On August 29, 2024, Academic Press (an imprint of Elsevier) published Equine Welfare in Clinical Practice: How and Why to Incorporate Equine Behavior and Welfare Assessments into Clinical Practice, edited by V. Wensley Koch, DVM. Stacie is the sole author of Chapter 3, “Minimizing Fear Associated With Veterinary Procedures” (pages 49–68), contributing the book’s chapter […]
On January 11, 2024, EquiManagement’s Disease Du Jour podcast — a show for equine veterinary professionals, sponsored by Merck Animal Health — released Episode 125, “Fear Free Veterinary Care,” with Stacie as the sole guest. Host Carly Sisson, EquiManagement’s digital editor, spent the episode walking through the three core Fear Free concepts — touch gradient, […]
On September 26, 2023, The Chronicle of the Horse published a feature by Dallas Finn Calvert on the Fear Free veterinary movement, “Fear Free Training Is Creating Happier Horses—And Safer Veterinarians,” which also ran in the magazine’s September 2023 print issue. Stacie appears throughout as a primary expert source alongside Fear Free founder Dr. Marty […]
In February 2023, Merck Animal Health presented a one-hour continuing education webinar for veterinary professionals, “Low Stress Veterinary Care for Horses,” with Dr. Stacie Boswell as the sole presenter. The webinar was RACE-approved for one hour of CE credit, offered free of charge through Merck’s Professional Services Veterinarians continuing-education program, and was subsequently made available […]
On November 8, 2022, Dr. Stacie Boswell presented a free hands-on evening at Montana State University’s Miller Stock Pavilion in Bozeman — part of the MSU Montana Agricultural Experiment Station and Department of Animal and Range Sciences monthly series, open to students and the greater Bozeman community. The topic: preparing horses for veterinary care using […]
The August 1, 2021 issue of JAVMA News, the news publication of the American Veterinary Medical Association, covered the launch of the Fear Free Equine Certification Program and interviewed Stacie about how it came to be. JAVMA News: “Equine Fear Free certification launches” The article, by Kaitlyn Mattson, traces the program to a conversation Stacie […]
Ahead of the 2021 Fourth of July, Stacie wrote a short piece for the Hardaway Veterinary Hospital blog on horses and fireworks – framed around fear, anxiety, and stress (FAS), the same concepts at the heart of her Fear Free equine work. The post is still live on Hardaway’s site. Your Horse and Fireworks By […]
On June 9, 2021, Wendy Murdoch — creator of the SURE FOOT® Equine Stability Program — welcomed Stacie to her “Webinars With Wendy” series (webinar No. 214) for a 53-minute conversation about Fear Free veterinary care, recorded the month after the Fear Free Equine Veterinary Certification Program launched. The conversation ranges from the origins of […]
On May 26, 2021, dvm360 covered the launch of the Fear Free Equine Veterinary Certification Program, the eight-module certification course Stacie co-authored. dvm360: “Fear Free launches equine certification program” “The program encompasses 8 one-hour modules that were written and reviewed by leading equine medicine experts covering Fear Free concepts. Video clips and slides demonstrate how […]
On May 20, 2021, Fear Free launched its national Equine Veterinary Certification Program, an eight-module certification course for veterinary professionals. Stacie is one of the five authors of the course, and the program traces back to a conversation she started: in 2018 she approached Fear Free founder Dr. Marty Becker about building an equine version […]