18 November 2023

15:40 – 16:25

Amphithéâtre Say

Dominique Grandjean

Dominique Grandjean is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Doctor of Nutrition and Habilité à la direction des recherches (HDR); he is also Professor Head of Department (Breeding and Medicine of the Sporting and Utility Dog) at the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort. He has developed the discipline of canine sports medicine and functional physiotherapy-rehabilitation. He is a founding member of the European College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation (ECVSMR). Passionate about sled dogs and research dogs, he is the author of numerous scientific articles and books on sporting and utility dogs, as well as founder and president of the “Lekkarod” race created in 2015 in Savoie. His research has focused on the physiology and energetics of physical effort in dogs, the management of induced oxidative stress and all medical fields related to sporting activities. Until 2022, he was also chief veterinary officer, colonel, head of the veterinary service of the Paris Fire Brigade, and “cynotechnie” referent for the BSPP and the Paris defense and security zone. He heads the Nosaïs biomedical detection dog program, whose work on the olfactory detection of CoViD-19 has set an international benchmark.

Conference: Is energy just food in sports animals?

Sporting animals, be they horses, dogs, camels… or anything else… can only s√ªr the physical effort expected of them by valorizing exogenous energy sources, which they find in their diet. In so doing, both the consequences of this energy valorization, and the efficiencies of transformation from chemical to mechanical energy, are also dependent on intrinsic non-nutritional elements, or even environmental variables. The initial question can therefore be answered “mostly, but not exclusively”!