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Veterinary Conference

Schedule

Cornell Veterinary Conference

Sunday (June 12)

Optional preconference activities include a museum tour, Finger Lakes wine tour, and dinner cruise.

Monday (June 13)

 

Session I

Session II

Session III

8:30-noon

Oncology

  1. Changing Attitudes about Cancer:
    Cornell’s Prevention and Early Detection Initiative
    Dr. Rodney L. Page
  2. Radiation Therapy:
    Rethinking Our Approaches
    Dr. Margaret C. McEntee
  3. MRI for Cancer Diagnosis
    Dr. Peter V. Scrivani

Cardiology

  1. Screening for Heart Disease:
    What We Know and What We Don’t
    Dr. Marc S. Kraus
  2. New Drugs for Management of Heart Disease
    Dr. Anna R. M. Gelzer
  3. Auscultation:
    The Stethoscope is Not Dead
    Dr. Marc S. Kraus

Food Animal Medicine

  1. The Use of Ionophores on Dairy Operations: Effects on Milk Production Efficiency, Growth, and Coccidiosis Control
    Dr. David McClary
  2. Positive Environmental Impacts of Feeding Ionophores to Dairy Cattle
    Dr. Luis Orlindo Tedeschi

noon-1:00

Lunch

1:00-4:30

Pain Management
Dr. Andrea Looney

  1. Current Concepts in Pain Relief for Small Animals
  2. Physical Therapy for Small Animals: An Introduction and Overview

Infectious Diseases/New Vaccines
Dr. Richard Ford

Canine Infectious Diseases and Timely Vaccination Topics

Food Animal Medicine
Dr. Giles Fecteau

  1. Considerations for Otitis Media, including Mycoplasma, in Dairy Calves
  2. Medical Considerations for Septicemia in Calves
  3. The Surgical Abdomen: To Cut or Not, from a Medical Perspective

6:00 P.M.

Dinner With Keynote Speaker

Dr. Robert A. Cook

One World--One Health: Assuring a Future for People, Domestic Animals, and Wildlife

Fee: $35

Tuesday (June 14)

8:30-noon

Critical Care
Dr. Gretchen Schoeffler

  1. Sepsis: Identification and Management
  2. Trauma: An Emergency Room Perspective

Dermatology
Dr. Danny W. Scott

  1. Common Errors in Dermatological Case Referral
  2. En Vogue Dermatological Treatments

Food Animal Medicine
Applied Dairy Research Abstracts from Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine and Pro-Dairy Faculty Members

noon-1:00

Lunch

1:00-4:30

Pain Relief Wet Lab
Drs. Andrea Looney & Lysa Posner
Small Animal Pain Relief
Lab fee: $100

Notice: This Lab has been canceled.

Exotic Wet Lab
Dr. James K. Morrisey

  1. Common Emergencies in Pet Birds (Lecture)
  2. Critical Care Techniques in Pet Birds (Wet Lab) Lab fee: $100

Clinical Pathology Wet Lab
Drs. Tracy Stokol & Joan Messick
From the Clinical Pathology Laboratory to the Cageside: Using Data to Solve a Case
Lab fee: $50

Veterinary Technician Program

Monday (June 13)

8:30-9:30

Common Exotic Pet Problems - Alice Van Der Mark

9:45-10:45

Primary Hemostatic Disorders - Kimberly Baldwin

11:00-noon

Why is Fluffy Bleeding?: Diagnosis and Management of Secondary Bleeding Disorders - Lisa Spagnoletti-DeWilde

noon-1:00

Lunch

1:00-2:00

Case Presentations of Small Animal Anesthesia Patients - Sharon Koski

2:15-3:15

Equine General Anesthesia: Basic Concepts and Techniques - Ann Townsend

3:30-4:30

Equine Neonatology - Jean Young