Harold Schott received his DVM degree in 1984 from The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. He started his career with three years in private equine practice in Southern California.
Schott subsequently pursued advanced training by completing a residency in equine internal medicine and a PhD in equine exercise physiology at Washington State University. Since 1995, he has been an equine medicine clinician at Michigan State University (MSU). He has a strong clinical interest in urinary tract and endocrinological disorders, with a focus on PPID.
Schott is a member of the Equine Endocrinology Group and was the group leader in preparing the expert opinion document “Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction” in 2017 and 2019. Over the past few years, he has also developed a strong interest in providing care to working equids in Mexico.
In 2017 he developed an annual two-week clinical experience taking MSU students to work with Mexican veterinarians and veterinary students. There they provided veterinary care to burros, mules, and horses in rural Mexican communities. Also in 2017, he started an Equine Welfare in Practice Clerkship.
Schott, who once played polo, is married to veterinary dermatologist Annette Petersen. His wife and daughter Melissa are both avid dressage riders. They count among their animals four horses and a pony, one of whom is the last survivor of the equids in the FDA licensing trial for Prascend.
Schott’s Recent Research
Fortin JS, Benskey MJ, Lookingland KJ, Patterson JS, Howey EB, Goudreau JL, Schott HC. Restoring pars intermedia dopamine concentrations and tyrosine hydroxylase expression levels with pergolide: evidence from horses with pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction. BMC Vet Res, 16:356, 2020. DOI: 10.1186/s12917-020-02565-3
Fortin JS, Hetak AA, Duggan KE, Burglass CM, Penticoff HB, Schott HC. Equine pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction: a spontaneous model of synucleinopathy. Scientific Reports (Nature) 11:16036, 2021. Published online 8/6/2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95396-7
Bertin FR, Frank N, Breuhaus BA, Schott HC, Kritchevsky J. Diagnosis and management of thyroid disorders and thyroid hormone supplementation in adult horses and foals. Equine Vet J. doi.org/10.1111/evj.13981; first published on-line August 3, 2023
Colbath AC, Fortin JS, Burglass CM, Panek C, Vergara-Hernandez FB, Johnson TN, Robison CA, Logan AA, Nelson NA, Nielsen BD, Schott HC. Lumbar vertebral bone density is decreased in horses with pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction. Equine Vet J, http://doi.org/10.1111/evj.14039; first published online December 28, 2023
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