Our Team
Dr. Peter Heidmann
Dr. Peter Heidmann grew up in New England and learned horsemanship from old time horsemen. Dr. Heidmann is a Board-Certified Expert in Large Animal Internal Medicine (UC Davis, 2005), with special emphasis on respiratory and neurologic conditions as well as treatment and prevention of infectious diseases. In addition to his core internal medicine interests, Dr. Heidmann has extensive experience evaluating and treating performance and lameness problems. he performs specialty evaluations and ultrasound examinations for many types of equine athletes, both nationwide and internationally.
Dr. Heidmann has served as an expert witness in many legal, welfare, and insurance cases. Has has twice served as the Head of Internal Medicine for Pan-American games, an Olympic Qualifying event –first in Guadalajara, Mexico (2011), and again in Lima, Peru (2019). He participated as one of the founding veterinarians of MSU’s Bioregions program to Mongolia in 2014 (www.bioregions.org). He is Adjunct Faculty at WSU School of Veterinary Medicine in Pullman, and Affiliated Faculty at Montana State University, Bozeman.
Dr. Heidmann is the founder, Hospital Director and Head of Internal Medicine at Montana Equine. He also works in Wellington Florida during the Winter Equestrian Festival, and serves as the Head of Internal Medicine at Palm Beach Equine Clinic.
He enjoys speaking to small groups and larger formal seminars. Please call or email Peter to arrange bookings for your group or meeting.
Dr. Al Flint
Dr. Al Flint is a 4th generation Montanan born and raised in the Flathead Valley. Growing up, he explored the Bob Marshall Wilderness on horseback during both Summers and Winters. He completed a Masters degree in Reproductive Physiology and a Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology at Colorado State University prior to entering the College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Flint is the head of Equine Surgery and has been providing surgical services for 8 years at Montana Equine. He brings passion, experience and expertise to his work. Dr Flint’s professional interests include equine sports medicine, surgery, and reproduction. Dr Flint focuses on maximizing patient outcome using western medicine and complementary alterrnatives. When not at work, Dr. Flint enjoys riding, hiking or skiing Montana’s backcountry and time with his daughter.
Dr. Emily Green grew up in Bozeman, MT. She has been riding horses her
entire life, ranging from trail riding, packing, ranch work and roping,
and collegiate polo. She attended Cornell University for her bachelor’s
degree in animal science. At Cornell, Dr. Green worked for an equine
reproduction and immunology research center and played polo (Go Big
Red!). She then took a year off and worked as a wrangler on a guest
ranch in Paradise Valley, and in the winter calved for a ranch in
central Montana. Dr. Green attended Oregon State University for
veterinary school. She completed an internship with Montana Equine in
May 2024 and transitioned into a full-time veterinarian position. Dr.
Green enjoys primarily ambulatory work, focusing on sports medicine and
lameness, dentistry, medicine and routine care. In her free time, she
enjoys spending time with her dog Sage, riding horses, skiing, mountain
biking and running, photography, and leatherworking.
Dr. Lehman grew up in Alaska riding horses on the beach and studying for Pony Club ratings. While completing her undergraduate degree at Montana State, she was a technician at Montana Equine and competed with the university IHSA team. She then went on to complete her Masters in Toxicology and DVM degree at Colorado State with an interest in equine internal medicine. Her internship year after veterinary school was at Loomis Basin Equine, with a focus on critical care both in the field and ambulatory setting. After internship, she completed a residency at UC Davis to be a specialist in Equine Internal Medicine. She is very excited to be back at Montana Equine to see familiar faces and make new connections.
Dr. Lehman’s main training and interests include critical care, infectious disease, neurologic disease, respiratory and cardiac cases, and especially loves working with post-partum broodmares and newborn foals. She enjoys helping owners design biosecurity practices to limit spread of infectious disease on their farms. She also has a soft spot for working on donkeys and has been a part of many equine technical rescue efforts!
Outside of work, Dr. Lehman enjoys riding her accident-prone horse “Indy” and is enjoying new-mom life.
Dr. Shannon Moreaux grew up on a ranch with an abundance of farm animals and wildlife. He migrated through Oklahoma and the Rocky Mountains working on ranches, shoeing horses and steadily pursuing a lifelong dream of becoming a veterinarian. Dr. Moreaux was a professional farrier before earning a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree at Oklahoma State University. After graduating veterinary school Dr. Moreaux settled in Bozeman, MT with his wife, Dr. Cindy Moreaux. After practicing veterinary medicine in the Gallatin Valley for a decade Dr. Moreaux joined the faculty at Montana State University as the Director of the Equine Science Program and the Montana Extension Equine Specialist. Dr. Moreaux mentored undergraduate and graduate students and published multidisciplinary research. His areas of research have included behavior, nutrition, metabolism, metabolic and infectious diseases of horses. Dr. Moreaux earned the rank of tenured Associate Professor and won several teaching and leadership awards during his time at MSU. Dr. Moreaux returned to full-time veterinary practice in 2019 and has worked on horses around the world but is very happy to be back “home” in Montana. Dr. Moreaux’s professional passions are healing animals and educating people about animal health and welfare. His special veterinary interests are metabolic diseases, podiatry, preventive medicine, and nutrition.
Dr. Casey Cooper
Dr. Casey Cooper was raised on his families’ horse ranch on the California/Arizona border of the desert. During high school, Dr. Cooper spent his summers with elite performance horse trainers in Scottsdale, Arizona. These valuable mentorships prepared Dr. Cooper to show his reining horses competitively in youth and amateur AQHA and NRHA events across the country. Dr. Cooper attended Colorado State University and earned a bachelor’s degree in Biology and a Master’s degree in Bio-Medical sciences. Dr. Cooper completed the DVM program at CSU in May 2015 and joined Montana Equine as an intern in 2015. After completing his internship, Dr. Cooper worked as a full-time veterinarian at Montana Equine through May of 2024, when he moved to Jackson, WY. Dr. Cooper continues to work at Montana Equine on a part-time basis.
Dr. Cooper enjoys focusing on lameness cases as much as anything implementing regenerative medicine and biological pharmaceuticals when possible. In conjunction with his interest in diagnosing and treating equine lameness, he has an extensive background with podiatry and enjoys working with farriers to complement treatments. Dr. Cooper has also taken several advanced courses in dentistry and tooth extraction.
Dr. Nikki Roos grew up riding in the Tahoe national forest, where she developed a passion for veterinary medicine early on. She earned a degree in Equine Science from Colorado State University before completing her veterinary degree at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. During her time in Edinburgh, she was a part of the polo team and completed a certificate in undergraduate teaching. Her clinical interests center on equine reproduction and sports medicine, including lameness evaluations. Outside of her professional work, she enjoys traveling, skiing and knitting.
Megan Rae Triplett
Practice Manager
Megan has been in the Three Forks area since her family moved here in 1981 from Fort Collins, Colorado. Living on a small farm there was always at least one horse that needed attention, and as a kid that was typically where you could find her. Megan joined the Montana Equine team in 2013 as the office manager where she got to know so many of our awesome clients and patients, in 2016 she took over as the Practice Manager for all of Montana Equine’s locations. In her spare time Megan enjoys spending time with her 3 children to include traveling to Arizona to see her oldest daughter and granddaughter as much as possible, riding horses, side by sides, friends and family, traveling to new places, and enjoying this beautiful state we live in by getting out and doing as many outdoor activities as possible.
Desirae Raffety
Financial Administrator
Desirae was born in Bozeman, Montana and spent her childhood years growing up in the Three Forks area. She moved with her family to Northern Minnesota for high school and two years of college.
In 1998 she moved back to Montana where she finished her bachelor’s degree at MSU in Business with a Marketing emphasis. She married her husband Justin, and they have two daughters, Taylor and Sarah. They have lived on Justin’s families ranch outside Willow Creek since their oldest daughter Taylor was 2 years old.
While raising their children Desirae has had multiple accounting positions both local as well as remote to be there for her children as much as possible. Her oldest daughter Taylor is a Sophomore at Montana Tech in Butte studying OSH and the youngest Sarah is a Sophomore at Three Forks High School. She has been a competitive gymnast at Lone Mountain in Bozeman since the second grade which has allowed their family the opportunity to travel together all over the United States for her competitions.
Desirae enjoys running and has participated in a half marathon as well as many other road and trail races. Trail races being her favorite, as she enjoys the local views and the beauty of being in the mountains. She was able to achieve a much-desired goal of hiking Hollow Top Mountain in the Tobacco Roots with her husband this past summer.
Brittany Emens
Customer Service Representative
Brittany grew up in California both on the Central Coast as well as Northern Sacramento Valley. She has had a love of horses since High School. After a road trip of a lifetime, in 2013 to Montana, she and her husband Mike decided it was the place for them. Aside from chasing her 4 kids around FFA, 4H, and various sports; she also LOVES Real Estate and is a licensed agent. In her spare time she loves to travel and explore both Montana and beyond as well as spending time in the kitchen during the winter and the outdoors during the summer. Let her know a favorite Montana spot to explore when you chat with her!
Audria Bloch
Customer Service Representative
Audria is a Montana native from Thompson Falls and has called Three Forks her home for over 10 years. She and her husband Dan have 2 children that leaves them with an empty nest. When time allows, she enjoys family, outdoor activities including elk hunting, camping, riding her horse in the back country, cooking and gardening. Her extended family also requires plenty of attention which includes 5 horses, several cows, 3 labs and 4 cats. Life is good!
Kaydee Eppler
Administrative Assistant
A native of southern California, Kaydee grew up all over the western United States – Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Oklahoma, and Arizona have all been home at some point in her life. She was blessed to have been born into a family with a long history of horsemanship; breeding, training, showing, ranching, racing, and rodeo had heavy influences on her upbringing. Kaydee first joined the Montana Equine crew in 2016 and spent two years as a receptionist in the Three Forks clinic before moving back to Arizona. She’s thrilled to have been able to rejoin the team as a remote member of the office staff! Kaydee was certified as an Equine Massage Therapist in 2008, and she enjoys training and conditioning both her own and outside horses in her free time. She and her boyfriend, Billy, share their home with eight horses, three dogs, and one cat. You can often find them exploring the outdoors or hitting the occasional team roping or barrel race.
Julia Strazz
Inventory Manager
Julia is originally from Chandler, Arizona, and moved to Montana in 2017 to attend Montana State University. She graduated in 2020 with degrees in Microbiology and Organismal Biology. Julia worked at MEA the year after graduating, and is excited to be rejoining the Three Forks team as an Inventory and Laboratory Coordinator. In the future, Julia hopes to further her education in the veterinary field. In her free time, she enjoys live music and hiking around Bozeman!
Derric Jankowski
Licensed Veterinary Technician
Derric grew up in the town of Schoharie, New York. From a young age, he has always had a love for horses and a passion for all aspects of western riding. Derric went to SUNY Canton and received his Associates degree in Veterinary Technology; this led him to further his education, where he continued in Equine Rehabilitation. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time in the saddle, being outdoors, and continuously finding new places to explore.
Natalie Newton
Veterinary Assistant
Natalie grew up in San Diego, California, where she began competing on the hunter/jumper circuit before she could even remember. She earned an associate’s degree in Social and Behavioral Sciences from San Diego Mesa College, then transferred to the University of Georgia, graduating in the summer of 2025 with a bachelor’s degree in Animal Biosciences. During her undergraduate career, Natalie worked at a mixed animal practice with an emphasis on equine sports medicine, assisted at an equine therapy barn, served as treasurer of the Dairy Science Club, and spent a year as a veterinary assistant in a small animal clinic. Taking a year off before starting veterinary school, she moved back out West to gain additional hands-on clinical experience. When she’s not with her horses, Natalie enjoys spending time with her dog, Bonnie, as well as hiking, hunting, and fishing
Christine Gluch
Veterinary Assistant
Christine moved to the beautiful state of Montana in 2014 where she started college at Montana State University. She graduated in 2018 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Animal Sciences, concentration in Equine Science. Her love and passion is evolved around horses. She loves helping patients, clients, and learning new things to broaden her knowledge. In her spare time, she enjoys riding her horses, Shady and Rocky, going hunting, fishing, and anything else that is surrounded by the outdoors, of course with her dog, Hoot. Christine is excited to be apart of Montana Equine and to be surrounded by an amazing team and patients!
Kate Volin
Patient Caregiver
Kate was born and raised in Northern New Jersey, and moved to Montana in 2023. Kate has been surrounded by horses her entire life, riding all over the country with her mom and step-dad. For the past three years, Kate has been working at a guest ranch taking care of 120+ horses and leading guests on trail rides.
Kate plans to attend university in order to receive an Associate’s Degree as a Veterinary Technician, and would love to pursue a career in breeding/conservation of horses. In her free time, Kate loves spending time with horses in any capacity, cats, and animals in general. She also love hiking, reading, and the outdoors!
Heidi Dyk
Patient Caregiver
Heidi grew up locally in Churchill Montana, graduating from high school in 2025. She has always had a deep passion for taking care of animals. Heidi delights in being with her two horses and enjoys everything outdoors. She plans to go further into the veterinary practice, but doesn’t have in mind to go too far because she loves her family and hometown!
Nora Kusler
Patient Caregiver
Nora moved to Montana to studying conservation biology at MSU. While figuring out her next steps in life she joined the team at Montana Equine as a patient caregiver, working at Montana Equine has inspired her to move forward from undergrad into vet school. In her free time Nora likes hiking, fishing, backpacking, snowboarding, and reading a good book.
Dakota Abbey
Patient Caregiver
Dakota grew up in Dillon, MT and has always had a love for horses. She has been riding since she could walk and her love for horses has only grown. Before moving to Bozeman to attend Montana State University, she trained horses and mules for 8 years, along with working for her dad at his mixed animal veterinary practice. She also participated in FFA and 4H, competing in veterinary science, livestock judging, and has shown horses and multiple market species. She is excited to gain knowledge and experience at Montana Equine while continuing school to pursue a degree in veterinary medicine.