Current Position

Personal Chair of Small Animal Gastroenterology
Head of Small Animal Internal Medicine

Education and Experience

Graduated from the JLU University in Giessen (Germany), PhD at the Royal Veterinary College London, Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, RCVS recognised specialist in Small Animal Internal Mediicine (Gastroenterology).

Teaching Experience

In academic positions with undergraduate and postgraduate students and CPDs for 25 years, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy through Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice

Research

Particular interest in gut motility, immunology, probiotics, the microbiome and faecal microbiota transplantation. ORCID 0000-0003-1084-7013 and google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=P07hzRcAAAAJ&hl=en

Other

Prof. Salavati graduated from the JLU University in Giessen (Germany), where she also completed her doctoral thesis on gastric emptying in dogs. She completed her PhD at the Royal Veterinary College assessing the effects of a synbiotic on canine chronic enteropathy. She then moved to the University of Edinburgh in 2016 as a senior lecturer, and became head of the Small Animal Internal Medicine Service in 2023. She holds an ECVIM-CA diploma in small animal internal medicine, and the RCVS-recognised specialist title in Small Animal Gastroenterology. She has a particular interest in gut motility, immunology, probiotics, the microbiome and faecal microbiota transplantations, and has published extensively on these topics. She lives in Edinburgh with her husband, a Border Terrier called Jäger and 2 cats, Maisy and Guinness.