The American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) presented Bruce Whittle, DVM, owner of the Honey Creek Veterinary Hospital in Trenton, Missouri, for his long -term leadership of the AAEP workshop for students and his convinced attorney for the veterinary, who is owned in the owner of the Honey Creek Veterinary Hospital in Trenton, Missouri, and his long -term leadership of the AAEP scope of practice issues.
The distinguished service award honors the exemplary service for the AAEP or a similar organization as the horse industry or the profession of veterinary medicine for horses. Dr. Whittle received his price on December 10 during the lunch of the President at the 70th annual congress of the AAEP in Orlando, Florida.
Dr. Whittle is the long -term linchpin of the AAEP workshop in dentistry, an inservent weekend program that started in 2009, and offered about 20 times for the AAEP members of the students at veterinary schools throughout North America. Since its foundation, Dr. Whittle works as an instructor for 45 different workshops at 24 Colleges of Veterinary Medicine. He also recruits AAEP members to act as a voluntary workshop instructor. Coordinates with the local faculty to provide living horses and funeral heads for the training of the students; And regularly checks and updates the workshop curriculum so that the student training is rooted in solid basic care practices.
“Since his beginnings in 2009, Dr. Whittle has really been the” captain “of the AAEP voluntary team that will become a reality,” said co-nominator Dr. Kenton Morgan. “Through his efforts, Dr. Whittle personally contributed to raising hundreds of veterinary students in art and science in horse dental medicine and influencing the health and well -being of horses and the profession of veterinary medicine of the horses.”
Apart from his deep -seated commitment to veterinary students, Dr. Whittle through his voluntary service at the AAEP and Missouri Veterinary Medical Association (MVMA), especially in relation to public policy and the scope of practice issues, the horse and the profession. He was directly involved in legislative measures at the state level to deregulate horse dental medicine, and he personally trained veterinary medical associations about the potential negative negative professional, ethical and medical effects of non -licensed veterinary practices. In connection with the production of AAEP positions on dentistry, the supervisory level, the practice of veterinary medicine and the roles of health service providers in veterinary medicine.
Dr. Whittle, who received his veterinary degree from the University of Missouri in 1994, is a former president of the MVMA and former chairman of the AAEP welfare and public policy.
