Dr Erika Meler, DVM, IPSAV, CEAV, MSc, MVSc, Dipl ACVIM (SAIM), Dipl ECVIM-CA

Dr. Erika Meler is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland and Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine. Erika has worked overseas as well as in the academic and private setting both as a GP and as a specialist so she knows what it is like in the ‘outside world’! Erika has trained in her career many students, interns, veterinary nurses and mentored younger colleagues and residents. She has given continuing education conferences and written various articles summaries for general practitioners.
Erika's current academic activities encompass clinical teaching and management of referral cases in the department of small animal internal medicine at the University of Queensland Veterinary Medical Centre, classroom teaching for veterinary students in their 3d, 4th and 5th years as well as research work and grant writing. Erika’s research areas of interest are minimally-invasive techniques, infectious diseases such as MRSA, and respiratory diseases. She is also very much into the use of new technologies that can help her patients but also into innovative methods of teaching veterinary students and professionals.