Ron's professional practice experience has been diverse and multi-faceted. His main areas of interest in horses, besides just enjoying their presence, is medicine, lameness, acupuncture, dentistry, and reproduction.

He considers himself extremely fortunate to be given the opportunity to work with horses on a daily basis. He has attended to a wide assortment of equine patients, from the backyard pet and pampered showhorse, to broodmares and stallions, to the Royal Lipizzaner Stallions™, stunt horses at Universal Studios Florida, and being trackside as trauma-team veterinarian during the 1994 Kentucky Derby.

The settings in which he has practiced have ranged as widely as his patients and encompassed private solo mobile practice (as he practices now), referral medical surgical equine hospitals, and reproductive specialty referral hospitals in private practice and university settings. He has worked on racetracks (flat racers, trotters, & pacers), training barns, and breeding farms on horses as dissimilar as miniature horses and draft breeds.

Ron’s practice philosophy of desiring the best for "his horses" has inevitably led him to mix current modern technology (x-ray, ultrasound, advanced reproductive technologies) with alternative therapies such as traditional Chinese medicine in the form of acupuncture.

Ron received the Bachelor of Science in 1979, Master of Science in reproductive physiology in 1982, and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 1984, at Oregon State University in Corvallis. He completed a residency in equine reproduction at the University of California, Davis in 1987 and received Diplomate status in the American College of Theriogenologists in 1992 (see "What is a Theriogenologist" later on this website). He wonders when he will ever get out of school, but cannot avoid the urge to learn as much as he can about them. In 1996-7 he completed several hundred hours of classroom and hands on instruction on acupuncture with the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society (IVAS). The next year he has his sights on attending courses on equine chiropractic.

Ron’s interest in teaching, education, and research began while doing his Master’s degree at Oregon State University and solidified while in residency at U.C. Davis. He is currently leading an international research effort studying the effect of compression therapy on various problems of the equine leg (see the column "Cutting Edge" in the newsletter). As many of you know, he enjoys writing and contributes regularly to horsemen’s magazines. He has presented his research on stallion fertility at prominent international veterinary meetings and published several papers on stallion fertility in professional journals. Dr. Friedman has conducted continuing education classes for veterinarians in Israel and Venezuela and has taught classes to veterinary students, veterinarians, horse owners and breeders both in the United States and abroad. He enjoys giving seminars locally and has covered topics ranging from stallion management to dentistry for local horse clubs.

Friedman Veterinary Service’s practice mission is simple:
Caring, Service & Education.