Meg Sleeper VMD graduated from the University of Pennsylvania veterinary school cum laude and completed a rotating internship in medicine and surgery at Mid-Atlantic Equine Medical Center.

After becoming board-certified in cardiology, she worked in the section of cardiology at Penn until 2015 when she became a clinical professor of cardiology at the University of Florida veterinary school.

She has published numerous papers including over 85 peer-reviewed original papers, over 50 review papers or case reports, and 4 textbooks.

Primary research interests include inherited heart diseases, in particular inherited cardiomyopathies, comparative cardiology and therapeutic gene transfer.

She is on the editorial or review board of 11 journals and has served on the research (2008-2011 and 2019 to 2022) and examination (2005-2008) committees for the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Cardiology).