Dr. Amanda House

Amanda House, D.V.M., a clinical professor and director of student affairs at the UF College of Veterinary Medicine, has joined the board of directors of the American Association of Equine Practitioners. House was installed during the group’s 65th annual convention in Denver. Her term will conclude in 2022.

House is director of the practice-based equine clerkship program, which enables UF veterinary students to have 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 a faculty advisor for the AAEP’s student chapter at UF from 2008-15.

A 2001 graduate of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, House completed an internship and large animal internal medicine residency at the University of Georgia’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital prior to joining the faculty at UF in 2007. House serves on the AAEP’s infectious disease committee and as moderator of the group’s infectious disease rounds discussion meeting. She also serves on the association’s mentorship subcommittee. A past president of the Florida Association of Equine Practitioners, House currently serves on that group’s educational program advisory committee.

Headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky, the AAEP was founded in 1954 as a non-profit organization dedicated to the health and welfare of the horse.