Heidi Banse, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM (LA), is presently professor and dean at Arkansas State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, in Jonesboro. She received her DVM from Washington State University, in Pullman, completed an internship in large animal medicine at the University of Georgia, in Athens, and completed a combined residency and PhD program at Oklahoma State University, in Stillwater. Her clinical research over the last ten years focused on the pathophysiology of equine glandular gastric disease.