Speakers

Equine

Ann Dwyer, DVM

• • • • Dr. Dwyer is a Cornell graduate who worked as an equine practitioner at the Genesee Valley Equine Clinic in Rochester, NY for over 35 years. She lectures widely on equine ophthalmology at regional national and international conferences, and was named an Honorary Diplomat of the ACVO in 2011. She also has been active in organized veterinary medicine, and served as President of the American Association of Equine Practitioners in 2013. She currently sits on the AVMA Council on Education as the member representing equine practice.

Meghan McCarthy, DVM, MS, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • Dr. McCarthy received her DVM from Ross University in 2016, completing her clinical training at Texas A&M. She completed internships at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Wellington and University of Missouri before moving to Oregon to complete a fellowship and Large Animal Surgery Residency at Oregon State University. In 2023 Dr. McCarthy completed her residency and Master’s of Science with research focusing on the use of botulinum toxins for osteoarthritis in horses. Currently she is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Large Animal Emergency at Kansas State University.

Jocelyn Stedman, DVM, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • Dr. Stedman is originally from British Columbia, Canada where she grew up riding hunter and jumper horses. She completed her undergraduate degree in biology at Cornell University where she studied stress hormones in song birds and then went on to graduate from the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2019. Following graduation, she completed internships at the Equine Medical Center of Ocala and Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists. She is currently the third-year equine surgery resident at Kansas State University and is completing her master’s degree where her research has focused on the use of magnetic resonance imaging to evaluate the equine stifle.

Maureen Sutter, DVM

• • • • Dr. Maureen Sutter graduated from Kansas State College of Veterinary Medicine in 2007. She is an active member of AAEP, AVMA, KVMA, and IVCA. Her service to KVMA involves being on the Board of Directors as a District Director of Equine from 2019 to present. Furthermore, she is on the Board of Directors for the Kansas Equine Practitioner’s Group. For AAEP, Dr Sutter is on the Member Engagement Committee and Student Subcommittee within the Commission on Equine Veterinary Sustainability.

Jarrod Troy, DVM, DACVS-LS, CERP

• • • • Dr. Troy’s professional interests include general large animal/equine surgery and equine rehabilitation. Surgical interests include both orthopedic and soft tissue surgical procedures including arthroscopy, fracture repair, airway, abdominal, and urogenital surgeries. Of special interest is neurosurgical procedures such as intervertebral cervical fusion (i.e. basket surgery) or cervical vertebral fracture repair. These surgical cases also fuel his interest in equine rehabilitation to identify how we can improve outcome for our equine patients while also providing appropriate pain management. By using current and developing rehabilitation strategies we can improve outcome in surgical and non-surgical cases especially those involving neurologic deficits/disorders. Dr. Troy has spoken at both regional and national conferences on equine performance, upper airway disorders, emergency case management, wound management, and equine colic.

Large Animal

Terry Engelken, DVM, MS, Founder and CEO, Fera Diagnostics and Biologicals Corp.

• • • • Dr. Terry Engelken is a Kansas native and graduated with his DVM in 1987 from Kansas State University. He joined a mixed animal practice in Onaga, Kansas, before returning to KSU for a residency and master’s program in Beef Cattle Production Medicine. He then joined the faculty at Mississippi State in 1991. In 2007, he moved to the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine to continue working with beef producers and their veterinarians. He has been married to his wife Elizabeth for 37 years and they have been blessed with four children and four grandchildren

Steve Ensley, BS, DVM, MS, Ph.D., Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • Dr Ensley graduated in 1981 from Kansas State University with a DVM. After 14 years in mixed practice in the Midwest he received a MS and PhD in veterinary toxicology at Iowa State University completing his PhD in 2000. Dr Ensley has worked for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Bayer AG, Iowa State University and Kansas State University.
        Dr Ensley’s interests are clinical veterinary toxicology and applied veterinary toxicology research. Dr Ensley has published extensively on applied veterinary toxicology and gives numerous presentations on these topics.

Scott Fritz, DVM, Diplomate ABVT, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • Dr. Fritz earned his DVM in 2014 from Iowa State University and spent five years in private practice before completing a residency in toxicology at Kansas State University with a focus in diagnostics. He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Toxicology in the Department of Anatomy and Physiology at Kansas State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Toxicology and primarily focuses his efforts on diagnostic service through the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory as well as teaching toxicology in the veterinary curriculum.

Sandy Johnson, PhD.

• • • • Dr. Sandy Johnson is a reproductive physiologist and extension beef specialist for K-State Research and Extension located at the NW Research and Extension Center in Colby. She was raised on a diversified livestock farm in eastern Nebraska, and received a B.S. degree in Animal Science from the University of Nebraska. Advanced degrees in Reproductive Physiology came from the University of Missouri and West Virginia University. Johnson is a founding member of the Beef Reproduction Task Force and hosted the first Applied Reproductive Strategies in Beef Cattle Workshop in 2002. In addition, Johnson has represented the task force in updating and improving the Estrus Synchronization Planner and developing the multi-group version of the planner. Her goals are to help producers implement cost effective reproductive management tools and improve cow/calf management and profitability.

Robert Larson, DVM, PhD, DACT, DACVPM (Epidemiology), ACAN, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • Dr. Larson received his DVM from Kansas State in 1987 and a Ph.D from the KSU Department of Animal Sciences in 1992. He spent five years in private practice and then 10 years at the University of Missouri. In 2006 he returned to Kansas State University as the Coleman Chair of Food Animal Production Medicine where his teaching and research focuses on beef cattle production and health. Dr. Larson’s primary area of interest is the integration of animal health, production efficiency, and economic considerations in beef cattle production. He is board certified by the American College of Theriogenologists, the American College of Animal Nutrition, and the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine – Epidemiology specialty.

Frank van der Meer, DVM, PhD

• • • • Frank van der Meer graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Utrecht University in the Netherlands in 1996 and completed his PhD on the activity of antiviral compounds to Retro- and Nidoviruses in 2007. In 2008 he joined the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Calgary. His research focuses on bovine viruses such as bovine viral diarrhea virus, bovine leukemia virus and wildlife viruses in the Canadian arctic. He collaborates with researchers in Tanzania to study animal and human pathogens, where he also led a field school in Ngorongoro and the Lake zone.

Drew Ricketts, BS, PhD

• • • • Drew Ricketts is the Wildlife Specialist for K-State Research and Extension and an Associate Professor in the Wildlife and Outdoor Enterprise Management at K-State. As the Extension Wildlife Specialist, his responsibilities include conducting a statewide program in wildlife damage control, wildlife enhancement on private lands, and youth outdoor programs. Drew works with producers throughout Kansas who are experiencing property damage caused by wildlife, with an emphasis on identifying and managing livestock losses to predators.

Practice Management

James K. Roush, DVM, MS, DACVS, Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Student Success, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • Dr. Roush is the current Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Student Success in the College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, and Professor of Small Animal Surgery. He has been a faculty member at Kansas State University since 1989

Christine Staten, DVM

• • • • Dr. Christine Staten graduated in 1999 and owns an 11-doctor mixed animal practice in Tucson, Arizona that she grew from a solo-ambulatory practice. Desiring to learn more about entrepreneurship and business management, she earned her MBA last year. With her company Veterinary MBA, she is helping other practice owners and managers create more sustainable business models while gaining more time, money, and freedom in their lives. She is also passionate about encouraging and mentoring the next generation of veterinarians into the greatest profession in the world.

Small Animal

Jenifer Loewen, DVM, DACVECC

• • • • Dr. Jen Loewen is presently Assistant Professor of Small Animal Emergency Medicine and Critical Care at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatchewan. After completing a rotating internship at Iowa State University and a residency in Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she became board certified in small animal emergency and critical care in 2018. She is currently working on a Master’s of Education in Health Profession Education.

Mackenzie Hallman, DVM, DACVR, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • Dr. Hallman is an assistant clinical professor of diagnostic imaging at K-State's Veterinary Health Center. She is a 2008 graduate of Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine and a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Radiologists.

Ron Orchard, DVM, MPH, CAWA, PhD, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • Dr. Ron Orchard is a dual DVM/MPH and is currently a fellow with the Kansas State University’s Shelter Medicine & Community Outreach program. He teaches shelter medicine and surgical practice through a series of community partnerships. His work not only involves developing veterinarians that have technical surgical expertise but also includes an element intended to support the exercise leadership through One Health and “reflective practitioner” frames.

Mark Epstein, BS, DVM, DABVP (C/F) Medical Director TotalBond Veterinary Hospitals, PC

• • • • Dr. Epstein received his DVM from University of Georgia and is the Senior Partner and Medical Director of TotalBond Veterinary Hospitals, a small group of AAHA-accredited practices in the Charlotte & Gastonia NC. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (Canine/Feline) and is a past-president of ABVP. He is recognized as a Certified Veterinary Pain Practitioner (CVPP) by the International Veterinary Academy of Pain Management, and is a past-president of IVAPM; he is currently President of the IVAPM Research & Scholarship Foundation. Dr. Epstein chaired the AAHA Senior Care Guidelines Task Force and co-Chaired the 2015 AAHA/AAFP Pain Management Task Force. He is a recipient of the 2022 Viticus Small Animal Educator of the Year Award.

Morgan Murphy, DVM, DACVAA, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • Dr. Murphy received her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Kansas State University. She received her DVM from Kansas State University and completed internships at Oklahoma State University and Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists in Houston, Texas before returning to Kansas State University for a residency in Anesthesia and Analgesia. She then worked as an anesthesia faculty member at Iowa State University's College of Veterinary Medicine before returning to Kansas State where she is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesia. Her clinical interests include methods to reduce morbidity and mortality in veterinary patients in the perioperative period.