Prof Johan Schoeman
Over the past 26 years, from Feb 2000, he has been on the lecturing staff at Onderstepoort, where he was promoted from senior lecturer, then to associate Professor and ultimately to full Professor in 2009. In 2001 he obtained specialist qualifications in Small Animal Medicine from three institutions: the RCVS, the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and the University of Pretoria. In 2008 he completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge, using canine babesiosis and parvoviral diarrhoea as models to study the endocrine responses in canine critical illness.
To date, he has successfully supervised 23 Masters and 5 PhD students, published 95 scientific papers, 16 textbook chapters, and over 120 international scientific peer-reviewed congress presentations in Europe and the USA and has delivered more than 150 regional and national CPD lectures. He is a former chairman of the ECVIM examination board, current director of UP’s ECVIM residency programme and has been Head of the Department of Companion Animal Clinical Studies at Onderstepoort for two, 4-year terms, from Sept 2009 until Sept 2017.
He is currently back on the clinic floor as a clinician scientist, heading the section of small animal medicine as well as the Department of CACS for a third term from 2025 to 2028 DV. He is also very privileged to be the Chair of the Internal Medicine Specialty of ECVIM from 2020-2026. He has a special interest in animal models of human disease, particularly in cardiology, endocrinology and diagnostic imaging.
Lecture 1: Introduction and recent advances in cardiac diagnostics and therapy
Lecture 2: Recent literature update on the diagnosis & management of cardiovascular disease
Lecture 3: Point of care ultrasound in the cardiopulmonary patient
All case discussions