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Our Animal Heartbeat live panel discussion in 2025 covers the topic of artificial intelligence and its use in veterinary and human patients. Our panel review topics such as how to validate AI tools, where AI fits in current medicine and how opportunities for its use are evolving, and should we worry about AI?

Our hosts Kieran and Jose are joined by a fantastic panel of guests:

Professor Virginia Luis Fuentes; Professor of Veterinary Cardiology, Royal Veterinary College

Professor Anurag Agarwal; Professor of Aeroacoustics, University of Cambridge

Dr Matthew Shun-Shin; Consultant Cardiologist, Imperial College London

Catherine Stowell; Imperial College London and founder of The Animal Ultrasound Association

This episode was recorded live at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, as part of the 2025 Cambridge Festival of podcasts.

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Join Kieran and Jose as guests of the Portuguese Society of Veterinary Cardiology 2025 Congress, where we reflect on the past two seasons of The Animal Heartbeat, and look forward to the upcoming season 3. Our hosts bring their top lessons from season 1 and 2 guests, including advice from Gerhard Wess, Claudio Bussadori and Josh Stern, in front of a live congress audience.

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This is part 2 of The Animal Heartbeat Christmas Quiz 2024 - is you have not already done so, make sure to listen to part 1 before enjoying this episode!

Merry Christmas to all of our listeners! How better to celebrate the holiday season that a Christmas Quiz? Join Jose and Kieran, alongside some guest hosts - hand picked as future stars of the veterinary cardiology world to test our hosts' knowledge and approach to cardiology case material.

Jose and Kieran have each secretly set questions for the other. Listen to our hosts face the most public challenge to their knowledge of their careers - five questions of escalating difficulty, from generalist-level, through interested practitioner, to post-Residency knowledge, and finally verging on the impossible. Play along with the quiz using the links below to access the case material. You can even comment on each video with your thoughts before the final answer is revealed!

Enjoy the most tense episode of The Animal Heartbeat yet, as Kieran and Jose battle it out for the glory of proving themselves as Specialists in veterinary cardiology. Would they pass a Diploma exam after 10-years as cardiologists? Can their reputation remain intact? Will they still be speaking to each other by the end? Will they keep their jobs? There is only one way to find out...

Full video and audio of part 1 (available 25-Dec): https://youtu.be/QwF5fyCs-9o

Full video and audio of part 2 (available 26-Dec): https://youtu.be/vUR8jYIFIM0

Alternatively, review the media for each question separately on YouTube using the links below whilst you stream the podcast from your usual service.

Q1 for Jose (thoracic radiographs): https://youtu.be/FY8OzrlUG_Q

Q1 for Kieran (thoracic radiographs): https://youtu.be/EPmFc-tME-U

Q2 for Jose (ECG): https://youtu.be/nAXM_ywLFeI

Q2 for Kieran (echo cine loop): https://youtu.be/1uKv4W-H5oY

Q3 for Jose (CT scan): https://youtu.be/vczoj8I9g_g

Q3 for Kieran (multi-modal imaging): https://youtu.be/ISeOrjdoWgI

Q4 for Jose (angiogram; available 26-Dec): https://youtu.be/0A7y0LIeIR4

Q4 for Kieran (two echo cases; available 26-Dec): https://youtu.be/97eEOrQUdv4

Q5 for Jose (echo images and cine loop; available 26-Dec): https://youtu.be/ZMw-cLSqznI

Q5 classification system; available 26-Dec): https://youtu.be/WzRwb-iKtR0

Q5 for Kieran (cardiac post-mortem specimen; available 26-Dec): https://youtu.be/lVXIE4r7gsU