Graduated in Veterinary Medicine at PUCPR (Curitiba, PR-Brazil), Flavio pursued a 2-years residency program in Veterinary Anesthesiology at UFPR (Curitiba, PR-Brazil), followed by a Master in Veterinary Sciences in the same institution, with a focus in Veterinary Anesthesiology and Ultrasound-Guided Local blocks. After that moved to Canada, to pursue his Anesthesia Residency and Doctor of Veterinary Sciences at the Ontario Veterinary College (Guelph, ON-Canada). Currently started the Anesthesia service and is the Veterinarian responsible for anesthesia at the Veterinary Specialty Centre of Newfoundland and Labrador (Mount Pearl, NL-Canada). With interest in veterinary anesthesiology and analgesia in all species.

Maja graduated from the Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences in Poland in 2010. After graduation she worked for 2 years at the same university in the Surgical Department where her main focus was anaesthesia and emergency critical care.

She moved to the UK in 2012 and undertook an Internship at the University of Liverpool followed by a Residency in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia at the Royal Veterinary Collage. Maja joined DWR in 2017 and in the same year became a European Specialist.

Dr. Matt Read graduated with a DVM with distinction from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Canada in 1998. Following graduation, he completed a residency in veterinary anesthesiology and a Master of Veterinary Science. He became board-certified with the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia (ACVAA) in 2002.

Following his residency, Matt taught at the University of Georgia for two years before returning to Canada and developing and supervising the anesthesia services in two large specialty hospitals in Toronto and Calgary between 2003 and 2010. In 2010, Matt joined the University of Calgary as an Associate Professor where he taught in the DVM program and also served as Assistant Dean, Admissions.

In 2018, Matt moved to Columbus, Ohio where he is now working as an anesthesiologist and serving as Specialty Team Leader - Anesthesiology for MedVet, a family of emergency and specialty hospitals with more than 30 locations across the USA.

Matt has delivered over 100 lectures and workshops around the world and is currently preparing the second edition of a textbook, Small Animal Regional Anesthesia and Analgesia.

He dreams of someday going into space and opening an ice cream shop in the Caribbean, not necessarily in that order.

Dr. Ferreira earned her veterinary medical degree from the Fluminense Federal University – UFF at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2005. She obtained a master’s (2008) and doctoral degrees (2010) in veterinary anesthesia at São Paulo State University - UNESP, also in Brazil. She then completed an anesthesia residency at the University of California - Davis in 2013 and became board certified by the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia (ACVAA) in 2014. In that same year, she joined the University of Wisconsin – Madison (UW – Madison) School of Veterinary Medicine as an anesthesia clinical instructor. In 2016 she started on her current position as a Clinical Associate Professor in Anesthesia and Pain Management at UW - Madison. Dr. Ferreira’s clinical and research interests include balanced anesthesia and pain management of small, large, and exotic animals with special focus on regional anesthesia techniques.