Rate My Professor Annelies Decloedt

Annelies Decloedt is an associate professor in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Ghent University, Department of Internal Medicine, Reproduction and Population Medicine. She earned her DVM as an equine veterinarian from Ghent University in 2008 and completed her PhD there in 2012 on equine echocardiography, utilizing tissue Doppler imaging and two-dimensional speckle tracking to quantify left ventricular function. As a postdoctoral research fellow funded by the Research Foundation Flanders from 2012, she investigated the impact of pulmonary hypertension and exercise training on right ventricular function in horses. In 2015, she was appointed assistant professor in veterinary clinical and communication skills, where she established and now heads the Skillslab, enabling students to practice procedures like injections, surgery, and clinical examinations using simulation models, dummy patients, and blended learning approaches. She lectures on clinical and communicative skills from the second bachelor to second master levels in the veterinary program and serves on the faculty council, as vice-chair of the education committee, member of the active learning subcommittee, examination committee, and deputy national representative for the International Association for Communication in Healthcare.