Kira graduated from veterinary school at the University of California, Davis, USA in 2002 and went on to perform a Large Animal Internship at the Texas A&M University, USA followed by a Large Animal Surgery Residency (surgical specialisation) at University of Pennsylvania, New Bolton Center.  She became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2006. Following her residency she became faculty at the University of Georgia, USA and started the emergency and critical care service there while pursuing a fellowship to become a specialist in emergency and critical care. She became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care in 2011. She has remained at the University of Georgia continuing to develop the emergency and critical care program as a professor and administrator.  Kira has published a variety of research and review articles in peer-reviewed veterinary journals and lectures regularly at national and international courses/conferences on emergency and surgery topics.

Dr. Margaret Mudge received her VMD from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed an internship at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, KY. She then completed a residency in Equine Surgery at the University of California at Davis, and became a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2005. Margaret moved to the Ohio State University to continue her training with a fellowship in Emergency and Critical Care, and became a diplomate of the American College of Emergency & Critical Care in 2007. She is currently professor of Equine Emergency & Critical Care & Surgery at the Ohio State University. Margaret’s clinical and research interests include gastrointestinal emergencies and transfusion medicine.

Pam is a 1986 graduate of Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. Between 1986 and 1989 she served as the originator and clinician for the equine neonatal intensive unit at Cornell, completing a Master’s degree in equine medicine and surgery simultaneously. Pam was in private practice from 1989 until 1991, when she began residency training in large animal internal medicine at New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania. Between 1993 and 1998, Pam completed a PhD in cardiorespiratory physiology at Cornell University. She joined the faculty at New Bolton Center in 1998 where she remained until accepting her current position at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana in 2008.

Pam is board certified in the specialties of Large Animal Internal Medicine and Emergency and Critical Care and has lectured extensively throughout the US and Europe. She has authored or co-authored over 370 research manuscripts, abstracts, proceedings, book chapters and invited manuscripts and participated in the training of 70 interns, residents and graduate students. Pam's particular areas of interest are perinatology, neonatology, critical care, emergency medicine, cardiorespiratory physiology and models of markers of disease severity.

Dr. Samuel Hurcombe graduated from Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, in 2003 before completing an equine intensive internship at Randwick Equine Center in Sydney. In 2005 he went to Ohio State University where he completed an equine internal medicine residency, MS degree and emergency and critical care fellowship. He then stayed on at OSU as an emergency and critical care facility member. In 2014, Dr. Hurcombe went to Cornell where he is a clinical associate professor in equine emergency and internal medicine and is based at Cornell Ruffian.