THE EDITORS Luis M. Rubio-Martínez, DVM, DVSc, PhD, DACVS, DECVS, DACVSMR, MRCVS, is Senior Equine Surgeon at Sussex Equine Hospital in Ashington, UK and and Director at CVet Ltd., UK, providing consulting on Equine Surgery and Orthopedics. Dean A. Hendrickson, DVM, MS, DACVS, is Professor of Surgery, Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.