Dr. Dennis Eschbach, DC, is a 1984 graduate of Logan Chiropractic College and currently owns and operates Midwest Animal Chiropractic based out of St. Louis, Missouri.  Dennis has a busy mobile animal chiropractic practice in Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa. He no longer maintains a human practice and although his animal practice consists of 80% equine, he is more than familiar with canines as an Afghan and Saluki breeder, exhibitor, and trainer of many years.  His love and talent for teaching has seen that aspect of his career grow continuously over the past years. Dennis has been an instructor for Options since 1992.  No other individual in the world has the years of experience, OR has taught as many students, in animal chiropractic as Dennis Eschbach.  He achieved advanced certification in animal chiropractic through Options for Animals. Dennis now divides his time between practice and teaching the Options for Animals curriculum at Options for Animals (USA), the European Academy of Veterinary Chiropractic (Germany), and the International Academy of Veterinary Chiropractic (Germany and the UK).   

Dr. Drew Spisak, DVM, owns and operates Wellsville Veterinary Clinic, in Wellsville, Kansas.  Drew graduated from Kansas State Veterinary School in 1985, earned his basic certification in animal chiropractic from the American Veterinary Chiropractic Association through Options for Animals in 1995 and finished the Advanced program in animal chiropractic from Options for Animals in 1999.  Although his traditional veterinary practice once included a variety of breeds of animals both large and small, his main emphasis now is on animal chiropractic and equine dental work while still maintaining a traditional equine, canine and feline veterinary clinic.  Drew has been an instructor for Options for Animals since 1996, and lectured at the European Academy in 2004.

Dr. Heidi Bockhold, DC, currently lives in Douglasville, Georgia.  After graduating from Life University with a Doctor of Chiropractic degree in 1992, she became part of their teaching staff as an instructor in several Chiropractic techniques from 1994 through 2001.  Originally raised on a thoroughbred racing farm in Florida, her main practice interests are still in the equine field although she also treats small animals and maintains a human practice.  Heidi earned her basic certification in animal chiropractic from the American Veterinary Chiropractic Association through the Options for Animals program in 1998 and has been an instructor for Options for Animals since 2000, as well as lecturing at the European Academy.

Dr. Donald Moffatt, BSc, DVM, DVSc., graduated in the first class (1990) of the Atlantic Veterinary College (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada) and went on to the University of Tennessee for a one year large animal internship.  He earned his postgraduate degree (Doctor of Veterinary Science in population medicine / epidemiology) from the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1997.  He received his AVCA certification in 1996 through Options for Animals, and moved to mixed animal practice in Germany in 1997.  In 1999 he and his wife Sybil opened a referral practice for animal chiropractic in Northern Germany. In 2001 and 2004 Donald took part in continuing education seminars in Appilied Kenesiology. Since 1999 he has been  practicing exclusively veterinary chiropractic, adding veterinary acupuncture in 2002 after taking the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society certification course.  He is a founding member of the Gesellschaft für Veterinär-Chiropraktik e.V./ (now the International Veterinary Chiropractic Association).  Donald has years of experience in teaching clinical veterinary medicine to final year vet students in Tennessee and Guelph, and has been teaching animal chiropractic since 2003.

Dr. Sybil Moffatt, Dr.med.vet., graduated from the Tierärztliche Hochschule in Hannover, Germany  in 1992 and worked at the Equine Research Center in Guelph, Ontario, Canada to receive her postgraduate degree. She earned her basic certification in animal chiropractic from the American Veterinary Chiropractic Association in 1996. Since 1999 she has been working in her own exclusively animal chiropractic referral practice in Northern Germany. Sybil is also a founding member and past executive board member of the Gesellschaft für Veterinär-Chiropraktik e.V. (now the International Veterinary Chiropractic Association).  As a founding partner of the European Academy of Veterinary Chiropractic, Sybil has been teaching animal chiropractic since 2003. She, Dennis Eschbach, and her husband Donald were instrumental in originally bringing the Options for Animals International curriculum to Europe in 2002, taught under the European Academy of Veterinary Chiropractic name.

Kirstin Becker, DVM, graduated in 1996 from the Tierärztliche Hochschule in Hannover, Germany. She worked in research at the Equine Clinic of the Hannover University for two years. She earned her clinical competency certification in animal chiropractic from the American Veterinary Chiropractic Association in 2002, and started the advanced program in 2004. Since 2002 she has been practicing exclusively chiropractic, mostly equine. She successfully completed a postgraduate program in physiotherapy for animals. Kirstin has a special interest is equine saddle fit, foot biomechanics and shoeing. She has written a book on hoof protection, as well as several lay articles on the equine hoof. Kirstin has been lecturing at conferences in the USA, England, Switzerland, Denmark and Germany on various topics, including Chiropractic, horses feet and saddle fit. Kirstin was instrumental in establishing the first clinical competency examination procedures within the International Veterinary Chiropractic Association’s (IVCA) Education Committee.  With this background, and her gift for explaining things, she was a natural choice as an instructor when the EAVC (European Academy of Veterinary Chiropractic) began in 2003.

Dr. Petra Peer, Dr.med.vet. graduated from the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna in  1990. She has worked in small animal clinics in both Austria and Alaska. 1994 saw her take over her father’s veterinary practice in Vienna. An adventurous period in her life, (when she and her husband ran a cattle farm for two years in Canada), gave her the opportunity to take the Options for Animals chiropractic course in the USA.   She gained her clinical competency certification from the AVCA in 1999. Upon returning to Austria, she opened a practice for small animals and horses in Heidenreichstein. Her speciality is sport dog medicine (sled dogs). She is currently a director of the International Sled Dog Veterinary Medical Association and very active in the clinical competency Examination Committee of the International Veterinary Chiropractic Association (IVCA). Petra has previously taught animal chiropractic with the EAVC.

Andrea Sattler, DVM, studied veterinary medicine at the Tierärztliche Hochschule in Hannover and the University of Bern, Switzerland from 1991 -1996. Since graduation, she has been deeply emersed in many aspects of integrative veterinary care. She completed the Acupuncture education at the Academy for Veterinary Continuing Education in Germany (ATF) and is certified by the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society (IVAS). Andrea is also a TTEAM Practitioner. In 2001 Andrea completed the basic animal chiropractic course at Options for Animals in the USA and was certified by the American Veterinary Chiropractic association in 2002 after completing their clinical competency examination. From 2000 to 2003 Andrea worked as an assistant in a veterinary practice exclusively for acupuncture and chiropractic, before opening her own mixed practice in 2004, working exclusively with acupuncture and chiropractic. At the moment Andrea is enrolled in Feldenkrais-training and a postgraduate course in Kinesiology. Andrea has been teaching both acupressure and chiropractic for several years.   
 

Dr. Alexandra Keller, DVM, graduated from the University of Veterinary Medicine in Giessen, Germany in 2000. After practical experience in both, small animal and equine clinic she worked in cardiovascular research to receive her postgraduate degree. During this time Alexandra completed the basic animal chiropractic course at the European Academy of Veterinary Chiropractic (EAVC) in Sittensen, Germany and was certified by the International Veterinary Chiropractic Association (IVCA). She opened her own practice for veterinary medicine and chiropractic in 2005 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Stephan Becker has been a certified farrier since 1996, and running his own farriery business since 1997. Specialized in therapeutic shoeing and care of laminitis horses, he routinely works closely with veterinarians. His talents in these areas have led him to become the resident farrier at an equine veterinary clinic in Langenhagen, Germany. He serves on the Board of Directors of the First German Farriers Association (Erste Deutsche Hufschmiede Verein (EDHV)). The rest of his time is spent organizing and lecturing at seminars for veterinarians and farriers.  Some have described Stephan’s highly interesting collection of orthopeadic shoes and other teaching aids as “a modern traveling museum of farriery”. Stephan has been presenting the practical shoeing portion in the extremity modules of the EAVC chiropractic program since it began in 2003.
 

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