During the annual President’s Luncheon Nov. 21 at the 2011 American Association for Equine Practitioners (AAEP) Convention, held in San Anotonio, Texas, the following distinguished veterinarians were inducted as members of the Board of Directors:

Margo L. Macpherson, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACT–Board of Directors— Macpherson, chief of reproduction at the University of Florida (UF) College of Veterinary Medicine will represent District III, the South Atlantic District, and her term will expire in 2014.

A Diplomate of the American College of Theriogenologists (ACT), Macpherson leads the reproduction section and serves as a tenured associate professor at UF. She received her veterinary degree from Michigan State University in 1990 and acquired a master’s degree at Texas A&M University in 1994. Before joining the faculty at UF, Macpherson worked as a private practitioner in Central Kentucky and served as a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania.

Macpherson’s research interests include late pregnancy and postpartum conditions affecting the mare, with her most recent laboratory studies focusing on bacterial placentitis. She served as the president of the ACT in 2005. From 2006 to 2010, she acted as the reproduction anchor for the Kester News Hour at the AAEP Convention, a role requiring thorough knowledge and research of timely developments in equine theriogenology