Karen Perry graduated from The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Edinburgh in 2005. Following a short period in mixed practice, she completed an internship in small animal orthopedics and neurosurgery at Fitzpatrick Referrals in Surrey prior to undertaking a residency in small animal surgery back at the R(D)SVS. Following completion of this in 2010 and achievement of ECVS status in 2011, she joined the Royal Veterinary College, London as a lecturer in small animal orthopedics.

Following four years there she moved to Michigan State University where she is currently an Assistant Professor in Small Animal Orthopedics. She has published widely in the veterinary literature with her main research interests being feline orthopaedics, traumatology and the correction of limb deformities associated with medial patellar luxation.    

Dr. Rutherford graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2001 and his first job was as a Temporary Veterinary Inspector during the Foot and Mouth Epidemic. He then spent six years in general practice, both mixed and small animal including a stint in New Zealand, before moving to Croft Veterinary Hospital in Northumberland to undertake an ECVS Residency. Dr. Rutherford completed the RCVS Certificate in Small Animal Surgery in 2009, became a EBVS Specialist in Small Animal Surgery in 2013 and an RCVS Recognised Specialist in 2014. 

Dr. Rutherford spent the next four and half years in multidisciplinary referral hospitals first at North Downs Specialist Referrals and then Willows Referral Services. He left Willows in 2017 to open a surgical referral hospital with a difference. This resulted in frank. Pet Surgeons. in Leeds, United Kingdom. which has now become part of IVC Evidensia. 

He has just accepted a faculty position at The Ohio State University and will be moving there in early 2026