The Equine Asthma Group
Our focus is the promotion of the science and evidence-based equine respiratory health with the goal of improving the health of horses with asthma.
Upcoming Workshop
In an effort to continue the work initiated at the last workshop in Custer, South Dakota, USA in 2019, the Equine Asthma Group is organizing a workshop to present the result of systematic reviews of the literature around several main topics:
- Environmental factors associated with equine asthma;
- Clinical scoring systems;
- Airway cytology methods;
- Pulmonary function testing;
- Mucus scoring;
- Exercise testing.
The goal of the 2023 Equine Asthma Standardization Workshop is to use these results to stimulate productive discussions among researchers and clinicians from around the world who are actively investigating airway inflammation, as well as leading equine practitioners, in order to generate a standard diagnostic approach for asthma in horses and provide future research directions.
We are extremely grateful to our Platinum level sponsors, the Dorothy Russell Havemeyer Foundation and Boehringer Ingelheim, for supporting this workshop and for fostering scientific discovery to improve equine health.
You are invited to participate in the 2022 online Dorothy Russell Havemeyer Foundation Equine
Asthma Workshop on March 29 & 31 and April 5. Teams of clinicians and scientists from the
Equine Asthma Group conducted systematic reviews of the literature regarding 6 research
questions related to asthma in horses. This online conference will allow each team to present
their preliminary findings for feedback in order to prepare for the final presentation during the
2023 Dorothy Russell Havemeyer Foundation Equine Asthma Standardization Workshop in
Barcelona, Spain.