Advanced Cardiology Review Course

John Bonagura is a graduate of the Ohio State University. He completed a rotating intern at the Animal Medical Center and residencies and specialty board certifications in Cardiology and Internal Medicine at Ohio State. John was Head of Cardiology & Interventional Medicine at OSU for much of his career, and is currently Professor Emeritus. Dr. Bonagura was visiting research fellow at Edinburgh University, Scotland and Gilbreath-McLorn Endowed Professor of Cardiology at the University of Missouri for five years before rejoining the faculty at OSU 2001. Since 2019, he has been affiliated with North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine. John served as President of the ACVIM specialty of Cardiology. He is the long-time Editor of Kirk's Current Veterinary Therapy and co-author of a Colour Atlas of Veterinary Cardiology and Cardiovascular Diseases in Companion Animals. He is currently an editorial board member of Journal of Veterinary Cardiology and American Society of Echocardiography CASE. He has co-authored over 300 scientific publications and book chapters. John is recipient of multiple college awards for teaching and is a recipient of the Ohio State campus Award for Distinguished Teaching. Other honors include the Bourgelat award of the BSAVA, Kirk Lifetime Achievement Award from ACVIM, Doctor Honoris Causa from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Faculty Achievement Award of the AAVC, and distinguished Alumnus awards from The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine and the Animal Medical Center.

Dr. N. Sydney Moïse has been involved in teaching, clinical practice, and research. Her scientific discovery has centered on arrhythmias in dogs. Currently, she has directed her research endeavors toward the normal and abnormal patterning of cardiac rhythms during long-term Holter analysis. The Norden Distinguished Teaching Award, AVMA research award for arrhythmia studies in German shepherds, Outstanding Alumni Award Texas A&M University and the Bourgelat Award for international contribution to the clinical practice of veterinary medicine were awarded to Dr. Moïse for her work. Recently, she received the inaugural C. V. Starr Professorship in Cardiology at Cornell University. Dr. Moïse was Editor-in Chief (5 years) and Associate Editor (2 years) of the international Journal of Veterinary Cardiology. She is extensively involved in the international aspects of academic veterinary cardiology including speaking and training. A prime motivator in her work is to provide the tools to anyone/anywhere seeking answers through scientific discovery whereby the implementation can make a difference because of deeper understanding. She has authored more than 125 peer-reviewed papers in veterinary cardiology with publications in both veterinary and human cardiology journals. Previously, she co-edited and authored with Dr. Philip Fox and David Sisson the textbook Canine and Feline Cardiology. In 2018, she co-authored/edited the textbook Electrocardiography of the Dog and Cat authored by Drs. Roberto Santilli, N. Sydney Moïse, Romain Pariaut and Manuela Perego. She is currently working on her book Heartbeats…Over Time (Long-term Electrocardiographic Monitoring in the Dog). Additionally, with her son, Wyatt H. Flanders, Dr. Moïse has created a teaching and advanced long-term electrocardiographic analysis website called: The Next Heartbeat; https://thenextheartbeat.com/). This website will be open-access to everyone providing software tools that give exciting methods to explore new possibilities in the understanding of cardiac rhythms through beat-to-beat analysis of electrocardiograms.

Dr. Visser is from Grand Rapids, Michigan. He obtained a BS in 2007 and combined DVM/MS in 2010 from Michigan State University. He then completed a small animal rotating internship at North Carolina State University in 2011. He completed a combined residency/MS program in Cardiology at The Ohio State University in 2014. Dr. Visser recently joined Colorado State University where he is an Associate Professor of Cardiology. Prior to this, he was at the University of California, Davis (2014 - 2021). His primary research interest is improving the noninvasive assessment of cardiac structure and function with an emphasis on the echocardiographic assessment of the right heart.

Tony is originally from Minnesota. After graduating high school, he moved to Colorado to attend Colorado State University and earned degrees in Biology and Exercise Physiology. From there he went to Arrhythmia Technologies Institute (Pacemaker School) in South Carolina in 2000, and has been in the pacing device industry since 2001.  In his free time he enjoys inline speed skating marathons, running, and hiking.