Dr. Mary Durando graduated from the University of Georgia in 1987. After working for private practice in Virginia and a six-month medicine-oriented internship at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, Dr. Durando completed her residency in Large Animal Internal Medicine at the University of Florida. Following her residency, she attended graduate school at the Medical University of South Carolina, receiving her Ph.D. in Physiology in the field of endotoxin research. She completed a two-year fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania’s Large Animal Hospital in the Large Animal Cardiology/Ultrasound department. Dr. Durando relocated to California for three years to work at the University of California’s Veterinary Teaching School as a clinical lecturer in equine medicine before returning to the University of Pennsylvania’s treadmill facility to focus on exercise physiology and cardiopulmonary research.

Dr. Durando was awarded Diplomate status in Large Animal Internal Medicine by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. She has been published in numerous peer reviewed journals and book chapters, and has presented at the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine annual conferences, International Congress of Equine Exercise Physiology meetings and various other regional, national and international continuing education seminars. She is a partner in Equine Sports Medicine Consultants, an ambulatory internal medicine consulting practice, as well as a part-time, staff veterinarian at Mid Atlantic Equine Medical Center and Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital at their Wellington and Saratoga Springs divisions.

Dr. Durando’s special interests include cardiology, respiratory disorders, exercise physiology and how the disorders of the cardiopulmonary system relate to poor performance. She also has interest in neonatology and sepsis/endotoxemia.