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Reading Radiographs for the Hoof Care Practitioner

This webinar fulfills the reading radiograph requirement for PHCP students.

Join Dr. Allison Williges in this webinar as she instructs hoof care practitioners on properly reading radiographs for determining how to improve decision making during the trimming process. She will teach about the various angles when reading radiographs, terminology, proper positioning of the hoof prior to taking the images, when and why to get radiographs, and more.

Allison Williges, DVM, first became interested in horses at a young age when her Brownie troop visited a local horse farm. She earned an undergraduate degree in Biology from the College of William and Mary in 2003, where she was a member of the college equestrian team. She went on to graduate from the University of Georgia College of Veterinary medicine in 2009.

After graduating from vet school she completed an internship at Mid Atlantic Equine Medical Center in New Jersey, rotating through each department in the hospital and gaining experience in medical and surgical cases, emergency and ambulatory medicine.

Allison joined New York Equine in August 2011. She has an interest in the diagnosis and management of sport horse lameness as well as ophthalmology and dentistry. She has also completed training in equine chiropractic.