Academic background & Professional experience
Academic Background
Diplomate European College of Veterinary and Comparative Nutrition
PhD for her research work on lipoproteins and cholesterol metabolisme and hepatic lipidosis in cats.
French academic certification (Agregeation) of Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire (France)
Master in Nutrition (INA-PG & Aix-Marseille)
Doctorate Veterinary Medicine (ENVA, Maisons Alfort, France) (1994)
Professionnal experience
Since 2018 : CEO & President Vet Nutrition Coach SAS
Since 2007 : CEO & Manager Animal Nutrition Expertise SARL
2007 : Senior Lecturer (Nutrition) at University of Queensland -School of Veterinary Sciences, Brisbane, Australia
2003-2006 : Associate Professor in Clinical nutrition at Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort (France)
1999-2002 : Clinical consultant in Clinical Nutrition at Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort (France)
Who is Dr Vet Géraldine Blanchard ?
Specialist in clinical nutrition, veterinarian and scientist by education, Dr Géraldine Blanchard has also been a nutrition consultant since 2000.
She graduated in 1994 from the National Veterinary School of Alfort, and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Laureate of the Faculty of Medicine of Créteil on the same year, for her thesis on the role of minerals and vitamins in the growth of the foal.
She got her PhD in Nutrition after research on the metabolism of lipoproteins in cats in hepatic lipidosis, french academic habilitation (agregation) in 2000, she became a European Specialiste in 2002 as a Diplomate European College of Veterinary and Comparative Nutrition (ECVCN).
As a pioneer in the field of clinical nutrition, she developed the service at ENVA, then in Australia, and back in France, created in 2008 the first european nutrition web service cuisine-a-crocs.com in order to offer veterinarians but also owners (when their pet is healthy) individual tailor-made recipes of dogs and cats calculated by a specialist.
Cuisine-a-crocs.com website, a unique e-nutrition web service
Creator of tailor-made recipes, in 2008 she founded the first Cuisine-a-crocs.com site.
On the site, owners of dogs and cats in good health, and veterinarians (all situations for their patients) can obtain tailor-made recipes for feeding dogs and cats, whether their food is industrial (kibble +/- boxes) or household (meat / fish + supplement of minerals and vitamins + oil + vegetables +/- starchy) or mixed (half croquettes and / or pâté, and half housewife with meat and vegetables), without or with side dishes and treats…
As of 2008, Dr. Blanchard calculates all the recipes, one by one, manually.
Step by steps, she has develops unique algorithms, and modelized situations, in 2011 for dogs and cats with no health issue, then in 2014 for a few pathological situations ...
In 2020, A BIG JUMP... After 2 and a half years of intense development, the new cuisine-a-crocs site is launched:
* all recipes, all situations are now available, even for growth or for weight loss, and most situations with one or sometimes several special health issue
* Household rations are available without or with a little or average carbs, to adapt to the variety of populations, canine & feline.
*For the first time, you can ask for a recipe for the day with a kibble part and a household part, the whole being balanced.
Publications of Dr Vet Géraldine Blanchard
Travel Passion
Nutrition, travel, cultures... and gastronomy
By passion, for science and sometimes for business, I travel the world, it is a pleasure for me to share with you my adventures and my culinary discoveries on my Instagram page.
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Continuing Education
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organizes continuing education & training for professionals of animal health and nutrition