Anna Firshman, BVSc, PhD, DACVIM
Anna Firshman is a researcher who has done extensive work with camelids as well as horses. She is a welcome addition to the staff at ARI.
Dr. Anna Firshman is a board certified internal medicine specialist who is a faculty member at the University of Minnesota college of Veterinary Medicine. Anna graduated as a veterinary surgeon from the University of Liverpool, England in 1999 and completed an internship and large animal internal medicine residency at the University of Minnesota. She then completed a PhD involving the study of muscle disease in horses, with focus on polysaccharide storage myopathy in 2005. She was formerly an assistant professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Oregon State University. Dr. Firshman has a special interest in equine rehabilitation therapy and conditioning and received her certificate in equine rehabilitation from the University of Tennessee. She is particularly interested in the use of rehabilitation techniques in the care of horses affected by neurologic and muscular diseases.