Dr. Shane Bateman
Shane Bateman is a Professor at the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC), University of Guelph, and a board-certified specialist in Emergency and Critical Care. With over two decades of experience in clinical veterinary medicine, he brings a unique perspective to veterinary forensics, combining acute care expertise with a long-standing commitment to animal welfare.
In 2022, Dr. Bateman completed a Master’s in Veterinary Forensic Science at the University of Florida. Since then, he has worked to build veterinary forensics into the OVC curriculum, including the development of an elective clinical rotation. He is particularly interested in how forensic principles can support practitioners—including those in equine and large animal practice—in Recognizing, Reporting and Responding to animal maltreatment. He is committed to fostering strong collaborations with law enforcement and criminal justice professionals to strengthen investigations and ensure effective prosecution of animal maltreatment cases.
In 2024 he created a private consulting business to provide veterinary forensic services and continuing education on veterinary forensic science to veterinary, legal and law enforcement teams.
Dr. Kathleen MacMillan
Dr. Kathleen MacMillan is an equine ambulatory veterinarian and Associate Professor at the Atlantic Veterinary College, UPEI. She graduated from AVC in 2001 and also earned a Bsc, Msc in equine exercise physiology and in 2013 became a Diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners in Equine Practice.
Since graduation, Kathleen worked in private practice both as an associate and as a practice owner where she operated a solo equine ambulatory service in PEI for 6 years prior to joining the faculty of AVC in 2010. Her clinical and research focus is on equine sports medicine, preventive medicine, and equine welfare. Kathleen obtains great satisfaction in taking care of her equine patients while teaching future veterinarians the intricacies of equine practice.
Apart from her clinical and didactic teaching, Kathleen believes strongly in education and provides educational opportunities to veterinarians, horse owners and industry.
Kathleen also believes in volunteerism and has dedicated her time over the last number of years to the CVMA Council (Currently president-elect, Scientific Coordinator of convention, PDC, NEB), ICVA/NAVLE item writer and reviewer, ECFVG item writer and reviewer, AVMA COE Accreditation site visit team member, ABVP, PEIVMA, APHRC, Board of the Horse Welfare Alliance of Canada, Canadian Equine Veterinary Advocacy Alliance Group and the Federal Drug Advisory Committee for the CPMA.
Kathleen grew up on a horse farm in PEI and has deep roots in the Standardbred racing industry and Sport horse industry in PEI. She now resides in Stratford with her 3 cats while her 2 horses live in the country.
Janine Kidd
Janine Kidd received a BSc (Psychology) from Brigham Young University (Utah) in 2003, and an LLB from the University of Alberta in 2008. She was admitted to the bar in Alberta in 2009. Janine always wanted to be a prosecutor but articled and practiced with a small criminal defense firm in Edmonton from 2008 until 2011. She became a Crown Prosecutor with Alberta Justice in 2011 and worked there for just over a year. In 2012, Janine moved to Nova Scotia and joined the Public Prosecution Service as a Crown Attorney. Janine was designated a Senior Crown Attorney in 2018, and has experience prosecuting many offences including domestic violence, impaired driving, sexual assault, animal cruelty, and homicide.
Janine began prosecuting animal cruelty offences in the Halifax Regional Municipality in 2013. She joined the steering committee for the National Centre for the Prosecution of Animal Cruelty in 2016 and has presented at the annual conference almost every year since then. Janine was the de facto animal cruelty prosecution specialist for about 6 years before being designated the official SPCA Liaison Crown for the Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service in 2021. In this role, she receives advice requests from the NS SPCA, police agencies and colleagues, and does training for the SPCA and other organizations.