ASSOCIATION Meet 2020 AAEP President Dr. David Frisbie
The AAEP is pleased to introduce Dr. David Frisbie as its 2020 president. Dr. Frisbie is a professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University.
Dr. David Frisbie
Dr. Frisbie was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and raised with five older stepsib- lings on a small island in Lake Minnetonka. The Frisbies were one of just a few
families that lived year-round on the island, which, in the early days, was only accessible by rope ferry.
His father, Darrell, started as a professional race car driver and retired as vice president of a gravel company. His mother, Vera, was an accountant. Each of Dr. Frisbie’s siblings raced cars professionally at some point in their careers, but he had his sights set on becoming a veterinar- ian from a young age, influenced in part by his Golden Retriever “Buddy,” who became an all-time high-point champion field trial dog.
Dr. Frisbie grew up fishing, snowmobiling and playing hockey. He wasn’t exposed to horses until age 12 during summers spent on a South Dakota cattle ranch owned by family friends.
Following high school, Dr. Frisbie attended the University of Wisconsin, where there was considerable enthusiasm around its new vet school. A year after earning his bachelor’s in biochemistry, Dr. Frisbie entered vet school in 1988 with an interest in cattle and a family connection to a potential small animal career. He discovered an interest in equine medicine during his third year, when he scrubbed in on an arthroscopy with Dr. Bill Lindsey and emerged thinking it was the coolest thing he’d ever seen.
Following a preceptorship at Littleton Equine Medical Center, Dr. Frisbie was accepted for a surgery internship at Cornell University, where he embarked on research into therapeutics for musculoskeletal and joint disease.
He expanded his research while completing a large animal surgery residency and a master’s degree in joint pathobiol- ogy at Colorado State, where he would join the faculty as an assistant professor of equine surgery in 1999.
Dr. Frisbie’s research into musculoskeletal treatments and pathogenesis include translational and novel therapeutics such as stem cells and other biologic treatments influenc- ing veterinary and human health. He founded one of the first regenerative therapies focused on improving treatments for horses; and he created and described innovative, minimally invasive orthopaedic techniques.
In addition to his teaching, research, mentoring and other responsibilities at Colorado State, Dr. Frisbie co-founded one of the first veterinary-owned and veterinary special- ist-run rehabilitation facilities. He also partnered in one of the first sports medicine practices focused on the Quarter Horse show world and served six years as the official veterinarian for the AQHA World Show Series.
Dr. Frisbie met his wife, equine radiologist Dr. Myra Barrett, at a mutual friend’s birthday party, and the couple was married in 2005. They have two daughters: Siena, 9, and Sydney, 4. Both daughters pleasure ride and are avid skiers, each having started on the slopes at age 2.
In his spare time, Dr. Frisbie enjoys skiing and mountain biking. He raced mountain bikes for a couple of years, achieving several podium placings, but gave up competi- tive racing three years ago to focus on bringing the uni- versity’s C. Wayne McIlwraith Translational Medicine Institute from concept to reality as its interim director of operations and founding director.
Dr. Frisbie has been an AAEP member since 2001 and calls the association the most altruistic organization he’s ever been involved with. He served as chair of the Educational Programs Committee, his contributions to which earned him the President’s Award in 2011. He also served on the board of directors from 2013-15.
He credits AAEP with helping him be more successful— both professionally and personally—and he looks forward to working toward solutions that create similar opportunities and outcomes for all, especially for younger members of the profession.
In breaking family tradition with his career focus on horsepower of the hooved variety, Dr. Frisbie has contrib- uted substantially to the health and wellbeing of horses, and the practice of veterinary medicine.
AAEP News January 2020 III
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