Dr Anthony Blikslager

Dr. Anthony Blikslager is Professor of Equine Surgery and Gastroenterology at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, USA. His laboratory is focused on mechanisms whereby intestinal mucosa repairs after inflammatory insults such as ischemia and infectious disease. Dr. Blikslager won the Applied Equine Research Award from the World Equestrian Veterinary Association in 2011. In that same year, he also served on an NIH study section assessing proposals of dual benefit to people and agriculturally important species including the horse. Dr. Blikslager is on the Editorial Board for the Equine Veterinary Journal and Equine Veterinary Education. He has been a member of the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Scientific Advisory Board since 2010. Dr. Blikslager is also an active member of the American Gastroenterological Association and was inducted as a Fellow of the AGA in 2010. He was a member of the United States Department of Agriculture National Research Initiative Review Panel in 2008. Dr. Blikslager chaired the Large Animal Scientific Advisory Board of the Morris Animal Foundation in 2008. He received the Pfizer Award for Excellence in Research from North Carolina State University in 2006. He has in excess of 130 peer reviewed publications.

Dr. Blikslager received a PhD in Gastrointestinal Physiology at North Carolina State University in 1997. He became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1995 following a residency in Large Animal Surgery at NC State University from 1990-1994, and an Equine Medicine and Surgery internship at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1989-1990. He initially received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine in 1989.