Born in Brooklyn, NY and raised on Long Island, Dr. Langsam was brought up in the Thoroughbred industry, visiting many racetracks around the country and spending most weekends at either Belmont, Aqueduct, or Saratoga rooting her family's horses across the wire. It was no stretch of the imagination when she decided to become an equine veterinarian.

Dr. Langsam received her Bachelor of Science in Animal Science from Cornell University in 1998. In 2002, she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine. While in veterinary school, Dr. Langsam worked in the sports medicine department at New Bolton Center, assisting with both lameness and treadmill exams and doing research involving upper airway conditions in horses. Following graduation, she completed a yearlong internship at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, KY, where she gained invaluable experience working alongside many top specialists in a high-caseload setting.

Dr. Langsam joined TFB Equine in July 2003 and became a partner in 2009. After working in the Mid-Atlantic and Florida divisions, she moved home to New York in 2012 and started the Long Island division of TFB Equine, servicing Belmont Park and Aqueduct Racetrack year-round. Her main professional interests are in lameness evaluations, radiology, ultrasound, upper airway problems and pre-purchase exams.

Active in the American Association of Equine Practitioners(AAEP), Dr. Langsam is currently serving on AAEP’s Board of Directors as well as the Chair of AAEP’s Racing Committee. In addition, she also serves on HISA’s Horseman's Advisory Group.

When not working, Sara is an amateur photographer and enjoys exploring and traveling the world.

Julie Potier is an equine internal medicine specialist working at the Liphook Equine Hospital and Laboratory. She graduated from Lyon in France, where she did an internship then moved to the UK in Liphook where she stayed through different roles (housevet, ambulatory practitioner, laboratory research assistant) and has now been a clinician of the internal medicine team for 5 years. Julie is also an FEI Permitted Treating Vet and Official Vet. Her main interests include evidence-based sport and performance medicine, and especially optimizing fitness programs and injury prevention in athletic horses.

After many years of clinical activities as first a large animal surgeon and later an exclusively equine surgeon, René van Weeren is now almost exclusively occupied by research activities and the supervision of PhD students, apart from administrative duties. Special areas of interest are the influences of exercise on the (development of) the musculoskeletal system, research on joint homeostasis and cartilage regeneration, tendons and biomechanics. He enjoys working in these areas within a translational framework togther with the colleagues from human medicine and as part of large (international) collaborative networks. He is of the opinion that in these activities the coaching of young people and helping them to find develop themselves as critical, independent and truly academic researchers is the most rewarding aspect. 

The drive for René van Weeren to become a vet probably originates from the family holidays he enjoyed as a kid in a rural region in the eastern part of the Netherlands ("De Achterhoek") in the 1960s, where he participated for years in the activities of the small-scale farming of those days. The red line in his career, a broad interest for research with focus on international collaboration, may stem from the inspiring and intellectually challenging environment of the high school he attended (St. Francis High School, Rotterdam) and the experiences of his 7-month stay in Mozambique as a final year student.

Being a rather prolific writer himself, he likes the editing of papers and he is also an avid reader of "real" (i.e. non-scientific) literature.

Fe is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and the European College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation. She works in private practice and is an Adjuct Professor of CityU University, Hong Kong. During her internal medicine residency at the University of Guelph, Canada, Fe combined her clinical training with a graduate degree. Her research focused on Inflammatory Airway Disease in actively racing horses and in 2012 she defended her thesis to receive a DVSc degree from the University of Guelph. She pursued her interest in equine sports medicine further: she completed a 2 year Equine Ultrasound and Cardiology Fellowship at New Bolton Center, USA. Fe currently works in Belgium, for Equine Sports Medicine Practice, helping high-level sport horses in different equestrian disciplines reach their peak performance and providing specialty equine cardiology, respiratory and ultrasound services across Europe. Her reseach focus are exercising arrythmias and upper and lower airway disease in sport horses.