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Name: Dr. Alexandros Zervas

Date of Birth: December 19, 1988

Place of birth: Athens, Greece

Languages: English (Proficiency), French (Diplôme approfondi de langue française-DALF C1)

EDUCATION

07/2013 Certificate of having satisfactorily completed accredited training for personnel working under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, organized by the Royal Veterinary College

Species: Rat, Mouse, Guineapig, Hamster, Rabbit

Modules 1-3: Home office Licensee course, accredited by the Society of Biology. This course covers: Ethical issues& legal requirements, Recognition of well being, Health monitoring & Disease, Anaesthesia, Minor Procedures,Biology & Husbandry and Euthanasia

Module 4: Anaesthesia & Analgesia, Post-op Care, Surgical procedures, including some basic practical training

 

2006-2012 Doctor in Veterinary Medicine (DVM), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Optional Modules attended: Comparative Pathology of Neoplasia, From parasitism to amfoterobiosis, Molecular biology techniques and their applications in the Veterinary Science, Hygiene and technology of dairy products, Hygiene of animal origin food: meat inspection, development and implementation of HACCP in slaughterhouses and food industries, Diseases of avicultural birds

Graduation:  July 2012

Grade: 67,0% (Merit)

 

2003-2006 13^th High School of Peristeri, Attiki, Greece

Science Direction: Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics

Optional module attended: Biology

Total grade: 19.1/20 (Excellent)

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

06/2013 – present          Veterinarian-Clinician in Small Animal Clinic, named “Michael Flarakos”

Job description: Involvement in clinical examination, handling and assessment overview of the animal, pet immunizations and deworming, blood sampling, radiographic, ultrasound tests. Participation as assistant in endoscopic procedures, castration-spaying, general surgery and more specialized (orthopedics and laparoscopic, such as castration, preventive gastropexy and dog holecystectomy) becoming familiar with the variety of high technology equipment of the clinic.

Research Project: Correct vaccination and deworming in dogs and cats, Case report: Lymphangiectasia in the dog, using endoscopic techniques (under process)

Manager: Michael Flarakos

 

07/2013 Scientific Visitor, Laboratory Animal Section, The Royal Veterinary College, University of London

Visit description: One month practice, Modules 1-4 and joining the RVC’s team of Named Veterinary Surgeons (Designated Veterinarians) in their daily ambulatory practice, providing veterinary services to research establishments in and around the London area. This included visits to the College’s clients. Activities included routine husbandry and clinical visits, participation in ethical review of work, promoting the “3Rs”, observing clinical treatment of animals and advice regarding their care.

Supervisor: Lucy Whitfield, Director, Named Veterinary Surgeon Services

 

07/2013-present Authorized Veterinarian at the Laboratory for Research of the Musculoskeletal System (LRMS) of the School of Medicine, University of Athens, Greece

Job description: Supervisor of the Microsurgical Training Program of Doctors. This is a 10-week training program three times per year. Involvement also in various experimental protocols during the organization of the experiment, the maintenance of the animals, anaesthesia, surgery, blood sampling and processing, imaging (x-rays, DXA). Member of the Animal Welfare and Ethics Committee and of the Protocols Assessment Committee of the facility.

Manager: Professor Ismene Dontas, Professor of Experimental Surgical Research Director, LRMS

 

09/2012-06/2013 Practice in LRMS

Practice description: Education and practical training in the Department of Laboratory Animals. Participation in research programs as a PhD Candidate on the rat model of Osteoporosis

Supervisor: Professor Ismene Dontas, Professor of Experimental Surgical Research Director, LRMS

 

07/2012-06/2013                        Practice in Peristeri Vet Center as a veterinarian

Practice description: Involvement in clinical examination, handling and assessment overview of the animal, pet immunizations and deworming, blood sampling, radiographic, ultrasound tests. Participation as assistant in castration-spaying, general surgery and more specialized such as orthopedics. Daily participation in treatment and surgeries in exotics and wild birds. (This clinic is the official voluntary supporter of ANIMA, a Greek Society for the protection of wild life)

Manager: Dr Haralabos Haralabidis, owner of the Clinic, Veterinary surgeon

 

07-08/2010                                Veterinary Placement

Job description: Practice for four weeks in Peristeri Vet Center as a vet student

Manager: Dr Haralabos Haralabidis, owner of the Clinic, Veterinary surgeon

 

07/2008                           Veterinary Placement

Job description: Practice for four weeks in a productive sheep facility in Lemnos island

Manager: Fotios Bezas, owner of the facility

 

 

SCHOLARSHIPS

1^st of 13 ICLAS-FELASA scholarships to participate in the FELASA-SECAL Congress ‘Animal Research: Better Science from Fewer Animals’, Barcelona, Spain, June 10-14^th (Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations - Sociedad Española para las Ciencias del Animal de Laboratorio)

 

 

MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

· Hellenic Veterinary Medical Society (HVMS)

· Hellenic Society of Biomedical and Laboratory Animal Science (HSBLAS)

· Hellenic Veterinary Association (H.V.A.)

· Geotechnical Chamber of Greece

 

 

PRESENTATIONS AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

· AS Zervas , PP Lelovas, A Patsaki, C Passali, A Galanos, IA Dontas, Age-related changes of physiological parameters in young adult rats: a non-invasive observational study, the FELASA-SECAL Congress, Barcelona, Spain, June 10-14th

· Zervas Alexandros1, Tsatani Evaggelia2, Kritas Spyridon3, Tzika Eleni4

Monitoring and Prevention of Aujesky’s Disease in pigs

2nd Meeting of International Veterinary Students, Thessaloniki, May, 2012

· Zervas Alexandros1, Frydas Stavros2, Paramphistomum cervi and Paramphistomosis, 1st Meeting of International Veterinary Students, Thessaloniki, May, 2011

 

 

UNDERGRADUATE ESSAYS

· 2007 “Eutrophication”

· 2009 “Salmonella Spp. and Listeria Spp. in bovine carcasses”

· 2010 “Paramphistomum cervi and Paramphistomosis ”

· 2011 “Monitoring and Prevention of Aujesky’s Disease in pigs”

· 2011 “Salmonellosis : small ruminants”

· 2012  “Diaphragmatic hernia in the cat, surgical approach”

· 2012 “Bovine Salmonellosis: pathological findings”

· 2012 “Diagnostic methods of diarrhoeic shellfish marine shellfish toxins”

· 2012 “Main bacterial diseases of avicultural birds

 

 

SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

· Behaviour Problems of the Dog and the Cat, Hellenic Veterinary Medical Society on Animal Practice, Athens, January, 2014

· 12th FELASA and 12th SECAL joint Congress ‘Animal Research: Better Science from Fewer Animals’, Barcelona, Spain, 10-13 June 2013

· Hellenic Veterinary Medical Society, 12^th Greek Congress, Athens, April 2012

· 2^nd Meeting of International Veterinary Students Association, Thessaloniki, May, 2012

· 4th Health Conference Kalamata, February 2012

· 1^st Meeting of International Veterinary Students Association, Thessaloniki, May, 2011

· Hellenic Veterinary Medical Society, 2^nd Congress of Productive Animals- Health and Food Safety- Consumer Protection, Thessaloniki, March, 2011

· Hellenic Veterinary Dermatology Society, 8th Symposium of Veterinary Dermatology, pharmacology and therapy, Athens, November 2011

· 23rd Medical Conference of Greek Army, Thessaloniki, November 2010

· Hellenic Veterinary Medical Society on Companion Animal Practice 9th Congress, Athens, March 2010

· Hellenic Veterinary Medical Society on Companion Animal Practice 1^st Forum, Athens, February, 2011

· Hellenic Veterinary Medical Society on Animal Practice 11^th Congress, Athens, March, 2009

· Hellenic Veterinary Medical Society on Veterinary Animal Production, Health-Safety of Animal Origin Food and Consumer Protection,1st National Congress, Athens,  March 2008

· Hellenic Society of Spinal Cord, 2nd Hellenic Spinal Cord Congress, Chalkidiki, October 2008

· Hellenic Veterinary Medical Society on Companion Animal Practice 8th Congress, Athens, March 2007

· Hellenic Veterinary Medical Society of N. Greece, Scientific Symposium, Thessaloniki, December,2006

 

 

WORKSHOPS-SEMINARS

· Laboratory Animal Necropsy and Sample Collection, Division of Laboratory Animal Facilities, Athens,  November 12, 2013

· Hellenic Society of Biomedical & Laboratory Animal Science, Handling and Techniques in Small Animal Models, Athens, December 2012

· International Veterinary Students’ Association, Arabian Horse Workshop, Faculty of the Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig, Egypt October 18-25, 2010

 

COMPUTER SKILLS

ECDL  (Basic Concepts of Information Technology, Using the Computer and Managing Files, Information and Communication)