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.
Schedule
8:00am – 8:20am Registration / Opportunity to visit with Vendors
8:30am – 9:20am Lecture 1
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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
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Digital Support 2024 – 45 min
noon – 1:25pm Lunch (Provided, from Shoup’s Country Foods) / Vendors / Business Meeting
1:30pm – 2:20pm Lecture 4
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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