Margo Macpherson, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACT, American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) President.

American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) President, Margo Macpherson, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACT, is a relentless, highly regarded clinician/scientist who has dedicated her professional career to combining both veterinary medicine and research. She currently serves as a tenured professor at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine and previously worked as a private practitioner in central Kentucky and served as a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her veterinary degree from Michigan State University in 1990 and a master’s degree from Texas A&M University in 1994.

Macpherson has worked in private practice at the backside of a racetrack and a mixed-animal practice and owned her own business. Through all that, she always knew she wanted to be in an academic research position.

“That drive allowed me to pursue a residency at Texas A&M and that proved to be the most pivotal move of my career,” she recalls