Bruce is the hospital director at Donnington Grove Veterinary Group in Newbury. His interests include colic, arthroscopy and fracture repair. He has been one of the pioneers of surgery in the standing horse, and he is one of the most experienced equine surgeons in the UK. He has lectured and taught around the world on the techniques and results of equine surgery.  Bruce is currently President elect of BEVA.

Dr. Ducharme has been practicing large animal surgery since 1979.  He received his DVM from the University of Montreal and then completed an internship and residency in Large Animal Surgery at Cornell.  He also received a master’s degree in Large Animal Surgery from the University of Guelph.  He has hospital privileges as Professor of Surgery at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine and is a board certified Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons.

He is one of the doctors giving specialty care for horses at Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists at Belmont Park.

Dr. Ducharme’s research/clinical interests are sports medicine with an emphasis on equine upper respiratory airway physiology at exercise including flow and pressure mechanics, neuromuscular assessment of the neural control of airway patency, characterization of health status and disease (respiratory), and their surgical treatments.

Dr. Ducharme has published approximately 150 airway-related manuscripts he and his collaborators (including two current graduate students) have co-trained 3 post docs, 10 PhDs, 8 Masters Degree students, and 32 surgery residents as well as mentored many pre-DVM and DVM students.

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Fabrice was graduated in 1994 from National Veterinary School of Toulouse (South of France).  He Joined the equine clinic of Grosbois near Paris just after, and became partner in 1998. He became an ECVS diplomate in 2010. Fabrice is a senior surgeon at the Equine clinic of Grosbois and Clinic of Chantllly, which are part of the Altano group. He has a 100% activity in surgery and has a major interest in upper airway surgery and fracture repair. He is involved in several research projects in larynx physiology and biomechanics and laryngeal reinnervation. He is also a member of the AOVET Large Animal Expert Group and Faculty since 2016 and is active in the development of new orthopedic implants. When is not working, Fabrice likes also race horses, travelling and skiing.