Luke Bass, DVM, MS, Dipl. ABVP, and Mitchell K. Rode, DVM, have joined the American Association of Equine Practitioners’ (AAEP) board of directors.

They were installed during the Dec. 4 President’s Luncheon at the 2018 AAEP Convention, held in San Francisco, California. Each will serve a three-year term, which will expire in 2021.

Bass is assistant professor and head of the Equine Field Service at the Colorado State University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He received his veterinary degree in 2007 from Colorado State University and joined the faculty in 2013, following six years in private practice in California and Colorado. His focus is equine ambulatory medicine and teaching veterinary students and undergraduate equine science. He also serves as faculty advisor for the school’s AAEP student chapter