She actively competed on their Intercollegiate Dressage Team and continued to gain veterinary experience by working as a veterinary assistant outside of school. Dedicated to broadening her experience within the equine industry, she moved to Lexington, Kentucky where she received her Bachelor of Equine Science and Management. Robertson grew up riding hunters and jumpers, but fell in love with eventing after her time as a working student for Brett Ingram, a German eventer. Sarah Lynn Robertson, a North Carolina native, is professionally thrilled to be joining the team at Forward Equine and personally delighted to be living where there is guaranteed snow in the winter. Sarah Lynn Robertson, DVM - VETERINARIANĭr. Beyond the world of equine medicine, she enjoys spending time with her husband and three cats, camping, working on home renovation projects and, of course, watching football. She is excited to be part of your horse’s team and work in a setting that allows her passion for individualized care for your horse to flourish. Apgar is also certified in veterinary spinal manipulative therapy as well as being a certified equine rehabilitation practitioner through the University of Tennessee and enjoys incorporating those modalities and approaches in her daily clinical work. Following her internship, she has been working as an associate veterinarian at an ambulatory practice outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania seeing both emergency and routine cases. She returned to Wisconsin in 2020, and is thrilled to have found her home with Forward Equine, where her love of the Packers requires no justification!ĭr. During the year she worked closely with specialists boarded in surgery, internal medicine, ophthalmology, and reproduction and refined her skills providing gold-standard care and working with horses from many different breeds and disciplines. Apgar then completed an internship at Rhinebeck Equine, a highly regarded referral hospital and ambulatory practice in upstate New York. During veterinary school she traveled across the country for externships at several of the top equine veterinary practices in the country, gaining invaluable experience and exposure to different methods of practicing veterinary medicine.ĭr. She then attended and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. Katie Apgar, previously known as Katie Weber, obtained a bachelor’s degree in animal science from Iowa State University, where she was a member of the University Honors Program and graduated cum laude. Originally from southeastern Wisconsin, Dr. KATIE APGAR, DVM, CVSMT, CERP - VETERINARIAN Peters enjoys spending time with her family, training her 2 dogs, and slowly becoming a chicken lady, including building perches and upgrading the coop for her 10 chickens. When not seeing cases or at conferences, Dr. Peters consistently attends a variety of continuing education events each year to support her dedication to lifelong learning and continues to bring most advanced knowledge and techniques to better serve her patients. These advanced training programs allow her to incorporate a variety of non-invasive therapeutic techniques to improve her patients’ quality of movement as well as offer non-traditional pain management methods. Peters is certified in veterinary spinal manipulative therapy (also known as “animal chiropractics”) and after completing coursework from the University of Tennessee and the Orthopaedic Research Center at Colorado State University, is a certified equine rehabilitation practitioner. ![]() Throughout her time there, she continued to refine her lameness, sports medicine, and surgical capabilities while working alongside some of the world’s best equine veterinarians.ĭr. She then returned to New Bolton Center, the large animal hospital at the University of Pennsylvania, to work, learn and teach, completing their rigorous academic internship. ![]() Completing courses provided by the AO is part of surgical residency training programs for physicians, as well as for veterinary surgeons. The AO is an international organization dedicated to education and advancement for musculoskeletal diseases. ![]() She then had an amazing opportunity to combine her bioengineering and veterinary backgrounds, completing a veterinary orthopedic research fellowship in Switzerland for the AO Foundation. Peters then moved to Lexington, Kentucky, to complete an internship at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital and further refine her knowledge and skills while working at one of the world’s best equine hospitals. Sarah Peters attended Cornell University for a bachelor’s in bioengineering and continued to the University of Pennsylvania for veterinary school where she focused on equine sports medicine and surgery.
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