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AAEP News April 2018 XI


AAEP past president enters American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame


Dr. Tom Lenz, senior manager of veterinary technical services for Zoetis in Kansas City, Mo., and a longtime advocate for the American Quarter Horse, was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame March 4 during the AQHA Convention in Jacksonville, Fla.


Dr. Lenz has been an AQHA honorary vice president since 2009, and he currently serves on the nominations and credentials committee and the AQHA Animal Welfare Commission. In addition, he has written the monthly Horse Health column in The American Quarter Horse Journal since 1992.


A graduate of the University of Missouri, Dr. Lenz served as AAEP president in 2003.


Dr. Tom Lenz, left, and 2017-18 AQHA President Ralph Seekins at the Hall of Fame induction ceremony.


AAEP-member researchers among Grayson-Jockey Club grant recipients Dr. Stephanie Bond


Twelve AAEP members are among the 20 equine veterinary researchers to share in 2018 funding of more than $1.2 million from Grayson- Jockey Club Research Foundation. Among the 12 is Dr. Stephanie Bond, who received the Storm Cat Career Development Award for her project Airway Inflammation: On Pathogenesis and Performance. The award is intended to promote


development of promising investigators through a one-year salary supplement of $15,000.


Other members to receive research funding are:


Dr. Doug Antczak – Cytotoxic T-Cell Immunity to Equine Herpesvirus Type 1


Dr. James Belknap – Endocrinopathic Laminitis: Pathophysiology and Treatment


Dr. Teresa Burns – Ampk Agonists and Insulin Dysregulation in Horses


Dr. Laurent Couëtil – Effects of Low-Dust Forage on Athletic Horses Lung Health


Dr. Carrie Finno – Unraveling Complex Traits by Defining Genome Function 2


Dr. Steeve Giguere – Epidemiology of Drug-Resistant R. Equi at Horse Farms


Dr. Chris Kawcak – Development of Limited View 3D Imaging


Dr. Margo Macpherson – Firocoxib Properties in Equine Pregnancy & Placentitis II


Dr. C. Wayne McIlwraith – Thoroughbred Sales Radiology-Ultrasonography Study


Dr. Lauren Schnabel – Platelet Lysate Therapy in Infectious Arthritis


Dr. Stephanie Valberg – Underlying Cause of Recurrent Exertional Rhabdomyolysis


Visit https://tinyurl.com/gjcfund18 for more information, including descriptions of each research project.


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