Facility Maintenance

ICU Staff

Mikayla Reynaud comes to our team with passion and drive for our furriest of friends! Mikayla, originally from Los Gatos in the bay area now resides in San Luis...

ICU Staff

Kyle is a 2nd year Pre Vet Animal Science Major with a minor in Dairy Science. She aspires to be an equine or bovine veterinarian and aid in rehabilitation. Her ultimate...

ICU Staff

Carley is an animal science student at Cal Poly with an equine science minor. After graduation, she plans to pursue a career in equine rehabilitation and conditioning. She enjoys...

Facility Manager

ICU Staff

Cassidy Scatena is from Yerington, Nevada where she grew up on a beef cattle ranch. She is currently working towards her Bachelor’s degree in Animal Science at Cal Poly...

Kristin is aces at customer service and keeps everything at The Equine Center running smoothly.

Reproduction

As a dedicated specialist in large animal fertility, Dr. Altermatt has performed thousands of transvaginal follicular aspirations in both mares and cows for oocyte transfer, ICSI and IVF cycles,...

Animal Scientist

Vasil Yordanov received his degree from The Tracian University, Bulgaria in 2015. Prior to joining The Equine Center’s team, he worked as small animal veterinarian in his home city...

Staff DVM

Dr. Emily Bardo is a native Californian who grew up on the coast in Half Moon Bay. She studied Animal Science at Cal Poly SLO and then went on...

Practice Owner

Dr. James K. Waldsmith has owned and operated The Equine Center since 1985. His professional interests are thermography, sports medicine, rehabilitation, reproduction and preventive medicine.