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Nathalie KIRSCHVINK

Nathalie Kirschvink

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Faculties/Departments/Services

Faculté de médecine - Vice-Doyen/Vice-Doyenne

Research institutes

Research center

Organs

Bureau de faculté - Vice-Doyen/Vice-Doyenne
Décanat - Vice-Doyen/Vice-Doyenne
Conseil de faculté - Vice-Doyen/Vice-Doyenne

Domains of expertise

  • Respiratory physiology and pathophysiology of domestic and laboratory animals (pulmonary function tests, condensed exhalations, bronchoalveolar lavage, bronchial biopsies, medical imaging)
  • Study of oxidative stress in vivo in domestic animals and in animal models (blood markers of oxidative stress, pulmonary markers, F2-isoprostanes)
  • Study of enzymatic stress (matrix metalloproteases) in the lungs and joints
  • Exercise-induced oxidative stress in sport horses
  • Expertise in emerging diseases of small ruminants (Bluetongue, Schmallenberg virus, Q fever, etc.)

External responsibilities

TEACHING

  • Teaching ‘Maîtres d'expérience Cat C’ candidates at the Université de Liège (ULG) (2003-2015), the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) (>2008), UNamur (>2009)
  • Contribution to continuing education for veterinary practitioners (Formavet; >2005)
  • Contribution to hygiene certification training for German-speaking Belgian hunters (>2007)
  • Contribution to the training of animal biotechnicians (UNamur 2008-2017)
  • Visiting professor at ULg for a complementary master's degree in Animal Infectiology, Veterinary Medicine (>2011)

RESEARCH

  • Member of the Veterinary Comparative Respiratory Society (VCRS, 2001-2012)
  • Member of the board of the Veterinary Comparative Respiratory Society (VCRS board, 2006-2011)
  • Member of the Belgian Society for Fundamental and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology (2003-)
  • Mitglied des Arbeitskreises Vergleichende Pathologie und Pathophysiologie des respiratorischen Systems; Germany (2002-2016)

OTHER

  • Member of the Board of Directors of FICOW (Walloon goat and sheep industry) (2006-2016)
  • Member of the Board of the Centre d'Economie Rurale (CER), Marloie (2006-2017)
  • Advisory Board member of THE VETERINARY JOURNAL (2006-)
  • Member of the Board of Scientific Reviewers of the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY RESEARCH (2008-2011)

Degrees

  • Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (1997)
  • Doctor of Veterinary Science (PhD) (2001)
  • Master of experience Cat C (2005)

Prizes

  • Prize of the FNRS contact group ‘Phénomènes oxydants’, FNRS, Namur 2000
  • Joan O'Brien Research Award for the best oral presentation of PhD students - Veterinary Comparative Respiratory Society & World Equine Airway Symposium; Edinborough, Scotland, 2001

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