Comparative Veterinary Anatomy

James A. Orsini, is an Associate Professor of Surgery, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Orsini received his DVM from Cornell University and completed his internship, surgery residency, and fellowship/lectureship training at Penn's New Bolton Center campus. He is board certified in surgery by the American College of Veterinary Surgeons with a special interest and expertise in orthopedic and reconstructive surgery and laminitis, amongst other surgery areas. He has published extensively on equine pediatric surgery, antimicrobials, laminitis, gastric ulcers, pain and anti-inflammatory medications and related fields with several hundred publications. He is co-editor of Equine Emergencies: Treatment and Procedures, which is in its fourth edition and published in seven languages. Dr. Orsini's current research interests are in understanding the pathophysiology of laminitis, prevention, and improved treatments. Nora Grenager is an equine internal medicine specialist currently at University College Dublin in Ireland. Dr. Grenager received her BA from Amherst College, her VMD from the University of Pennsylvania, and then completed her internship and internal medicine residency at Steinbeck Country Equine Clinic in Salinas, California. She is board-certified in large animal internal medicine by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and, until moving to Ireland, practiced primarily in California and northern Virginia.

Dr. Grenager recently published Comparative Veterinary Anatomy: A Veterinary Approach with co-editors Dr. James Orsini and the late Dr. Alexander de Lahunta. She is co-editor of the upcoming 5th edition of Equine Emergencies with Dr. James Orsini. She has published on equine endocrinopathic laminitis, ultrasonographic findings with right dorsal displacement of the large colon, links between temporohyoid osteoarthropathy and cribbing, gastric ulcers, and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis infection; edited a case series on equine tick-borne diseases; and has guest or proof-edited numerous other publications. She has been actively involved in the veterinary profession via positions in associations such as the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, The Northern California Association of Equine Practitioners, The International Laminitis Conference, and the American Veterinary Medical Association.

Alexander de Lahunta graduated from Phillips Academy Andover in 1951 and the New York State College of Veterinary Medicine in 1958. From 1958-1960 he joined the mixed animal practice of Drs. Carol and George Cilley in Concord, NH. He returned to the Department of Anatomy, College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University in 1960 for graduate study, where he was awarded a PhD in 1963 and appointed assistant professor at that time. Dr. de Lahunta spent 42 years on that faculty and retired in 2005. In the mid-1960s he organized and personally ran a consulting service for clinical neurology in the Teaching Hospital, as well as organized and taught a vertically oriented course in veterinary neuroanatomy and clinical neurology to first year students. For varying periods he has taught gross anatomy, embryology, applied anatomy and neuropathology. Dr. de Lahunta also received the ACVIM Robert Kirk Award. Dr. Kirk was his teacher as a student and mentor as a faculty member.