Zimmel has advanced in leadership ranks

Eleanor Green, D.V.M., chair of the department of large animal clinical sciences, and Dana Zimmel, D.V.M., an assistant professor of equine extension, have advanced in the leadership ranks of the Association of American Equine Practitioners.

Green, who also serves as chief of staff of UF’s Large Animal Hospital, has been named the association’s vice president. Zimmel has been named to the board of directors. The two officially began their new posts during the AAEP’s s annual convention, held Dec. 3-7 in Seattle.

As vice president, Green becomes the first female practitioner to serve on AAEP’s executive committee and will become AAEP president in 2008. Board-certified by both the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners, Green is a past president of the ABVP and also of the American Association of Veterinary Clinicians.

Zimmel serves as a clinical faculty member in the large animal medicine service in addition to her extension duties. She is dually board-certified by both the ACVIM and the ABVP. Zimmel currently is the faculty advisor for the AAEP student chapter at UF.

Headquartered in Lexington, Ky., the AAEP was founded in 1954 as a non-profit organization dedicated to the health and welfare of horses. The group has 8,500 members worldwide and is actively involved in ethics issues, practice management, research and continuing education in the equine veterinary profession and horse industry.