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  VME - Horse Eye
  Department of Medicine and Epidemiology
 
Equine Medicine

Teaching and clinical programs in equine medicine are diverse and embrace the pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatment, control and prevention of infectious and non-infectious diseass involving all body systems of the horse.  Speciality areas include:

VME - Horse in field
  • Neonatology
  • Infectious diseases and preventive medicine
  • Immunology
  • Exercise physiology
  • Clinical pharmacology
  • Pulmonary medicine
  • Hematology and clinical biochemistry
  • Neurologic and muscle disease
  • Critical care and equine rescue

RESEARCH AREAS INCLUDE:

Infectious diseases (Salmonellosis, Ehrlichiosis, Borreliosis, Clostridia); clinical pharmacology; preventive medicine; neuromuscular disorders; pulmonary diseases; neonatology; thermoregulation and fluid/electrolyte balance during exercise.