Dr. Laurie Bohannon, the recipient of the California Thoroughbred Foundation’s Louis R. Rowan Fellowship at U. C. Davis in 2012, was hired by The Stronach Group as Senior Veterinarian, a newly created position, prior to the start of Santa Anita Park’s autumn meeting. She works with association veterinarians in aspects of safety protocols.
Dr. Bohannon’s role is to cover on-track training and assist The Stronach primary track veterinarian to provide coverage during live racing. She assists with morning examinations of horses for both training and racing.
Her experience includes private and regulatory veterinary medicine at California racetracks. She and Dr. Alina Vale, who was awarded a scholarship at Davis by the Foundation in 2008, were the two monitoring vets at Del Mar, part of a seven-vet team overseeing the safety of horses training and racing this summer.
The Foundation gives the Louis R. Rowan Fellowship in Equine Studies to a graduate student at Davis working on research to enhance the health and lives of horses. Dr. Bohannon was selected for the fellowship while earning an advanced degree in veterinary surgery.