Dr. Stephanie Valberg received her DVM from the Ontario Veterinary College and completed a Ph.D. in equine exercise physiology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. She is a Board certified internal medicine and sports medicine. Her research and clinical practice centers on neuromuscular diseases in horses with a special focus on genetic diseases of skeletal muscle and their nutritional management.

Dr. Valberg was inducted into the Equine Research Hall of Fame in 2012. She has received several awards including the 2012 Milne lecture at AAEP, the 2001 and 2010 Pfizer Award for Research Excellence, the Distinguished Women Scholar Award in 2008 and Minnesota Veterinary Medical Association outstanding faculty award 2013.