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Acknowledgments

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Our most profound thanks go to the many authors and section editors
took the baton at Production and worked with her team to turn a huge
who have contributed to this textbook. The authors come from academia, lucky to be joined by Jodi Willard as the Senior Project Manager. Jodi
private practice, industry, and nonprofit groups. The author list includes manuscript into an actual textbook. Jennifer’s and Jodi’s work exceeded
both a “who’s who” of established and internationally recognized experts, any reasonable expectation and turned the bearable into the enjoyable.
as well as up-and-coming young veterinarians. Whether it was creating We have many others to acknowledge. We have been blessed to learn
a brand-new chapter “from scratch”, or revising previous chapters to from some of the greatest teachers ever in veterinary medicine. While
keep them current, the ways that these authors created succinct yet there are more of those teachers than we can name, a few deserve a special
comprehensive and accurate manuscripts is truly impressive. Likewise, thank you: Steve Ettinger, Ed Feldman, Ed Breitschwerdt, Al Legendre,
we owe a tremendous debt to the section editors; from choosing the Bob DeNovo, Jane Armstrong, and Susan Bunch. We both also owe a
most important areas within their expertise to include in the text, to huge debt to many colleagues that have supported each of us along the
selecting excellent authors, to making sure that the submissions are easily way. Again, there are more names than are reasonable to include here,
understood, practical, and focused, the section editors made sure that but there are a few that simply must be acknowledged. Leah is grateful
each area provided the most important and readily useful information for the support of Drs. John Dodam, Carol Reinero, Amy DeClue,
possible. We offer you our undying thanks. We also want to acknowledge Marie Kerl, Joe Kornegay, and Carolyn Henry. Etienne thanks Lynne
the authors and section editors of prior editions, who established the O’Sullivan, Elaine Reveler, Deepmala Agarwal, Christine Savidge, Peter
solid platform on which this new edition was developed. Your past work Foley, Stephanie Hamilton, Heather Gunn McQuillan, Erin Anderson,
is responsible for the strong reputation that this book enjoys today. Jonathan Lichtenberger, Linda Fineman, Laura Garrett, Shannon Murray,
The team at Elsevier has been supportive of this textbook since the and Brian Wagner. We both would like to acknowledge the many talented,
first edition, and that support has allowed the text to improve with each dedicated, caring students, interns, residents, and technicians we have
subsequent edition. We thank Penny Rudolph for her work champion- had the pleasure to work with and help teach throughout our careers.
ing prior editions and on starting this current edition, as well as her It is all of you that inspired the creation of this book, and that motivate
successor Jennifer Catando and her outstanding team. An undertaking us to find better ways to help you help animals.
as massive as the creation of this book takes a talented team with many And speaking of animals, we have both been blessed to love animals
participants along the way. It was our incredible great fortune to have that have made our lives better. If we named them all, the list would
Jennifer Shreiner on board as Senior Content Development Specialist rival the word count of the longest chapter. But we just have to put
to help craft a mass of individual submissions into an organized text. out there in the world our gratitude and love for Fuzzy Face, Timkin,
Jennifer was instantaneously responsive to authors and editors and solved Hammer, Woof, BK, Halley, Reba, Betsy, Friend, Daisy, Bruno, Fogo,
any problems in real time with grace and expertise. We were also very Nina, Baloo, and Olive.

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