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Dr. Ben Buchanan grew up in Navasota, Texas. He went to Texas A&M and graduated from there with his DVM in 2001. Afterwards, he completed two residencies; Large Animal Internal Medicine at University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2004 and Emergency and Critical Care at University of Pennsylvania in 2005. Ben is one of the very few people in the world to be board certified in Internal Medicine and Emergency Critical Care. Dr. Buchanan has a very unique experience in colic, respiratory disease, cardiac disease, eye conditions and sick foals. He joined BVEH Navasota in 2005, where he works alongside his father, T-Bone. He is also active in community outreach by speaking at meetings and events around the world regarding equine care.

Kees van Maanen studied veterinary medicine in Utrecht, the Netherlands. After his graduation in 1986 he became head of the laboratory for FMD vaccine control, diagnosis of vesicular diseases and equine viral diseases at the Central Veterinary Institute in Lelystad, the Netherlands. In 1991 he joined Royal GD and started a four year course in veterinary pathology. He holds a specialist degree both in veterinary pathology (n.p.) and veterinary microbiology. From 1995 - 2013 he was the head of the R&D laboratory of the Animal Health Service (GD) in the Netherlands. His current position in GD Animal Health is virologist/senior scientist within the department of small ruminants, . In 2001 he completed a PhD on the subject Equine herpesvirus 1 and 4 and equine influenza virus infections: Diagnosis, epidemiology and vaccinology. His main research interests are in equine infectious diseases, emerging diseases, transboundary animal diseases, test development and test validation, and implementation of diagnostic strategies in the context of compulsory or voluntary disease control and eradication programs. He is co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. Since 2007 he has been active for 25% of his time as an FAO/EuFMD consultant for FMD and other transboundary diseases in many countries (for example Botswana, South Africa, Egypt, Libya, Palestine, Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Iran, Myanmar, Indonesia).

John is currently professor emeritus at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala Sweden, having served as professor of equine internal medicine there since the year 2000. Prior to relocating to Sweden he had taught in the veterinary faculties at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada, and at the University of Tennessee, USA.  He obtained his veterinary degree from the Ontario Veterinary College, Guelph Canada in 1981, and defended his PhD from the University of Liège, Belgium, in 1998. He attained board certification by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in 1988 and was one of the founding diplomates of the European College of Equine Internal Medicine. His research interests are infectious diseases of the horse, with current focus on the host pathogen relationship in carrier states of strangles.