25th International EVSSAR Congress - European Society Small Animal Reproduction (EVSSAR 2024)

Chiara Milani

Chiara Milani obtained a Degree in Veterinary Medicine in 2003, and a PhD in 2008 at the University of Padova. She then gained a position of researcher in 2008 and became Associate Professor in 2022 at the University of Padova in the area of Animal Reproduction, Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Since 2005, she has worked in the small animal reproduction area at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of the University of Padova, teaching to vet students on the fifth year of the Veterinary Degree course and to the bachelor’s degree in Animal Care. Her main research interests are on specific topics of small animal reproduction, such as andrology, methods of sperm analysis, optimizing freezing protocol, artificial insemination, optimal breeding timing and progesterone analysis, US monitoring of pregnancy, parturition timing, endocrinology and control of the reproductive cycle of the bitch, antimicrobial resistance in the breeding dog population. She is the author and co-author of more than 40 peer-reviewed indexed articles and she contributed to more than 80 proceeding abstracts.

She is an EVSSAR (European Veterinary Society for Small Animal Reproduction) member, and she has served on the EVSSAR Board since 2019. She became vice-president in 2022 and she was elected President of the EVSSAR society in 2023.