
AAEP Virtual Wednesday Round Table: Equine Rx Diets: Practical Strategies for Equine Diseases
Recorded On: 05/28/2025
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May 28, 2025
While nutrition is fundamental to overall equine health, distinct feeding protocols are integral to successful management of conditions ranging from equine asthma, neuromuscular disease and post-colic surgery to endocrine and metabolic issues such as PPID, insulin dysregulation and laminitis.
Join veteran equine nutritionists Lydia Gray, DVM, and Nerida McGilchrist, B.Rur.Sc (Hon1), PhD, for practical feeding advice that will help you confidently manage a wide variety of health conditions in horses, leading to enhanced patient outcomes and improved client satisfaction.
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Lydia Gray
Dr. Gray is a lifelong horse owner, a veterinarian, and an equine magazine publisher. She has been an associate veterinarian at a mixed practice, a program coordinator for the University of Illinois CVM, executive director of the Hooved Animal Humane Society, and member of the AAEP’s EquineWelfare and Owner Education committees.
Throughout her 16-year career at SmartPak, Dr. Gray provided horse health and nutrition education through a variety of channels, directed supplement research, led new product development, served as regulatory compliance officer, trained the sales team, and oversaw veterinary marketing. She now offers many of the same services with her newcompany, Lydia Gray Consulting, LLC.

Nerida McGilchrist
Dr. McGilchrist is a world-renowned PhD equine nutritionist, educator and author. Trusted by leading feed and supplement companies as well as premiership winning trainers, elite breeders and all manner of horse owners, Dr. McGilchrist has more than 25 years of boots-on-the-ground experience as a professional equine nutritionist.
Self-professed science nerd and passionate lover of data, Dr. McGilchrist loves to deconstruct the science of equine nutrition into easy-to-apply information, tools and tips you can use to help your clients keep their horses healthy and happy!