Presented by

Margo L. Macpherson, DVM, DACT
University of Florida

Margo Macpherson earned her DVM degree in 1990 from Michigan State University. She completed a residency and earned her master’s degree in equine theriogenology at Texas A&M University and became a diplomate in the American College of Theriogenologists (ACT) in 1994. After her residency, Macpherson practiced at the University of Pennsylvania and in central Kentucky before joining the faculty at the University of Florida, where she is a professor emeritus in the department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences.

Macpherson is interested in all aspects of equine reproduction, particularly problems affecting late pregnancy in the mare, most notably placentitis. She is also passionate about organized veterinary medicine and has served as president of ACT (2005) and president of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP; 2018). She is currently serving as Alternate Delegate in the House of Delegates for the American Veterinary Medical Association and is the treasurer for the World Equine Veterinary Association.

Macpherson’s professional service and governance experiences span the university and the profession.

Presented by

Kirsty Gallacher, BVMS, MRCVS, MANZCVS, DACT
University of Glasgow

Kirsty Gallacher graduated from the University of Glasgow (Glasgow, Scotland) in 2006, then ventured to Australia to do an equine internship at Goulburn Valley Equine Hospital (VIC, Australia). She later completed a theriogenology residency at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) in 2012 with a focus on equine reproduction. Gallacher also earned the honor of being distinguished as a diplomate of the American College of Theriogenologists.

She has worked in general equine practice in both Australia and the United Kingdom. Her last role was at the University of Adelaide (SA, Australia) in the Equine Health and Performance Centre as a lecturer and clinician. Gallacher is also completing a part-time PhD on equine uterine health.

Gallacher is kept busy in her spare time with two young daughters, a springer spaniel named Henley, and Parker, a Palomino gelding.

Presented by

Jim Schumacher, DVM, BS, MS, PhD, DACVS, MRCVS, MVB
University of Tennessee

Jim Schumacher graduated from Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS) in 1973, then worked in private equine and food-animal practices in Texas, California, and Kansas for five years. Most of this time in private practice was spent working in feed yards in western Kansas.

Schumacher completed a master’s degree and a residency in large-animal surgery at Texas A&M University (College Station, TX) in 1980. He was a member of the faculty at Texas A&M University until 1997. Since then, he has worked at the University of London (London, UK), Auburn University (Auburn, AL), the University College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland), and the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN), where he has been a member of the faculty in the department of Veterinary Clinical Science since 2003.

Schumacher is also a member of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. His main research interests are equine respiratory and reproductive surgery, as well as lameness.

Presented by

Joan Carrick, BVSc, MVSc, PhD, DACVIM (LAIM)
Equine Specialist Consulting

Joan Carrick graduated from the University of Queensland Veterinary School (Brisbane, QLD, Australia) in 1981 and was awarded a postgraduate honors degree in equine medicine in 1984 for investigating the role of stress on the absorption of colostrum by newborn foals. Carrick spent 12 years working and studying in North America, where she completed a residency in large-animal medicine and a master’s degree in veterinary science at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (Saskatoon, SK, Canada), investigating the safe use of flunixin meglumine in newborn foals. In 1993, Carrick was awarded a PhD by the University of Georgia (Athens, GA) for investigating the effects of fish oils on animals’ responses to endotoxin, and then completed a fellowship in critical care at the University of Tennessee Medical School (Memphis, TN) and became a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. Carrick gained experience in gross and histopathology of neonatal foals, clinical pathology of endotoxic and septic shock horses, and large-animal clinical internal medicine.

While in North America, Carrick frequently lectured about inflammation, shock, intensive care, and n-3 fatty acids to veterinarians, human intensive care specialists, and biomedical researchers in the United States of America, Canada, and Europe. In 1997, she returned to Australia to work in equine practice, including at the Oakey Veterinary Hospital (Oakey, QLD, Australia) and the University of Melbourne (Melbourne, VIC, Australia). Carrick joined the Scone Equine Hospital (SEH) in 2005 as the veterinary advisor for the SEH laboratory and to complete Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation–funded research into placentitis. This research resulted in a very successful clinical program to identify and treat mares with high-risk pregnancies. Carrick is currently a specialist consultant who manages high-risk pregnant mares. Her work involves investigating the causes of a pregnancy loss or the delivery of a critically ill neonate, then monitoring and treating mares in subsequent pregnancies so that healthy foals are born.

Presented by

James Crabtree, BVM&S, CertEM (StudMed), FRCVS
Equine Reproductive Services
University of Liverpool

James Crabtree graduated from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (Edinburgh, Scotland) in 2001. After four years in mixed practice, he traveled between the hemispheres, working for several years in specialist stud practice in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2010, he was awarded the RCVS certificate in Equine Stud Medicine and, in 2011, became a lecturer at the University of Liverpool (Liverpool, England), examining the stud medicine certificate since 2012.

Crabtree has published work on many topics relevant to clinical practitioners, including material on breeding soundness evaluation, infectious disease, peripartum problems, ovarian abnormalities, estrus suppression, persistent endometrial cups, management of spring transition, and twin pregnancy. Crabtree continues to perform and publish practice-based research and collaborates widely. In 2013, he became director of Equine Reproductive Services (UK) Limited, growing and developing a busy first-opinion and referral equine practice in Yorkshire, England. He is recognized as an Advanced Practitioner in Equine Stud Medicine, and is a current British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA) council member and trustee of the International Equine Reproduction Trust.

Crabtree has made a sustained and significant contribution to veterinary professional development with formal and informal teaching and assessment of postgraduates. He has organized and delivered many continuing professional development courses and congresses in the United Kingdom and Europe, and has delivered presentations on material ranging from basic to advanced topics around the world. In 2022, his efforts were recognized by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, which awarded Crabtree a fellowship for meritorious contributions to clinical practice.

Presented by

Mats Troedsson, DVM, PhD, DACT, DECAR
Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center
University of Copenhagen

Mats Troedsson received his DVM degree in 1975 from the Royal Veterinary College in Stockholm. He worked as a private practitioner from 1975 to 1987, when he enrolled in doctoral studies at the University of California, Davis. He graduated with a PhD in reproductive immunology from the University of California, Davis, in 1991 and stayed on as a clinical instructor in equine reproduction for the next two years. Troedsson was hired as an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota’s College of Veterinary Medicine in 1993 and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1998. While at the University of Minnesota, he served as director of equine research, as well as director of the large-animal hospital. Troedsson moved to the University of Florida in 2002 as professor and service chief of theriogenology, as well as director of equine research programs. In 2008, Troedsson was recruited to the University of Kentucky as director of the Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center and department chair of veterinary science. During a sabbatical leave from the University of Kentucky at the conclusion of his term as director and department chair, Troedsson led the efforts as a consulting director between 2015 and 2018 to develop a new Equine Veterinary Medical Center (EVMC) at the Qatar Foundation in Doha, Qatar. He is currently a professor of equine reproduction at the Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center and an honorary adjunct professor of obstetrics and reproduction at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

Troedsson is board certified in the American College of Theriogenologists and the European College of Animal Reproduction. He has mentored 17 veterinarians in their training to become board certified in theriogenology, 12 PhD and MS students, 8 postdoctoral fellows, and multiple visiting scientists in his laboratory. Troedsson is the author or coauthor of more than 180 peer-reviewed scientific articles in addition to over 350 professional articles, abstracts, and book chapters. His research interests involve equine endometritis, the interaction between semen and the female reproductive tract, the biology of seminal proteins, and the diagnostics of equine placentitis. He has also been involved in research on assisted reproduction and wildlife reproduction.