Dr Diane D. Addie is an independent veterinary virologist who has a special interest in infectious diseases of the cat. Her goals are to eradicate feline coronavirus, the cause of feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), and to find a cure for chronic feline gingivostomatitis (FCGS). Her dream is to see an end of all animal suffering, especially an end of factory farming which, along with war, are huge sources of avoidable animal suffering.

She was a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Diagnostic Veterinary Virology laboratory at the University of Glasgow Veterinary School until 2006. She is author of the website www.catvirus.com which aims to provide veterinary surgeons with information which is difficult to source elsewhere, especially on FIP and FCGS. She is author of many papers published in refereed veterinary and scientific journals, and has written chapters for veterinary textbooks.

Diane D. Addie has been a member of the European Advisory Board of Cat Disease since its inception in 2005. She served on the council of Cats Protection for 20 years and is now a patron of the Celia Hammond Animal Trust.

All her research has been on naturally infected animals and she thanks all the veterinary surgeons and cat guardians who sent samples from their pets to make that possible. In 2003 she received the Amoroso award for outstanding contributions to small animal studies by a non-clinical member of university staff.

Her FCoV/FIP and FCGS website is www.catvirus.com and her YouTube channel is www.youtube.com/user/DrDianeDAddie. For tackling subjects that YouTube would likely censor she also posts videos to Bitchute ( www.bitchute.com/channel/ZEk9qdH9iDzm/), Odysee (https://odysee.com/@Catvirus ); Brighteon ( https://www.brighteon.com/ffd6bc5a-8013-4ac5-bb01-5fe86c98abc9), and she was posting videos to Rumble until it was banned in France. Her X (formerly Twitter) handle is @FIPvet.

Emi graduated from the University of Bristol with a Bachelor Degree in Veterinary Science with honours in 2003. As an undergraduate she intercalated in Veterinary Pathology at the Royal Veterinary College in 2000-2001, with a research project on canine respiratory mycoplasmas. Shortly after graduating Emi became an Intern in Small Animal Veterinary Studies at Glasgow University School of Veterinary Sciences. She then worked as a first opinion small animal vet first in Suffolk, Somerset and Wiltshire.

She was awarded a PhD from University of Bristol in June 2011 for research into haemotropic mycoplasmas, an infectious cause of anaemia in animals (including humans). Following a Senior Clinical Training Scholarship at Bristol Vet School she gained European Veterinary Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine status in 2016. She is currently a referral clinician in Small Animal Medicine at Langford Vets / University of Bristol with clinical and research interests in infectious disease, particularly feline infectious peritonitis and haemoplasmosis.

Sam graduated from the Royal Vet College in 2002 and completed internships in private referral practice and time in primary practice before starting a Feline Advisory Bureau Residency at Bristol University. She was awarded the RCVS Certificate in Small Animal Medicine in 2006 and the European Diploma in Veterinary Internal Medicine in 2009. In 2011 she became an RCVS Recognised Specialist in Feline Medicine and in 2019 was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for meritorious contributions to the profession.

In addition to her work with International Cat Care, Sam also works in clinical referral practice, is a previous editor of the BSAVA journal Companion and is a tutor on the University of Sydney Feline Medicine course as well as an examiner for the Membership of the Australia and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists (Feline Medicine). Sam is also an editorial board member for the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery and Frontiers in Veterinary Science and has authored two books and numerous book chapters as well as publishing a number of papers on both canine and feline internal medicine. She is an honorary lecturer at Surrey Vet School in Internal Medicine.

Dr. Whittaker studied Microbiology and Biochemistry at the University of Leeds (UK). He was awarded a PhD degree in 1991, with a focus on the glycoproteins of herpesviruses. He then did post-doctoral studies on influenza virus at Yale Medical School before moving to Cornell in 1996, where his research is focused on coronaviruses of humans and animals. He is a currently a Professor in the Departments of Microbiology & Immunology and Public & Ecosystem Health.