A new board will serve in an advisory capacity to The Horse magazine. Each of these American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) members is volunteering to mentor the publication by answering questions and helping us understand topics of importance to horse owners. Each person brings a wealth of knowledge and years of service to the industry. We will maintain our previous group of volunteer advisors as a Resources Board to provide information and evaluate and critique the information we publish.

Following are the members of the AAEP Advisory Board.

Atwood C. Asbury, DVM, Dipl. ACT (reproduction), is Professor Emeritus of the University of Florida and a consultant to the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation. He obtained his veterinary degree in 1956 from Michigan State University. He has been a lecturer and assistant professor at the University of California, Davis, and was in private large animal practice in California. At the University of Florida he was interim dean, associate dean for alumni and public programs, department chair, and chief of staff in the large animal hospital. His research career centered on equine reproduction, especially the defense mechanisms of the equine uterus, expanding what is known about endometritis.

Fairfield Bain, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, ACVP, ACVECC, is board certified in internal medicine, equine critical care, and pathology. He received a DVM from Auburn University in 1983. After graduation, he pursued years of advanced training, with an internship at North Carolina State University, a residency in large animal internal medicine at the University of Florida, a residency in veterinary pathology at Kansas State University, and a postdoctoral fellowship in comparative pathology at Wake Forest University’s School of Medicine. He practiced at Peterson & Smith Equine Hospital in Ocala, Fla., and at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center (lecturer in diagnostic ultrasonography). He now works in the internal medicine facility at the Hagyard-Davidson-McGee veterinary firm in Lexington, Ky., as a staff internist and clinical laboratory director