SPEAKERS
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Dr. Emmanuelle van ErckDVM, DECEIM, PhD |
Dr. Emmanuelle van Erck has a unique professional background, which combines intensive scientific research and daily clinical work in equine sports medicine. As one of the best specialists in this specific area, she regularly holds lectures at international scientific conferences, is a consultant to the FEI as well as several national equine federations and travels around the world to examine and treat poor-performing horses.
After her graduation in Maison-Alfort (France) in 1996, Emmanuelle did a PhD on respiratory functional tests in horses at the University of Liege (Belgium) and participated to research projects in equine sports medicine at Cornell University (USA) and at Uppsala University (Sweden). In 2000, she became senior consultant at the Centre for Equine Sports Medicine at University of Liège, where she dealt with referred cases in sports medicine, participated to numerous research projects and trained veterinary students. In 2007, she co-developed the equine internal and sports medicine unit in the CIRALE (Prof. J.-M. Denoix) in Normandy (France).
She is a Diplomate of the European College of Equine Internal Medicine (ECEIM) since 2008 and was board member of the International Committee at the International Conference on equine Exercise Physiology (ICEEP) in 2010. Emmanuelle is author of over 40 scientific papers and continues to collaborate to applied research projects in equine sports medicine, to teach clinical training for the veterinary students and practitioners and to regularly publish in both scientific and lay journals. In 2010, she left her academic career to found a unique referral mobile equine practice, completely dedicated to performance evaluation in sport horses. She developed specific performance tests for endurance, thoroughbreds, trotters, show jumping and dressage horses, mainly working with the French and Belgian National Teams.
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Dr. Fabrice RossignolDVM, DECVS Clinique Equine de Grosbois, France
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Dr. Fabrice Rossignol is associate senior veterinarian in the famous equine clinic of Grosbois near Paris, in France, where some of the best race horses in the world are treated. He is a frequent speaker in international congresses and world renowned for his work in upper airway surgeries.
Dr. Rossignol graduated in 1994 from the National Veterinary School of Toulouse (South of France). He joined the Equine Clinic of Grosbois near Paris just after, where he became a partner in 1998. He followed an ECVS alternate training residency program between 2002 to 2007 and became an ECVS diplomate in 2010. Fabrice is a senior surgeon at the Equine clinic de Grosbois and Equine clinic of Chantilly. He has a 100% activity in surgery. He has a major interest in upper airway surgeries, fracture repair, laparoscopy and arthroscopy. He is also involved in research projects focusing on topics such as the development of a laryngeal pacemaker and new techniques of laryngeal reinnervation within the Medel group, and the development of new orthopedic implants within the AO group. He is a member of the AO veterinary expert group and Faculty since 2016.