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“I graduated in Veterinary Medicine at CEU UCH in 2008. Then I did a year’s general residency at the Universitat Autónoma in Barcelona and after that I went to London, to the Royal Veterinary College, to do a residency on anaesthesia and analgesia for a year. Afterwards, I did a three-year residency at the European College of Veterinary, again on anaesthesia and analgesia. When I finished, I wanted to explore the issue of chronic pain and so I start studying for a doctorate in London, researching neuropathic pain in dogs. I’m now working on becoming a diplomate in veterinary anaesthesia and analgesia at the Royal Veterinary College, where I’m also a lecturer.”
“It all started when I was a student at CEU UCH, because the Anaesthesia Service there is quite sophisticated. I started out in this world with the Anaesthesiology lectures given by Dr José Ignacio Redondo. I liked working on anaesthesia because it’s one of the specialties which involves many different issues. You have to monitor the state of the animal while it is under anaesthesia until it wakes, meaning that you have to have a very wide range of knowledge about internal medicine, diagnostic imagery, the surgical procedure the animal is undergoing, etc. And then one of the most important things about anaesthesia is controlling pain, diagnosing it, assessing it and treating it, and that is my main research area.”
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VERDICT ON TIME AT CEU “I had a wonderful time during my years at CEU. I learnt a lot and it really helped me to decide what I wanted to do with my life in the future. I met some great people who I’ve now got the chance to work with. Coming back now, I can see that the CEu Cardenal Herrera University has really moved forward a lot. There are new lecturers with a lot to contribute, there’s a real desire to push things to the next level, to contact people across the world and to reproduce the approaches of other universities. And it’s also been a real pleasure to talk to all my old lecturers again.”
