Dr. Ana Ripolles-Garcia received her veterinary degree from the Complutense University of Madrid in 2015. After two years in a high volume emergency clinic, she completed a rotating internship in small animal medicine and surgery at Ars Veterinary Hospital in Barcelona. She then earned a PhD from the University of Alicante in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania, where her research focused on canine models of inherited retinal disease and gene and cell based therapies for blinding retinal disorders. Following her PhD, she spent two years working as a staff ophthalmologist in a busy private practice in Madrid. Dr. Ripolles-Garcia then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the COVSL laboratory at the University of California, Davis, under the mentorship of Dr. Sara Thomasy. She is currently a resident in comparative veterinary ophthalmology at North Carolina State University. Her research interests include retinal diseases, multimodal ocular imaging, retinal structure function relationships, and novel therapies in canine and nonhuman primate models.