Musculoskeletal ultrasound. A morpho-functional approach.

Giliola Spattini DVM, PhD, DipECVDI Clinica Veterinaria Castellarano, Italy; Telemedicine; www.diagnosticmindset.com

Giliola from Parma University. In 2001 she joined the Queen Mother Hospital at the Royal Veterinary College (London) to start a residency program in Diagnostic Imaging. She integrated her residency with externships at Tufts, Penn, Bern, and Liege. She was junior docent at Uppsala and Utrecht Universities. In 2008 She obtained the Diploma of the European College of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging (ECVDI). In 2009 She defended her Ph.D. thesis at the Department of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging at Parma University. Since 2008 has been working with sport medicine experts on ultrasonography of the limbs in sportive dogs at Clinica Veterinaria Castellarano. She has been the secretary of the European Association of Diagnostic Imaging. She is past president of the Italian Society of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging (SVIDI), and currently she is the president of the European teleradiology subcommittee for the ECVDI. She has published in national and international journals. She has contributed to three books on Diagnostic imaging and has been the editor for others. She loves to teach in continuous post-graduate education (CPD) in Italy and around the world. She is the director of the diagnostic imaging section of Clinica Veterinaria Castellarano in Italy, and she works as a consultant for Antech (USA) and Mylav (IT). She lives in the Apennine Mountains and loves nature and art.