Indiana Association of Equine Practitioners

Since 1974 - Celebrating over 50 years of Veterinary Education

Purdue University Lecture Series

Meetings are held twice yearly on the first Wednesday of March and November.

IAEP 2026 Spring Meeting

Wednesday, March 4th, 2026

8:30am – 5:00pm
6 hours of RACE CE


Location: Boone County Fairgrounds, Witham Pavilion

Reservations Due by February 25th, 2026

Register Online

 8:00am –  8:20am  Registration / Opportunity to visit with Vendors

8:30am –  9:20am  Lecture 1

  • Farriery Around the World – 45 min

 9:30am – 10:20am Lecture 2

  • Conditions affecting the distal phalanx – 45 min

10:30am – 11:10am Break for Visiting with Vendors

 11:10am – noon  Lecture 3

  • Digital Support 2024 – 45 min

noon – 1:25pm Lunch (Provided, from Shoup’s Country Foods) / Vendors / Business Meeting

1:30pm – 2:20pm Lecture 4

  • Mediolateral Deformities in foals & mature horses – 60 min

2:30am – 3:00am Break for Visiting with Vendors

3:00pm – 3:50pm Lecture 5

  • Flexoral Deformities in foals & mature horses – 60 min

4:00pm – 4:50pm Lecture 6

  • MRI and Farriery Minutes – 45 min

Reserve

  • Hoof Development from Fetus to Maturity – 45 min

Schedule

7:15 AM-8:00 AMVendor set up
8:00 AM-8:30 AMAttendee registration
8:30 AM-9:30 AMDr. Camilla Jamieson-EHV1 and management of respiratory viruses during summer show season
9:30 AM-10:30 AMDr. Camilla Jamieson-Ambulatory and in house management of equine neurologic emergencies
10:30 AM-11:00 AMVendor break
11:00 AM- 12:00 PMDr. Kenitra Hendrix and Dr. Mojtaba Daneshi-Diagnostic trends from the ADDL
12:00 PM-1:00 PMLunch & vendor break
1:00 PM-1:30 PMIAEP General Membership Meeting
1:30 PM-2:30 PMDr. Caroline Gillespie Harmon-Hiring a new PU Vet Med grad? What does their education look like?
2:30 PM-3:00 PMVendor break
3:00 PM-4:00 PMDr. Michelle Tucker– Airway surgery-clinical research with CT unit
4:00 PM-5:00 PMDr. Emma Dell Stapley-A general endocrinology update and PPID (Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction)

Speakers

Dr. Camilla Jamieson

Large Animal Internal Medicine, Purdue University

Dr Jamieson was born in rural Vermont, has lived in the UK, then Oklahoma, Texas, and Qatar to pursue her career in equine medicine. Dr Jamieson graduated from the University of Nottingham School of Veterinary Medicine and Science in 2011 and went on to complete her internship at Lingfield Equine Vets in Surrey, before moving to Oklahoma to complete a fellowship and residency in Large Animal Internal Medicine at Oklahoma State University. She obtained board certification with the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) in 2018. Dr Jamieson then spent a year in private practice in Houston Texas, before moving to the EVMC in Doha, where she spent 4 years establishing the internal medicine and anesthesia services. However, after 4 years in the Middle East, missing home and missing the world of academia, as well as her growing passion for emergency medicine, brought Dr. Jamieson back to the states where she did a 4-month locum as an emergency clinician at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute before joining the faculty at Purdue as an Assistant Professor of Large Animal Emergency Medicine. In her spare time, Dr Camilla enjoys dressage and competing on the Indiana dressage circuit. She also enjoys yoga, rock climbing, and she has recently discovered a love for SUP and SUP yoga. If she’s not at the clinic, the barn, or the gym, you can find Dr. Camilla out to dinner with friends! 

Dr. Mojtaba Daneshi

Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Purdue University

Mojtaba Daneshi is a Client Services Veterinarian at Purdue’s Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory. He earned his DVM degree, completed a residency in large animal internal medicine, and holds PhD degrees in Animal Science. He previously served as a practitioner and research scientist at the University of Minnesota, and his current work focuses on diagnostic consultation and outreach, helping veterinarians interpret laboratory results and optimize testing strategies.

Dr. Kenitra Hendrix

Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Purdue University

Dr. Hendrix earned her DVM from Auburn University and her PhD from Washington State University where she completed a residency in clinical microbiology. She is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists. She joined the Purdue faculty in 2013 and currently serves as the Associate Dean for the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories and the Interim Head of the Department of Comparative Pathobiology.

Dr. Caroline Gillespie Harmon

Equine Community Practice, Purdue University

Caroline Gillespie Harmon, DVM, is a clinical faculty member with Purdue University’s Equine Field Service, where she combines her passion for equine medicine with her commitment to hands‑on education. As a dedicated veterinarian, Dr. Gillespie Harmon provides comprehensive care to horses throughout the local community, offering services ranging from routine wellness and preventative care to urgent field-based diagnostics and treatment. Dr. Gillespie Harmon is equally devoted to teaching the next generation of veterinarians. She is known for her supportive, student-centered approach, emphasizing real-world clinical skills, thoughtful case management, and compassionate client communication. She serves as co-chair of the student progress committee which helps students who are unsuccessful in courses navigate options to help them succeed. She is a member of the intern committee helping interview and select large animal interns and provide them constructive feedback regularly. Finally, she is a member of the Patient Safety Committee which reviews medical errors and brainstorms ways to prevent them in the future. Driven by a genuine love for horses and the people who care for them, Dr. Gillespie Harmon is proud to serve the regional equine community while helping students discover their own strengths and passions within veterinary medicine.

Dr. Michelle Tucker

Large Animal Surgery, Purdue University

Dr. Tucker is an Assistant Professor of Large Animal Surgery at Purdue University. Originally from Lexington, Kentucky, she grew up on a small farm before earning her DVM from Texas A&M University. She completed an equine internship at Equine Medical Associates, Inc. in Oklahoma, followed by a rotating internship at Kansas State University, and then a large animal surgical residency at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatchewan. Dr. Tucker achieved board certification in large animal surgery in 2020 and subsequently completed a PhD focused on equine airway surgery. She joined the faculty at Purdue in 2021 and her research interests center on equine airway disease, with particular emphasis on advanced imaging, 3D modeling and printing, and clinically applicable surgical innovation.

Dr. Emma Dell Stapley

Graduate Lecturer-Purdue Veterinary Clinical Services

Dr. Emma Stapley attended Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine where she developed a passion for equine endocrinology while working as a research assistant for Dr. Jane Manfredi. She competed an internship split between an equine ambulatory practice and the Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine followed by a Large Animal Internal Medicine residency at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Dr. Stapley is currently working towards a PhD with Dr. François-René Bertin while serving as a lecturer and senior clinician at Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Stapley continues her love of equine endocrinology outside of work by trying to keep her Canadian sport pony, Guin, insulin sensitive with eventing and dressage

Matt Durham DVM, DACVSMR

Meetings are held twice yearly on the first Wednesday of March and November.

IAEP 2025 Fall Meeting

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

8:30am – 4:50pm
6 hours of RACE CE


Location: Boone County Fairgrounds, Witham Pavilion

Reservations Due by October 22nd, 2025

Register Online

Speaker

Matt Durham DVM, DACVSMR

Technical Services Veterinarian at Platinum Performance

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8:00am – 8:20am Registration / Opportunity to visit with Vendors

8:30am – 9:20am Lecture 1

  • Farriery Around the World – 45 min

9:30am – 10:20am Lecture 2

  • Conditions affecting the distal phalanx – 45 min

10:30am – 11:10am Break for Visiting with Vendors

11:10am – noon Lecture 3

  • Digital Support 2024 – 45 min

noon – 1:25pm Lunch (Provided, from Shoup’s Country Foods) / Vendors / Business Meeting

1:30pm – 2:20pm Lecture 4

  • Mediolateral Deformities in foals & mature horses – 60 min

2:30am – 3:00am Break for Visiting with Vendors

3:00pm – 3:50pm Lecture 5

  • Flexoral Deformities in foals & mature horses – 60 min

4:00pm – 4:50pm Lecture 6

  • MRI and Farriery Minutes – 45 min

Reserve

  • Hoof Development from Fetus to Maturity – 45 min

Schedule

7:30 – 8:00 am

Vendor Setup

8:00 – 8:20 am

Participant Registration and time to visit with Vendors

8:30 – Noon

Morning Topics

Will include a break for visiting with Vendors (10:30-11:10am)

Noon – 1:25 pm

Lunch/Vendors/IAEP General Membership Business Meeting

1:30 – 5:00 pm

Afternoon Topics

Will include a break for visiting with Vendors (2:30-3pm)

Topics

Back Pain in the Sporthorse: A new look at the thoracolumbar spine and pelvic region

This talk is meant to encourage discussion about the role of back pain (both primary and secondary) in soundness.  We will discuss the many potential sources and interrelated causes of back pain. The emphasis will be on anatomy and kinematics, as well as diagnostics and treatment. 
A review of anatomy of the thoraco-lumbar region and the lumbo-sacral region.

  • Kinematics of these regions
  • The interplay between lameness and back pain
  • Back pain from primary sources
  • Tactics for back pain treatment

Properly Applying Equine Rehabilitation Techniques for Maximum Patient Benefit in Practice

Dive deep into equine rehabilitation and how to properly use it and nutrition in your practice to improve overall health and wellness of your patients. Dr. Durham will cover case studies, techniques, and research to further incorporate into your equine rehabilitation program.

  • Turnout is not controlled exercise
  • Rehab can be as much or more of a workload then performance training
  • Some form of graduated exercise program is important no matter what technique 
  • No physical activity can overcome a bad diet

More than a brick: bone as living tissue

This presentation will cover the development of bone and its dynamic capacity to remodel.

Key lessons: 

  • Connective tissue
  • The origins of osteochondrosis
  • What is bone bruising/edema?
  • What lessons can we borrow from human medicine on bone bruising/edema treatment?
  • Nutrition and bone

Nutrition for Athletic Performance

This presentation will cover the common issues facing performance horses, including energy, electrolytes, heat buildup, as well as muscle building vs. loss, and recovery.

  • What fuels the equine athlete?
  • Thermoregulation and the equine athlete
  • Factors affecting muscle loss, stabilization, and growth
  • Athletic recovery
  • Inflammation and oxidative stress in athletes

Equine Synovial Injections – Part 1: Overview and best practices

  • Why?
    • Brief review of anatomy and causes of dysfunction of synovial structures
    • Rationale for intra-synovial injection
    • Steroids: the good and the bad
    • Biologics: what is the evidence?
    • Polyacrylamide gels and collagen/elastin biomaterial
    • HA
  • How?
    • How?
    • Consensus on scrubbing
    • Should antibiotics be used for routine injections?
    • Am I in the joint/bursa/sheath?
    • Common joint injection approaches

Equine Synovial Injections – Part 2: When Things Get Complicated: advanced techniques and difficult cases

  • How part 2
    • Trickier joints
    • Ultrasound-guided approaches
    • Altered anatomy
    • Cellulitis
  • When things get complicated
    • Infection
    • Odd joint problems

Virginia Reef, BA, DVM, DACVIM, DACVSMR

Meetings are held twice yearly on the first Wednesday of March and November.

IAEP 2025 Spring Meeting

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

8:30am – 4:50pm
6 hours of RACE CE


Location: Boone County Fairgrounds, Witham Pavilion

Reservations Due by February 19th, 2025

Register Online

Speaker

Virginia Reef, BA, DVM, DACVIM, DACVSMR
New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania
Mark Whittier and Lila Griswold Allam Emeritus Professor of Medicine

Clinical Specialties: Cardiology, Ultrasound
Research Areas: Diagnostic ultrasonography, Equine cardiology

Virginia Reef, DVM, a 1979 graduate of The Ohio State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, completed a large animal medicine and surgery internship and large animal medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania. She established the Large Animal Cardiology and Ultrasound Service and Sports Medicine and Imaging at New Bolton Center. She is the Mark Whittier and Lila Griswold Allam Emeritus Professor of Medicine, a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Medicine (Large Animal), a charter diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitationand an honorary diplomate of the ACVIM College of Cardiology. Dr. Reef received the ACVIM Robert W. Kirk award, the AAEP distinguished educator award, a doctor “honaris causa” (Ghent University) and was the AAEP Frank J. Milne State-of-the-Art lecturer.

Simon John Curtis FWCF, BSc (Hons), PhD, HonAssocRCVS

Meetings are held twice yearly on the first Wednesday of March and November.

IAEP 2024 Fall Meeting

Co-sponsored by the IAEP and the Indiana Farriers Association (IFA)

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

8:30am – 4:50pm
6 hours of RACE CE


Location: Boone County Fairgrounds, Witham Pavilion

Reservations Due by October 23, 2024

Register Online

Speaker

Simon John Curtis FWCF, BSc (Hons), PhD, HonAssocRCVS
Farrier and author based in Newmarket, England, working in hoof-care for 50 years.

Simon Curtis has lectured and demonstrated farriery in 30 countries on 6 continents including the USA, Australia, India, Russia, and Brazil. He has published four text books on farriery and has been published in numerous journals. Dr. Curtis is the only farrier awarded an Honorary Associate by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (2002).  He regularly speaks at the British Equine Veterinary Association Congress, World Equine Veterinary Association Congress, and International Hoof Care Summit.  He is a Fellow of the Worshipful Company of Farriers by examination (FWCF).  In 2005, Simon was inducted into the International Horseshoeing Hall of Fame at the Kentucky Derby Museum. Simon gained a BSc. (Hons) in Farriery through Myerscough College, University of Central Lancashire in 2011. In 2017 he gained a doctoral degree in equine biomechanics and physiology. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Myerscough College in July, 2017 and in 2018 the Sir Colin Spedding Award by the National Equine Forum. In December 2018 his fourth book, The Hoof of the Horse was published, followed by The Farrier a pictorial book. Simon continues to write, give lectures and clinics, broadcast Dr. Simon Curtis webinars and produce The Hoof of the Horse podcasts.

https://www.drsimoncurtis.com

https://www.facebook.com/drsimoncurtis/

Schedule

 8:00am –  8:20am  Registration / Opportunity to visit with Vendors

8:30am –  9:20am  Lecture 1

  • Farriery Around the World – 45 min

 9:30am – 10:20am Lecture 2

  • Conditions affecting the distal phalanx – 45 min

10:30am – 11:10am Break for Visiting with Vendors

 11:10am – noon  Lecture 3

  • Digital Support 2024 – 45 min

noon – 1:25pm Lunch (Provided, from Shoup’s Country Foods) / Vendors / Business Meeting

1:30pm – 2:20pm Lecture 4

  • Mediolateral Deformities in foals & mature horses – 60 min

2:30am – 3:00am Break for Visiting with Vendors

3:00pm – 3:50pm Lecture 5

  • Flexoral Deformities in foals & mature horses – 60 min

4:00pm – 4:50pm Lecture 6

  • MRI and Farriery Minutes – 45 min

Reserve

  • Hoof Development from Fetus to Maturity – 45 min