Horse surgeons join Cornell's Belmont hospital

Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists (CRES), an equine referral and emergency care hospital that opened this spring near the Belmont Racetrack in Elmont, New York, has hired three equine surgeons and emergency clinicians. The hospital will offer 24/7 critical care starting Aug. The veterinarians are Dr. Kyla Ortved, assistant clinical professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences at the College of Veterinary Medicine; Dr. Samuel Hurcombe, clinical associate professor and specialist in equine emergency surgery and internal medicine; and surgeon Dr. Gabriel Cook '92. Ortved earned her DVM at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, in 2006. She completed a large animal internship at the University of Georgia and large animal surgery residency at Cornell. During her Ph.D. program in comparative biomedical sciences, she worked as a large animal emergency surgeon while studying gene therapy to improve cartilage healing.