Purpose

The Frank J. Milne State-of-the-Art Lecture debuted at the 1997 AAEP Convention in Phoenix, Ariz. Named for AAEP past president and distinguished life member Frank J. Milne, the lecture series features state-of-the-art research on subjects and techniques considered important by the equine veterinary profession.

Past Recipients

2023
Patrick M. McCue - Reproduction

2022
Susan Stover - Skeletal Injuries

2021
J.M. Denoix - Lameness

2020
John A. E. Hubbell - Moving Equine Anesthesia from an Art Toward a Science

2019
Dean Richardson - The Tao of Equine Fracture Repair

2018
Virginia B. Reef – Straight from the Heart: Untangling the Complexities of the Equine Cardiovascular System

2017
Padraic M. Dixon – The Evolution of Horses and the Evolution of Equine Dentistry

2016
Norm G. Ducharme – Equine Upper Airways: Intersection of Evidence-Based Data, Emerging Discoveries and the “Veterinary Art”

2015
Thomas J. Divers – The Equine Liver in Health and Disease

2014
John E. Madigan – Gumshoe Sleuthing in the World of Infectious Disease and Neonatology: Discoveries That Changed Equine and Human Health

2013
Sue Dyson – Equine Lameness: Clinical Judgment Meets Advanced Diagnostic Imaging

2012
Stephanie J. Valberg – Muscling in on the Cause of Tying Up

2011
Noah D. Cohen – Equine Epidemiology: Counting for Something in Equine Practice

2010
Dennis E. Brooks – Catastrophic Ocular Surface Failure in the Horse

2009
Larry R. Bramlage – Operative Orthopedics of the Equine Fetlock Joint

2008
Stephen M. Reed – A Review of Neurological Diseases

2007
Dickson D. Varner – Revisiting the Perception of Sperm

2006
Nathaniel A. White, II – Colic

2005
C. Wayne McIlwraith – Joints, Arthroscopy to Gene Therapy

2004
Peter Rossdale – Maladjusted Foal

2003
Alfred M. Merritt, II – Gastroenterology

2002
David M. Nunamaker – Orthopedics, Bucked Shins

2001
James N. Moore – Gastrointestinal Disease

2000
Harold F. Hintz – Nutrition

1999
Joe Mayhew – The Spinal Cord

1998
O.J. Ginther – Equine Pregnancy

1997
N. Edward Robinson – Lower Airway of the Horse