Speakers & moderators

Dominique Grandjean (DVM, PhD, HDR, Dipl ECVSMR) is a Professor at the national veterinary school of Alfort (France), where he works as Head of the small animals and equine clinical sciences department, and of the canine breeding and sport medicine unit. As a faculty in Alfort he has been focussing most of his work on dog’s nutrition and working dogs’ performance for the last 30 years, with a special attention to oxidative stress prevention and consequences.

He was also a colonel veterinarian for the Paris Fire Brigade (military unit, 9500 firefighters) from 1993 to 2021, in charge, among other tasks, of the canine search and rescue teams, of the management of dangerous animals, and of biological hazards. Dominique is also national and regional technical advisor of the civilian security for both cynotechnics and biological hazards, and advisor for civilian security working dogs (Ministry of the Interior).

He is Head of the Nosaïs COVID-19 detection dogs program since march 2020. This program also works on high risk prostate cancers, colon and pancreas cancers. As a researcher his works are focussed on the consequences of stress and hostile environments (warm, cold, altitude) in the working dog, with a deep involvement in sled dog long distance races since 1980, and in search and rescue dogs since 1990.

His unit (Unite de Medecine de l’Elevage et du Sport –UMES-) also includes a physiotherapy service and a dedicated sub-unit for canine collectivities veterinary problems. Dominique already published more than 170 scientific peer-reviewed papers on working dog physiology, nutrition and medicine, and a total of 29 books all related to this area. He now focuses his research on cancers and degenerative diseases detection by canine olfaction. He is Race Director for Lekkarod international Sled dog race, has been an Iditarod veterinarian from 1983 to 1995, as well as chief vet for the late Scandream, Nenana Come Back, Alpirod and numerous European and World championships.