Dr. Carmen M.H. Colitz is a native of Miami, Florida.  She completed her undergraduate work at the University of Florida and in 1993 she received her DVM from the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine.  In 1996, she received her PhD from the University of Tennessee and subsequently began her residency training in ophthalmology at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine.  During her residency training, she also completed a one-year post-doctoral research project and successfully competed for a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health Eye Institute.  She is presently an Associate Professor of Veterinary Ophthalmology at LSU.  Dr. Colitz’s research interests include cataractogenesis, posterior capsular opacification, and ocular neoplasia.

Dr. Federico G. Latimer is from San German, Puerto Rico. He is a 1984 graduate of The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. After three years in private practice, he took a faculty appointment in equine field service at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Tennessee from 1987 to 1996. While on staff at Tennessee, he completed a residency in large animal surgery and became a Diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners, Equine Specialty. He became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1997. After spending three years on faculty at the Colleges of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University and Oregon State University, he came to LSU in August of 1999 as an Assistant Professor of Equine Surgery. His research interests include equine gastrointestinal surgery, laparoscopic surgery, cartilage metabolism and musculoskeletal adaptation to exercise in horses.

Dr. Rebecca Karg McConnico is a 1987 graduate of the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine.  She completed an internship in equine medicine and surgery at the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1988 and a clinical residency in large animal internal medicine in 1991 from North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine.  She remained at NCSU and completed a PhD in physiology/pharmacology in 1995 with a research emphasis focusing on inflammatory conditions of the equine large intestine.  She is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Large Animal Specialty).  In 1996, she accepted a faculty appointment at Oklahoma State University College of Veterinary Medicine.  Research projects at OSU included: investigating waning antibodies in foals born to mares who are clinically inapparent of the Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) virus; development of diagnostic tests for Rhodococcus equi pneumonia; and comparison of intravenous fluid therapies for treating horses with acute equine colitis.  In 1999, she accepted a position at LSU where she has didactic and clinical teaching responsibilities, clinical service duties, as well as a research appointment where she will continue studies investigating clinical and mechanistic aspects of equine colitis, and immunological profiles of offspring born to EIA-infected horses.

Dr. Glenn Pettifer is a native of Ontario, Canada.  He received his DVM degree from the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph in 1986 and worked in private practice until 1989 when he returned to the Ontario Veterinary College to pursue graduate studies in Veterinary Anesthesiology.  Following completion of his graduate training, Dr. Pettifer held clinical instructor positions at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Georgia.  He then returned to the Ontario Veterinary College where he was an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Chief of Staff of the Anesthesiology Service until 1999.  Dr. Pettifer holds a D.V.Sc in Veterinary Anesthesiology and is board certified by the American College of Veterinary Anesthesiologists