Professor, Vet MB, PhD DACVIM (Neurology) MRCVS

Natasha Olby completed her veterinary degree at Cambridge University in the UK in 1991.

She is currently a Professor of Neurology/Neurosurgery and holds the Dr. Kady M. Gjessing and Rhanna M. Davidson Distinguished Chair in Gerontology at North Carolina State University. She is a past president of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Neurology specialty and has published over 200 scientific papers, as well as more than 35 book chapters. She is co-editor of the BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Neurology. While much of her career has focused on spinal cord injury, she has long had an interest in aging of the nervous system, and she now runs the Canine Neuro-Aging Program and is the Director of the Center for Healthy Aging at NCSU. Her research uses clinical cases to generate translational data and she focuses on training future clinician scientists.