Daniel Fletcher
Dr. Fletcher is a Professor of Emergency and Critical Care at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, where he has been a faculty member since 2006. After receiving a BS in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of California Berkeley/San Francisco, he obtained his DVM from the University of California at Davis. He then completed a rotating internship and emergency and critical care residency at the University of Pennsylvania. He has received multiple awards, including the ACVECC Jack Mara Scientific Award in 2019, the Zoetis Distinguished Veterinary Teacher Award in 2020, and the VECCS Presidential Award in 2024. He is co-chair of the RECOVER Initiative, which publishes the international standard, evidence-based veterinary CPR guidelines. He served as president of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care from 2017-2019. His research interests include approaches to chest compressions in CPR, disorders of fibrinolysis, and the use of immersive simulation in teaching. He has been building simulators for veterinary education since 2009 and is the primary designer of Open VetSim, an open-source veterinary simulation software and hardware platform. He is the director of the Tetlow and Roy Park Veterinary Innovation Lab, an immersive simulation center at Cornell, which opened in the fall of 2015.