Courtney Wittich, DVM

Courtney grew up around horses, and spent all of her free time in high school and college riding and showing on the hunter/jumper A circuit in equitation and jumpers along the east coast, including New York, Kentucky, and Florida. She went to University of Findlay in Ohio to get a bachelors degree in Equestrian studies and pre veterinary medicine, and then obtained a Masters Degree in Veterinary Epidemiology from Texas A&M, followed by a DVM from The Ohio State University School of Veterinary Medicine in 2011. After graduating, Dr. Wittich completed a 15 month Sport Horse internship at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington, KY. Courtney then took an associate position at Merritt and Associates Equine Hospital outside of Chicago, IL where she spent 2 years working. During her time she covered the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, FL for the 2013 and 2014 seasons. She then returned to Hagyard Equine Medical Institute as a Sport Horse Associate in 2014 before joining B.W. Furlong and Associates in December 2016. Throughout her career she has worked as an official horse show veterinarian for several events including Horse Shows by the Bay in Michigan, the Kentucky Horse Park show circuit, and the Desert HITS circuit in Thermal CA and continues to follow the horse show circuit today. Courtney has taken the opportunity to attend several continuing education seminars in advanced lameness imaging and techniques with both Vet Imaging and ISELP (International Society of Equine Locomotor Pathology). She has also attended the Chi Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine for equine acupuncture. Her areas of interest are sports medicine, emergency work, and infectious diseases. She spends her spare time running, boxing, and hanging out with her chihuahua mix named Dori.