Dr. Corrine Sweeney | Photo: Courtesy ARCI

Noted equine health researcher and Pennsylvania Racing Commissioner Corrine Sweeney, DVM, is the new chair of the Association of Racing Commissioners International (ARCI).

In addition to serving on the commission since 2008, Sweeney is the associate dean at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine New Bolton Center, in Kennett Square, and one of the authors of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine’s 2014 consensus statement on exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage in horses.

During her remarks last week at the ARCI annual meeting on equine welfare and racing integrity, Sweeney stated “Caring for and advocating for horses and doing research on how to improve the health of horses has been my life’s work. The concept that any of us would support a sport that would be detrimental to the horse dismays me