Chiara Valtolina, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVECC, Dipl. ECVECC

Chiara graduated in 2000 at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Milan, Italy. She worked for 4 years at the Surgery Department of Small Animal of the same faculty as a research doctorate. In December 2004, at the end of her doctorate, Chiara began an externship program at the Intensive Care Unit (IZA) of the Department of Clinical Science of Small Animals at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. In June 2006 Chiara started her residency in Emergency and Critical Care at the Royal Veterinary College in London. She terminated her residency in June 2009 and in September 2009 she became a diplomate of the American College of Emergency and Critical Care. In 2014 she obtain the title of diplomate of the European College of Emergency and Critical Care.

In 2019 Chiara defended her PhD thesis with the title : “Pathophysiologic aspects of feline hepatic lipidosis”, attaining the title of PhD.

She is currently working, since November 2009 as a staff clinician and lecturer in the Intensive Care Unit (IZA) of the Department of Clinical Science of Small Animals at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University in the Netherlands.