Prof. Dr. Ioannis Savvas graduated from the School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He gained his Doctoral Diploma in Veterinary Anaesthesia from the same School. He has been employed at Aristotle University since 2002. Ioannis Savvas was educated at the Cornell University Hospital for Animals, College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, NY, USA; at the Klinik für Anästhesiologie und perioperative Intensivmedizin, Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien, Austria; and at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. His main duties at the School of Veterinary Medicine are teaching in pre- and postgraduate students, and research activity in the topics of gastro-oesophageal reflux during anaesthesia, peri-operative analgesia, shock, trans-diaphragmatic pressure measurement and pulmonary atelectasis. He also runs the “Pain Service” at the Companion Animal Clinic of the School of Veterinary Medicine.