DR. RENAUD LÉGUILLETTE
diplomate of the ACVIM (Internal Medicine) and the ACVSMR (Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation, Equine)
Canada
Dr. Renaud Léguillette is the Calgary Chair in Equine Sports Medicine and is diplomate of the ACVIM (Internal Medicine) and the ACVSMR (Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation, Equine). Dr. Léguillette is Professor at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCVM) and has been a member of the UCVM department of Veterinary Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences since its early days in 2006. Dr. Léguillette is practicing as a UCVM equine internal medicine and sports medicine specialist at Moore Equine in Balzac, Alberta. Dr. Léguillette graduated from the ENVA (Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort), Paris, in 1994, and earned his M.Sc. for a study on horses affected with asthma and completed a PhD on airway smooth muscle in human patients with asthma at the Meakins-Christie Laboratories at McGill University. Dr. Léguillette has developed a research program on inflammatory lung diseases (ie equine asthma) and exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH), as well as in equine sports medicine with a focus on cardio-respiratory exercise physiology. His clinical research often involves collecting data in the field in sports horses from the community in Alberta and from international collaborations.