award, the 2015 University of Calgary Team Teacher of the Year Award, the 2017 Carl J. Norden Distinguished Teacher Award, and is a 2024 3M National Teaching Fellowship recipient recognizing Canada’s outstanding teachers. Serge is the coordinator of a community outreach-service learning program (UCVM-CUPS Pet Health Clinic) for disadvantaged Calgarians. He has authored and co-authored numerous scientific articles and book chapters on veterinary point of care ultrasound, GI, renal and urinary medicine, and lectures around the world on these topics. Drs. Chalhoub, Søren Boysen and Kris Gommeren published The Essentials of Veterinary Point of Care Ultrasound: Pleural Space and Lung in 2022 (available on amazon.com or Edra Publishing). He is a Council Member for the Alberta Veterinary Medical Association.

Marilyn Dunn, MVSc, DMV, DACVIM (SAIM)

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JD Foster, VMD, MS, DACVIM (SAIM), DACVCP

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Robert Goggs, BVSc, DACVECC, DECVECC, PhD, MRCVS
Associate Professor, E/CC, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine

Dr. Goggs is a small animal emergency and critical care specialist. He has a PhD in Pharmacology and is currently an Associate Professor in the Section of ECC at Cornell University. Dr. Goggs spends his time working with the Comparative Coagulation Laboratory. His research interests include hemostasis and thrombosis, sepsis, and antimicrobial pharmacology. Dr. Goggs was part of the CURATIVE initiative, the ACVIM IMHA and ITP consensus committees, and is currently working to develop consensus definitions for sepsis in small animals.

Julien Guillaumin, DVM, DACVECC, DECVECC
Associate Professor Emergency and Critical Care, Colorado State University

Dr Guillaumin is a Tenured Professor in Emergency and Critical Care at Colorado State University. After graduating from the National Veterinary School of Nantes, France, Dr Guillaumin pursued a small animal rotating internship at the National Veterinary School of Alfort, near Paris, France. After graduation, he worked in both private practice emergency settings and academia for several years before moving to the US in early 2000s. Dr Guillaumin continued his advanced training in Emergency and Critical Care by working as a clinical instructor at Cornell University and then completed his ACVECC residency at the University of California, Davis. After his residency, Dr Guillaumin was a clinician, teacher and researcher at the Ohio State University for 10 years. There, he also acted as the Blood Bank Director. In 2015, Dr Guillaumin was recognized as an invited diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. Since 2019, Dr Guillaumin has a faculty member at Colorado State University. His clinical and research interests include thrombosis and thrombolysis, point-of-care ultrasound, hemostasis, blood banking, transfusion medicine, sepsis and septic shock.  Dr Guillaumin is a former Chair of the ACVECC residency training committee and the Joint Committee, as well as a member of the ECVECC Education Committee. 

Tiffany Jagodich, DVM, DVSc, DACVECC
Founding Criticalist, Medical Director of Trauma and ECC, Boundary Bay Veterinary Specialty Hospital 

Dr. Jagodich completed her veterinary degree at the Ontario Veterinary College. She then finished a rotating internship at Tufts University and then returned to the University of Guelph for her residency in emergency and critical care; as well as a graduate degree focusing on respiratory physiology and high flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy in dogs. She is the founding criticalist for a private practice, Boundary Bay Veterinary Specialty Hospital, in British Columbia, Canada and provides critical care services across Canada. Her areas of interest include respiratory medicine, mechanical ventilation, blood banking, trauma and much more.

Fiona M.K. James, DVM, MSc., DVSc., ACVIM (Neurology)
Professor Chief Neurology and Neurosurgery Service, University of Guelph  

Dr. James, a veterinary neurologist, earned a Master’s in Neuroscience before completing her DVM and DVSc at the Ontario Veterinary College, which she later joined as faculty. Private and academic practice experience drives her interest in the accurate and rapid diagnosis of canine epilepsy and improvements on the therapeutic options available. Her internationally recognized research program explores veterinary electroencephalography, epilepsy, and related neurophysiological factors.

Patricia Rosenstein, DVM, DACVECC
Head of ECC Department, SASH Gold Coast, Queensland

Dr. Rosenstein graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College in 2008. She worked in a private emergency hospital before moving to Melbourne, Australia to work at the University of Melbourne. She subsequently completed her residency in Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care at the University of Melbourne and became a diplomate of ACVECC in 2017. Since then, she has worked in both private and academic practice in Canada and Australia. She is currently head of the ECC department at SASH Gold Coast in Queensland and is also a casual clinical academic at the University of Queensland. When not at work, Dr. Rosentstein enjoys having adventures with her three little girls. 

Michael Schaer, DVM, DACVIM (SAIM), DACVECC
Professor Emeritus, Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, University of Florida

Dr. Schaer received his D.V.M. degree from the University of Illinois in 1970. He then went to the Animal Medical Center (AMC) in New York City, where he served as an intern and a medicine resident between 1970-73. After the residency, he remained at the AMC as a staff member in the Department of Medicine until 1977. He then joined a private small animal practice in New Jersey until late 1978, when he joined the faculty at the University of Florida, College of Veterinary Medicine where he has remained until now. He has published several papers and book chapters and lectured nationally and internationally. Dr. Schaer is also the author of five textbooks: Clinical Medicine of the Dog and Cat – 1^st-4th editions and Clinical Signs in Small Animal Medicine, 1^st and 2^nd editions. Dr. Schaer functions mainly as a clinician and teacher at UF. His previous UF professional duties included:  Professor and Associate Chairman-Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Associate Chief of Staff-Small Animal Hospital, and Service Chief-Small Animal Medicine. Dr. Schaer served as Interim Chair Department of Comparative, Diagnostic, and Population Medicine from February 2017-September 2018. He is currently Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine while still teaching actively in the classroom and the critical care unit. Dr. Schaer is board certified in internal medicine (ACVIM) and emergency and critical care (ACVECC). He is on the board of directors of the North American Society of Toxinology and an associate member of the American College of Physicians.

Deborah Silverstein, DVM, DACVECC
Professor of Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Silverstein obtained a Bachelor of Science and Arts from Emory University, followed by a doctorate in veterinary medicine and a rotating internship at the University of Georgia. She spent 3 years at the University of California, Davis as a resident in small animal Emergency and Critical Care. After obtaining Diplomate status, she joined the faculty at Penn Vet, where she is currently a Professor and Section Chief of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Clinical Sciences and Advanced Medicine. Her research interests include shock, resuscitation, and microcirculatory perfusion.

Xiu Ting Yiew, DVM, DVSc, DACVECC

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