Jeff Barnes
Vice President of Business Development, ImmutriX Therapeutics, Inc.
Larry Cowgill
DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of California-Davis
Medical Director, UC Veterinary Medical Center San Diego
Dr. Larry Cowgill received his DVM degree from UC Davis, and completed his internship and residency training at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a National Institutes of Health Special Research Fellow at the Renal and Electrolyte Section of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and earned a PhD in comparative medical sciences. He is board certified in small animal internal medicine and is Associate Dean for Southern California Clinical Programs, Director of the UC Veterinary Medical Center-San Diego (UCVMC-SD), and professor in the Department of Medicine and Epidemiology at UC Davis. He oversees the clinical nephrology programs and the Companion Animal Extracorporeal programs at both UC Davis and the UCVMC-SD. Dr. Cowgill has more than 45 years of experience in veterinary internal medicine, nephrology, and has trained many of the leading authorities in extracorporeal therapies throughout the world. He is a pioneer in the application of hemodialysis and therapeutic apheresis in companion animals, and remains a leading authority in the development of blood purification therapies for animals.
Cedric Dufayet
DVM
UC Veterinary Medical Center - San Diego
Dr. Cedric Dufayet obtained his veterinary degree from the Alfort School of Veterinary Medicine in 2001. Upon graduation, he completed a rotating small animal medicine and surgery internship at the Alfort School Veterinary Teaching Hospital, where he remained as a member of the Nephrology and Urology consultation group until 2004. He practiced nephrology and urology for 10 years in French specialty hospitals before starting his Renal Medicine and Extracorporeal Therapies Fellowship at the University of California Veterinary Medical Center-San Diego (UCVMC-SD) in 2018. Dr. Dufayet joined the faculty of the Advanced Urinary Disease and Extracorporeal Therapies Service at the UCVMC-SD in 2020 with expertise in all major extracorporeal modalities.
JD Foster
VMD, DACVIM
Nephrology & Urology, Extracorporeal Therapies, Friendship Hospital for Animals
Dr. JD Foster graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Wisconsin. His training in extracorporeal therapies was achieved from UC-Davis, where he was the first long-distance nephrology fellow under the training of Dr. Larry Cowgill. He was faculty at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, where he reopened an extracorporeal service providing hemodialysis, hemoperfusion, and plasma exchange. He now runs a Nephrology & Urology Service at Friendship Hospital for Animals in Washington, DC, where he also directs the Extracorporeal Therapies Service. Dr. Foster research interests include nontraditional uses of extracorporeal purification, acute kidney injury, and glomerulonephritis. He has lectured internationally on these subjects and has published numerous manuscripts and book chapters in nephrology and urology. He is the current president of the American Society of Veterinary Nephrology and Urology.
Thierry Francey
Dr. med. vet., DACVIM (SAIM), DECVIM-CA (Internal Medicine)
Professor and Internal Medicine Section Head, The University of Berne
Dr. Francey graduated from the University of Berne, Switzerland in 1988. After a Residency in Small Animal Internal Medicine (University of Berne and Louisiana State University) he specialized further in nephrology with a Fellowship in Renal Medicine and Hemodialysis at the University of California Davis. He stayed in Davis as a Lecturer in Internal Medicine and Nephrology until 2005 before coming back to Switzerland. He is currently Head of the Division of Small Animal Internal Medicine at the University of Berne and he pursues his main interests in the clinical manifestations of uremia and the use of advanced renal therapies in small animals.
John Kirby
UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital
Mary Anna Labato
DVM, DACVIM
Professor, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Dr. Labato lectures in small animal medicine about diseases of the kidneys and urinary tract. She primarily teaches during clinical rotations in the fourth year and instructs students on how to practice medicine. Her favorite cases are those that involve acute kidney injury, in which she has to use dialysis to get kidneys to start working again when they had stopped functioning completely. These are very happy ending cases, she says.
Cathy Langston
DVM, DACVIM
Professor & Internal Medicine Section Head, The Ohio State University
Sean Naylor
UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital
Carrie Palm
DVM, DACVIM
Sheri Ross
DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Dr. Sheri Ross received her veterinary degree in 1996 from the Atlantic Veterinary College at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. She then completed an internship at the University of Minnesota where she remained to complete a three-year internal medicine residency as well as a PhD in Nephrology and Urology. Dr. Ross served as an assistant clinical professor at the University of Minnesota for two years. She then completed a Fellowship in Renal Medicine and Extracorporeal Therapies at the University of California Veterinary Medical Center-San Diego, after which she accepted a clinical faculty position with UC Davis in San Diego as a member of the Advanced Urinary Disease and Extracorporeal Therapies Service.
Ariane Schweighauser
Dr. med. vet. DACVIM, DECVIM-CA
Dr. Schweighauser received her veterinary degree at the University of Bern, Switzerland, in 1997. After a Residency in Small Animal Internal Medicine at the University of Bern and Louisiana State University, she completed a Fellowship in Renal Medicine and Hemodialysis at the University of California Davis, under the training of Dr. Larry Cowgill, and the University of Bern, under the training of Dr. Thierry Francey. She has since been working as a faculty in nephrology/urology and extracorporeal blood purification therapy at the Small Animal Teaching hospital, University of Bern. Her main interests include acute kidney injury, extracorporeal blood purification therapy and tubular disease.
Gilad Segev
DVM, DECVIM
Associate professor, Veterinary Teaching Hospital of the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine
Following his residency in small animal internal medicine, Dr. Segev completed a 2 year nephrology fellowship with Dr. Larry Cowgill at UC. Davis. He has spoken internationally on topics within kidney and urinary diseases and authored dozens of manuscript within these subjects. He is currently a board member of the International Renal Interest Society as well as the head of the curriculum committee and the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.