Advanced GI Surgery in Small Animals

Dr. Marolf is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at The Ohio State University. Dr. Marolf received her DVM degree from Colorado State University in 2002. She completed a Small Animal Rotating Internship at the University of Georgia. After completing a Radiology Residency at the University of Florida, she joined the faculty at Colorado State University in 2007 through mid 2022 prior joining the faculty at OSU. She has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications and book chapters in veterinary imaging. She has been an Associate Editor for the journal Veterinary Radiology and Ultrasound and is the Diagnostic Imaging Section Editor for Advances in Small Animal Care series. Her clinical and research interests include advanced imaging of the canine and feline pancreas and hepatobiliary system.

Dr. Monnet graduated from veterinary school in Maisons Alfort, France, in 1985. He worked for four years in a Paris private practice performing small animal medicine and surgery. In 1994, Dr. Monnet completed a small animal surgery residency at Colorado State University, and concurrently finished a master of science degree. In 1997, Dr. Monnet received his PhD in clinical sciences studying cardiac efficiency in dogs. In 2003, he became a fellow of the American Heart Association. Dr. Monnet is currently a professor in small animal surgery (soft tissue) at Colorado State University. He has authored more than 100 articles and 25 chapters in various surgical textbooks. Dr. Monnet was the founding president in 2001–2003 of the Society for Veterinary Soft Tissue Surgery and in 2002–2004 of the Veterinary Endoscopy Society. He is the editor of the textbook Disease Mechanisms in Small Animal Surgery, third edition. He is also the editor of the textbook Small Animal Soft Tissue Surgery, first edition. He is the co-editor of the second edition of the textbook Small Animal Thoracic Surgery. He is an editor of the first edition of the "Gastrointestinal surgical technique in small animals" textbook.

After completing his PhD in Neuroscience, Dr. Webb earned his DVM from the University of Wisconsin. He did his internship at Alameda East in Denver where he experienced his 15 minutes of fame on Animal Planets “Emergency Vets”. Dr. Webb was a Small Animal Medicine resident at CSU with Dr. David Twedt as his mentor, and has remained on faculty at the VTH for over two decades. He is the Head of the SAM service and very much enjoys working on the clinic floor, teaching, seeing patients, and running clinical trials. Dr. Webb’s greatest accomplishment was marrying the much better looking and much smarter Dr. Tracy Webb, with whom he collaborates on a number of research projects, and life.