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Dr. Ivana Calice (AT)

DECVAA

EBVS European Specialist in Small Animal Surgery

Current Position

Since 2024, Dr. Ivana Calice has been an Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia at Vetmeduni Vienna, Austria. Her responsibilities include teaching anaesthesia, working in the clinic as a senior anaesthetist, and conducting independent research.

Education and Experience

Dr. Ivana Calice graduated from the University of Vienna, Austria, in 2005 and began her career as a junior clinician in the Department of Anaesthesia. In 2008, she completed her doctoral thesis before moving into the veterinary pharmaceutical industry, where she gained valuable experience in preclinical research. She later returned to clinical work as the lead anaesthetist at Austria’s largest private veterinary clinic at the time. From 2016 to 2019, Dr. Calice completed a residency in Anaesthesia and Analgesia at her alma mater, followed by two additional years as a senior anaesthetist, actively contributing to teaching, research, and clinical practice. From 2022 to 2024, she led the anaesthesia team in a specialised surgical practice.

Georg graduated from the Veterinary University of Vienna in 2006, where he also completed a rotating small animal internship and a three-year ECVS approved residency program in small animal surgery. 2015 Georg moved to UK and worked as a specialist small animal surgeon in international renowned referral centers (Animal Health Trust, Dick White Referrals). In 2018 Georg returned back to Austria where he is CEO and head surgeon of a busy referral centre. Beside his clinical work, Georg has published articles in peer reviewed journals and has lectured and been invited as a speaker at numerous conferences and CPD courses at national and international level.

Teaching Experience

Since 2010, Dr. Calice has been actively involved in teaching students, interns, and veterinarians—first as a clinician and later as a senior clinician. During her residency and after becoming a diplomate, she also contributed to the training of residents. Since 2017, she has been a regular lecturer and course instructor at national and international continuing education programmes, including ESAVS, Improve International, and specialised courses in regional anaesthesia.

Research

Dr. Calice has been engaged in research since her student days, beginning with a project on the genotoxicity of metronidazole in cats conducted in the laboratory of Prof. Kenneth W. Simpson at Cornell University, USA. Her doctoral thesis, supervised by Prof. M. Kleiter, focused on the expression of growth factors in canine mast cell tumors. During the residency, she investigated optimal catheter placement site during dental procedures and explored the use of modern spirometry in anaesthetic monitoring. Subsequent independent projects have included the development and description of regional anaesthesia techniques across different species. Currently, her research is centred on interventional pain medicine in dogs.

Other

Calice Ivana, Panagiotis Ballas, Claus Vogl, Monika Ehling-Schulz, Attilio Rocchi. “Does catheter insertion site matter? Contamination of cephalic and saphenous vein catheterplacement site in anaesthetized dogs undergoing dentalscaling.” Veterinary Sciences 11, no. 9 (2024): 407.

Trujanovic, Robert, Natali Verdier, Calice Ivana, Christian Knecht, and Pablo E. Otero. “Axillary ultrasound-guided approach for thebrachial plexus in pig cadavers: A descriptive study.” LaboratoryAnimals 56, no. 2 (2022): 165-17.

Calice Ivana, Silvio Kau, Christian Knecht, Pablo E. Otero, and M.Paula Larenza Menzies. “Combined caudal retrocostal and lateralultrasound-guided approach for transversus abdominis planeinjection: A descriptive pilot study in pig cadavers.” Plos one 16, no. 3 (2021): e0248131.

Calice Ivana, and Attilio Rocchi. “Can intubation confirmed bycapnography be misleading? Complication with rabbitintubation.” Veterinary Record Case Reports 8, no. 2 (2020): e001043.
Calice Ivana, and Attilio Rocchi. “Airway management fortracheal resection proximal to carina in a cat.” Veterinary RecordCase Reports 7, no. 3 (2019): e000874. Calice, Ivana, and Yves Moens. “Modern Spirometry SupportsAnesthetic Management in Small Animal Clinical Practice: ACase Series.” Journal of the American Animal HospitalAssociation 52, no. 5 (2016): 305-311.

Flickinger, Irene, Barbara C. Rütgen, Wilhelm Gerner, Calice Ivana, Alexander Tichy, Armin Saalmüller, and Miriam Kleiter.”Radiation up-regulates the expression of VEGF in a canine oralmelanoma cell line.” Journal of Veterinary Science 14, no. 2 (2013):207-214.

Sekis Ivana, Wilhelm Gerner, Michael Willmann, Laura Rebuzzi,Alexander Tichy, Martina Patzl, Johann G. Thalhammer, ArminSaalmüller, and Miriam M. Kleiter. “Effect of radiation on vascularendothelial growth factor expression in the C2 caninemastocytoma cell line.” American journal of veterinaryresearch 70, no. 9 (2009): 1141-1150.

Sekis Ivana, Kerry Ramstead, Mark Rishniw, Wayne S. Schwark,Sean P. McDonough, Richard E. Goldstein, Mark Papich, andKenneth W. Simpson. “Single-dose pharmacokinetics and genotoxicity of metronidazole in cats.” Journal of Feline Medicineand Surgery (2009) 11, 60-68 doi:10.1016/j.jfms.2008.06.011