Dr. Wes Sutter is a lameness diagnostician and board-certified surgeon. His primary veterinary interests are orthopedics and lameness. | Photo: Courtesy Rood & Riddle

Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital, in Lexington, Kentucky, has announced that Wes Sutter DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVS, will be joining its team of board-certified surgeons on Dec. 1.

Sutter is well recognized for both his skills as a surgeon and as a lameness diagnostician, and his primary veterinary interests are orthopedics and lameness.

Sutter was born in Lander, Wyoming, and received his bachelors of science in biochemistry in 1997 and his DVM in 2000 from Colorado State University, in Fort Collins. He subsequently completed a one-year rotating equine surgery and medicine internship at Rood & Riddle