Dr. Joann Bowen Dr. Sam Lane Dr. Rod Rosychuk
Dr. Sandy Willis Dr. Joe Manning Dr Jeff Wells
Dr. Richard Linhart Dr. Dale Grotelueschen Dr. Wayne Wingfield
   Richard Linhart, BS, DVM, DACT is currently with Pfizer Beef Veterinary Operations. He graduated from Purdue University with his DVM in 1983. Specialty training in 1988 from University of Missouri with Clinical Residency in Theriogenology. In 2008 he received his Beef Cattle Production Management Series Certification from Great Plains Veterinary Medical Education Center, University of Nebraska.
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   Sam Lane, DVM graduated from the University of Missouri, College of Veterinary Medicine in 2002. He completed a small animal medicine/surgery internship at Wheat Ridge Animal Hospital in 2003. After practicing as an Emergency clinician, he worked for several years as an associate veterinarian at Deer Creek Animal Hospital, an 11 doctor small animal hospital in the Denver area. He joined Pfizer Animal Health in 2010. He currently provides technical support for the Rocky Mountain region including Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and Utah. Dr. Lane supports veterinarians through educational seminars, medical consultations, and varied discussions pertaining to the day to day operations of their animal hospitals. His primary interests are respiratory medicine, emergency medicine, and ultrasonography. He currently resides in Golden, Colorado with his wife, Amber, and two daughters Hannah and Maggie.
   Joe Manning, DVM is the newest member of the Merck Animal Health veterinary services team. He also brings a strong business and marketing background that has allowed Merck Animal Health to provide veterinarians with practice building seminars that focus on increasing profitability.
   Previously, Dr. Manning practiced medicine at Littleton Large Animal in Littleton, CO; Castlewood Canyon Equine in Franktown, CO; and Equine Sports Medicine and Surgery in Weatherford, TX.
   Dr. Manning received his doctorate in veterinary medicine from Michigan State University. He also earned his master's in business administration from the Neeley School of Business while actively practicing.
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   Sandy Willis, DVM ACVIM is the small animal internist for Phoenix Central Laboratory. She also chairs continuing education for Phoenix lab, writing and giving seminars and wet labs for veterinary staff on various aspects of laboratory diagnostics and internal medicine.
Dr. Willis is board certified in the American College of Internal Medicine. She graduated from UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, completed a small animal internship at the University of Minnesota and a residency at the University of Saskatchewan. She is past president of the Washington State Veterinary Medical Association (WSVMA), Program Chair for the WSVMA and Alternative Delegate to the AVMA. Dr. Willis is President of the Feral Cat Spay and Neuter Project in Lynnwood, WA.

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   Dale Grotelueschen, DVM is a managing veterinarian with the Beef Cattle Veterinary Operations team, Pfizer Animal Health. Prior to joining Pfizer in 2001, he was with the University of Nebraska for 16 years where he served as professor, Veterinary Extension and Diagnostics and as Director of the Panhandle Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Scottsbluff, Nebraska. He has conducted clinical research and has presented at many professional and beef industry meetings. He also served in private veterinary practice for 11 years, mostly in southwest Nebraska. He received his DVM from the University of Missouri in 1974 and an MS from Colorado State University in 1992.
   His primary interests include beef cattle production management and diagnostic investigations, including beef quality assurance, neonatal calf diarrhea, bovine viral diarrhea virus, and factors influencing feedlot and cow/calf morbidity and mortality. He is a member of several organizations, including the Academy of Veterinary Consultants, American Association of Bovine Practitioners, American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Theriogenology Society, AVMA, and NVMA. He is a past president of the Academy of Veterinary Consultants, the American Association of Extension Veterinarians and the Nebraska Veterinary Medical Association. He currently serves as chair of the NCBA BVD Working Group and is also a member of the AVC and AABP ad hoc BVD Control committees. He serves as a Director of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners Foundation.
   He and his wife, Elizabeth, are parents of 2 grown daughters and reside in Gering Nebraska
   Wayne Windfield, DVM ,MS, BS, DACVS received his DVM from University of Missouri, his MS and BS from University of Wyoming. He currently is a professor at Colorado State University in the Department of Clinical Sciences and Veterinary Teaching Hospital. He is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care.
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