Instructors – Narkovet Veterinary Anesthesia Courses

Our Instructors

Bernd Driessen

DVM, PhD, DACVAA, DECVPT

Bernd Driessen is Professor of Anesthesiology at the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. He received his DVM degree from Free University of Berlin in 1988 and then went on to complete a doctorate program at the same university in collaboration with Grünenthal Pharmaceuticals in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he held the position of an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at the Albert- Ludwig’s University of Freiburg’s Medical School and continued his training in pharmacology and toxicology.

In 1998, Bernd completed a residency in anesthesia & critical patient care at the School of Veterinary Medicine at University of California-Davis, where he stayed for another year as a fellow in anesthesia before accepting the position of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Pennsylvania in fall of 1999, where he stayed from then on as a faculty member and held the position of director of the residency training program in anesthesia and section chief. Bernd is diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Pharmacology & Toxicology (ECVPT) and the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia & Analgesia (ACVAA) and a German Veterinary Medical Association-recognized specialist in veterinary pharmacology and toxicology and veterinary anesthesia, intensive care, and pain management. His laboratory and clinical studies over the past 28 years have focused on analgesics, blood substitutes, microcirculation and tissue oxygenation, new techniques of loco-regional analgesia, and gas exchange during anesthesia.

Andrea Caniglia

VMD, DACVAA

Dr. Caniglia completed her veterinary degree and a three-year residency in Anesthesia and Analgesia at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. She became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia in 2012. Prior to joining Veterinary Dentistry Specialists in NJ, she spent seven years working at a private veterinary specialty practice in Pennsylvania.

Anesthesia is a small specialty and has historically been limited to veterinary teaching hospitals. Andrea became an anesthesiologist with the goal of providing this same high standard of care to patients in the private setting. In addition, Andrea is also available for consultation, training and education for general veterinary practices throughout the region. She says developing the anesthesia specialty at CARES has been a very rewarding experience and she enjoys providing a pain-free and safe anesthetic experience for all types of patients and procedures.

Andrea Looney

DVM, DACVAA, CCRP, DACVSMR

Andrea Looney is currently staff at IVG hospitals, Ethos Veterinary Health, in Anesthesia, Pain Management and Rehabilitation. Prior to her current position, Andrea has worked in anesthesiology, intensive care, palliative care, rehabilitation at Cornell University Hospital for Animals, and emergency /general medicine at Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, and Tufts Veterinary Emergency Treatment and Specialists, as well at Angell Memorial Animal Medical Center in Boston and Western Massachusetts.

She received her DVM and residency training at New York State College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University and is boarded in veterinary anesthesiology/analgesia (Dipl. ACVAA) and certified in veterinary acupuncture as well as canine/equine rehabilitation.

Daniel J. Fletcher

PhD, DVM, DACVECC

Daniel J. Fletcher has been on the faculty of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine since 2006. After receiving a BS in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of California Berkeley/San Francisco, he obtained his DVM from the University of California at Davis. He then completed a rotating internship and emergency and critical care residency at the University of Pennsylvania.

He received the 2013 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence and is co-chair of the RECOVER Initiative, which published the first evidence-based veterinary CPR guidelines. He has been building simulators for veterinary education since 2009 and opened the Tetlow and Roy Park Innovation Lab, an immersive simulation center at Cornell in the fall of 2015.

Geoffrey Truchetti

DMV, M.Sc., DES, DACVAA

Geoffrey Truchetti graduated from the National Veterinary School of Alfort (France) in 2009. He then completed a Master degree in veterinary science (2011) and a residency in veterinary anaesthesia and analgesia (2013) at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Montreal University (Canada).

He is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia since 2014. He is a consultant in veterinary anaesthesia and analgesia since 2014, and a lecturer in veterinary anaesthesia at the University of Queensland in Australia since 2016. Dr Truchetti has a special interest for risk management. He participates and organizes continuing education. His objective is to improve the level of care in all practices.

Giacomo Gianotti

DMV, DVSc, DACVAA

Giacomo Gianotti is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesia and Service Head of Anesthesia at the Veterinary Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He obtained his veterinary degree at the University of Turin (Italy) in 2001. He has worked in private practice from 2001 to 2006. In 2007 he was the anesthesia staff veterinarian at the Ontario Veterinary College of the University of Guelph (Canada). From 2008 to 2011 he completed his Veterinary Anesthesia Residency Program (ACVAA) and his postgraduate degree Doctor of Veterinary Science (DVSc) at the Ontario Veterinary College.

From 2011 to present he is member of the Anesthesia Faculty at the Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of academic interest are total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) and non-invasive cardio-vascular monitoring techniques in the anesthetized patient.

Manuel Martin-Flores

DVM, Dipl. ACVAA

Dr. Martin-Flores is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. He received his doctorate in veterinary medicine from the Universidad Catolica de Cordoba, Argentina, in 2002. He worked in the private sector practicing small animal general veterinary medicine, and in academia as instructor in Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology for two years before coming to Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine.

He completed a residency in Anesthesiology at Cornell in 2007 and was then appointed as faculty in that section. Dr. Martin-Flores provides clinical anesthesia for all domestic species and is the director of the anesthesiology residency program at Cornell. His research focuses on neuromuscular function and monitoring, and cardiopulmonary function during anesthesia. Dr. Martin-Flores is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia since 2008, and has extensively published in the field of veterinary anesthesiology. In 2010 and 2016 he has received the SCAVMA Teaching Excellence in Clinical Sciences Award from the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University and in 2018 the Zoetis Award for Veterinary Research Excellence.

Luis Campoy

LV, Cert. VA, DECVAA, MRCVS

Luis Campoy is a 1995 graduate of Zaragoza University (LV). After a year in small animal private practice, he did his internship in the aforementioned university. He completed a three-year residency in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at University College Dublin UCD, Ireland where he stayed on as a lecturer until 2005. In 2000, he obtained his Certificate in Veterinary Anaesthesia by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (CertVA). Since 2004 he is also a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia (Dipl. ECVAA).

He is currently an Associate Clinical Professor and Section chief at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine where he has been since 2005. He has co-authored numerous peer reviewed publications on this topic as well as some of the leading texts in loco-regional anesthesia.

Robert A.N. Goggs

BVSc, PhD, DACVECC

Robert Goggs graduated in veterinary medicine from the University of Liverpool, UK in 2004. He then undertook a rotating internship and a residency in Emergency and Critical Care at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) in London, U.K. and became board-certified by the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care in 2008. After board certification, he worked at the RVC as a clinician in the small animal hospital for 2 years and developed research interests in hemostasis, pulmonary thromboembolism and immune-mediated hemolytic anemia (IMHA) in dogs. In 2010, Robert moved to the University of Bristol to enroll in a PhD program investigating the roles of small G-proteins in the regulation of platelet shape change and secretion.

Between 2011 and 2013, Robert co-chaired an effort to standardize viscoelastic testing in veterinary medicine, resulting in assay guidelines published in the Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care (JVECC) in 2014. Robert joined the ECC team at Cornell University in October 2013 where he is currently a Lecturer. His clinical research interests include platelet dysfunction, feline and canine thromboembolic disease, and canine IMHA and IMTP. He is Chair of the ACVECC Examination Committee and is Associate Editor (ECC) for the journal Veterinary Medicine and Science.

Sandra Allweiler

DVM, DCVAA, CCRP, CVMA

Sandra Allweiler is a specialist in veterinary anesthesiology. She graduated in 1997 from Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany and received her Dr. med. vet degree from the University of Zürich, Switzerland in 2001. The same year she started a large animal anesthesia internship at New Bolton Center, the Large Animal Veterinary Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. In 2005 Sandra completed a three-year residency in veterinary anesthesia that she had started at Washington State University and then completed at the Royal Veterinary College in London, UK.

Sandra worked as a clinical instructor at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatoon, Canada before accepting a position of Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Colorado State University that she held until the end of 2015. In 2014, Sandra became partner of NARKOVET CONSULTING®, LLC and helped designing the veterinary technician certificate course program in small animal anesthesia & perioperative analgesia that was launched for the first time in Germany in 2015 in collaboration with the European School for Advanced Veterinary Studies (ESAVS). Since then she has been participating in the certificate course as a lecturer. She is Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia & Analgesia. Her interests are in pain management (especially geriatric and cancer patients) and wildlife anesthesia. She is certified in medical veterinary acupuncture and canine massage and canine rehabilitation through CRI (Canine rehabilitation institute). She lectures nationally and internationally on pain management, acupuncture and wildlife anesthesia. Sandra is a member of the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia & Analgesia, the Association of Veterinary Anaesthetists (AVA), American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians (AAWV) and the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society (IVAS).

Stephen Cital

RVT, SRA, RLAT, VTS (Lab Animal)

Stephen originally started college to become a registered human nurse but did not enjoy working with humans as patients. Instead Stephen became an RVT and then obtained certification as a Surgical Research Anesthetist through the Academy of Surgical Research and followed the designation of a Registered Laboratory Animal Technician through the American Association of Laboratory Animal Science soon after. Stephen is Executive Director for the Academy of Laboratory Animal Veterinary Technicians and Nurses (ALAVTN), holding a VTS credential in Research Anesthesia. His regular position is most recently at Silicon Valley Veterinary Specialists, as well as a private contractor for several research organizations. Stephen also holds positions at the Oakland Zoo and the San Francisco Zoo.

He occupies his remaining time writing book chapters, book reviews, blogs for VetBloom and lecturing internationally. He enjoys teaching and serves on advisory boards for multiple Vet Tech colleges, is on the Aratana Technician Council of Pain Experts, helps run the Veterinary Anesthesia Nerds and Veterinary Cannabis Academy Facebook and webpages and is on multiple speaker bureaus. Stephen serves as the Past President for the Society of Laboratory Animal Veterinary Technicians, Vice President and current liaison for the California RVT Association and member at large for the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America.

Tasha McNerney

BS, CVT, CVPP, VTS (Anesthesia & Analgesia)

Tasha is a Certified Veterinary Technician form Glenside, PA. She is also a Certified Veterinary Pain Practitioner and works closely with the IVAPM to educate the public about animal pain awareness. She became a board member for the IVAPM in 2019. Tasha became a veterinary technician specialist in anesthesia in 2015. Tasha loves to lecture on various anesthesia and pain management topics around the globe.

Tasha is the creator and co-administrator of the Facebook group Veterinary Anesthesia Nerds which has over 36,000 members around the globe and helps to facilitate discussions on providing the best anesthesia and pain management practices. Tasha is also a contributor to many publications including dvm360, Today’s Veterinarian, Clinicians Team Brief, and AndyRoark.com. In her spare time Tasha enjoys reading, spending time with her son, and waiting patiently for that petition for a GOT season 8 rewrite to catch fire.