Duane Chappell, DVM; Foster Northrop, DVM; and Deborah Spike-Pierce, DVM, MBA, were installed as members of the American Association of Equine Practitioners’ board of directors during the Nov. 20 President’s Luncheon at the AAEP’s 63rd Annual Convention, in San Antonio, Texas. They will each serve three-year terms that will expire in 2020.

Chappell is an equine technical services veterinarian with Merck Animal Health.

After receiving his veterinary degree from Purdue University in 1984, Chappell managed solo and mixed group practices in the Midwest before serving as resident veterinarian at Richland Ranch Quarter Horse farm and senior clinician/practice manager at Auburn Veterinary Service, both in Auburn, Illinois. He spent four years as an assistant professor at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, before joining Merck Animal Health in 2014.

An AAEP member since 1992, Chappell serves on the AAEP Foundation Advisory Council and chairs its student scholarship program. He previously volunteered his expertise as a member of the AAEP’s Dentistry and Infectious Disease committees