Siân-Marie Frosini graduated with a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), University of London, in 2013. She subsequently completed a PhD focused on topical approaches for pyoderma treatment in an era of multidrug-resistant staphylococci. From there, Siân has dedicated her career to clinical microbiology more broadly, and is now Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Clinical Microbiology at the RVC. She provides support to the diagnostic microbiology laboratory and on-site referral hospital clinicians, including sitting within the Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Control committees. Siân is a passionate researcher with a focus on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in various animal populations; she conducts clinically focused research in companion animals but also supports wider projects investigating AMR in diverse animal populations. Since September 2025, Siân has started an alternate-route residency with the European College of Veterinary Microbiology (ECVM). She is keen to put her clinical research skills to best use within the diagnostic laboratory, to pursue best practice in bacteriology and utilise her AMR knowledge to develop improvements to support antimicrobial stewardship in practice

Anette Loeffler graduated from the Ludwig-Maximilian-University veterinary school in Munich, Germany, in 1994 and subsequently completed her doctoral thesis in 1995. She worked in mixed animal practice in Cumbria, UK, before moving to London to join the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) in 2001. She completed a residency in veterinary dermatology and a PhD on MRSA in companion animals at the RVC where she is currently Professor in Veterinary Dermatology and Cutaneous Bacteriology. Anette divides her time between dermatology referral clinics at the RVC, teaching and research. She has an active role in the referral hospital infection control and antimicrobial guideline activities, has a keen research interest in bacterial skin infections and antimicrobial resistance. Anette has been an Editor, including Editor-in-Chief, for Veterinary Dermatology and has recently chaired the new antimicrobial use guidelines for canine pyoderma, by the International Society for Companion Animal Infectious Diseases (ISCAID). Anette has given >500 international presentations or seminars and published >100 studies, case series, articles and book chapters.

Il Dr. Domenico Santoro si e’ laureato in Medicina Veterinaria presso l’Universita’ degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” nel 2001. Nel 2006, ha completato un Dottorato di Ricerca (DrSc) in Medicina Interna presso la stessa Universita’. Nel 2010, ha ottenuto lo stato di Diplomato sia per il Collegio Europeo che quello Americano di Dermatologia Veterinaria (ECVD and ACVD) e completato un Master in Scienze Cliniche Veterinarie (focus in dermatologia) presso l'Universita' dell'Illinois. Nel 2013 e’ PhD in immuno-dermatologia presso la stessa Universita'. Nel 2017 ha ottenuto il Diploma in Microbiologia Veterinaria (ACVM - sottospecialita' bacteriologia/micologia & immunologia). E’ attualmente Professore Ordinario in dermatologia veterinaria presso l'Universita' della Florida. I suoi principali interessi di ricerca riguardano gli aspetti immunopatogenetici e terapeutici della dermatite atopica canina e della leishmanoisi canina. Di suo particulare interesse e’ la valutazione dei peptidi antimicrobici e l’interazione tra ospite e microbi. Dal 2010, il Dr. Santoro e’ membro e co-chair (2021-2026) della commissione internazionale sulle malattie allergiche degli animali (ICADA). Il Dr. Santoro e’ autore e co-autore di 12 capitoli di libri e piu’ di 100 articoli su riviste internazionali.