I am a veterinarian, board-certified in surgery and in sports medicine and rehabilitation. I have over 25 years of academic experience at different North American and European Universities and 7 years of experience in the North American private sector as a surgeon. I have over 30 years of clinical practice in the field of equine surgery and lameness, having worked in wide variety of disciplines and environments which gives me great adaptation capacities and a large range of surgical skills from basic to responding to the most complex cases and emergencies. I have practiced and managed top level horses and owners! in many disciplines including racehorses, show jumpers, dressage and quarter horses as examples. I have a keen interest in managing health and rehabilitation, and practice sports medicine in an integrative way with the top priority to keep horses healthy through managing all aspects of their health. I have also developed from the ground up a partnered equine hospital as well as a University Equine Hospital in two different continents and managed a University Teaching Hospital with over 100 employees. I have supervised many post-graduate students, research associates and employees and managed numerous clinical and research projects from inception to publishing in the medical literature. I have training in animal use in research and GLP procedures. I have supervised numerous thesis projects and specialists in-training. I have been part of research teams in the areas of cardiovascular physiology, xenotransplantation, osteoarthritis and gait analysis. I have also acted as a consultant surgeon at different institutions and lecture internationally on a regular basis. I have over 70 peer-reviewed publications in high impact journals and books. In the research field, I have a special interest in translational medicine, experimental surgery and animal models and in this area I have primarily worked with osteoarthritis in sheep and horses and xenotransplantation in swine. I also have an interest on developing an objective and practical method of gait analysis system using inertial sensors, to use kinematics to integrate them with other parameters in a real time biofeedback digital platform for the evaluation of equine performance and lameness and models which use pain as an indicator of severity and/or therapeutic intervention's results. I have a special interest in helping develop and shape veterinary specialties in Spain.