Victoria Garcia
Victoria is a Brand Building Executive with in-depth global experience in the fashion and beauty industries. She focuses on leveraging her strong business planning, merchandising, digital and financial expertise, with an emphasis on inventory optimization. Victoria holds a unique balance between analytics and creative that she is able to drive in her strategic problem solving and decision making. She enjoys cultivating teams and aligning operations to propel companies forward.
David Olsen
Carol Hamilton
Duncan Lascelles
B. Duncan X. Lascelles
BSc, BVSC, PhD, MRCVS, CertVA, DSAS(ST), Diplomate ECVS, Diplomate ACVS
Professor of Surgery and Pain Management
Director, Comparative Pain Research and Education Centre
Translational Research in Pain Programme,
North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh, NC, 27606, USA
After graduating from the veterinary program at the University of Bristol, U.K., with honors, in 1991 Dr. Lascelles completed a PhD in aspects of pre-emptive/perioperative analgesia at the University of Bristol. After an internship there, he completed his surgical residency at the University of Cambridge, U.K. He moved to Colorado for the Fellowship in Oncological Surgery at Colorado State University, then a period of post-doctoral research in feline pain and analgesia at the University of Florida, and is currently Professor in Small Animal Surgery and Pain Management at North Carolina State University. He is board-certified in small animal surgery by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, the European College of Veterinary Surgeons, and the American College of Veterinary Surgeons.
He is director of the Comparative Pain Research and Education Centre (CPREC). His research program (Translational Research in Pain [TRiP]) is dedicated to answering critical questions about pain control and pain mechanisms through high quality, innovative research. His career has been focused on developing algometry methods (methods to measure pain) in spontaneous disease animal models (pets with naturally occurring disease), and probing tissues from well-phenotyped animals with spontaneous disease to understand the neurobiology, with a strong translational focus. The aim of his research is to improve pain control in companion animals, and facilitate analgesic development in human medicine. He has authored over 180 peer reviewed research papers and reviews and 190 research abstracts, as well as over 30 book chapters.
He has worked closely with industry partners in both animal and human health, helping to re-define the relationship between industry and academia. Through reviews and invited presentations he advocates for the use of spontaneous disease in animals to inform human therapeutic development. Recently, he organized a meeting of industry, academia, regulatory authorities (FDA) and the NIH to discuss measurement of chronic pain in companion animals and the application to human pain research (www.PAW2017.com), and is planning PAW2019. He is completing a year-long integrated sabbatical within a pain therapeutic company (Centrexion Therapeutics) that develops novel therapeutics for both humans and animals. He provides consulting services related to pain therapeutic development across all stages of animal therapeutic development, and for pre-clinical and Phase I stages of human therapeutic development.
Through his work in academia and industry, he contributes to and facilitates the development of novel pain therapeutics for companion animals, and advocates for the use of spontaneous disease in pets to inform human pain therapeutic development.
