Larry Bramlage, DVM, MS, Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons, was one of the industry leaders who was asked to provide veterinary comment on editor Kimberly S. Herbert’s September Viewpoint urging the veterinary community to provide information from the research laboratory and the field to veterinarians and horse owners in a more expedient manner. Bramlage practices at the Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky., and is on the AAEP Editorial Advisory Board to the magazine.

In the December issue of The Horse, Wayne McIlwraith, BVSc, PhD, Diplomate ACVS, head of Equine Sciences at Colorado State University and another member of the AAEP Editorial Advisory Board to The Horse, offered his views on the process of peer reviewing and publishing research prior to information reaching the practicing veterinarian and the horse-owning public. McIlwraith noted, “We equine clinicians and researchers all have our frustrations with the peer review system, but it could be severely deleterious to the horse if we bypassed it