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.

Guadalupe Miró qualified from Madrid Veterinary College in 1982. From 1982 to 1986 she worked as general practitioner in a private clinic. Since 1986 she has worked for the Animal Health Department of the Veterinary College of Madrid (Universidad Complutense) where she completed her PhD thesis in 1990. Since 1991 she has held a permanent position as Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases in the same Department.

She is also in charge of the Consultancy of Infectious diseases at the Veterinary teaching Hospital focusing on parasitic diseases of small animals. Her areas of research are the epidemiology and control of zoonotic diseases, focusing mainly on vector borne diseases (Leishmaniosis, Babesiosis), intestinal parasitoses and soil parasites contamination in urban and rural areas (Giardia, Toxocara, etc..).

Currently she is involved in different clinical and epidemiological studies on canine and feline infectious diseases both in owner pets and shelters. She is member of the Spanish Society of Parasitology (SOCEPA) and of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP) and a Diplomate of the European Veterinary Parasitology College (EVPC) and a founding and active member of LEISHVET and ESCCAP Spain.

Graduated from Oklahoma State University and then completed an internship, internal medicine residency, and PhD program in Parasitology at the University of Georgia.  Dr. Lappin is the Kenneth W. Smith Professor in Small Animal Clinical Veterinary Medicine at Colorado State University and is the director of the “Center for Companion Animal Studies”.  The Center is housed in the Translational Medicine Institute at CSU.   Dr. Lappin is the chair of the WSAVA One Health Committee. His principal areas of interest are prevention of infectious diseases, the upper respiratory disease complex, infectious causes of fever, infectious causes of diarrhea, and zoonoses.

Susan Little, is Regents Professor and the Krull-Ewing Professor in Veterinary Parasitology at the Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University where she is active in veterinary parasitology teaching and oversees a research program that focuses on zoonotic parasites, ticks, and tick-borne diseases. Dr. Little earned a BS in Biology from Cornell University, a DVM from Virginia Tech, and a PhD in veterinary parasitology from the University of Georgia. She is a diplomate in parasitology through the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists, past-president of both the American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists and the Companion Animal Parasite Council, and currently serves as co-Director of the National Center for Veterinary Parasitology. Dr. Little is an outstanding teacher and has received two excellence in teaching awards from the national Student American Veterinary Medical Association. In 2017 Dr. Little received the Distinguished Veterinary Parasitologist Award from the American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists.