Dr. Ogilvie is director of the Angel Care Cancer Center at California Veterinary Specialists and president of the Special Care Foundation for Companion Animals. There, he cares for patients and their families; teaches interns, residents, and veterinary students; and has an active cancer research program. Prior to his move to Southern California, Dr. Ogilvie was a full tenured professor, internist, head of medical oncology, and director of the Medical Oncology Research Laboratory, Animal Cancer Center at Colorado State University (CSU) from 1987 until 2003. During this 16 year period at CSU, he also spent one year on sabbatical teaching and developing new, innovative cancer therapies at the medical school and the Laboratoire Nutrition, Croisance et Cancer at the Université François Rabelais in Tours, France.

Upon receiving his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) from Colorado State University, Dr. Ogilvie established a private practice in Connecticut before completing a residency at Tufts University/Angell Memorial Animal Hospital. From there he joined the faculty as a professor at the University of Illinois before moving on to his professorship in Colorado. Dr. Ogilvie is board certified in both the specialties of both internal medicine and oncology by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and in oncology. He is a Founding Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Specialty of Oncology.

Dr. Ogilvie is co-author with Dr. Antony Moore of three books, Managing the Veterinary Cancer Patient (Veterinary Learning Systems, 1995, in English, French and Japanese), Feline Oncology: Compassionate Care for Cats with Cancer (Veterinary Learning Systems, 2001 in English and Japanese) and Managing the Canine Cancer Patient: A Practical Guide to Compassionate Care (Veterinary Learning Systems, 2006 in English, Spanish and Japanese). He has written over 200 scientific articles and chapters, as well as over 120 scientific abstracts and posters. He has been awarded two international patents, over 10 million dollars in research grants and endowments as a principal or co-investigator, and is the recipient of many awards including: the Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, the Beecham Research Award, the Purina Small Animal Research Award, the Scheidy Memorial Research Award and the AVMA/American Kennel Club Award.

Dr. Ogilvie has lectured on his love of the practice of veterinary medicine and oncology to many thousands of students, veterinarians, physicians and scientists in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, South America, and North America. Dr. Ogilvie's teaching skills have also been frequently recognized. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Teachers Award; two Norden Distinguished Teacher Awards; the MSD Agvet Award for Creativity in Teaching; the SCAVMA Award for "Dedication to Students and the Profession”; and was named Outstanding Companion Animal Speaker for 1999 at the North American Veterinary Conference.

Dr. Ogilvie has also been recognized with: the American Veterinary Medical Association's "Veterinarian of the Year-1995"; the American Animal Hospital Association's "Veterinarian of the Year-1996"; the Colorado Veterinary Medical Association Outstanding Faculty Award-1996; and the 1999 SHARE Human Animal Bond Companion Animal Award. He was awarded the World Small Animal Veterinary Association Hills Award for Excellence in Veterinary Healthcare for the year 2001.

When not caring for pets and people, Dr. Ogilvie enjoys camping, SCUBA diving and long distance cycling. He is also a certified ski instructor. For more than 15 years he has volunteered as a counselor at the Sky High Hope Camp for children who have cancer and is on the board of directors for Angel On A Leash to benefit children with cancer. His greatest joys are his daughter Torrie and his wife Karla.

Dr. Ogilvie has joined us as a speaker at numerous programs in the past. We're excited he can join us again.

Since graduating from the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois in 1986, Dr. Robin has been blazing her own trail within veterinary medicine, providing state of the art and state of the heart medical care. She brought companion animal medicine into the homes of pet lovers in Wyoming from 1986-1991 through House Calls Unlimited Mobile Veterinary Practice.

In 1991, Dr. Downing purchased Windsor Veterinary Clinic, a stagnant practice in small-town Colorado. Achieving four-year accreditation status with the American Animal Hospital Association in 1994, Windsor Veterinary Clinic, PC, was named one of the first 10 Practice of Excellence Award® winners in the United States that same year. Her practice was featured in the January 1995 issue of Veterinary Economics® Magazine. In addition to creating an award-winning practice, Dr. Downing is committed to personal excellence. She was the 1995 Colorado VMA’s Up and Coming Veterinarian of the Year, and the 1996 Association for Women Veterinarians’ Outstanding Woman Veterinarian of the Year. In 1999 she received a regional Entrepreneurial Excellence Award® from Working Woman® Magazine, and was named the Hill’s Animal Welfare and Humane Ethics Award winner for the year 2000. In 2001 the World Small Animal Association presented Dr. Downing the Excellence in Veterinary Healthcare Award (Small Animal Veterinarian of the Year).

Robin's degree in English from Loyola University of Chicago is put to good use. She is a regular contributing author to Veterinary Economics® Magazine, was a featured weekly columnist in the Denver Post®, authored a selection in Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover’s Soul®, and in 2000 finished a book for animal owners whose pets have cancer - Pets Living With Cancer: A Pet Owner’s Resource - published by the American Animal Hospital Association Press and recently translated into Dutch. Dr. Downing has been quoted in such popular magazines as Cat Fancy, Dog Fancy, and Reader’s Digest as well as many newspapers around the United States.

Dr. Downing has a deep clinical interest in the management of pain in small animals. She is the past president of the International Veterinary Academy of Animal Pain Management, and one of only four veterinarians in the world to hold the Diplomate credential in the American Academy of Pain Management - the largest interdisciplinary pain management organization in human medicine. Dr. Downing is an outspoken advocate of the precious nature of the Family-Pet Bond when the pet faces special challenges like chronic illness, cancer, or a physical disability. Dr. Downing is a pain management consultant and lectures internationally on the importance of pre-emptive pain management in the compassionate care of companion animals.

For fun, Dr. Robin enjoys fiddling, playing the guitar, running, and reading.

Robin has joined us in the past as a speaker at our ContinuEd Veterinary Practice Management Symposium, and we're happy to welcome her back once again.