Dr. Torres is an Assistant Professor of Small Animal Orthopedic Surgery and Director of the Motion Analysis Laboratory at the University of Missouri, College of Veterinary Medicine. He is board-certified by the American College of Veterinary Surgeons (ACVS) and the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation (ACVSMR). He received his B.S. from Clemson University and his DVM from the University of Georgia (UGA). After graduation he stayed at UGA for a rotating internship in small animal medicine and surgery. Following his internship, he worked for several years as a small animal practitioner in the Atlanta area. He then returned to UGA to complete a postdoctoral research fellowship focused on gait analysis, musculoskeletal biomechanics, and osteoarthritis. He then stayed at UGA for a small animal surgical residency followed by a PhD in physiology. He has research interests in gait and motion analysis, musculoskeletal and joint biomechanics, sports medicine and rehabilitation, and osteoarthritis and pain management.

Dr. Jean-Marie Denoix is a professor of veterinary anatomy and equine locomotor system pathology at Ecole Nationale Veterinaire d’Alfort in France. Since 1999, he also has served as the head of CIRALE-Normandy (Center of Imaging and Research on Equine Locomotor Affections). Dr. Denoix received his veterinary degree (DVM) from the National Veterinary School of Lyon. Since 2006, he has served as president of the International Society of Equine Locomotor Pathology (ISELP). In 2010, he became an Associate Member of the Large Animal section of the European College of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging, and in 2013, he became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Denoix specializes in the diagnosis and imaging of equine locomotor problems and causes of poor performance. His research interests include the locomotor system of the horse; anatomy; diagnostic imaging in horses, especially ultrasonography of joints; biomechanics and functional anatomy of the equine locomotor system; and lameness and rehabilitation.

Dr. Martinez is a graduate of the University of California at Davis, where he obtained his Master of Science and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees. He was a small animal medicine and surgery intern at the California Animal Hospital in Los Angeles, California and completed a small animal surgery residency at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. Dr. Martinez is a Diplomate of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation. He is currently Professor of Small Animal Orthopedics and Sports Medicine at Washington State University and is an active faculty member of AOVet. Dr. Martinez’s clinical interest is osteoarthritis management that centers on arthroscopic-assisted chondroplasty, total joint replacement, muscle strain and rehabilitation of sporting and working dogs, and musculoskeletal traumatology. His research focus has been the clinical management of osteoarthritis (arthroscopy, nutraceuticals, NSAIDs, analgesics), tendinopathies, and gait analysis with a special interest in surface electromyography in dogs.

Dr. Barrett is the Theodora Ayer Randolph Professor of Equine Surgery at Virginia Tech’s Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center. Her training includes: Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from Yale University, DVM from Cornell University, post-doctoral fellowship in Comparative Orthopedics at the University of Wisconsin, and clinical board certifications in both equine surgery (ACVS-LA) and equine sports medicine (ACVSMR-EQ). She heads a Regenerative Medicine and Orthopedic Research program and is Chief Specialty Editor of the Veterinary Regenerative Medicine section of Frontiers in Veterinary Science.