Evaluating Manuscripts for Clinical Practice, Residency Training and Peer Review

Linda Kidd, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (SAIM)
Associate Editor, Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine
Retired Professor, Small Animal Internal Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences

Dr. Kidd received a DVM and residency training from the University of Wisconsin. She earned a PhD in Immunology from North Carolina State University studying vector-borne disease, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at The Scripps Research Institute studying mechanisms of thrombosis. Dr. Kidd was on faculty at Western University of Health Sciences from 2007-2022 reaching the level of tenured Professor in 2020. She was the Co-Chair of recent ACVIM Consensus Statements on the diagnosis of immune-mediated hemolytic anemia the diagnosis and treatment of immune thrombocytopenia. She has been an Associate Editor for the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine since 2020. 

Benjamin Brainard, VMD, DACVAA, DACVECC
Professor, Director of Clinical Research, University of Georgia

Dr. Brainard graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in 2000. Following graduation, he pursued a rotating small animal internship at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine before returning to Penn to complete concurrent residencies in Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia and Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care, becoming board certified in both in 2006.  Following residency, Dr. Brainard joined the faculty of the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine, where he is currently the Edward H. Gunst Professor of Small Animal Critical Care.  He also serves as the director of clinical research at the UGA Veterinary teaching hospital.  He is the 2020 recipient of the 2020 ACVECC Jack Mara Scientific Achievement Award for advances in coagulation in veterinary emergency and critical care.  He is an associate editor of the Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. His research interests include platelet function, thrombosis, and hypercoagulable conditions.

Stephen P. DiBartola, DVM, DACVIM (SAIM)
Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal Veterinary Internal Medicine

Dr. DiBartola received his DVM from UC Davis in 1976 and completed an internship at Cornell in 1977. He completed an internal medicine residency at Ohio State University in 1979 and began his academic career at the University of Illinois. He returned to OSU in 1981 where he remained until retirement in 2014. He currently is Emeritus Professor at OSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine. His textbook Fluid Therapy in Small Animal Practice is in its fourth edition. Dr. DiBartola has served as co-editor-in-chief for the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine since 1997.

Lisa Fortier, DVM, PhD, DACVS
Editor-in-Chief, JAVMA; Editor-in-Chief, AJVR; Chief Publication Officer, AVMA

Dr. Fortier is the James Law Professor of Surgery at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine where, over the past 30 years, she has garnered an international reputation for her significant contributions in the areas of equine joint disease, cartilage biology, and regenerative medicine, particularly her pioneering use of biologics such as platelet rich plasma, bone marrow concentrate and stem cells in horses and humans. In addition to her Cornell appointment, Dr. Fortier is editor-in-chief for the American Veterinary Medical Association’s journals and, in 2023, became the Chief Publications Officer for the AVMA. She also serves on the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority’s Racetrack Safety Standing Committee. In 2022, Dr. Fortier received induction into the University of Kentucky Equine Research Hall of Fame and in 2024 she was named an Honored Mentor by the ACVS.

Dominique J. Griffon, DVM, MS, PhD, DECVS, DACVSACVS Founding Fellow, MIS (SA-Ortho)
Dean, Atlantic Veterinary Medicine, PEI, Canada; Editor-in-Chief, Veterinary Surgery

Dr. Griffon is Dean at the Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island (Canada). Before this role, she served as Associate Dean for Research at Western University of Health Sciences College of Veterinary Medicine in California. She has taught small animal surgery at Kansas State University (USA), and the Veterinary School of Edinburgh (UK) before becoming a tenured faculty at the University of Illinois (USA),. She is a Diplomate of the American and European Veterinary Colleges of Surgeons and holds a PhD in Veterinary Sciences. Her clinical research interest led to her recognition as ACVS founding fellow in minimally invasive surgery (small animal orthopedics). She has published over 90 publications and given over 400 national and international presentations. She is co-editor of the “Textbook on Complications in Small Animal Surgery” and Editor-in-Chief of  “Veterinary Surgery”. 

Kenneth Hinchcliff, BVSc (Hons), MS, PhD, DACVIM (LAIM)
Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne; Co-Editor-in-Chief, JVIM

Dr. Hinchcliff graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Veterinary Science, and later earned a Master of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD from Ohio State University in 1990. He was an academic in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Ohio State University from 1990 to 2007, rising to professor. At the University of Melbourne he led the formation of the joint Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, directing the review and renewal of the undergraduate teaching programs in that faculty, and was responsible for the introduction of the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program, which the university began teaching in 2011. He has extensive experience teaching undergraduate and graduate students, and is internationally recognized as a scholar of veterinary internal medicine and exercise physiology. Ken's extensive publications include co-authorship of the 9th, 10th and 11th editions of Veterinary Medicine, the most cited veterinary text book, and lead editor of the 1st, 2^nd and 3^rd editions of Equine Sports Medicine and Surgery. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, and CEO of Trinity College, Melbourne.

Annette Litster, BVSc, PhD, FANZCVSc (Feline Medicine), MMedSci (Clinical Epidemiology)

Dr. Litster graduated as a veterinarian in 1982 and was later awarded a PhD for her research on Feline Heartworm Disease and a Master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology.  She is a boarded specialist in Feline Medicine and worked in small animal general practice and specialist feline practice for 17 years. Dr. Litster was a tenured Associate Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine at Purdue University, where she led the Purdue Maddie’s Shelter Medicine program, which focused on research to enhance the health and welfare of shelter animals. Dr. Litster was a senior veterinary specialist at Zoetis from 2014 to 2023. 

George E. Moore, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (SAIM), DACVPM (Epidemiology)
Professor Emeritus of Clinical Epidemiology, Purdue University

Dr. Moore’s veterinary career has included more than 22 years in the US Army, followed by 19 years as faculty at Purdue University’s College of Veterinary Medicine in West Lafayette, Indiana.  He has authored or co-authored more than 230 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of veterinary Internal Medicine and on the scientific review board for the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. 

Lauren Trepanier, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (SAIM), DACVCP
Professor, Assistant Dean for Clinical and Translational Research, University of Wisconsin Madison

Dr. Trepanier earned her DVM with distinction from Cornell University. She completed an internship and residency in small animal internal medicine at the Animal Medical Center in New York, then obtained a PhD in Pharmacology, also at Cornell. She is board certified in both veterinary internal medicine and veterinary clinical pharmacology. Dr. Trepanier is Professor and Assistant Dean for Clinical and Translational Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She conducts research on environmental chemicals and cancer risk in dogs and people, and creates initiatives to support veterinary students, house officers, and early career veterinary faculty in conducting research.