Isabelle Goy-Thollot is project manager for the general education and research department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. She graduated from Maisons-Alfort, France in 1989 and completed a PhD in 2005 about hypothalamo-pituitary adrenal axis. She has been lecturer in internal medicine at the Lyon Veterinary School before founding the SIAMU (SA-ICU) in 2000. She has been the head of the SIAMU from 2000 to 2019. She has been President of the European Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society (EVECCS) and chair of the ECVECC Credential Committee. She is founding member Diplomate of the European College of Emergency and Critical Care since June 2014. She is mainly interested blood transfusion and blood compatibility.