Kyla Ortved, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVS, ACVSMR, is an assistant professor of large animal surgery at University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center, in Kennett Square. She received her veterinary degree from the University of Guelph in 2006 and completed her large animal surgical residency training at Cornell University in 2010. Following her residency, Kyla went on to obtain a PhD in equine cartilage repair at Cornell. In 2016, she joined the large animal surgery faculty at New Bolton Center, where she focuses on orthopedic surgery and research on gene and cell therapies for improving cartilage repair and preventing osteoarthritis.

Dr. van Veggel graduated from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, in Saskatoon, SK, Canada in 2015. She was born in the Netherlands and emigrated to Canada in her early teens. After her study, she finished a Sports Medicine Internship at Sporthorse Medical Diagnostic Centre (Heesch, the Netherlands) and continued her career at this centre where . In 2018 she passed the ISELP Certification. Passionate about imaging, she became a diplomate of the ECVDI - LA (European College of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging) after a residency at Ghent University (Belgium). She currently leads the Diagnostic Imaging department at SMDC with a primary focus and interest on equine musculoskeletal and dentistry related advanced and comparative imaging.