AAEP Virtual Wednesday Round Table: New World Screwworm Update

Dr. DeNotta is a clinical assistant professor and equine veterinary extension specialist at the University of Florida's College of Veterinary Medicine. In addition, she chairs the AAEP’s Infectious Disease Committee and is co-author of the association's Equine Coronavirus Guidelines and Borrelia burgdorferi Infection and Lyme Disease Guidelines. Dr. DeNotta achieved diplomate status from the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in 2013 and her clinical interests include equine infectious disease and clinical neurology.

Dr. Cody Egnor grew up on a Brangus cattle ranch in northeastern Arizona. He attended the Arizona State University and then Colorado State University School of Veterinary Medicine. In vet school, he pursued the large animal track with a focus in food animal production and graduated in 2011.

Dr. Egnor works in the swine commodity team of USDA APHIS VS. His current areas of focus are national swine disease traceability, New World Screwworm Domestic Action team as well as other disease surveillance and response efforts.

Dr. Andrew Short is Chair and Professor of Insect Biodiversity at the University of Florida. Dr. Short joined the Entomology and Nematology Department as Chair and Professor in 2023. Dr. Short’s research focuses on the evolution and biodiversity of aquatic insects grouped into three primary areas: biodiversity discovery through fieldwork and taxonomic revisions; inferring evolutionary relationships among lineages using varied sources and data; and exploring macroevolutionary patterns and the processes that generate them using these phylogenetic relationships.

Dr. Neil Gray has been a sport horse practitioner with an emphasis on hunters, jumpers and dressage horses in Southern California since graduating from The Ohio State University in 1987. Neil was himself an avid show jumping rider for many years until giving up due to various injuries. He got hooked on Equitarian work at an Equitarian Initiative workshop in Mexico in 2013, came home, sold his practice and has since participated in projects in Peru, Nicaragua and is currently the leader of a project with the Ngäbe indigenous tribe in Costa Rica. He is also an avid SCUBA diver and enjoys underwater photography. He has been on the board of the Equitarian Initiative since 2015.