EQUINE VETERINARY EDUCATION / AE / SEPTEMBER 2017


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Practitioners from Colorado and Oregon named AAEP officers


Drs. David Frisbie and Lisa Metcalf have been named officers of the AAEP and will assume their respective positions when installed during the November 20 President’s Luncheon at the 63rd Annual Convention in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Frisbie has been named 2018 vice president and will assume the role of AAEP president in 2020; Dr. Metcalf has been named treasurer and will serve a three-year term.


Dr. David Frisbie


David Frisbie, DVM, DACVS, DACVSMR Dr. Frisbie is a professor at Colorado State University, director of research at CSU’s Orthopaedic Research Center and interim director of operations at the university’s C. Wayne McIlwraith Translational Medicine Institute, which broke ground in June. He is also a partner in Equine Sports Medicine, LLC, of


Pilot Point, Texas, and the managing partner of eCORE North Texas, LLC. His clinical interests are orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine/rehabilitation.


Dr. Frisbie received his veterinary degree from the University of Wisconsin. He is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation, for which he currently serves as secretary. His contributions to the body of knowledge of musculo- skeletal disease were commemorated with the 2001 Pfizer Animal Health Award for Research Excellence.


An AAEP member since 2001, Dr. Frisbie served on the board of directors from 2012-2015. He was instrumental in shaping the association’s educational offerings as chair and member of the Educational Programs Committee, for which he received the 2011 AAEP President’s Award. He additionally served on the AAEP’s Abstract Review, Convention Planning and Nominating committees.


Dr. Lisa Metcalf


Lisa Metcalf, DVM, MS, DACT Dr. Metcalf is founding owner of Honahlee, PC, an equine reproduc- tion facility in Sherwood, Ore., that manages the breeding of many of the top competition horses from multiple disciplines. She is also an assistant professor in the andrology, obstetrics and gynecology department at the Oregon Health & Science University School of


Medicine, where she is founder and director of an equine in vitro fertilization laboratory.


Dr. Metcalf received her veterinary degree from the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine and is a Diplomate of the American College of Theriogenologists. She is an invited speaker throughout the world and has authored numerous articles, papers and textbook chapters about equine reproduction.


An AAEP member since 1989, Dr. Metcalf currently serves on the AAEP Foundation Advisory Council. She served on the board of directors from 2011-2014, as chair of the Reproduction Committee and on the Abstract Review, Educational Programs and Horse Show committees. She is president of the Portland Mounted Patrol Unit board of directors, a past president of the Northwest Equine Practitioners Association and spent seven years on the Oregon Racing Commission.


Former AAEP President Dr. William R. McGee dies at age 100


Dr. William R. McGee, 1964 AAEP president and the last veterinarian to treat Thoroughbred racing legend Man o’ War, died August 4 in Naples, Fla. He was 100.


Dr. William R. McGee


Dr. McGee obtained his veterinary degree from Washington State University in 1939. He secured a one-year internship at the Lexington, Ky., veterinary practice E.T. Hagyard & Sons, which led


to a longstanding business relationship. The practice eventually was renamed Hagyard-Davidson-McGee— forerunner of Hagyard Equine Medical Institute.


Dr. McGee specialized in the management of breeding stock, remaining at the forefront of advances in that specialty over the years. He also pioneered surgical repair of a ruptured bladder. He and Man o’ War shared the same birth year, and Dr. McGee treated the champion racehorse for pain and discomfort prior to the horse’s death in 1947.


President of the Society for Theriogenology from 1974-1976, Dr. McGee wrote frequently about veterinary medicine and was recruited as a consultant by horsemen in Europe and South America. In addition to his term as AAEP president, Dr. McGee served on the association’s Distinguished Life Membership and Nominating committees.


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