Katharina Lohmann is a board-certified large animal internist (Diplomate ACVIM, PhD). Since 2018, she is Professor for Equine Internal Medicine at the Veterinary Medical Faculty and head of the Section for Internal Medicine and Reproductive Medicine of the Department for Horses at Leipzig University. Her teaching activity comprises all aspects of equine internal medicine, diseases of foals and examination techniques. Her research interests are respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases of horses and infectious diseases.

Dr. Maureen Long is a 1986 graduate of the Iowa State College of Veterinary Medicine’s D.V.M. program. Upon graduation, Dr. Long was a private equine practitioner. In 1993, Dr. Long completed a combined residency/MS program in Large Animal Internal Medicine at the University of Illinois in which she identified Neorickettsia risticii is an abortifacient in horses. Dr. Long completed a combined residency/Phd program at Washington State University in 1998; the focus of her work was Neospora caninum. Dr. Long started as a clinician at UF 1999 in Large Animal Clinical Sciences. Dr. Long has taught in over 30 professional and graduate courses and is highly published in peer reviewed journals and is Co-Editor of the book, Equine Infectious Diseases. At UF, the focus of her research and clinical specialty has been emerging infectious diseases. Her work has included equine encephalitides, particularly West Nile virus. She has studied the comparative efficacy of equine WNV vaccines and investigated the pathological responses of Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis as the Fern Audette Endowed Chair in Equine Studies. In recent years she has been a faculty member of Comparative Diagnostic and Population Medicine and a member of the Emerging Pathogens Institute. Her work has evolved to a One Health focus investigating human arboviruses such as Dengue, Zika, and Chikungunya viruses as well as SARS-CoV-2 vaccine responses in humans and SARS-CoV-2 infections in animals. Currently she is the Associate Director of Shared Research Resources at the UF Emerging Pathogens Institute.

Richard Newton, BVSc, MSc, PhD, FRCVS was the Director of Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance at the Animal Health Trust until its closure in July 2020.  He continues to work closely with the UK equine industry in conducting global disease surveillance and advising on disease prevention strategies and management of outbreaks.