Dr Katrin is the founder of the German Veterinary Clinic. Her passion and commitment to delivering the highest standards of animal care as well as her extensive knowledge and experience have enabled the clinic to expand and flourish, with the GVC team now comprising of 27 dedicated and caring team members and the clinic being widely regarded as one of the best veterinary clinics in Abu Dhabi and the UAE.

Dr Katrin graduated from the University of Munich, Germany in 1999 after which she spent 7 years working in a variety of practices, including specialist and referral centers in the UK, to gain broad and extensive experience in all areas of small animal medicine and surgery. During this time, Dr Katrin achieved the prestigious Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons “Certificate in Veterinary Anesthesia and Pain Relief” and completed a doctorate thesis in animal behaviour before moving to the UAE in 2006 and opening GVC in 2008.

Dr Katrin’s passion for feline medicine and welfare led to GVC becoming the Middle East’s first ISFM Gold Standard Cat Friendly Clinic in 2014. Following on from this, the desire to create a similar safe space for all species visiting GVC inspired Dr Katrin to lead the GVC team to successfully completing their individual Fear Free Certified Professionals accreditation in 2019 and so becoming the first veterinary team in the Middle East to achieve this recognition. A journey that led, in June 2024, to GVC becoming the first “Fear Free Certified Practice” in the MENA region and only the second, at the time, outside of North America.

During the 20 plus years of working as a veterinarian, Dr Katrin has consistently recognized the importance of not only the physical, but also the mental and emotional health and welfare of our pets. So, it was a natural progression for Dr Katrin to begin a journey in the exciting, impactful and rapidly growing field of Veterinary Behaviour Medicine. In 2019, Dr Katrin began a 5-year dual residency program in Veterinary Behaviour Medicine. Alongside the residency, Dr Katrin gained the prestigious MANZCVS (Veterinary Behaviour) qualification in 2021 making her the only qualified Veterinary Behaviour Medicine practitioner in the UAE (and Middle East).

In September 2024, Dr Katrin passed the rigorous American College of Veterinary Behaviorists exams followed, in January 2025, by achieving an 85% average in passing the equally challenging European College of Animal Welfare and Behavioural Medicine exams. Which meant that after 5 years of arduous residency and 400+ Clinical Behaviour cases, Dr Katrin became a Double Board-Certified Veterinary Specialist and has the prestigious designation of: DACVB (Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists) and EBVS® (European Veterinary Specialist in Behavioural Medicine) a combination of accolades that is shared by less than 10 people globally and sits at the very pinnacle of Veterinary achievement.

As a businesswoman, Dr Katrin places patient care alongside client satisfaction and happiness as her priorities, and as a result, Dr Katrin is continually enhancing and refining standards as well as developing new and exciting services to maintain GVC’s position as the first-choice Veterinary Clinic in Abu Dhabi and the UAE.

In her spare time, Dr Katrin loves to spend time with her 4-legged family of two very special rescue cats (The Schnizz and Daisy) and her beautiful rescue dog, Lexi.