About
Joana qualified from Porto University in 2009. Following a year in clinical practice she joined the Queen’s Veterinary School Hospital, Cambridge as Junior Clinical Training Scholar. After a few years working at Stone Lion Veterinary Hospital in London she underwent her residency training in Small Animal Internal Medicine at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (Royal Veterinary College – London). Here she gained her Master of Veterinary Medicine in 2017 and obtained specialist recognition from the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) and from the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ECVIM) in Small Animal Internal Medicine. She completed her PhD at the Royal Veterinary College entitled “Unravelling the pathogenesis of feline hyperthyroidism” in February 2022.