AAEP Virtual Wednesday Round Table 2021: Euthanasia: Alternatives to Pentobarbital

Dr. Aleman is a full professor of the equine internal medicine and neurology services, chief of service of equine internal medicine, and co-director of the Neuromuscular Disease Laboratory at UC Davis where samples from both humans and animals are processed. She is also a founding member of the Equine and Comparative Neurology Research Group and is affiliated with the Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory at UC Davis. Author of more than 120 peer-reviewed publications, 100 proceedings and abstracts, and 30 book chapters, Dr. Aleman is regularly consulted in challenging cases involving neurologic and muscle disease.

Dr. Breuer is diagnostic case and outreach coordinator with the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and clinical assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, having accepted the dual appointment in 2019. After receiving his veterinary degree from University of Wisconsin in 2012, Dr. Breuer practiced food animal medicine until joining Iowa State University Extension and Outreach as a dairy field specialist in 2015. He subsequently completed a residency training program in food animal internal medicine at the ISU College of Veterinary Medicine.

Dr. Ketover is founder of Irongate Equine Clinic, a four-doctor, equine-exclusive ambulatory practice, in Madison, Wisc. He is also co-founder of Wisconsin Large Animal Emergency Response, a non-profit 501c(3) organization that brings large animal technical rescue training to emergency first responders. In addition, he has worked closely with multiple mounted law enforcement agencies to bring emergency rescue principles, including firearm euthanasia strategies for working horses, to the departments. Since 2014, Dr. Ketover has worked with clinicians from the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine to offer a five-day Large Animal Rescue and Patient Management course that instructs 20 veterinary students annually.

Dr. Lund is an Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Diagnostic Imaging Department. After completing an equine internship, she worked as an equine ambulatory veterinarian, small animal emergency medicine veterinarian, and as an instructor for veterinary technicians. She is a preventive medicine veterinarian in the United States Army Reserves Veterinary Corps.