Amanda House, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, clinical professor and director of student affairs at the University of Florida (UF) College of Veterinary Medicine, in Gainesville, has joined the American Association of Equine Practitioners’ (AAEP) board of directors. House was installed during the Dec. 10 President’s Luncheon at the AAEP’s 65^th Annual Convention, currently being held in Denver, Colorado. Her term will conclude in 2022.

House joined the UF faculty in 2007 and is director of the Practice-Based Equine Clerkship program, which enables veterinary students to experience an ambulatory practice clinical rotation with private practitioners. Her clinical interests include neonatology, infectious disease, preventive medicine, and animal welfare. In addition, she served as an AAEP Student Chapter faculty advisor from 2008 to 2015.

A 2001 graduate of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, in North Grafton, Massachusetts, House completed an internship and large animal internal medicine residency at the University of Georgia’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital, in Athens, prior to starting at UF.

House serves on the AAEP’s Infectious Disease Committee, as moderator of the Infectious Disease Round, and on the Mentorship Subcommittee. She previously served on the Horse Owner Education, Member Engagement, and Professional Conduct and Ethics committees. She is a past president of the Florida Association of Equine Practitioners and currently serves on its Educational Program Advisory Committee, and she’s served on committees with the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine