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Daniel Costa Moya DVM, MSc, PhD, Dipl. ECVO, MRCVS EBVS

European Veterinary Specialist in Ophthalmology

Daniel graduated from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 2009. Afterwards, he performed a post-graduate course in veterinary ophthalmology at the same university (2010), a one year rotating small animal internship at the private referral Ars Veterinarian in Barcelona (2010-2011) and a Master of Science in clinical research (2012-2013). Then, he worked in general practice and as scientific assistant at the UAB. I obtained a PhD degree about cornea and sclera cryopreservation in July 2015. From September 2015 to August 2018, he performed an ECVO residency in comparative veterinary ophthalmology at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In 2019, he obtained the ECVO diploma. Daniel was the head of unit of the ophthalmology service at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of the UCV (Valencia, Spain) (2018-2022). Nowadays he is a part-time senior clinician at Optivet referrals and consultant at Vet-CT.

Francisco Vieira Jorge MRCVS

Clinician in Veterinary Ophthalmology

Francisco graduated from the University of Lisbon - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in 2017 having performed his master's thesis in Ocular refraction (2016-2017). After working in ophthalmology for 2 years as a general practitioner in Lisbon Veterinary Hospital he moved to the United Kingdom to further develop his interest in Ophthalmology. Francisco has joined Optivet Referrals (2021), having completed his Ophthalmology Internship, he has been working as a junior ophthalmology clinician (2022-2023) with Optivet. His long-term goal is to become a veterinary board-certified veterinary Ophthalmologist.