Speakers

Rick Lecouteur

LeCouteur received his veterinary degree (BVSc) in 1975 from the University of Sydney in Australia. After a year in small animal practice in Sydney, he did an internship and a residency in surgery at the University of Guelph in Canada (1976 to 1978). He completed his neurology/neurosurgery residency training and a PhD in comparative pathology at the University of California, Davis. From 1984 to 1989 he served on the faculty at Colorado State University. In 1989, he returned to Australia and established a neurology/neurosurgery specialty practice in Sydney. LeCouteur returned to the USA in 1995 to assume the position of Professor of Neurology/Neurosurgery at the University of California – Davis. In 1996 he became the Director of the Neuromuscular Disease Laboratory and Clinical Electrophysiology and Radiological Sciences from 2000 to 2004. LeCouteur is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Neurology) and a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Neurology. >From 1996 to 1999 he was President of the ACVIM specialty of Neurology, and is currently the President of ACVIM. LeCouteur's research interests include brain tumors and neuromuscular disease. Dr. LeCouteur has three orange cats (Sam, OB and Benito).