Surgical Oncology

Rodolfo Brühl-Day earned his degree in veterinary medicine from the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina, in 1977. After completing a residency in small animal surgery at the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (University of California, Davis) in 1984, he became a Founding Diplomate in Small Animal Surgery at the University of Buenos Aires (1998) and a specialist in university teaching with a focus on veterinary and biological sciences (2000). He is also a diplomate of the Latin American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists (CLOVE) (2002). He has taught at several universities during his long career (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; University of California, Davis, California, USA; Ross University, St Kitts and Nevis, West Indies). Since 2008, he has been a professor of small animal surgery, directed the Small Animal Medicine and Surgery academic programme, and exercised as a staff surgeon for the Small Animal Clinic at St George’s University (Grenada, West Indies). Dr Brühl-Day has received numerous grants, awards, and distinctions, and he has contributed to several works published in books and journals. He has also spoken at courses and seminars and attended a variety of continuing professional development courses throughout his career. From 1995, he has sat on the editorial committee of the scientific section of the journal Selecciones Veterinarias, which is overseen by the publisher InterMédica (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

María Elena Martínez obtained her degree in veterinary medicine from the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina, in 1991. She went on to earn a diploma in small animal surgery in 2002. She tutored and lectured in the Small Animal Surgery and Anaesthesiology Department at the UBA’s Faculty of Veterinary Sciences from 1998 to 2006. María has worked at universities and academic institutions in various countries, including the University of Missouri and the Gramercy Park Animal Hospital in New York, USA. She is the manager of VetSurgical Center, a private veterinary practice in Buenos Aires. She is a founding member of the Argentinian Association of Veterinary Neurology (Neurovet Argentina) and a member of the Latin American Association of Veterinary Neurology (Neurolatinvet).

Pablo Meyer earned his degree in veterinary medicine from the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1986. He was became a diplomate in small animal surgery and has taught in the area of skin surgery and reconstruction since 2003. He is also a surgeon for the Surgery Service of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital at the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Buenos Aires (HEMV-UBA) and a lecturer in the Oncology Department. As an author of several studies in the field, he has spoken at various conferences and contributed to different journals specialising in surgery and oncology.

Juan Mangieri completed his degree in veterinary medicine at the University of Buenos Aires’ Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Argentina. He is currently part of the UBA’s teaching staff. Dr Mangieri was previously an associate lecturer in surgical diseases at the UBA’s Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and a senior lecturer in surgical techniques and pathology at the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences of the Juan Agustín Maza University in Mendoza, Argentina. He is recognised as a specialist in surgery and a specialist in oncology by the Argentinian Professional Council of Veterinary Surgeons (CPMV), and a principal investigator in oncology for Bioniche Life Sciences, Inc. (Ontario, Canada). He currently exercises freely as a veterinary surgeon and speaks at conferences and courses on surgery and surgical oncology in Argentina and Chile.

Judith Bertran graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 2008. She obtained a master’s degree in science and comparative medicine from Ohio State University, Columbus, and in 2017, she became a Diplomate and American College of Veterinary Surgeons – Small Animals (ACVS) and an ACVS Fellow in Surgical Oncology. After she completed her internship at the UAB Veterinary Teaching Hospital, she spent time at other practices in the United Kingdom (Fitzpatrick Referrals: Eashing and Guildford hospitals) and US universities (Washington State University and Ohio State University). She furthered her training by attending numerous courses and seminars, both theoretical and practical, related to orthopaedics and oncology, two fields in which she has specialised. She is the author of many publications and presentations and has been awarded several scholarships and prizes for her research. She is a member of the Society of Veterinary Soft Tissue Surgery (2019), the Veterinary Interventional Radiology and Interventional Endoscopy Society (2017), the Spanish Small Animal Veterinary Association (2016) and the Veterinary Society of Surgical Oncology (2015).