Dr. Ben Buchanan grew up in Navasota, Texas. He went to Texas A&M and graduated from there with his DVM in 2001. Afterwards, he completed two residencies; Large Animal Internal Medicine at University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2004 and Emergency and Critical Care at University of Pennsylvania in 2005. Ben is one of the very few people in the world to be board certified in Internal Medicine and Emergency Critical Care. Dr. Buchanan has a very unique experience in colic, respiratory disease, cardiac disease, eye conditions and sick foals. He joined BVEH Navasota in 2005, where he works alongside his father, T-Bone. He is also active in community outreach by speaking at meetings and events around the world regarding equine care.

After graduating from Massey University in New Zealand, Brett completed an internship at Randwick Equine Centre in Sydney Australia and then worked in mixed large animal practice in the Waikato region of New Zealand for a number of years. In 2002, Brett began a 3-year residency in large animal (equine) internal medicine at the University of Illinois followed by a 2-year fellowship in large animal emergency and critical care at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Centre. Brett has a masters in equine exercise physiology and is board certified with the American Colleges of Veterinary Internal Medicine. After his time at Penn, Brett was on faculty at the University of Georgia working in their teaching hospital and then worked for almost 10 years in the University of Melbourne's veterinary teaching hospital. In 2021, Brett and his wife Charity decided that they needed a change and made plans to move back to New Zealand in 2022; before coming home, Brett worked at Lethbridge Equine Hospital to help with their intensive medicine cases. Brett now lives in the Tasman Bay District in New Zealand's South Island where he works as a large animal ambulatory veterinarian.

Dr. Nathan Slovis is the Director of the McGee Center and a Member of the Practice. He is a native of Annapolis, Maryland. He received his Bachelor of Science from Radford University, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Purdue University, interned at Arizona Equine Center and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California, Davis.

Dr. Slovis has published over 50 manuscripts in both national and international peer reviewed veterinary journals. He is a frequent speaker at many national and international veterinary conferences. He is the Editor of both the Atlas of Equine Endoscopy and The Atlas of Diseases/Disorders of the Foal both distributed by Elsevier. He has also authored numerous book chapters related to Equine Neonatology, Equine Neurology, Hyperbaric medicine, and infectious diseases. He implemented the current Infectious Disease and Equine Emergency Response Programs at Hagyard and holds the position of Infectious Disease Officer and Equine Emergency Response Co-Director. He is also a Certified Hyperbaric Technologist and a Member of the Veterinary Infectious Disease Society.

Dr. Pusterla is currently a professor in Equine Internal Medicine at UC Davis and chief of the large animal medicine services at the William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. He graduated from the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Zurich, Switzerland in 1991 and earned his PhD from the University of Zurich with an emphasis on vector-borne diseases. He joined UC Davis in 1998. Dr. Pusterla is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine with an equine emphasis and has ongoing interest in all aspects of equine internal medicine and dentistry.

Rose Nolen-Walston, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, is an assistant professor of large animal internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine’s (Penn Vet) New Bolton Center, in Kennett Square.

She graduated from the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine in 2001, and then completed an internship and residency in large-animal internal medicine at Tufts University, in North Grafton, Massachusetts. She spent a subsequent year at Tufts doing research in adult stem-cell biology in mice. She joined the Penn Vet faculty in 2007, where she won the university’s 2013-2014 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Dr. Stokol is a veterinary clinical pathologist with roles in teaching, professional service and research. As a clinical pathologist, she teaches veterinary students, interns and residents in clinical pathologic-related topics, and also participate in many continuing education seminars. She performs professional diagnostic service for the Cornell University Hospital for Animals and Animal Health Diagnostic Center. As a researcher, Dr. Stokol conducts her own clinical applied and basic research and collaborate with other clinicians and researchers at Cornell and other universities. Her main area of research is the role of tissue factor (coagulation factor III) in hemostasis (particularly thrombotic disorders) and cancer metastasis. She is dedicated to performing high-quality diagnostic service to benefit animal patients, in educating current and future veterinarians, and in conducting research that has direct applicability to animal health. Her philosophy is "Do good work, take responsibility for yourself, and enjoy your life in every way - there is more to life than work!"