Dr. Ingrid Gielen graduated from Ghent University in Belgium in July 1995 and joined the staff as assistant at the Department of Medical Imaging and Small Animal Orthopaedics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium. She received a master’s degree in Laboratory Animal Science from Ghent University in 2000. Her PhD thesis was completed with the title “Computed Tomography in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Canine Tarsocrural Osteochondrosis” in 2003. She was president of the European Association of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging (EAVDI), 2004-2006. 

Since 2004, Dr Gielen has been Division Head at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium and, since 2015, visiting professor at the Department of Radiology and Radiation Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia. She is board member and currently president of the International Elbow Working Group and certified scrutinizer canine hip & elbow dysplasia (FCI/IEWG). She was invited speaker at many international conferences on medical imaging and orthopaedics and neurology and is author of more than 185 peer reviewed publications in national and international journals on medical imaging and orthopaedics. She has a particular interest in imaging techniques in joint diseases and neurologic diseases.

Massimo received his degree in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Milano in 1997. He is the clinical director and chief of orthopedic surgery at the Clinica Veterinaria Milano Sud, Peschiera Borromeo, Italy. He is a member of SCIVAC, ESVOT, SIOVET, as well as a AVORE council member and AOVET Ambassador Member. Massimo lectures regularly at national and international congresses, meetings and courses including SCIVAC/AO courses for Distal Extremities and External Fixation, AO Masterclass Courses on Advanced Corrective Osteotomies, and ESVOT and ACVS courses on Corrective Osteotomies and Patella Luxation. He was the secretary of the SIOVET, Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (2008-2011). He has authored 31 papers in peer-reviewed veterinary journals and two books, the “Atlas of Clinical Goniometry” and “Atlas BOA, Breed Orthopaedic Oriented Approach ''. Massimo developed the Fixin system, an internal fixation device with angular stability and conic coupling, the Tibial Tuberosity Transposition Technique and Tool, and the bone widening and transfer technique. His particular clinical interests are limb alignment, stifle surgery, hybrid external fixators, Ilizarov technique, elastic internal fixation, Total Hip Replacement, and transcutaneous amputee prosthesis. He spends his free time thinking about the things that he used to enjoy, woodworking and competitive triathlon, when he had free time available.