No “Horsing Around” at Popular PVM Horseman’s Forum

February 15, 2019

Dr. Jennifer Koziol demonstrates acupuncture during a session at Purdue Veterinary Medicine’s 2019 Horseman’s Forum in Lynn Hall.
Trailer safety expert Robin Ridgeway shares tips for ensuring safe travel when pulling a horse trailer during a demonstration for Horseman’s Forum participants.
Dr. Alec Davern, staff surgeon at the Centaur Equine Specialty Hospital, Purdue Veterinary Medicine’s satellite facility in Shelbyville, Ind., gave a lecture on advanced imaging during the Horseman’s Forum. He added a bit of humor with a graphic on a PowerPoint slide explaining that “DOGS CAN’T OPERATE MRI MACHINES BUT CATSCAN.”
Dr. Sarah Waxman, interim veterinarian with the Veterinary Teaching Hospital’s Equine Community Practice, gave a lecture on wound care.

More than 200 attendees enjoyed Purdue Veterinary Medicine’s annual Horseman’s Forum Saturday, February 9, at Lynn Hall. Youth as well as adult horse enthusiasts gathered for a full-day of exceptional educational programming and demonstrations. Designed to educate horse owners and equine industry professionals about current horse health issues, the annual forum included information about essential equine health care topics. Attendees came from across Indiana, as well as Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Texas.

The program included an acupuncture demonstration by Dr. Jennifer Koziol, clinical assistant professor in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, as well as a treadmill demonstration by Dr. Laurent Couëtil, professor of large animal internal medicine and director of the Equine Sports Medicine Center. Additionally, Robin Ridgeway, co-author of the Purdue Extension publication, “Understanding the Horse Trailer Rig: Steps for Transporting Horses Safely on the Highway”, presented a trailer safety demonstration. A copy of the publication was provided to Horseman’s Forum participants as part of their event registration. The forum also featured lectures on leptospirosis, equine recurrent uveitis, wound care, cardiology, advanced imaging, senior horse nutrition, hoof care, and managing osteoarthritis.

The Horseman’s Forum was sponsored by Nutrena, Progressive Nutrition, Dechra, Zoetis, and Haygain, which provided prizes for the giveaways and items for goodie bags. Special thanks to the faculty on the Horseman’s Forum Planning Committee, Drs. Amanda Farr, Tim Lescun, and Sandy Taylor, for organizing the successful program, as well as to Dr. Laurent Couëtil for serving as emcee for the event.

Writer(s): Andrea Brown and Kevin Doerr | pvmnews@purdue.edu

Recent Stories

“Paws Up” – brought to you by the PVM Wellness Committee

This week, we are proud to recognize Lorraine Fox, who is a business assistant with the Veterinary Medicine Procurement Center.

PVM Interview Days Move College Closer to Admitting the DVM Class of 2030

After a total of three afternoons dedicated to conducting in-person interviews with 226 prospective veterinary students, the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine is close to completing the process of admitting 84 members of the incoming first-year DVM class – the Class of 2030. The students invited for the interview days were selected from a total pool of 1,930 applicants from across the country as well as countries abroad.

Experts to Gather at Purdue for Conference Addressing the Public Health Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance

The ongoing challenges posed by multi-drug resistant infections will be the focus of a multidisciplinary conference taking place in three weeks at Purdue University. The Fourth Annual Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance is set for February 25–26, 2026 at Purdue’s Stewart Center in West Lafayette. Registration is still open for the event, which will bring together scientists and scholars from human and veterinary medicine, public health, research, and industry to address the determinants, dynamics and deterrence of drug resistance.

PVM’s Upcoming Coppoc One Health Lecture to Focus on Dogs as Sentinels of Environmental Exposure

The Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine brings a leading One Health scholar to campus each year to address vital health issues from a One Health perspective as part of the Coppoc One Health Lecture series. This year’s presentation, scheduled for February 26 in Lynn Hall Room 2026, is on the engaging topic, “One Health at Home: Dogs as Sentinels of Environmental Exposure.” The speaker will be Audrey Ruple, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVPM, MRCVS, the Dorothy A. and Richard G. Metcalf Professor of Veterinary Medical Informatics at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech.

“Paws Up” – brought to you by the PVM Wellness Committee

Today we are happy to acknowledge our Student Success Center Team.

One Health: A ‘digital twin’ model for predicting cancer outcomes

The striking similarities between invasive bladder cancer in dogs and humans have fueled research advances for more than three decades. Most of that work has looked at separate aspects of the disease — risk factors, early detection, symptoms, treatment and gene expression. But a new project at Purdue University that combines many types of available data in a “digital twin” model of bladder cancer may prove powerful enough to predict patient outcomes, starting with the probability of metastasis.

Purdue Professor Emeritus Bill Blevins Wins Lifetime Achievement Award at ACVR Annual Meeting

The American College of Veterinary Radiology (ACVR) gave its esteemed Lifetime Achievement Award for 2024 to Purdue Professor Emeritus Bill Blevins, who is well known to countless Purdue Veterinary Medicine alumni for the expertise he taught them about all things Diagnostic Imaging during his long Purdue career.