Massimo Mariscoli and Luca Motta
Leading Veterinary Hospital Further Expands Team
7 years ago 
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The neurology team has tripled at a Cheshire referral centre, after the appointment of two new specialists.
Luca Motta DVM (Hons) Dip ECVN MRCVS and Massimo Mariscoli have joined Northwest Veterinary Specialists (NWVS), to support the centre’s continually increasing caseload.
The double appointment also supports the expansion of the referral centre’s facilities and people, after it bolstered the oncology, orthopaedic and anaesthetic and pain management team earlier this year.
“This year we’ve been making significant investment in our facilities and people, so it’s fantastic to be able to attract two experienced neurology specialists in Luca and Massimo,” said Liz Cousins, hospital manager at Northwest Veterinary Specialists.
“Luca and Massimo’s appointments clearly demonstrate our emphasis on creating teams of experienced and extremely knowledgeable specialists across the centre.”
Massimo has worked previously with his new colleague Lorenzo Golini, who’s been with Northwest Veterinary Specialists since 2015.
He qualified from Bologna Vet School in 1990 and spent two decades working as a specialist in veterinary neurology in Italy and Germany, following a three-year residency in neurology and neurosurgery at Bern in Switzerland.
He has also spent almost 20 years lecturing at universities in Italy, including ten years as head of neurosurgery and advanced neurology diagnostics.
He said: “During my career I’ve spent short amounts of time in the UK and once I was aware of the opportunity to work with Northwest Veterinary Specialists, I jumped at the chance to move here.
“It has a fantastic reputation in providing the very best care to pets, and the recent investment in state-of-the-art facilities means we can offer the very best service to patients.
“I have a particular interest in continually improving our work around brain and spinal surgery and biopsies, and will be further researching technology and techniques to support treatment of epilepsy in pets.”
Luca, who is currently a member of the Examinations Committee of the European College of Veterinary Neurology, also qualified in Italy (in 2007) at the University of Perugia, before moving to England where he completed his internship program in small animal medicine & surgery in 2009.
Luca gained residency at a multi disciplinary referral hospital in the UK and was awarded the European College of Veterinary Neurology (ECVN) in 2012.
He has authored scientific papers in peer reviewed international journals and he has also been a reviewer for the Journal of Small Animal Practice and for the BMC Veterinary Research.
“Northwest Veterinary Specialists has an outstanding reputation and it’s great to be working with Massimo and Lorenzo,” said Luca.
“We’ll be focusing on changing the way we do neurosurgery to ensure the pets referred to us receive the very best treatment for their condition.
“We often see patients with intervertebral disc disease and epilepsy, and I’m looking to increase work around my main interests, including surgery of the central nervous system and epilepsy.”
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