Prof. Anne Couroucé graduated from Ecole Vétérinaire de Nantes in 1992 and has worked for a research unit in equine sport medicine "Pégase-Mayenne" up to 2001. She passed her PhD in this field area in 1997. In 2001 she entered Nantes Vet School as a lecturer in equine internal medicine. In 2004 she became ECEIM Diplomate and she is now, since 2016, a professor in equine internal medicine. Her research work focusses on equine sport medicine with a special interest in respiratory diseases. Anne Couroucé is head of the Clinical unit of Equine Internal Medicine at Oniris. She is also Past-President of the ECEIM, the president of the scientific committee of the RESPE . She is also a member of the FEI veterinarian committee since 2021.