Dr Pat Harris

After qualifying from Cambridge Veterinary School in 1983 and working there as a House Physician, Pat completed her PhD at the AHT, Newmarket into ‘Some aspects of the Equine Rhabdomyolysis Syndrome’. She joined the WALTHAM Centre for Pet Nutrition in 1995 and is responsible for the research carried out by the Equine Studies group, which provides the science behind the SPILLERS, BUCKEYE NUTRITION and WINERGY brands. Pat is currently Director of Science at MARS HorseCare, as well as Adjunct Professor of Equine Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, an Honorary Professor in Equine Nutrition, University of Nottingham, School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, an Adjunct Professor at University of Queensland Australia, and an European Specialist in Veterinary Clinical and Comparative Nutrition. She is a member of the board of American Academy of Veterinary Nutrition as well as the Vice president of the European Society of Veterinary and Comparative Nutrition and a Past President of the British Equine Veterinary Association. Pat has been on the editorial board of several journals, was a reviewer for the NRC Nutrient requirements of Horses (2007) and recently was a NRC committee member on the Safety of dietary supplements for horses, dogs and cats (2009). She was recently awarded the American Feed Industry Award for Equine Nutrition Research (2013). Pat lectures all over the world on nutrition as it affects the health, welfare, behaviour and performance of the horse. She is the author or co-author of numerous lay as well as over 350 scientific papers, abstracts as well as book chapters and most recently the co-editor of, and multiple author in, a new text book on Equine Clinical and Applied Nutrition (2013) .