Carrie Finno, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, is a veterinary clinician scientist at the University of California, Davis, with a PhD in comparative pathology and post-doctorate training in comparative genomics. Finno has published over 120 papers. In the field of veterinary medicine, she has defined the clinical phenotypes and identified the associated genetic mutations for five newly described diseases in horses. The focus of her translational research is the interplay of vitamin E and neurodegeneration using animal models.