College of Veterinary Medicine

 

Education:

Resident, Large Animal Internal Medicine, University of Florida, 1996-1999
DACVIM, (Large Animal Internal Medicine), 1999
DVM, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1995

Honors and Awards:

Large Animal Resident of the Year, University of Florida, 1999
Excellence in Doctoral Studies, University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, 2003
Large Animal Clinician of the Year, University of Florida, 2005
Florida Veterinary Medical Association Clinical Investigator Award, 2007

Research Interests:

My research has primarily been focused in three main areas: the equine gastric ulcer syndrome, pain management in the horse, and critical care of equine neonates. My laboratory has evaluated the effectiveness of various drugs for the treatment of gastric ulcers in foals and adult horses and for pain management in adult horses. We have also evaluated how different factors (age, housing, illness) can affect the physiologic environment of the stomach in foals and adult horses. The overall goal of this work is to gain a better understanding of the equine gastric ulcer syndrome and to improve our ability to manage various types of pain in horses.

Selected Publications:

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Sanchez LC, Lester GD, Merritt AM. Intragastric pH in normal neonatal foals and the effect of ranitidine. J Am Vet Med Assoc 1998;212(9):1407-1412.

Sanchez LC, Lester GD, Merritt AM. Intragastric pH profiles in critically ill neonatal foals and the effect of ranitidine.  J Am Vet Med Assoc 2001;218(6):907-911.

Merritt AM, Sanchez LC, Burrow JA, Church M, Hill S.  Effect of GastroGard and three compounded oral omeprazole preparations on 24 h intragastric pH in gastrically cannulated mature horses. Eq Vet J 2003, 35(7):691-5

Sanchez LC, Murray MJ, Merritt AM.  Effect of omeprazole on intragastric pH in normal neonatal foals.  Am J Vet Res 2004;65(8):1039-41.

Robertson SA, Sanchez LC, Merritt AM, Doherty TJ. Effect of Systemic Lidocaine on Visceral and Somatic Nociception in Conscious Horses.  Eq Vet J 2005;37(2):122-7.

Ryan CA, Sanchez LC, Giguère S, Vickroy T. Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Pantoprazole in Clinically Normal Neonatal Foals. Eq Vet J 2005;37(4):336-41.

Valverde A, Giguère S, Sanchez LC, Shih A, Ryan CA.  Effects of dobutamine, norepinephrine and vasopressin on cardiovascular function in anesthetized neonatal foals with induced hypotension.  Am J Vet Res 2006 Oct;67(10):1730-7.

Sanchez LC, Robertson SA, Maxwell LK, Cole C, Zientek K.  Effect of fentanyl on visceral and somatic nociception in conscious horses.  J Vet Int Med 2007;21:1067–1075.

Giguère S, Sanchez LC, Shih A, Szabo NJ, Womble AY, Robertson SA. Comparison of caffeine and doxapram on respiratory and cardiovascular function in foals with induced respiratory acidosis. Am J Vet Res 2007;68(12): 1407-1416.

Javsicas LH, Sanchez LC.  The effect of omeprazole paste on intragastric pH in clinically ill neonatal foals.  Eq Vet J 2008;40(1):41-44.

Sanchez LC, Giguère S, Javsicas LH, Bier J, Walrond CJ, Womble AY.  The effect of age, feeding, and omeprazole administration on gastric tonometry in healthy neonatal foals. J Vet Int Med 2008;22(2):406-10.

Husted L, Sanchez LC, Olsen SN, Baptiste KE, Merritt AM.  Effect of paddock versus stall housing on 24-hour gastric pH within the proximal and ventral equine stomach.  Eq Vet J. 2008 Feb 5; [Epub ahead of print]