Professor of Equine Surgery
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado
Dr. Hendrickson received his DVM from Colorado State University in 1988, and completed an Equine Surgery and Medicine Internship at the University of Sydney, Sydney Australia in 1989. He was accepted into and completed the three-year combined Large Animal Surgery Residency and master of science program at Cornell University in 1992. He became a faculty member in the Department of Surgical Sciences at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 1992. He joined the Department of Clinical Sciences at Colorado State University in December 1994. He has served at VTH Hospital Director and the Associate Dean for the DVM program at CSU. His primary clinical interests are in Equine Wound Care and Minimally Invasive Surgery and has spoken nationally and internationally on both subjects. He has authored papers in many journals and numerous book chapters on the use of Endoscopic Surgery, and has edited a Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice on Endoscopic Surgery. He completed a textbook on Equine Wound Care and has authored multiple chapters in other books on equine wound care. He recently completed the 5th Edition of Turner and McIlwraith’s Large Animal Surgical Techniques. He consults with various Zoological Societies regarding large and megavertabrate species and marine mammals. He has been part of a team that is working on population management of elephants in southern Africa.
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Large Animal Keynote Lecture: Complications: Talking About Something We’d Rather Not Discuss
Thursday, October 23, 2025
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM