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.