Dr. Bruchim was graduated in 1999 from the Koret School of veterinary medicine. In 2001 has completed his rotational internship in the Hebrew University Veterinary Teaching Hospital. In 2012 he became board certified of the American college of Emergency and Critical Care, and in 2014 of the European College of Emergency and Critical Care. In 2018 he completed his PhD investigating Heat Shock Proteins particularly and other biomarkers during acclimation and physical performance and in canine naturally occurring heatstroke. In 2018 Dr. Bruchim founded the leading advanced private emergency and specialist center in Ben Shemen Youth Village, the Emergency and Specialist Veterinary Center Ben Shemen..   

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Emily graduated from Cambridge Vet School in 2007 then worked in small animal general practice as a primary-care veterinary surgeon. In 2015, Emily was appointed as Lecturer (and subsequently Senior Lecturer) in Veterinary Nursing Science at the School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences at Nottingham Trent University (NTU). Emily developed and was course leader of the school’s first blended learning course, a BSc (top-up) in Veterinary Nursing Science. Whilst at NTU, Emily completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice and was awarded Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (now AdvanceHE). In 2021 Emily joined the LIVE team at the RVC as a Lecturer in Veterinary Education.

Alongside her teaching Emily researches novel and non-invasive methods of monitoring body temperature and heat-related illness in companion animals. In 2018, supervised and mentored by Dr Dan O’Neill and Dr Anne Carter (SRUC), Emily and the “Hot Dogs” team were awarded a Dogs Trust Canine Welfare Grant to investigate the epidemiology of heat-related illness (heatstroke) in UK dogs using the VetCompass programme. In 2021, an additional Dogs Trust Canine Welfare Grant was awarded to the team to support the evaluation of the VetCompass Clinical Grading Tool for Heat-Related Illness in Dogs, for use in emergency veterinary practice.

Alessio Vigani is currently director of small animal emergency and critical care and extracorporeal therapy at The University of Zurich. Alessio received his D.V.M. degree Summa Cum Laude from the University of Milan in 2006 and then obtained his PhD degree in clinical sciences. He completed a small animal rotating internship at the Ohio State University in Columbus in 2009.

He subsequently pursued two consecutive residency programs in veterinary anesthesia and analgesia and emergency and critical care at the University of Florida. He is ACVAA diplomate since 2012 and ACVECC diplomate since 2014. Dr. Vigani has published several journal articles and book chapters and he has lectured nationally and internationally. His special interests include regional anesthesia in critical care, hemodynamics, acute kidney injury, and extracorporeal therapy. Alessio shares his apartment with his 3 dogs Scimmietta, Macchietta e Anacleto. Alessio is a devoted runner.