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Jerry Black, DVM, is Senior Partner and President of the Pioneer Equine Hospital, a multi-doctor full-service equine facility in Oakdale, Calif. As President-Elect of the American Association of Equine Practitioners, he is organizing the 47th Annual Convention’s scientific program.

Black is a Brownfield, Texas, native who attended Colorado State University for his undergraduate and DVM degrees. Active in the California Veterinary Medical Association, Black sits on the Legislative and Equine Committees, and rounds out his political involvement as Chairman of the American Horse Council Animal Welfare Committee.

Performance horse lameness is Black’s main interest in his private referral practice. Over the years, he’s spoken at many local, national, and international meetings, as well as at AAEP annual conventions. Besides his veterinary connections to the horse industry, Black also enjoys riding cutting horses at his Oak Valley Ranch, which is a full-service stallion station and mare care facility. He is Immediate Past President of the Pacific Coast Cutting Horse Association, and he is on the Board of Directors of the National Cutting Horse Association. His non-equine hobbies include golf and skiing.

Jean-Marie Denoix, DVM, PhD, is Chairman and Professor of Veterinary Anatomy and Head of the Equine Clinical Unit at the Veterinary School at Alfort in France since 1988. Denoix, who also has been head of Alfort’s Research Unit in Equine Biomechanics since 1991, earned his DVM and PhD from the Veterinary School of Lyon, and was the head of the school’s radiology department from 1983 to 1987.

Denoix’ research includes comparative imaging, especially ultrasonography of joints (Up Front “Ultrasound Seminar At CIRALE” in the January 2001 issue), biomechanics and functional anatomy of the equine locomotor system, and osteoarticular disorders in young horses. A great deal of Denoix’ teaching and research time is spent as head of Alfort’s CIRALE (Centre d’Imagerie et de Recherche sur les Affections Locomotrices Equines).

From 1990 to 1997, Denoix was editor of Praticque Vétérinaire Equine, the French equine veterinary journal. From 1990-1998, he served as vice president of the European Association of Veterinary Anatomists. Denoix is the author of several books, the most recent of which is The Equine Distal Limb, a comprehensive collection and discussion of his superb anatomical images collected over the past 10 years. Denoix has spoken on equine locomotor problems at international veterinary meetings in more than 20 countries.

Albert J. Kane, DVM, MPVM, PhD, joins the board with an extensive background in epidemiology and orthopedic research. Kane currently is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Equine Sciences at Colorado State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. He earned his undergraduate degree at Notre Dame, and his DVM at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine.

After practicing in Leesburg, Va., he moved to the West Coast. Kane earned his Master of Preventive Medicine in Epidemiology and Herd Health at the University of California, Davis, and after earning his PhD there in 1997, Kane was hired at Colorado State.

Kane serves on committees such as the AAEP Educational Programs Committee and the AAEP Abstract Review Committee. He serves as an ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, and as a grant reviewer for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). As a consultant for the USDA in the National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) Equine ’98 study, Kane was responsible for the preparation of the lameness report. Kane’s current research interests include the application of epidemiology and preventive medicine in livestock production, risk assessment of horseshoeing factors, lameness, musculoskeletal injury in horses, and yearling radiographic changes associated with future racing performance and orthopedic disease.