Dr. Claudia Busse qualified from the School of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover (Germany). In 2004 she spent one and a half years in general practice while preparing a doctoral thesis on inherited ocular disease. She then went on to complete an internship at the Animal Health Trust, and subsequently commenced a regular residency training program in Veterinary Ophthalmology which she completed in 2009. She is a Diplomate of the ECVO since then and she currently works as a clinician in the Ophthalmology unit at the Animal Health Trust in England.