Recent Research Impacting Clinics Today

Dr. Budsberg received his DVM from Washington State University in 1983. He completed an internship at Angell Memorial in Boston and his residency in 1987 in small animal surgery at Michigan State University. Dr. Budsberg spent time at Louisiana State University before joining the faculty at the University of Georgia. Currently, Dr. Budsberg is a professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology.

After graduating from the veterinary program at the University of Bristol, U.K., with honors, in 1991 Dr. Lascelles completed a PhD in aspects of pre-emptive/perioperative analgesia at the University of Bristol. After an internship, he completed his surgical residency at the University of Cambridge, U.K. He moved to Colorado for the Fellowship in Oncological Surgery at Colorado State University. He is currently the Dr. J. McNeely and Lynne K. DuBose Distinguished Professor of Musculoskeletal Health at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine. He is board-certified in small animal surgery by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, the European College of Veterinary Surgeons, and the American College of Veterinary Surgeons. He is director of the Comparative Pain Research and Education Centre (CPREC). His research program (Translational Research in Pain [TRiP]) is dedicated to answering critical questions about pain control and pain mechanisms through high quality, innovative research. His career has been focused on developing algometry methods (methods to measure pain) in spontaneous disease animal models (pets with naturally occurring disease), and probing tissues from well-phenotyped animals with spontaneous disease to understand the neurobiology, with a strong translational focus. The aim of his research is to improve pain control in companion animals, and facilitate analgesic development in human medicine. He has authored over 230 peer reviewed research papers and reviews and 500 research abstracts, as well as over 30 book chapters. He has a collaborative research program that focuses on the relationship between pain and cancer progression, and the neurobiology of oral cancer pain.

Dr. Ortved is an Associated Professor of Large Animal Surgery at New Bolton Center, the University of Pennsylvania, in Kennett Square, PA. She received her DVM degree from the University of Guelph in 2006 and completed her large animal surgery residency at Cornell University in 2010. She became a Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2011. Following her residency, she obtained a PhD in equine cartilage repair in June 2014 at Cornell University and joined the faculty at Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists in July 2015, where she has been an active equine surgeon. In January 2016, Dr. Ortved became board-certified by the American College of Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation. She joined the faculty at New Bolton Center in February 2016 as a large animal orthopedic surgeon. She brings her research program in orthopedic disease to New Bolton Center, where she will continue to pursue gene and cell therapies for improving cartilage repair and preventing osteoarthritis.