Veterinarians

Mark Revenaugh, DVM

Email: mark@equinepi.com

Dr. Revenaugh is an Illinois native who has worked with and ridden horses all of his life. After graduating from the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine in 1991, Dr. Revenaugh completed an 18 month Internship at Arizona Equine Medical and Surgical Center. From there he worked for one year near Chicago before being recruited to work with Dr. Brendan Furlong in Oldwick, NJ in 1994.

Furlong and Associates is a full-service "cutting-edge" equine medical and surgical facility. Located just outside of Gladstone NJ, Furlong and Associates offers a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic options to the sport horses in the Northeast United States.

In 1997, Dr. Revenaugh authored the first license for veterinary use of radiopharmaceuticals ("bone scan") in the state of New Jersey. Since that time, Dr. Revenaugh was in charge of the bone scan department of the New Jersey practice. Subsequently, he has conducted thousands of bone scans on horses with challenging lameness and performance problems. Since relocating to Portland OR, Dr. Revenaugh started a nuclear medicine department. As of May 2003, the practice has upgraded the equipment to include a "motion correction" program, as well as a "shine" image resolution enhancement program, for higher resolution of nuclear studies.

Starting in 1994, Dr. Revenaugh has taken courses through the American College of Veterinary Chiropractors and has offered equine chiropractor care since that time. Utilization of the principles for the veterinary chiropractic care has provided important tools in Dr. Revenaugh's integrative approach.

Since 1997, Dr. Revenaugh has worked as a Veterinarian for the United States Equestrian Team and has been Official Team Veterinarian at numerous competitions, (including the Three Day Event Team, Show Jumping Team, and Combined Driving Team). As a Team Veterinarian, Dr. Revenaugh has had the privilege of traveling throughout Europe, Canada, USA and Australia (Sydney Olympic Games). Along the same lines, Dr. Revenaugh has earned accreditation in the FEI, (Federal Equestrian International). The FEI serves as the primary governing body for all major international equine competitions, (World championships, Olympics, etc.). Because this accreditation extends through the Dressage, Combined Driving, Show jumping, and Eventing disciplines, Dr. Revenaugh can function as official FEI veterinarian in all of these venues.

Susan Emerson, DVM, Associate

Email: Sue@equinepi.com

Dr. Emerson arrived in May of 2006 to join our practice as an associate veterinarian. She is a native of Ontario, Canada and has worked with and ridden horses for over 20 years. Dr. Emerson graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 2005. Following her graduation she completed one year of private practice at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto (the top Thoroughbred Racetrack in Canada) where she had been involved in the veterinary medicine side of thoroughbred racing for the previous 7 years, as a registered veterinary technician. She has a particular interest in musculo-skeletal diagnostic imaging including radiography, ultrasound, nuclear scintigraphy, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

In her spare time, Sue enjoys exploring, and photographing the State of Oregon's many and varied nature facilities through hiking, via horseback, or biking, as well as playing racquetball or tennis when available. She also enjoys attending local events and facilities such as rodeos, county fairs, Portland Saturday Market, and the Portland Art Museum. When it comes to horses, Sue particularly enjoys training young horses with a sound basis in dressage.

Staff

Jon Armstead

Email: jon@equinepi.com

Jon has been with NWEP since 2002. John is active in all facets of the practice and has been involved in the horse industry most of his life. Jon has also operated his own horse transport company for over 10 years. Between these two businesses Jon is kept quite busy. However he can still be found riding his motorcycle, or his mountain bike in his spare time.

Vicki English

Email: vicki@equinepi.com

Vicki came to the practice in February 2004 following her retirement from Bonneville Power Administration. She has 3 adult children, 3 dogs, 2 horses, a grand piano, and a partridge in a pear tree. Her hobbies include giving gratuitous (and unheeded) advice to her kids, doing trail riding and Horse Beauty Shop with her horses, and interfering with her dogs' campaign to destroy her house.

She also is a pianist and organist for her church, volunteers at the classical music station, plays music with her friends, and reads a lot. She is perpetually engaged in a losing campaign to maintain order in her yard.

Amy Rathburn

Email: amy@equinepi.com

Ever since Amy can remember she has had a passion for horses. Now that she's older, she has taken it to the next level and enjoys competing in local hunter/jumper schooling shows. When she's not in the show ring she very much enjoys helping others cultivate a love and respect for horses through riding lessons. She loves seeing a young horse crazy kid evolve from a shy, timid rider into a confident, skilled, young rider. Although she does love her time teaching people about horses, her heart goes to teaching young horses about people. Molding a young horse's mind is the highlight of her free time. Although there are many bucks, bolts, and rears, she feels the end result is completely worth it.

Rebeccah Lee CVT

Email: rebeccah@equinepi.com

At the age of 6 Rebeccah was forced to take horseback riding lessons to help get over a bad equine encounter with a friendly looking but vicious pony.  It took several years of being "stuck" out at the barn with her horse crazy siblings before any interest in horses truly developed. Since then, being around horses quickly turned into a full blown passion. She now enjoys actively riding her two Arabians "Robbie" and "Kastane". In addition to her own horses she also enjoys starting young horses and working with behavior problems in horses. 

Kaylan Carpenter

Email: kaylan@equinepi.com

Being brought up on a Thoroughbred breeding and racing farm has set the stage for a lifelong addiction to horses. Kaylan has defiantly met the expectations that had been set out for her, she is a passionate horse lover and spends any time she can riding and showing one of her three horses.  She is an avid competitor and is currently competing on the Oregon Quarter Horse Circuit as well as the National Reining Horse circuit.  She has come to work for NWEP to provide office support and organization, and looks forward to learning as much as possible about sports medicine related injuries.  Kaylan’s passion lies in the work of equine rehab and she hopes her time here will benefit her life long goals of providing therapy to performance horses and someday competing in the Olympics.