Speaker bio page for Prof. Silke Salavati
Prof. Silke Salavati
Dr.med.vet., PhD, DipECVIM-CA, FHEA, FRCVS
Bio
Prof. Silke Salavati (nee Schmitz), Dr.med.vet., PhD, DipECVIM-CA, FHEA, FRCVSPersonal Chair of Small Animal Gastroenterology
Prof. Salavati graduated from the JLU University in Giessen (Germany), where she also completed her doctoral thesis, which kindled her interest in small animal gastroenterology. She holds an ECVIM-CA diploma in small animal internal medicine, and completed her PhD at the RVC investigating the effects of a synbiotic in canine chronic enteropathy. She moved to the University of Edinburgh in 2016, where she later became head of the Small Animal Internal Medicine Service. She has a particular interest in gut motility, immunology, probiotics, the microbiome and faecal microbiota transplants. She has published extensively on these topics, both in the form of > 40 research articles and several book chapters. Due to this, she is also holding the RCVS-recognised specialist title in Small Animal Gastroenterology. She lives in Edinburgh with her husband, her cats “Maisy” and “Guinness”, and her Border Terrier “Jäger”.
