Green to head equine association

Eleanor Myers Green, D.V.M., chairwoman of the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine's department of large animal clinical sciences, is the new president of the American Association of Equine Practitioners. She will serve through 2008.

Green, who also serves as chief of staff of UF's Large Animal Veterinary Medical Center, was inducted into office during the AAEP's annual convention, held Dec. 1? in Orlando.

She is the first female practitioner to serve as the AAEP's president.

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.

She has been an active member of AAEP since joining the organization in 1973, the year she graduated from veterinary school at Auburn. Green most recently served as AAEP's president-elect and also has served as a district director and as chair of the internship and student relations committee and the AAEP foundation's student scholarship task force, and has participated on several other committees.

The AAEP, headquartered in Lexington, Ky., was founded in 1954 as a nonprofit organization dedicated to the health and welfare of the horse. 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.