Maureen Anderson is a graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College and is ACVIM  board-certified in large animal internal medicine.  Her graduate and post-graduate work had a strong focus on infectious disease control and zoonotic diseases in particular. She is currently Lead Veterinarian - Animal Health and Welfare at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness, where she continues to work in areas bridging animal and public health, including rabies and antimicrobial stewardship, and co-leads the companion animal Ontario Animal Health Network (OAHN).

Angie Arora is the founder of Arora Wellness, where she helps animal care organizations and professionals improve professional wellbeing. As a Veterinary Social Worker and Certified Compassion Fatigue Specialist, she provides trauma-informed therapeutic coaching, training, and courses to veterinary hospitals, animal shelters, and wildlife and conservation organizations working in high-stress, trauma-exposed environments.

Angie is a member of the World Small Animal Veterinary Association's Professional Wellness Committee and serves as faculty with blendVET, the first DEIB certification program for veterinary professionals. She previously sat on the inaugural Board of Directors for the International Association of Veterinary Social Work and was Governance Chair for the Canadian Collective for Equity in Veterinary Medicine. 

An international speaker, Angie has presented at leading conferences such as WSAVA, CVMA, OVMA, OAVT, ACVIM, Fetch dvm360, the International Veterinary Social Work Summit, MCVMA Rise, and The UK Vet Congress, where she advocates for trauma-informed approaches to professional wellbeing. She holds a Bachelor of Social Work from Toronto Metropolitan University and a Master of Social Work from York University and is certified in Emotional CPR (National Empowerment Centre), Compassion Fatigue (Traumatology Institute), and has completed ICF coaching training with the Mind Rebel Academy.

Megan Brashear, BS, RVT, VTS (ECC) graduated in 2000 with a BS in Veterinary Technology and obtained her Veterinary Technician Specialty in Emergency/Critical Care in 2004. She has enjoyed working in emergency and critical care since 2000 and is the Senior Manager of Veterinary Nursing at the Purdue University Veterinary Hospital in West Lafayette, Indiana. Here, Megan truly enjoys the opportunity to work with veterinary nursing supervisors as well as teach and train technicians and students in the hospital. She loves to travel and lecture sharing her knowledge with veterinary technicians and veterinary nurses around the world.

Dr. Crandell graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College in 1990 and completed an internship in small animal medicine and surgery at UPEI. She worked at a general small animal practice in Thunder Bay for 3 years, then full time work as an emergency veterinarian and practice manager in southern Ontario. She returned to OVC in 2001 to do a 3-year residency in emergency medicine and critical care, obtaining board certification in 2004. Subsequently she worked as a critical care specialist full time in Toronto , and is now is the veterinary medical director at Toronto Animal Health Partners. Her professional special interests outside of critical care are the advancement of recognition and treatment of patient stress and fear in the veterinary clinical environment and promoting an evidence-based approach to veterinary medicine. When not immersed in a veterinary hospital, she loves to be outdoors away from asphalt, concrete and cars, practices and promotes gardening with native plants to help heal our urban environment, and champions safer cycling in Toronto.

Dr. Grant attended the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) and graduated with honours in 2014. After graduation, she became an associate veterinarian in a private, mixed animal practice. In 2017, she returned to OVC and completed a nutrition residency through the European College of Veterinary and Comparative Nutrition (ECVCN) and earned a Doctor of Veterinary Science (DVSc) degree in September 2020. Dr. Grant then joined OVC as
Assistant Professor and held the Nestle Purina Professorship in Companion Animal Nutrition. She was service chief for the OVC-HSC Clinical Nutrition Service and taught nutrition to students in all four phases of the DVM program. She currently works in private practice in Cambridge Ontario providing nutrition consults to pet owners and provides in clinic as well as telemedicine nutrition consultations to pet owners across Ontario and to veterinarians nationwide.

Peter Helmer is a graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph and a Diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners, Avian Practice. After 25 years in private practice he recently joined the faculty at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, TN. He is a frequent speaker at veterinary CE conferences and has authored numerous publications including journal articles and textbook chapters. Dr
Helmer is also a consultant for Avian/Exotic pet medicine at Antech Diagnostics.

Dr. Jamie Kopper is board certified in large animal internal medicine and emergency/critical care. She is currently on the equine internal medicine team at Iowa State University and the large animal chief medical officer for the hospital. Clinically, she enjoys treating emergency and critical care patients, particularly those with gastrointestinal disease.

Dr. Alison Little graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College in 2014. Following graduation, she completed five years of advanced training via a Small Animal Rotating Internship at the Veterinary Emergency Clinic in Toronto, a Specialty Neurology Internship at Southeast Veterinary Neurology in Miami, Florida and a Neurology/Neurosurgery Residency at Mississippi State University. She then returned home to Toronto and joined the Animal Health Partners team in 2020.

Dr. Conny Mosley is a board-certified anesthesiologist and passionate about acute and chronic pain management. She is currently the Veterinary Consultant for PAIN & IM at Elanco Canada. Conny has held faculty positions at North Carolina State University, Oregon State University and Ontario Veterinary College and has been an anesthesiologist in private practice,  where she also ran her Integrative Veterinary Pain Clinic. Conny is certified in acupuncture and the founding director and vice president of the Canadian Association of Veterinary Cannabinoid Medicine. She served on the WSAVA Global Pain Council and has extensively lectured nationally and internationally on multiple topics, with a special passion for collaborative and integrative pain management. 

Dr. Kyla Ortved is an Associate Professor of Large Animal Surgery at New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania in Kennett Square, PA. She received her DVM degree from the University of Guelph in 2006 and completed her large animal surgical residency training at Cornell University in 2010. Kyla became boarded with the American College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2011. Following her residency, Kyla went on to obtain a PhD in
gene therapy for equine cartilage repair at Cornell. In February 2016, Kyla became boarded with the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation. She joined the large animal surgery faculty at New Bolton Center in 2016 as an equine orthopedic surgeon and was named the Jacques Jenny Endowed Chair of Orthopedic Surgery in 2019. Her research program focuses on understanding the pathophysiology of equine
osteoarthritis and developing gene and cell-based therapies to improve cartilage repair and prevent osteoarthritis.

Dr. Pegg is a board-certified vet dentist and founder of Ascentra VDOS and Transcend Vet CE. She’s passionate about empowering veterinary teams through hands-on training and advancing pet care through excellence in dentistry and oral surgery.

Dr. Debbie Reynolds completed a Veterinary Degree at the University of Queensland in 1999 at which time she began working as a mixed animal veterinarian in rural Australia. After chasing horses and cattle around the countryside for 3 years, she decided to pursue a small animal surgery specialty. The pursuit of a surgery residency brought her to North America, initially Washington State for a rotating internship which was followed by a research fellowship studying stem cells before being accepted to a surgery residency at Ontario Veterinary College. Following completion of a residency in 2012, she began working in Toronto as specialist surgeon providing both orthopedic and soft tissue surgery. She joinedToronto Animal Health Partners in 2019 and performs both orthopedic and soft tissue surgeon with a special interest in joint replacements (total hip replacement) and minimally invasive surgery.

Shoshana graduated from the Veterinary Technology program at University of Guelph, Ridgetown Campus with honours and as the recipient of the Award for Proficiency in Canine and Feline Nutrition. She became the first Registered Veterinary Technician in Ontario to achieve her Veterinary Technician Specialty in Nutrition in 2015 and has been active with the Academy of Veterinary Nutrition Technicians since. Shoshana enjoys sharing and igniting a passion for veterinary nutrition in her peers, with a special interest in canine and feline obesity management and performance dog nutrition. Along with her dogs, Kinetic, Radon and Iron, Shoshana is an active member of the German Shepherd Schutzhund Club of Canada, T.O.P. Working Dog Club, and the Kitchener-Waterloo German Shepherd Club.

J. Scott Weese, DVM DVSc DipACVIM, is a veterinary internist and microbiologist, and a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. He is a Professor at the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph and a Zoonotic Disease/Public health Microbiologist at the University of Guelph’s Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses. He is also Chief of Infection Control at the Ontario Veterinary College Teaching Hospital and holds a Canada Research Chair in zoonotic diseases. Dr. Weese has authored or co-authored over 200 papers in peer reviewed journals, edited two books and speaks extensively on infectious disease topics. His research interests include Clostridium difficile, microbiome assessment, surgical site infection, antimicrobial resistance, methicillin-resistant staphylococci, infection control, emerging diseases and zoonoses. (From lakeridgehealth.on.ca).

Areas of Interest: bacterial infections in animals and humans, methicillin-resistant staphylococcal infections, Clostridium difficile, antimicrobial resistance, emerging infectious diseases, infection control. (From ovc.uoguelph.ca).