Dr Manu Boller graduated from veterinary school at the University of Zurich, Switzerland in 1997, where he also completed a doctoral thesis in anesthesia and a veterinary anesthesia residency. He then moved to Philadelphia, USA, to undertake a specialty training program in veterinary emergency and critical care and a fellowship in the field of resuscitation science. He was a member of Penn’s Center for Resuscitation Science where he investigated novel strategies to optimize CPR and post-cardiac arrest care with a focus on controlled reperfusion and emergency cardiopulmonary bypass. In 2012, Manu relocated with his family to Australia, where he was Associate Professor in small animal emergency and critical care at the University of Melbourne, Australia. In 2021, the Bollers moved to Victoria, British Columbia where Manu works in the intensive care unit of a referral hospital of VCA Canada. Manu is co-chair and -founder of the RECOVER initiative (recoverinitiative.org/) that published the first consensus- and evidence-based veterinary CPR guidelines, that are now translated in several languages and used by veterinary professionals and pet owners around the world. Manu published and lectured widely in the field of resuscitation science and other topics pertinent to veterinary emergency and critical care.

Jamie Burkitt graduated from the University of California, Davis, in 2000 and became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care in 2005. Since that time, she has worked in university and private practice across the United States. She is an Associate Professor of Clinical Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care at UC Davis. Her professional interests are prevention of recurrent feline urethral obstruction, endocrine emergencies, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. She enjoys traveling and spending time with her family.

Neus graduated from The Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in 2009, and then completed a rotating internship at the university before working in a referral hospital for a year in Barcelona.

On moving to the UK, Neus then worked in first opinion practice in Liverpool for two years before beginning an Emergency and Critical Care internship at the Vets Now 24/7 Emergency and Specialty Hospital, Glasgow. In January 2017, Neus began her residency in emergency and critical care with the ECC team in Glasgow. Neus completed her residency in January 2020.

Dr. Fletcher has been on the faculty of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine since 2006. After receiving a BS in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of California Berkeley/San Francisco, he obtained his DVM from the University of California at Davis. He then completed a rotating internship and emergency and critical care residency at the University of Pennsylvania. He has received multiple teaching awards, including the 2020 Zoetis Distinguished Teaching Award and is co-chair of the RECOVER Initiative, which published the first evidence-based veterinary CPR guidelines. His research interests include disorders of fibrinolysis, epilepsy, and the use of immersive simulation in teaching. He has been building simulators for veterinary education since 2009 and opened the Tetlow and Roy Park Innovation Lab, an immersive simulation center at Cornell in the fall of 2015.

Over the 19 years in practice, Ken has discovered and refined his role as a veterinary technician by promoting compassionate and progressive care for the patients and their families. He obtained his VTS certification in emergency and critical care as well as small animal internal medicine and achieved his master’s degree in Veterinary Science. He served as the ICU Manager and Blood Bank Manager at Adobe Animal Hospital until 2018, and now is the Program Director for the RECOVER CPR Initiative and the Veterinary Education Simulation Lab Manager of the Tetlow and Roy Park Veterinary Innovation Laboratory at the Cornell University. Ken has co-edited the Manual of Veterinary Transfusion Medicine and Blood Banking and has published over 30 text chapters and articles in various publications. He gives presentations internationally on topics in ECC, Transfusion Medicine, and the veterinary technician profession.

Ken works to encourage further recognition of the vital role of the veterinary nurses and technicians through work with organizations such as the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America co-chairing the Veterinary Nurse Initiative and serving as a board member of the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society, the Academy of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Technicians, and the Veterinary Innovation Council. He pursues these goals by showing the value of the profession’s perspective in veterinary medicine.