Equine Reproduction Days – The subfertile mare

James R. Crabtree

graduated from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Edinburgh in 2001 after which he spent 4 years in mixed practice before leaving for a stud season in Victoria, Australia. On his return to the United Kingdom, he joined Jonathan Pycock, specialist in equine reproduction in Yorkshire. In 2010 he was awarded the RCVS certificate in Equine Stud Medicine. In 2013 he started Equine Reproductive Services (UK) LTD developing a busy first opinion and referral equine practice based in Yorkshire and in 2014 became a Honorary lecturer at Liverpool University. He has a particular interest in Doppler ultrasonography, stallion management, the late term pregnant mare, ovarian pathology, and orthopedic disorders of the foal.

Peter Daels

graduated from the Veterinary Faculty of the Ghent State University in 1984, completed a residency in equine reproduction at University of California, Davis and obtained a PhD in Comparative Pathology at Davis in 1990. Peter then moved to the veterinary faculty at Cornell University and stayed there until 1999. He spent a sabbatical year at the University of Utrecht and was director of equine research at the INRA Research Institute at Tours France from 1999 to 2004. Between 2004 and 2012 he was head of the Keros ET Center in Belgium for equine embryo transfer. Presently, Peter is professor of equine reproduction at the Ghent State University.

Ryan Ferris

graduated from the Veterinary Medicine College of Washington State University. He went on to perform a residency in theriogenology at Colorado State University and is board-certified in the American College of Theriogenology. Following his residency, Ryan was invited to stay at Colorado State University as a faculty member and was there for 7 years running an internationally recognized research program in diagnostics and therapeutics for endometritis. He has an extensive background in problem mares and embryo transfer. Since 2018 he runs with his wife a private equine clinic in Oregon, USA, and offers all reproductions services.

Marco Livini

graduated from University of Milan in 1988 with a degree in Veterinary Medicine. He had his first professional experiences on equine reproduction in Australia at Turangga Stud and in Ireland as resident vet at Rathbarrry Stud in 1990. Then he joined as associate the “Veterinari Associati Ippovet” in 1991 where he currently works as theriogenologist. He was coordinator of SIRE (Italian Society Equine Riproduction) in 2000-2002 and President of SIVE (Italian Society of Equine Practitioners) from 2008 to 2010. Since 2016 he acts as Adjunct Professor at the Veterinary University of Milan. He is co-Author of the DVD „Atlante di ecografia equina“ and 1^st and 2^nd author of the Veterinary Advances Apps „Equine Reproductive Ultrasound“ and „Advanced Equine Reproductive Ultrasound“.

Ute Pansegrau

graduated from the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover in 2004. Right away she started working at the Equine Clinic Luesche, Germany and obtained her doctor’s degree with a thesis about uterine motility in subfertile mares in 2007. She specialized in reproductive and internal medicine and is a German board-certified equine specialist since 2009 and specialist in equine reproduction since 2016. Her main interests are the treatment of the subfertile mare, embryo transfer and insemination with frozen semen. Furthermore, she works a lot with horses that have respiratory and cardiological problems and foals.