DR. MARGHERITA GRACIS, Med. Vet., Dipl. AVDC, Dipl. EVDC
Dr Margherita Gracis is a Board Certified Veterinary Dentist™. She graduated in 1993 from the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Milano (Italy). After working in private practice for a few years, she did a Residency in Veterinary Dentistry at the Veterinary School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (USA). From 1998 until July 2000 she worked at the same institution as a Lecturer in Veterinary Dentistry. Since 2000 Dr Gracis has been working at two referral clinics in Northern Italy, dedicated to dentistry, oral pathology, and oral and maxillofacial surgery. She is a Diplomate of both the American (AVDC) and the European (EVDC) Veterinary Dental Colleges. Dr Gracis is Past President of the European Veterinary Dental Society (EVDS) and the Italian Veterinary Dental Society (SIODOV). In 2003 she acted as President of the organizing committee of the 12th European Congress of Veterinary Dentistry, held in Pisa (Italy).
Dr Gracis is a Consultant in Dentistry of the Scientific Committee of SCIVAC (Italian Veterinary Society – Small Animals) and a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Veterinary Dentistry and other scientific journals. She is also Associate Editor of the online journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science – Dentistry and Oromaxillofacial Surgery.
Since 1998 she has authored several scientific publications, and lectured at national and international meetings.
Currently Dr Gracis works in Italy, at the Clinica Veterinaria San Siro, Anicura in Milan and the Istituto Veterinario di Novara, Anicura (Granozzo con Monticello, Novara).
DR SERGIO MINEI, Med. Vet.
Dr. Minei graduated with honors in 2018 from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Bari. During his studies, he started to train in the field of soft tissue and orthopedic surgery at the Bari University Teaching Hospital and in private practices in South Italy. In 2018 he won a grant for the ”Global thesis project” conducting his experimental thesis at the University of Bari in collaboration with the University of Ghent, spending a 4 months period of training at the same Belgian university. From 2019 he moved to the UK, working as a first opinion veterinarian at The Pet Vet in Barmsley, and later as an Intern Rotating at Eastcott Referrals in Swindon, were he started training in dentistry, oral and maxillofacial surgery. Since 2020 Dr Minei started his collaboration with Dr. Gracis, which became his supervisor for a full-time Residency in Dentistry in February 2021.
DR EMMA BELLEI, Med. Vet.
Dr Emma Bellei graduated in July 1999 from the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Bologna (Italy). In 2002 she performed a period of training at the Centre Vétérinaire DMV (Montreal – Quebec, Canada) and the Hopital Vétérinaire Daubigny (Quebec City – Quebec, Canada), attending the veterinary dental activity and surgical procedures by Dr Yvan Dumais (Diplomate, American Veterinary Dental College). In May 2004 she received her PhD in “Veterinary emergency and critical care” from the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Bologna. From 2008 to 2011 Dr Bellei worked as researcher in feline inflammatory oral diseases at the Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences of the University of Bologna. In 2009 she visited the “Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery Department” of the University of Pennsylvania (USA). She has been responsible for the management of the patients with oral diseases of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of Bologna University from 2003 to 2020, and the “I Portoni Rossi” Veterinary Hospital (Zola Predosa, Bologna, Italy) (since 2013). She is author and co-author of national and international publications and has taught several workshops in veterinary dentistry. Dr Bellei has been collaborating with Dr Gracis since March 2015.
DOTT.SSA FRANCESCA ROMANO, Med. Vet.
La Dottoressa Francesca Romano si è laureata presso la Facoltà di Medicina Veterinaria dell’Università degli Studi di Torino nel 2010. Durante il periodo di studi ha svolto esperienze all’estero presso l’Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria e la Universidad de Murcia. Nel 2011 ha intrapreso un tirocinio specialistico nei campi dell’anestesiologia, terapia intensiva e medicina d’urgenza presso l’Istituto Veterinario di Novara. Attualmente lavora presso la medesima struttura, dove si occupa di medicina di urgenza e della gestione anestesiologica dei pazienti sottoposti a chirurgia dei tessuti molli, ortopedia, neurochirurgia e cardiochirurgia interventistica. Da maggio 2015 si dedica inoltre ai pazienti odontostomatologici della Dottoressa Gracis, focalizzandosi sulla gestione del dolore perioperatorio attraverso l’utilizzo di protocolli multimodali che prevedono la somministrazione di farmaci analgesici e sedativi per via sistemica uniti all’impiego di anestesie locoregionali. Da settembre 2015 è iscritta al XI corso triennale di agopuntura veterinaria presso la S.I.A.V. (Società Italiana di Agopuntura Veterinaria) con superamento del primo esame di merito.
