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Marty Becker DVM
Marty Becker is an adjunct professor at his alma mater, the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine, and also at the Colleges of Veterinary Medicine at both Colorado State University and the University of Missouri. Additionally, he has lectured at every veterinary school in the United States, and been named Companion Animal Veterinarian of the Year by the Delta Society and the American Veterinary Medical Association. The World Small Animal Veterinary Association has named him the recipient of the 2012 WSAVA Hill’s Excellence in Veterinary Healthcare Award, to be awarded at the group’s conference in the United Kingdom this April. |
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Dennis J. Chew DVM DipACVIM(Internal Medicine)
Dennis Chew is a 1972 graduate of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University. He finished a two-year residency in internal medicine and nephrology at the Animal Medical Center (New York), followed by ACVIM certification. Dennis has been at the Ohio State University Center for Veterinary Medicine since 1975 and is now a Professor Emeritus. Most of his work has been in urology/nephrology in small animals. He has a special interest in disorders of calcium metabolism, treatment of renal secondary hyperparathyroidism, and idiopathic/interstitial cystitis in cats. He pioneered many of the diagnostic procedures for urinary endoscopy in dogs and cats.
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Ruthanne Chun BS DVM DipACVIM(Oncology)
Ruthanne Chun is a 1991 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. She completed a one-year internship in small animal medicine and surgery at Cornell University and a three-year residency in comparative oncology at Purdue University. She is currently section head of clinical oncology and a clinical associate professor of oncology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. She is also the associate dean for clinical affairs and hospital director of the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital.
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Roger Clarke BVSc FANZCVSc DVSc(hc Melb)
Roger Clarke graduated with a BVSc from the University of Queensland, Australia, in 1964. He has had a long career in veterinary private practice, beginning in dairy cattle in Australia and equine practice in the UK. In 1969, Roger started his own mixed practice in Melbourne and is now a senior partner of a twenty two person veterinary group, with four hospitals, a 24-hour emergency centre and surgical referral practice. Roger is a Churchill Fellow, an elected fellow of the Australian Veterinary Association and a fellow of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists in Small Animal Surgery. He is a registered small animal surgical specialist in Australia.
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James Cook DVM PhD DipACVS DipACVSMR
James Cook completed his DVM in 1994, his PhD in 1998, his DipACVS in 1999 and his DipACVSMR in 2010. In 1999, he founded the Comparative Orthopaedic Laboratory at the University of Missouri. He has over a hundred publications, over $20 million in research funding, received numerous awards including America’s Best Veterinarian (2007), holds twelve US Patents and has seen three biomedical devices through FDA approval to human clinical trials. He is currently director of the Comparative Orthopaedic Laboratory and Allen Professor in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Missouri. He is also co-founder of ‘Be The Change Volunteers’, a non-governmental organisation dedicated to building schools in third world countries.
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Charlotte Donohoe RVT VTS(ECC)
Charlotte Donohoe has been employed by the Ontario Veterinary College Teaching Hospital since 1998. Charlotte began working in the large animal clinic, but after just over a year moved into the small animal ICU. She also worked in a large emergency and referral practice in Toronto concurrently for around two years. In 2007 Charlotte helped create and initiate a new position within the small animal clinic, involving coordinating emergency referrals and triage and stabilisation of emergency patients. In addition, she also enjoys part-time work providing primary healthcare for police service dogs and handler and medical training for emergencies with canine officers.
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Lisa M. Freeman DVM PhD DipACVN
Lisa Freeman completed her DVM degree at Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and received a PhD in nutrition from Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition. After a residency in clinical nutrition, she was board certified by the American College of Veterinary Nutrition. She has been on faculty at Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine since 1996, where she is currently a professor in the department of clinical sciences. Lisa is active in teaching and also cares for patients that require specialised nutrition for acute and chronic diseases. Her research focus is on the nutritional modulation of cardiac disease and critical care nutrition.
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Rebecka Hess DVM DipACVIM(SAIM)
Rebecka Hess graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel in 1992. She completed an internship in small animal medicine in 1994 and a residency in small animal internal medicine in 1996, both at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, where she is currently faculty and internal medicine section chief. Rebecka has received several research and teaching awards. Her research and publication focus is on diabetes mellitus and other endocrinopathies in dogs and cats. She is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and the director of the Penn Vet Diabetes Program.
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Daisuke Ito DVM PhD
Daisuke Ito graduated from Nihon University, School of Veterinary Medicine in 2003. Then he completed his PhD course at the University of Tokyo in 2008 for studying spinal cord regeneration by transplanting olfactory ensheathing cells in dogs. During his PhD, he visited to the University of Cambridge to complete his PhD studies. Daisuke returned to Nihon University and became a research assistant at Neurology in 2008, and currently is assistant professor of Neurology at the university.
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Kenneth Johnson MVSc PhD FACVSc DipACVS DipECVS
Kenneth Johnson is a graduate of the University of Sydney, where he also obtained a Master’s and a PhD. He completed residency training in surgery at Colorado State University, and since then has worked in academia as an orthopaedic specialist in the USA and UK for a further twenty years. From 2000 to 2008, Kenneth was professor of orthopaedics at Ohio State University, which has an international reputation for fracture management and joint replacement surgery. He recently returned to the University of Sydney as a clinical professor, director of orthopaedics and chief of surgery. |
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Robert M. Kirberger BVSc MMedVet(Rad) DipECVDI DipTertiary Teaching
Robert Kirberger graduated from Onderstepoort, University of Pretoria in 1971 and spent seventeen years in private practice before returning to his alma mater to specialise in diagnostic imaging. Robert is currently professor and head of diagnostic imaging at the Onderstepoort Faculty of Veterinary Science. Robert is an author of more than seventy peer-reviewed publications and is co-author/co-editor of the Handbook of Small Animal Radiology and Ultrasound and the BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Musculoskeletal Imaging. Robert’s current research and special interests are spirocercosis and trauma imaging, with special emphasis on thoracic imaging. |
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Daniel D. Lewis DVM DipACVS
Daniel Lewis is currently a Professor of Small Animal Surgery and Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida. He received his DVM from the University of California, Davis in 1983 and trained in both the US and Australia before returning to Louisiana State University in 1988 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Lewis is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and a former President of the Veterinary Orthopedic Society. His special interests include traumatology, fracture management and reconstructive surgery with a focus on the utilization of external skeletal fixation for fracture management, deformity correction and limb salvage procedures. |
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Karol A. Mathews DVM DVSc DipACVECC
Karol Mathews graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College in 1980, where she also obtained her Doctor of Veterinary Science degree (Surgery) in 1986. She continued at the OVC as a staff veterinary surgeon and completed an alternate track residency in emergency and critical care medicine, becoming a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care in 1993. She was service chief of emergency and critical care medicine from 1989 to 2009, when she retired as Professor Emerita. Currently, she is an active educator, researcher, author and editor. Karol edited the first and second editions of the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Manual. She is chair of the WSAVA Global Pain Council, president-elect of IVAPM, and past president of VECCS.
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Shawn G. McVey MA MSW
Shawn McVey completed his graduate studies in political social work and behavioural science and pursued a career as a psychotherapist and program director in human psychiatric facilities in 1991. Shawn is the owner of McVey Management Solutions, a boutique consulting business that specialises in improving healthcare delivery systems and correcting workplace culture. Shawn is also the founder and co-owner of Veterinary Specialists in Private Practice. Shawn is the former CEO of Eye Care for Animals and has served on numerous Boards, has been featured in many industry magazines and has been named Speaker of the Year at both NAVC and WVC.
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Richard C. Nap DVM PhD DipECVS DipECVCN
Richard Nap has worked in private referral practice, as associate professor in orthopaedics at Utrecht University, and as associate director of external relations for Procter & Gamble Europe. Since 2005, Richard has worked as an independent private consultant, with projects in Europe as well as North and South America. Richard lectures on practice management at the USAL, University Buenos Aires (AR), and the University in Montevideo (UY). Richard’s latest book on practice management, Essentials of Veterinary Practice (2010), with Dr Moreau, has editions in English, Spanish and French and distribution in Europe and South America. |
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Dave Nicol BVMS CertMgmt MRCVS
Dave Nicol is a veterinary surgeon, business consultant and industry blogger/speaker. His particular areas of business expertise are managing performance and digital marketing. During his career Dave has held senior management positions in some of Britain’s largest and most successful practices. In addition to his veterinary degree, he holds a certificate in management. Dave now lives in Sydney, where he owns and runs a veterinary hospital and travels internationally speaking about the veterinary industry. He writes a weekly management blog for vets and is the founder of a global network of practice managers called The Hamster Wheel Veterinary Business Network.
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Brook A. Niemiec DVM DAVDC FAVD
Brook Niemiec is a graduate of the University of California, Davis. He is a board certified specialist in veterinary dentistry and a fellow of the Academy of Veterinary Dentistry. He is also president of the Academy. Brook is chief of staff of Southern California Veterinary Dental Specialties. He has written many articles and chapters including Small Animal Dental, Oral, and Maxillofacial Disease: A Color Handbook. Brook founded the premier veterinary dental telemedicine website (vetdentalrad.com), which offers instructional videos and educational posters. He lectures extensively and is the coordinator and instructor of the San Diego Vet Dental Training Center.
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Michael M. Pavletic DVM DipACVS
Michael Pavletic is a 1974 graduate of the University of Illinois. Michael completed his internship and surgical residency at Angell Animal Medical Center in 1977. Michael is a 1981 Diplomate of the ACVS. He is the director of surgery at Boston’s Angell Animal Medical Center. Michael has published over one hundred surgical articles to date and is the author of Atlas of Small Animal Wound Management and Reconstructive Surgery (2010). Michael was the 2007 president of the ACVS. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Bourgelat Award presented by the BSAVA in 1996.
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Simon Petersen-Jones DVetMed PhD DVOphthal. DipECVO MRCVS
Simon Petersen-Jones is a professor of comparative ophthalmology and the Myers-Dunlap Endowed Chair in Canine Health at Michigan State University. His veterinary degree and residency training in ophthalmology were completed at the Royal Veterinary College. Following a faculty position at Edinburgh and a Wellcome Trust Veterinary Career Development Fellowship at Cambridge he moved to Michigan State University. His research interests include hereditary ocular disease with an emphasis on characterisation and therapies for retinal dystrophies. He was co-editor of the first two editions of the BSAVA Manual of Small Animal Ophthalmology and is a past recipient of the BSAVA’s Simon Award.
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Jacquie Rand BSVc DVSc DipACVIM(Internal Medicine)
Jacquie Rand is the founder and director of the Centre for Companion Animal Health at the University of Queensland, Australia. The Centre works to improve the health and welfare of companion animals and enrich human--animal relationships. Jacquie graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1975, and then worked for eight years in private practice before completing a residency and doctorate at the Ontario Veterinary College in Canada, followed by three years as a senior registrar at the University of Zurich. She is a Diplomate of ACVIM and her research focus is canine and feline diabetes, obesity and nutrition. More recently she has been working with governments and shelters to develop evidence-based strategies to reduce euthanasia of unwanted pets.
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James A. Serpell BSc MA PhD
James Serpell is professor of humane ethics and animal welfare at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from University College London in 1974, obtained a PhD from the University of Liverpool in 1980, and conducted anthrozoological research at the University of Cambridge until 1993, when he moved to his current position. He studies the behaviour and welfare of dogs and cats, the development of human attitudes to animals, and the history of human--animal relationships. His books include: In the Company of Animals (1986) and The Domestic Dog: Its Evolution, Behaviour and Interactions with People (1995).
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Bryden J. Stanley BVMS MACVSc MVetSc DipACVS
Bryden Stanley graduated from Murdoch University, Western Australia, in 1982. After two years in private practice, she returned to Murdoch to undertake an internship, which was followed by a surgical registrar position at Sydney University. Bryden completed a residency in small animal surgery and a Master’s degree at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. In 1990, Bryden took up a faculty appointment at the University of Edinburgh. In 1998 she accepted a faculty position at Michigan State University. Her clinical and research interests are in laryngeal paralysis, wound healing and cutaneous reconstruction. |
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Lauren Trepanier DVM PhD DipACVIM DipACVCP
Lauren Trepanier graduated with distinction from Cornell University in 1986. She completed an internship and residency in small animal internal medicine at the Animal Medical Center in New York, and then obtained a PhD in Pharmacology in 1997, also from Cornell. She is a professor and section head of internal medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, where she manages internal medicine referral cases, trains residents and students, and conducts research on the metabolic basis of adverse drug reactions. Lauren has been awarded both the Pfizer Award for Research Excellence and the Pfizer Distinguished Teacher Award. She is board certified in both internal medicine and veterinary clinical pharmacology.
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Janet B. Van Dyke DVM DipACVSMR
Janet Van Dyke is a 1981 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine. She completed her internship and surgical residency at the Animal Medical Center in New York. In 2002, she founded the Canine Rehabilitation Institute. In 2010, Janet was named an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Clinical Sciences at Colorado State University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. She serves on the board of directors of the International Veterinary Academy of Pain Management, is chair of the Residency/Credentials Committee for the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation, and is treasurer for the American Association of Rehabilitation Veterinarians.
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Chick Weisse VMD DipACVS
Chick Weisse completed his small animal surgical residency training at the Veterinary Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 and then pursued advanced training at the (human) Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 2003. He held dual appointments in surgery and radiology as an assistant professor at both the veterinary and human hospitals, before moving to the Animal Medical Center in New York in 2009 as staff surgeon and director of interventional radiology services. His educational interests include expanding minimally invasive veterinary interventional radiology (IR) techniques. His research interests include IR techniques for non-resectable and metastatic cancers, palliative stenting for malignant obstructions, vascular anomalies such as portosystemic shunts and AVMs, and stenting for tracheal collapse. |
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