Dr. Sheila Carrera-Justiz
DVM, DACVIM (Neurology)
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Florida
Dr. Sheila Carrera-Justiz received her DVM from the University of Florida in 2005. She completed a rotating small animal internship at the University of Missouri and a neurology specialty internship at the Veterinary Specialty Hospital of San Diego. She completed a residency in Neurology and Neurosurgery at Tufts University in 2010 and became a board-certified specialist of the ACVIM that same year. Dr. Carrera-Justiz spent four years in private practice at the VCA West Los Angeles Animal Hospital before moving back to Gainesville, Florida to be a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Florida, where she has been since 2014.
DVM, DACVIM (Neurology)
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Florida
Dr. Sheila Carrera-Justiz received her DVM from the University of Florida in 2005. She completed a rotating small animal internship at the University of Missouri and a neurology specialty internship at the Veterinary Specialty Hospital of San Diego. She completed a residency in Neurology and Neurosurgery at Tufts University in 2010 and became a board-certified specialist of the ACVIM that same year. Dr. Carrera-Justiz spent four years in private practice at the VCA West Los Angeles Animal Hospital before moving back to Gainesville, Florida to be a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Florida, where she has been since 2014.
Matthew Winter
Vice President, VetCT North America; Clinical Associate Professor, Diagnostic Imaging
University of Florida
Dr. Matt Winter graduated from the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1998. After three years of dairy, equine and small animal practice, he completed a residency in Diagnostic Imaging at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. He was part of the faculty at the Iowa State University (2004-2007). In 2016-17, he served as the Executive Vice President of Veterinary Education at the North American Veterinary Community. Dr. Winter is currently Vice President of North America and Director of Education for Veterinary Consultants in Telemedicine, a global teleradiology and telemedicine company, and continues to serve as Clinical Associate Professor of Diagnostic Imaging at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine where he has been since 2007.
Vice President, VetCT North America; Clinical Associate Professor, Diagnostic Imaging
University of Florida
Dr. Matt Winter graduated from the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1998. After three years of dairy, equine and small animal practice, he completed a residency in Diagnostic Imaging at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. He was part of the faculty at the Iowa State University (2004-2007). In 2016-17, he served as the Executive Vice President of Veterinary Education at the North American Veterinary Community. Dr. Winter is currently Vice President of North America and Director of Education for Veterinary Consultants in Telemedicine, a global teleradiology and telemedicine company, and continues to serve as Clinical Associate Professor of Diagnostic Imaging at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine where he has been since 2007.
George Strain
Professor of Neuroscience
Louisiana State University
Dr. George M. Strain is Professor of Neuroscience at Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine. He received his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering (Illinois), his MS in biomedical engineering and PhD in physiology and biomedical engineering (Iowa State), followed by postdoctoral training in neurophysiology and neurology at the UCLA School of Medicine. He has provided electrodiagnostic services in the teaching hospital for 42 years, has published extensively on electrodiagnostic testing, deafness, epilepsy, and other areas of veterinary neurology, and is the author of Deafness in Dogs and Cats. His current research emphasis is on the molecular genetics of pigment-associated deafness in dogs
Professor of Neuroscience
Louisiana State University
Dr. George M. Strain is Professor of Neuroscience at Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine. He received his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering (Illinois), his MS in biomedical engineering and PhD in physiology and biomedical engineering (Iowa State), followed by postdoctoral training in neurophysiology and neurology at the UCLA School of Medicine. He has provided electrodiagnostic services in the teaching hospital for 42 years, has published extensively on electrodiagnostic testing, deafness, epilepsy, and other areas of veterinary neurology, and is the author of Deafness in Dogs and Cats. His current research emphasis is on the molecular genetics of pigment-associated deafness in dogs
Dr. Colette Williams
EDX Consultant
University of California, Davis
Colette Williams has spent nearly four decades performing and teaching electrodiagnostics (EDX), including: EMG, MNCV/SNCV, REP STIM, late waves, BAER, EEG, and SEP. She has contributed an EEG chapter to Blackwell’s Five-Minute Veterinary Consult and co-authored EDX chapters in Tobias’s Veterinary Surgery: Small Animal and Ettinger’s Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine. She also has over 40 publications and is a reviewer for several journals. Colette consults for numerous universities and specialty practices. Her mission is to encourage the use of these techniques in veterinary medicine and to raise the standards to the level of those in human medicine.
EDX Consultant
University of California, Davis
Colette Williams has spent nearly four decades performing and teaching electrodiagnostics (EDX), including: EMG, MNCV/SNCV, REP STIM, late waves, BAER, EEG, and SEP. She has contributed an EEG chapter to Blackwell’s Five-Minute Veterinary Consult and co-authored EDX chapters in Tobias’s Veterinary Surgery: Small Animal and Ettinger’s Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine. She also has over 40 publications and is a reviewer for several journals. Colette consults for numerous universities and specialty practices. Her mission is to encourage the use of these techniques in veterinary medicine and to raise the standards to the level of those in human medicine.
Diane Shelton, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (SAIM)
Professor, Department of Pathology
University of California, San Diego
Dr. Diane Shelton graduated from University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine followed by an internship at Michigan State University and a residency at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed a PhD in Comparative Pathology and board certification in internal medicine. Dr. Shelton completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies with an emphasis on experimental and naturally occurring myasthenia gravis. In 1990, she established the Comparative Neuromuscular Laboratory in the School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, an international reference center for spontaneously occurring neuromuscular diseases. Currently she is Director of the CNL and Professor, Department of Pathology at University of California, San Diego.
Professor, Department of Pathology
University of California, San Diego
Dr. Diane Shelton graduated from University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine followed by an internship at Michigan State University and a residency at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed a PhD in Comparative Pathology and board certification in internal medicine. Dr. Shelton completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies with an emphasis on experimental and naturally occurring myasthenia gravis. In 1990, she established the Comparative Neuromuscular Laboratory in the School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, an international reference center for spontaneously occurring neuromuscular diseases. Currently she is Director of the CNL and Professor, Department of Pathology at University of California, San Diego.