Dr. Adronie Verbrugghe graduated as a companion animal veterinarian (DVM) from Ghent University, Belgium in 2005. She completed her PhD focusing on nutritional modulation of carbohydrate metabolism in cats in 2009. She became a European Veterinary Specialist™ in Veterinary and Comparative Nutrition after completing a residency and board certifying exam for the European College of Veterinary and Comparative Nutrition in 2010. In 2011, Dr. Verbrugghe joined the Department of Clinical Studies at the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC), University of Guelph, as Royal Canin Veterinary Diets Endowed Chair in Canine and Feline Clinical Nutrition. Dr. Verbrugghe’s academic responsibilities at OVC include the development and teaching of the small animal clinical nutrition curriculum for the DVM program. Dr. Verbrugghe also provides clinical service for the OVC Health Science Centre Clinical Nutrition Service. In 2019, she was awarded a Research Excellence Award from the University of Guelph. Her research program currently includes companion animal nutrition, the link between nutrition, gut microbiota, health and disease, alteration of metabolic pathways through nutrition and nutritional modulation of inflammation and immunity. Currently pet obesity and unconventional pet diets are the major subjects of her research. Dr. Verbrugghe has received research funding through the Canadian and Ontario government as well as from pet food industry and local charitable organizations. To date Dr. Verbrugghe has authored and co-authored 60 peer-reviewed publications. She has been invited to speak at many local, national and international conferences. Dr. Verbrugghe has trained more than 20 graduate students, ECVCN residents and postdocs and has supervised many undergraduate student researchers. She is a reviewer for various scientific journal and sits on institutional committees and external scientific advisory boards.