Teaching areas: Large animal surgery, surgical techniques, lameness, motion analysis, gastroenterology, emergency and critical care, anatomy, imaging, semiology, clinical skills, toxicology (snake envenomation).

Experience: Thousands of hours teaching veterinary students, interns, residents, and other graduate students in the classroom, in the lab, in the clinic and in the field, in several veterinary schools in Brazil, the USA, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand; Coordination of several courses on multiple subjects such as surgical techniques, surgical pathology, semiology, emergency, and critical care; Supervision or co-supervision of many veterinary students, interns, residents, and other graduate students.

Research interests: Large animal surgery; lameness and motion analysis; emergency and critical care; ergonomic principles applied to handling and examining horses.

Research achievements: Development of enteral fluid therapy for horses and ruminants; The effects of rapidly fermentable carbohydrates, laxatives and fluid therapy on colonic physiology; Gait analysis including contribution to the development of the Lameness Locator®; Abdominal and gastrointestinal surgery including standing flank laparotomy for horses with colic.

Current projects: Prevalence of lameness in sports horses; Correlation between lameness patterns and specific musculoskeletal injuries; New methods and approaches to detect and quantify gait abnormalities; Ergonomic principles of the clinical examination of horse limbs; New approaches to debride synovial cavities with severe inflammation; Pros and cons of standing flank laparotomy for horses with colic.