Prof. Dr. Anna L. Meredith is a Professor of Zoological and Conservation Medicine and a veterinary clinician, researcher, and teacher. She graduated from Oxford University in Physiological Sciences, from Cambridge University in Veterinary Medicine, and joined the University of Edinburgh in 1991, where she gained her Ph.D. Over nearly three decades at the University of Edinburgh, she held a number of senior academic leadership roles in the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, including Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes, before moving to Australia in 2018 as the Head of Melbourne Veterinary School at the University of Melbourne. Anna has recently joined Keele University as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences. Her research in conservation medicine includes current projects on raptors, squirrels, and amphibians and examines the inter-relationship between ecosystems, animal, and human health.
Prof. Dr. Elspeth M. Milne graduated from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies in 1979. After a spell in practice, she undertook a Ph.D. at Edinburgh University investigating the clinical pathology of sheep. She then spent three years as a small animal resident in Edinburgh before moving to equine medicine where she was a clinician from 1986 to 1996. In 1996, she joined the Scottish Agricultural College Veterinary Services in Dumfries where she became Centre Manager. She returned to the Vet School in 2002 and was appointed Head of Veterinary Pathology in 2004, a post she held until 2018. She retired in 2022 and is now an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh. Professor Milne was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for studies on equine dysautonomia in 1997. In 2002, she became a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology and, in 2011, a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. She was awarded a Personal Chair in Veterinary Clinical Pathology at the University of Edinburgh in 2007. She has contributed to the development of clinical pathology internationally. Her main research interests remain in clinical pathology, red squirrel diseases, and equine dysautonomia.
Prof. Dr. Annemieke Geluk is a professor of immunodiagnostics of mycobacterial infectious diseases, leprosy, and tuberculosis. Additionally, her research group at the LUMC functions as the national reference center for routine diagnosis of leprosy, with service to other European countries and the Antilles. She studied Chemistry at the University of Leiden and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA. During her Ph.D., Geluk specialized as an immunologist at the Department of Immunohematology and Blood Bank at the LUMC as well as Cytel Corporation in San Diego, USA. She received postdoctoral training at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. She has been appointed Professor of Immunodiagnostics at the LUMC since January 2015. Geluk is a co-founder of the Dutch Leprosy Expertise Center and a member of the past decade. Geluk has been part of various research consortia for the development of immunodiagnostic tests for diagnosis of pulmonary TB and monitoring its treatment. She is a member of the WHO Task Force on definitions, criteria, and indicators for the interruption of transmission and elimination of leprosy (TFCEL). She is also a member of the Leprosy Diagnostic Working Group of the Global Partnership for Zero Leprosy (GPZL).
