Oliver A Garden, BSc, BVetMed, PhD, FHEA, FCPP, FRCVS, DACVIM, DECVIM-CA, Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine and the Kenneth Burns Endowed Chair in Veterinary Medicine at Louisiana State University, USA. He is a European and American Board-certified specialist clinician with almost three decades' experience in the field. He is the founder and President of the Veterinary and Comparative Clinical Immunology Society.

Linda Kidd, DVM, PhD (Immunology), DACVIM, Retired Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences Pomona, CA. She is currently an Associate Editor for Infectious Disease for the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine. Her research interests focus on the link between infectious and immune-mediated disease, and mechanisms of thrombosis in pro-inflammatory states.