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Susan M. Taylor, DVM, DACVIM Wendy A. Ware, DVM, MS, DACVIM
VetBooks.ir Animal Medicine, Department of Small of Veterinary Clinical Sciences and
(Cardiology), Professor, Departments
(Internal Medicine), Professor of Small
Animal Clinical Sciences, Western
Biomedical Sciences, Iowa State Uni-
College of Veterinary Medicine, Uni- versity. Dr. Ware earned her DVM
versity of Saskatchewan. Dr. Taylor has degree and completed her residency
received several awards for teaching training at The Ohio State University.
excellence, including the Norden Distinguished Teaching At Iowa State, she taught clinical cardiology and cardiovas-
Award. She has authored numerous refereed manuscripts cular physiology, and she served as clinical cardiologist in
and book chapters and one textbook (Small Animal Clinical the ISU Lloyd Veterinary Medical Center for many years. Dr.
Techniques, Elsevier 2016). She is also the co-creator of a Ware authored the highly illustrated clinical textbook Car-
web-based program for teaching clinical neurology and neu- diovascular Disease in Small Animal Medicine and is prepar-
roanatomy (WCVM NeuroVet). Dr. Taylor has presented ing an expanded second edition (Cardiovascular Disease in
research and continuing education lectures throughout Companion Animal Medicine). She also has written and
Canada, the United States, and abroad. Clinical, academic, edited the case-based Self-Assessment Color Review of Small
and research interests include neurology, neuromuscular Animal Cardiopulmonary Medicine (2012, Manson Publish-
disease, clinical immunology, and infectious disease. Dr. ing), as well as numerous journal articles and more than 60
Taylor has an active research program investigating medical book chapters. Dr. Ware has been an invited speaker at many
and neurologic disorders affecting canine athletes, particu- continuing education programs. Her other professional
larly the inherited syndromes of dynamin-associated exer- activities have included service as President and Chairman
cise-induced collapse in Labrador Retrievers (d-EIC) and of the Board of Regents of the American College of Veteri-
Border Collie collapse. nary Internal Medicine, associate editor for Cardiology for
the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, and reviewer for
several veterinary scientific journals.
Jessica L. Ward, DVM, DACVIM
(Cardiology), Assistant Professor,
Department of Veterinary Clinical Sci- Penny J. Watson, MA, Vet.MD,
ences, Iowa State University. Dr. Ward CertVR, DSAM, DECVIM, MRCVS,
obtained her DVM degree from North Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Medi-
Carolina State University in 2011. cine, Queen’s Veterinary School Hos-
After a small animal rotating intern- pital, University of Cambridge, United
ship at The Ohio State University, she returned to NC State Kingdom. Dr. Watson received her vet-
to complete her residency training in Cardiology. Dr. Ward erinary degree from the University of
joined the faculty at Iowa State University in 2015, where she Cambridge. She spent four years in private veterinary prac-
teaches clinical cardiology and recently received the college’s tice in the United Kingdom before returning to Cambridge
Award for Early Achievement in Teaching. She has authored Veterinary School, where she now helps run the small animal
a number of manuscripts and scientific proceedings, and she internal medicine teaching hospital. She is both a member
has given invited lectures in the United States and China. of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and a European
Her research interests include point-of-care ultrasound, the recognized specialist in small animal internal medicine.
cardiovascular effects of steroids, and the scholarship of Dr. Watson was on the examination board of the European
teaching and learning. College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ECVIM) for five
years, two as Chair. Her clinical and research interests are
focused on gastroenterology, hepatology, pancreatic disease,
and comparative metabolism. She gained a doctorate for
studies of canine chronic pancreatitis in 2009 and continues
to research, lecture, and publish widely on aspects of canine
and feline pancreatic and liver disease.