Dr. med. vet. Ursula Dietrich, DACVO, DECVO
Ursula graduated from the Veterinary College at the Ludwig-
Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany where she also obtained her
doctoral degree (Dr.med.vet) in 1996. She completed an ACVO
residency program at the Vetsuisse Faculty in Zurich, Switzerland and
subsequently became faculty member at the College of Veterinary
Medicine, The University of Georgia, in Athens, GA, U.S.A. in 2000.
After many years in academia, Ursula worked in private referral practices
in New York and Bletchingley, UK, and eventually joined the Royal
Veterinary College in London as a Senior Lecturer from 2017-2020.
Ursula is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2020 and has
dedicated most of her career to the mentoring and training of numerous
students, interns and residents. She is an international lecturer and
course instructor, authour and co-authour of many articles and textbooks
and was until recently a member of the ACVO genetics committee.
Since 2020 Ursula runs her own independent and feline-only
ophthalmology referral consultancy at the London Cat Clinic, London.

Dr. med. vet. Ingrid Allgoewer DECVO
Born in Brazil and raised in Germany, Ingrid completed her
veterinary studies in Munich and Hannover and graduated 1990
from the Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, Germany. She
obtained her doctoral degree Dr. med vet. from the Ludwig-
Maximillians-Universität in Munich and became a faculty member
at the Clinic for Small Animal Surgery at the University in Munich
and later at the Small Animal Clinic at the Freie Universität in
Berlin for 10 years. Since 2000 Ingrid runs her own veterinary
ophthalmologic clinic in Berlin. Ingrid served on the ECVO
executive board 2000-2014 and was ECVO president 2010-2012.
A co-instructor of the annual Berlin Advanced Microsurgery
Course, textbook-coauthor and author of numerous articles, she
was an editorial board member of German journals as well as the
Journal of Veterinary Ophthalmology. Ingrid´s major interest is
ophthalmic surgery, ocular conditions of brachycephalic breeds as
well as ocular surface disease.