Vanessa Barrs is Professor or Feline Medicine & Infectious Diseases in the Sydney School of Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney. She is also a registered specialist in feline medicine. Vanessa is Head of the Small Animal Medicine Department. She is a former Director of the University Veterinary Teaching Hospital and previous President of the International Society of Companion Animals and Infectious Diseases. Her passion is feline medicine and infectious diseases and she has more than 130 publications in this field.