Laureata presso a Milano nel 2002 dove nello stesso anno ottiene il Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze Cliniche Veterinarie. Da febbraio 2003 frequenta la Sezione di Clinica Chirurgica Veterinaria dell’Università degli Studi di Parma, approfondendo le tecniche artroscopiche. Nel dicembre del 2006 consegue il titolo di Dottore di Ricerca in Ortopedia e Traumatologia. Ha collaborato alla realizzazione dell’Atlante BOA, in qualità di coordinatore editoriale. Nel 2007 ha trascorso un periodo di aggiornamento presso la Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists (Houston, TX) e successivamente presso la University of Florida (Gainesville, FL). Nel 2020 ha conseguito il Diploma dell’European College of Veterinary Surgeons (ECVS) dopo aver terminato una residency sotto la supervisione del Dr. Aldo Vezzoni e del Dr. Matteo Tommasini Degna. Ha presentato relazioni a congressi nazionale ed internazionali ed è autore di pubblicazioni nazionali ed internazionali.

Dr Holsworth was born in Canada, raised in Australia, and has resided in the USA since 2000. A 1991 graduate from the University of Melbourne Veterinary School and became a Member of the Surgery College of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in 1995. Relocated to the US in 1999. Spent past twenty years in clinical practice, clinical research, as surgical instructor, and in surgical instrument and implant design. Founding Fellow of ACVS Minimally Invasive Orthopedic Surgery. Currently Surgical Director of VetSurg in Ventura, California and surgical curriculum coordinator for large North American CE program. Author of multiple surgical journal and book chapter publications and speaker at meetings in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia.

Vet School 2010 University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation; Hannover, Germany Thesis Section of Anesthesia, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation; Hannover, Germany Title 2016 Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Surgery (ECVS) Working Experience 2010 – 2011 Small Animal Rotating Internship, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation; Hannover, Germany 2011 – 2014 Residency (ECVS), Small Animal Clinic, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zürich, CH 2013 Externship, Louisiana State University, School of Veterinary Medicine; Section of Diagnostic Imaging. LA, USA 2014 Externship, Utrecht University, Faculty of Veterinary, Medicine; Section of Small Animal Surgery, NL 2014 – 2015 Faculty, Small Animal Clinic, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zürich, CH 2016 – 2020 Senior Consultant, Small Animal Clinic, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zürich, CH 2019 Senior Consultant, Small Animal Clinic of Posthausen, Posthausen, Germany

Bernadette Van Ryssen graduated at the Ghent University, Belgium, in 1988. After a two year internship, she received a research grant of the Flemish Institution of Science and Technology (IWT). She finished her PhD on 'Arthroscopy for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Osteochondrosis in the Dog', at Ghent University in 1996. In 2000 she became associated professor in Small Animal Orthopedics and since then she is the head of that Department. From 2012-2014 she was President of the European Society for Veterinary Orthopedics and Traumatology. Her special interests are arthroscopy and arthrology in small animals.