Jennie Redander

Veterinarian since 2008, educated at SLU in Uppsala. Then worked for just over ten years as a clinician in private small animal healthcare. Returned to SLU in 2020 for a teaching position at the Veterinary Nursing Program. PhD student since 2024 in a project on the simulation of laparoscopic surgery on dogs. 

Laparoscopic surgery is beneficial for the patient with a shorter recovery time, reduced need for painkillers and fewer postoperative complications. But it requires different skills from the surgeon compared to traditional open surgery. Skills that can be advantageously trained in a simulated environment without any risks for a real patient and with reduced stress for the surgeon.

With funding from the Greater Stockholm Veterinary Care Foundation, surgeons at SLU, in collaboration with the company Surgical Science, have developed a VR simulation of laparoscopic ovariectomy on a bitch.

The PhD project, which focuses on laparoscopic simulation training on dogs, consists of several parts. Initially, a validation study will be conducted to assess the newly developed VR simulation's ability to evaluate the laparoscopic competence of veterinary surgeons performing canine ovariectomies. The next study will investigate the prevalence and training strategies regarding laparoscopic surgery in dogs in the Scandinavian countries.

Main supervisor: 

Odd Höglund, DVM, PhD, Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences, SLU

Co-Supervisors:

Flemming Bjerrum, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark & Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation (CAMES), Copenhagen, Denmark

Karolina Enlund, DVM, PhD, Department of Clinical Sciences, SLU

Lena Ström, DVM, PhD, ECVO Diplomate, Department of Clinical Sciences, SLU

Publications:

Redander, J., Anagrius, K., Enlund, K.B. et al. The development of a novel virtual reality simulation module for canine laparoscopic ovariectomy. Acta Vet Scand 67, 28 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13028-025-00815-8

Also works as a teacher at the Veterinary Nursing programme at the Department of Clinical Sciences.

SLU's Pedagogical Team Award 2022 to the KV-DOV working group for successful course development within the Veterinary Nursing Program. https://internt.slu.se/nyheter-originalen/2022/9/pedagogiska-priset-2022/