Dr. Daniela Casoni DVM, Dr.Med.Vet, PhD, Dipl. ECVAA

Daniela Casoni is born in Bologna (Italy) where she achieved graduation in Veterinary Medicine with full notes cum laude and honours in 2001. In 2002 she commenced her PhD in “Critical Care and emergency medicine” and she defended her final thesis (Trauma scores: lessons learnt from Human Medicine and their future in Veterinary Medicine) in May 2005. As a research fellow (2005-2009) and clinical instructor, her interests were mainly focused on trauma care, non-invasive monitoring of peripheral perfusion and anaesthesia and analgesia of emergency patients. In 2010 she visited the University of Pennsylvania (USA) for 6 months and she worked mainly at the anaesthesia division of the Large Animal Hospital (New Bolton Center) and at the Small Animal ICU. In 2011 she started her Residency Program in Anaesthesia and Analgesia at the Anaesthesia and Analgesia Division, Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Berne (Switzerland) where she completed it in 2014. In 2014 she worked as staff clinician at the same division. Since 2017 she is ECVAA recognized specialist. Pain, nociception and clinical pharmacology have been the main area of her interest during these years. From January 2011 to March 2016, she had also been employed at the Emergency Service of Equine Clinic (ISME), University of Berne. At the same University, in January 2015 she started an 18 months’ post-doctoral research project on chronic pain after disbudding in calves. Between July 2016 and December 2017, she has been employed as clinical lecturer of anesthesia and analgesia at the Department of Equine and Small Animal medicine of the University of Helsinki. She has returned to University of Berne in January 2018, and she is currently leading the Experimental Surgery Facility (ESF) of the Faculty of Medicine. She is author and coauthor of more than 40 peer reviewed publications and presents routinely at national and international congresses.