Current Position

Since 2021 she is Director of Education of ESAVS, Program Director of the ESAVS Certificate in Anaesthesia, Pain Management, Emergency and Critical Care as well as Principle Course Master of the Anaesthesia and Pain Management courses.
As Associate Board member and Director of Education, she is responsible for educational programs, didactics and the development of new curricula together with Marc Vandevelde.

Education and Experience

Eva Eberspächer-Schweda studied Veterinary Medicine at the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany and received her doctorate degree from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany.
She became a specialist in Laboratory Animal Science (Fachtierärztin) and after her residency training in Anesthesia / Critical Patient Care at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, USA a Diplomate ACVAA.

Teaching Experience

From 2007 to 2021 she worked as Senior Clinician at the Clinical Unit of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Intensive Care at the Veterinary University Vienna, Austria. She completed her Habilitation and was appointed Privatdozentin. Among other duties, she was responsible for student´s teaching of the Anaesthesia Service and spent most of her time on clinics teaching students, interns, residents and veterinarians.

Research

She is very active in postgraduate teaching of veterinarians all over the world and enjoys helping to improve anaesthesia and analgesia management of small and large animal patients. She is also a member of more than ten professional societies and has published many research studies, book chapters as well as a text book in veterinary anaesthesia.