Gwen is an RCVS and European Specialist in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia. She is a senior clinical anaesthetist and clinical lead for the Rehabilitation - Pain management and Behaviour teams at Langford Vets, Bristol Vet School. For the past 15 years, much of her work has involved collaborating with specialist colleagues to provide the multi-disciplinary chronic pain referral service. She also provides advisory and educational services to increase awareness about treatment of chronic pain in dogs and cats amongst pet owners and veterinary professionals. Gwen serves on the committee for the Association of British Veterinary Acupuncturists, is an expert advisor for Canine Arthritis Management, and was President of the Comparative Medicine Section of the Royal Society of Medicine from 2017-19.

Areas of interest include human factors in the veterinary clinical workplace, established and emerging therapies for chronic pain and the relationship between pain, cognition and behaviour in human and non-human animals.

Dr. Mary Gardner wasn’t always thinking about being a veterinarian. After graduating from the University of Miami, she began working as a software Business Architect for an omni-channel order fulfillment software company in Florida. After 10 years in software she found herself longing for something different and more meaningful – after a twist of fate, the path she selected was to become a veterinarian. She completed her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine in 2008 from the University of Florida.

After spending a few years in general practice, she co-found Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice which has over 400 veterinarians helping families with in home end of life care. Dr. Mary and Lap of Love have been featured in numerous local and national news media including DVM News Magazine, Today's Veterinary Practice, DVM 360, Entrepreneur Magazine and The New York Times.

Dr. Mary developed Lap of Love's proprietary web-based practice management software called Sunshine. The program is specifically designed for veterinary hospice and euthanasia services and also dynamically ties to the Lap of Love website to allow families the ability to locate the veterinarian closest to them. And now serves as CEO ensuring the vision of Lap of Love carries on.

Geriatric medicine, the aging process in animals and teaching family’s practical ways to care and manage their elder pets is Dr. Mary’s passion. She is the co-editor and author of the academic textbook, “Treatment and Care of the Geriatric Veterinary Patient”. And has written two books for the pet parents - “It’s Never Long Enough” and “Nine Lives are Not Enoush”. She writes and speaks for professional and lay audiences on all aspects of geriatric medicine and end of life care, including veterinary hospice and euthanasia, as well as finding happiness in your career and life. She has spoken at NAVC, AVMA, WVC, Fetch, AVMA, state VMA's, IAAHPC, professional sales meetings, veterinary schools and animal hospitals around the world.

She was also honored with presenting the keynote address to the graduating Class of 2014 Oregon State Veterinary Medicine students, received the Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Florida in 2016 and Small Animal Speaker of the Year for VMX in 2020

Dr. Janice Huntingford is a 1984 graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario. She is certified in chiropractic, acupuncture, rehabilitation, and pain management. She has a Masters in Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine from the Chi University. In 2015, she became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation ( Board Certified Specialist) She is also a consultant for the VIN Rehab/Sports Medicine/Chronic Pain board, Pet Wellbeing and sits on many boards including an International Osteoarthritis Task Force and the World Association of TCVM.

Dr. Huntingford lectures nationally and internationally on rehabilitation, manual therapy, acupuncture, geriatric medicine, herbals and pain management to veterinarians and veterinary technicians. She has received numerous awards including the Award of Excellent Speaker at the World Association of TCVM International Meeting in September 2022. She is currently the Director of Chi Canada and teaches acupuncture, pain and rehabilitation courses. When not speaking, practicing or travelling, Dr Huntingford spends time on her farm and winery with chef husband Harold and a menagerie of pugs, cats, horses, pigs, cattle, chickens and honey bees and sometimes her two beautiful granddaughters.

Growing up outside of Chicago, near the Brookfield Zoo, Dr. ElizabethLiz Rozanski developed a love for veterinary medicine from age five. As a member of the Foster Hospital for Small Animals' Emergency and Critical Care team, she treats animals at one of the nation's busiest academic emergency rooms. She is board-certified in both internal medicine and emergency and critical care.

Dr. Rozanski graduated from the University of Illinois with her DVMdegree. After completing a residency in Philadelphia, she was drawn to Tufts by the position's combination of research, teaching, and service. She teaches toxicology and respiratory medicine throughout the four-year Cummings School DVM curriculum, and lectures in others. I love the students, she says. They are a continued source of inspiration and enthusiasm.

She has also been involved in student efforts to provide free rabies vaccinations in low-income housing in the City of Worcester, serves as a faculty mentor for summer student research projects, has raised funds for the American Heart Association (with her dog, Brie, named after one of her favorite cases at the Foster Hospital) through the Central Massachusetts Heart Walk, and lectures often at continuing education and community events. She is also the past president of the Veterinary Comparative Respiratory Society.

Dr. Rozanski's primary research interest is in respiratory function in small animals, and she recently co-authored, with the help of fellow faculty member Dr. John Rush, A Color Handbook of Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care Medicine (Manson, 2007). She lives near the school's Grafton campus with, as she notes, a menagerie of pets—all rescues.