Emmanuelle van Erck graduated in 1996 from the French Veterinary School of Maisons-Alfort. She trained in sports medicine at the University of Liège (Belgium) where she obtained her PhD on respiratory function testing in horses. She developped the equine sports medicine unit and consulted as senior clinician in the CIRALE in Normandy (France). In January 2010, she started her own ambulatory referral practice, the ‘Equine Sports Medicine Practice’, based in Belgium. Her practice offers specialized service in equine internal and sports medicine throughout Europe, following national teams and international riders.
Emmanuelle van Erck authored over 50 peer-reviewed scientific articles and regularly lectures at international conferences. She is a member of the FEI expert committee on prohibited substances and doping.

Gayle graduated from the University of Cambridge and completed a rotating internship and then large animal internal medicine and critical care residency at the Royal Veterinary College in London. She then completed a PhD investigating aortic valve prolapse at the University of Nottingham. After 20 years in academia, she left in February 22 to become Director of veterinary Professional Development for IVC Evidensia. She still undertakes clinical work at Pool House Equine Hospital. She is an American Specialist in Large Animal Internal Medicine, American Specialist in Large Animal Emergency and Critical Care, EBVS Specialist in Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation and is Associate Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging. She is also Editor-In-Chief for the Wiley Journal Veterinary Medicine and Science. The topics that she holds close to her heart which include large animal cardiology, gastroenterology and imaging (particularly ultrasonography).