Dr Holger Volk

DVM, PhD, DipECVN, EBVS®recognised specialist in Veterinary Neurology, FHEA, FRCVS

Holger Volk is the Department Chair and Clinical Director of the Small Animal Clinic of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Visiting Professor at the Royal Veterinary College and Affiliate Professor at University of Copenhagen. He graduated from the Veterinary School of Hanover in 2001, where he also did a PhD in Neuropharmacology studying basic mechanisms of drug-resistant epilepsy. He then completed his specialist clinical education doing an internship and a residency in Neurology and Neurosurgery at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). He stayed on at the RVC as faculty and in his time at the RVC did hold multiple leadership roles (Head of Neurology, Clinical Director and Head of Department for Clinical Science and Services). In January 2019, he returned to his Alma Mater to fulfil his current role. Holger is internationally known for his work in the field of epilepsy, neuropathic pain/Chiari-like malformation/syringomyelia, cognition and recently SARS-CoV-2 medical detection dogs. Holger has been leading the International Veterinary Epilepsy Task Force, and was one of the members for multiple published ACVIM consensus statements about medical treatment of epilepsy, movement disorders and status epilepticus. He has published multiple book chapters and books, >320 articles, hundreds of conference abstracts, and is a frequent flyer on the international conference circuit, having won multiple awards for teaching and his research.