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Penn Vet New Bolton Center’s Dr. Kyla Ortved.
Center’s Dr. Kyla Ortved received while volunteering in a small animal clinic as
a teenager. One of the clinicians told her vet school was too hard to get into. The woman recommended that Ortved do something else.
Fortunately for horse owners, students and veterinary science in general, Ortved paid little attention. Twice board-
certified (by the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation), Ortved is now a rising star in equine sports medicine and large-animal surgery. She runs the Ortved Laboratory
at New Bolton Center, which studies post-traumatic osteoarthritis and explores regenerative medicine therapies to benefit horses and humans. “I have a very specific memory of when I decided to specialize in surgery,” says the Jacques Jenny Endowed Term Chair in Orthopedic Surgery. “During one of my externships, a resident invited me to participate in a procedure. The horse was under anesthesia for a surgery to cut the check ligament for club feet. I helped with the surgery and realized, ‘This is it.’ And it still is. When I’m doing surgery, I lose track of time. I’m where I’m meant to be.”
Recently, Ortved treated Osada, a two-month-old Friesian with a left tibial fracture. “She was kicked by another horse,” says Daniel Lapp, owner of Red Crest Stables in Gordonville, Pa. “Our vet
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