Dr. Natasha Olby, Vet MB, PhD, MRCVS, DACVIM (Neurology)

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Natasha Olby is a Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at North Carolina State University and holds the Dr. Kady M. Gjessing and Rhanna M. Davidson Distinguished Chair in Gerontology. She obtained her veterinary degree from Cambridge University in the UK in 1991, and after a brief period spent in mixed general practice, returned to Cambridge to complete a PhD in spinal cord injury and a surgical training. Following completion of her PhD and post doctoral research, she moved to North Carolina State University to do a neurology/neurosurgery residency and she has stayed at NCSU as a faculty member since then. She is a past president of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Neurology specialty and a Co-Editor of the BSAVA Manual of Small Animal Neurology. She has active research programs on spinal cord injury, Chiari-like Malformations, and neurodegenerative/aging diseases. She has authored over 100 peer reviewed research articles and is a regular speaker at veterinary conferences internationally.