Joost J. Uilenreef

Joost J. Uilenreef (DVM, MVR, DipECVAA)

He graduated in 2001 from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Utrecht, The Netherlands. In 2002 he enrolled in Utrecht’s standard residency program in veterinary anesthesia and analgesia for which he became the first successful candidate by obtaining his ECVA(A) diploma in 2007. He continued working at Utrecht University as medical head of Small Animal Anesthesia and ECVAA center supervisor for both the Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals as well as the Equine Sciences Department. In 2011 he became director of Utrechts’s ECVAA Standard Residency Program, which produced a further 3 ECVAA Diplomates during his time as Program Director.

He moved from academia and after a brief time working as an independent consultant anaesthetist was recruited in 2019 to work as the first EBVS^®-recognized specialist in anaesthesia and analgesia outside academia in the Netherlands for the SDU (Specialistische Dierenkliniek Utrecht), the largest European Specialist veterinary referral-only centre in the Netherlands.

Through his consultancy company Primum non Nocere, he provides consulting services in veterinary anesthesia, critical care and pain management both in a clinical and research setting.

His current research interests involve anti-nociceptive strategies, clinical pain, quality management and total operative care.

He has authored 10+ peer reviewed articles, co-developed a popular Association of Veterinary Anaesthetist (AVA)-accredited veterinary anaesthesia App for Dogs and Cats and has provided 120+ lectures, workshops and wetlabs on anaesthesia and pain management in and outside Europe.

He was organizing committee member of the X^th EVECCS meeting (2011, Utrecht, The Netherlands) and scientific program director of the 2016 AVA autumn meeting, Prague, Czech Republic.

As of 2002 he is active member of the AVA and extra-ordinary member of the Dutch Association of Anaesthesiology (NVA), and serves on several scientific and veterinary expert panels.

Peer reviewed publications

1. Uilenreef JJ, Murrell JC, McKusick BC, Hellebrekers LJ. Dexmedetomidine continuous rate infusion during isoflurane anaesthesia in canine surgical patients. Vet Anaesth Analg. 2008;35:1–12.

2. Valtolina C, Robben JH, Uilenreef J, Murrell JC, Aspegrén J, McKusick BC, et al. Clinical evaluation of the efficacy and safety of a constant rate infusion of dexmedetomidine for postoperative pain management in dogs. Vet Anaesth Analg. 2009;36:369–83.

3. van Oostrom H, Schoemaker NJ, Uilenreef JJ. Pain Management in Ferrets. Veterinary Clin North Am Exot Anim Pract. 2011;14:105–16.

4. Schaap MWH, Uilenreef JJ, Mitsogiannis MD, Klooster JG van ’t, Arndt SS, Hellebrekers LJ. Optimizing the dosing interval of buprenorphine in a multimodal postoperative analgesic strategy in the rat: minimizing side-effects without affecting weight gain and food intake. Lab Anim. 2012;46:287–92.

5. van Essen VJ, Uilenreef JJ, Szatmári V, Veldhuis Kroeze EJB, Kuiper RV, Rothuizen J, et al. Ultrasound-guided serial transabdominal cardiac biopsies in cats. Vet J Lond Engl 1997. 2012;191:341–6.

6. Bakker J, Uilenreef JJ, Pelt ERJ, Brok HPM, Remarque EJ, Langermans JAM. Comparison of three different sedative-anaesthetic protocols (ketamine, ketamine-medetomidine and alphaxalone) in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). BMC Vet Res. 2013;9:113.

7. van Zeeland YRA, Wilde A, Bosman IH, Uilenreef JJ, Egner B, Schoemaker NJ. Non-invasive blood pressure measurement in ferrets (Mustela putorius furo) using high definition oscillometry. Vet J Lond Engl 1997. 2017;228:53–62.

8. Gorissen BMC, Uilenreef JJ, Bergmann W, Meijer E, van Rietbergen B, van der Staay FJ, et al. Effects of long-term use of the preferential COX-2 inhibitor meloxicam on growing pigs. Vet Rec. 2017;181:564.

9. Uilenreef J, van der Staay F, Meijer E. A Monosodium Iodoacetate Osteoarthritis Lameness Model in Growing Pigs. Animals. 2019;9:405.

Book chapter

10. Murrell JC, Uilenreef JJ. Chapter 17. Post operative care and pain management. In: The Cutting Edge 2.0: Basic Veterinary Surgery Techniques. UK: Roman House Publishers Ltd; 2014.

Dog and Cat anaesthesia App

11. Barker E, Gurney M, Uilenreef J. Development of a dog and cat anaesthesia smartphone app to help students and practitioners to design appropriate anaesthetic protocols for procedures in dogs and cats. 2019.

Czech language reference

12. Novák V, Uilenreef JJ, Stránská T. Anestezie dentálních pacientů. Veterinářství. 2017;67:3–8.