College of Veterinary Medicine

Education:

MVB, MRCVS, Veterinary College of Ireland, University College Dublin, Ireland, 1972
PhD, Department of Comparative Medical Sciences Graduate Faculty, University of Pennsylvania, 1985

Honors and Awards:

Sir Frederick Hobday Memorial Lecture: Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment of Colic. Invited to present by the British Equine Veterinary Association, December 15, 2004, Royal College of Physicians, London.
Member in Phi Zeta, University of Illinois (to 2004) and University of Florida (2006 to present).
Graduate Faculty, University of Florida, Research and Graduate Programs, March 2007.
Class of 2010 Teacher of the Year Award, UF College of Veterinary Medicine, 2007

Research Interests:

Pathophysiology and treatment of diseases that cause colic in horses, with special emphasis on ischemic diseases of the small and large intestines.

Selected Publications:

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Freeman DE, Hammock PD, Baker GJ, et al. Short-term and long-term survival and prevalence of postoperative ileus after small intestinal surgery in the horse. Equine Vet Jour Supplement, 32:42-51, 2000.

Freeman DE. Duodenitis, proximal jejunitis. Equine Veterinary Education, 12:415-426, 2000.

Freeman DE, Kilgallon EL: Effect of venous strangulation obstruction on length of equine jejunum and relevance to small intestinal resection. Vet Surg, 30:218-222,2001.

Freeman DE, Schaeffer DJ: Age distributions of horses with strangulation of the small intestine by a lipoma or in the epiploic foramen: 46 cases (1994-2000). J Am Vet Med Assoc, 219:87-89,2001.

Doyle A, Freeman DE, et al. Clinical presentation and successful treatment of 2 mares with chronic uterine torsion. J Am Vet Med Assoc, 220:349-353,2002.

Richter RA, Freeman DE, Wallig MA, et al. Anion transport alterations and apoptosis induced by phenylbutazone in the equine right dorsal colon in vitro. Am J Vet Res 63:934-941, 2002.

Rötting AK, Freeman DE, Eurell JA, Constable P, Wallig MA. Effects of
acetylcysteine and migration of resident eosinophils in an in vitro model of mucosal injury and restitution in equine right dorsal colon. Am J Vet Res 64:1205-1212,2003.

Doyle AJ, Freeman DE, Rapp H, et al. Life-threatening hemorrhage from enterotomies and enterectomies in 7 horses. Vet Surg 32:553-558,2003.

Rötting AK, Freeman DE, et al. Total and partial ovariohysterectomy in 7 mares. Equine Vet J, 35:29-33,2004.

Archer DC, Freeman DE, Doyle AJ, Proudman CJ, Edwards GB. Association between cribbing and entrapment of small intestine in the epiploic foramen in 2 hospital populations: 68 cases (1991-2002). J Am Vet Med Assoc 224:562-564,2004.

Allen ML, Baker GJ, Freeman DE, et al. In vitro study of heat production during power reduction of equine mandibular teeth. J Am Vet Med Assoc 224:1128-1132,2004.

Rötting AK, Freeman DE, Constable P, Eurell JA, Wallig MA. Effects of phenylbutazone, indomethacin, prostaglandin E2, butyrate, and glutamine on restitution of oxidant-injured right dorsal colon of horses in vitro. Am J Vet Res 65:1589-1595,2004.

Doyle AJ, Stewart AA, Constable PD, Eurell JC, Freeman DE, Griffon D. Effects of sodium hyaluronate and methylprednisolone acetate on proteoglycan synthesis in equine articular cartilage explants. Am J Vet Res 66:48-53,2005.

Doyle AJ, Freeman DE: Extensive nasal septum resection in the horse using a 3-wire method. Vet Surg 34:167-173,2005.

Freeman DE, Schaeffer DJ: Short-term survival after surgery for epiploic foramen entrapment compared with other strangulating diseases of the small intestine in horses. Equine Vet Jour 37:292-295,2005.

Ernst NS, Freeman DE, MacKay RJ: Progression of mycosis of the auditory tube diverticulum (guttural pouch) after arterial occlusion in a horse with contralateral temporohyoid osteoarthropathy. J Am Vet Med Assoc 229:1945-1948,2006.

Olds AM, Stewart AA, Freeman DE, et al: Evaluation of the rate of development of septic arthritis after elective arthroscopy in horses: 7 cases (1994-2003). J Am Vet Med Assoc 229:1949-1954,2006.

Inoue OJ, Freeman DE, Wallig MA, and Clarkson RB: In vitro effects of reactive oxygen metabolites, with and without flunixin meglumine, on equine colonic mucosa. Am J Vet Res 68:305-312,2007.