Dianne McFarlane is a professor in the Physiological Sciences department at the OSU College of Veterinary Medicine. Her research interests are Aging, Age-related disease and endocrine disease.

Dr. McFarlane earned her DVM degree from the University of California, Davis in 1992. She completed a Large Animal Rotating Internship at the University of Georgia in 1993 and an ACVIM and ABVP Equine Medicine Residency at North Carolina State University in 1997. Dr. McFarlane earned her MS degree from the University of Georgia in 1992 and her PhD from the University of Prince Edward Island in 2006.

She is the Ricks Rapp Professor of Equine Musculoskeletal Research.