Ioannis Savvas
DVM, PhD — Professor at the School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Ioannis Savvas graduated from the School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He earned his Doctoral Diploma in Veterinary Anaesthesia from the same School and has been employed at Aristotle University since 2002.
Ioannis Savvas has trained at the Cornell University Hospital for Animals (Ithaca, NY, USA); at the Klinik für Anästhesiologie und perioperative Intensivmedizin, Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien (Austria); and at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University (Belgium).
His main duties at the School of Veterinary Medicine are teaching pre- and post-graduate students, giving lectures at local and international conferences, and providing anaesthesia training via continuing and life-long education projects for practitioners.
His research focuses on gastro-oesophageal reflux during anaesthesia, perioperative analgesia, shock, trans-diaphragmatic pressure measurement, and pulmonary atelectasis. He also runs the Pain Service at the Companion Animal Clinic of the School of Veterinary Medicine.