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September Webinars
FARM Animal - “Strategic Supplementation: Improving herd performance at weaning”'
Weaning stress and transportation can have negative effects on the immune system. At weaning, calves enter unfamiliar environments and groups, and DMI can vary significantly, depriving their immune systems of the trace minerals needed for growth and immunity. Thus, even weanlings fed nutritionally adequate diets could become sub-clinically trace mineral deficient which may adversely affect their performance. Let’s discuss how injectable trace mineral supplementation could play a role to enhance herd immunity and improve performance at weaning.!
LIVE DATE:
Tuesday 15 th September 2020 – 8pm GMT
SPEAKER:
Dr Patrick F O’Neill MVB MRCVS Dip MS
Sales & Technical Manger Warbuton International
LENGTH:
50 mins + Q&A (1 hour)
1 hour CPD/CE | VCI Registered - 1 CVE point
Growing up on a beef & sheep farm in Annacurra Co. Wicklow, Patrick O’Neill qualified from UCD Veterinary College in 2013. After graduation, Patrick worked in a busy mixed, predominantly large animal, practice in snowy Okotoks, Alberta, Canada. Returning back to Ireland, he continued his career in practice working more with dairy cattle in Derry and Tipperary. Patrick joined Warburton Technology in November 2017. In this role he has spoken about the importance of trace mineral supplementation at events in Ireland, the UK, France, UAE, Australia & America.
Small Animal - ‘Hot Dogs Cool Clinics – PUO - Pyrexia of Unknown Origin’
Pyrexia of unknown origin is a common presentation in small animal clinics. This webinar will focus on defining what cases should be classed as “PUO” and then will discuss the differentials and how to take a practical “staged” approach to the investigation as these cases can be expensive and frustrating to manage. Treatment trials can be appropriate in some situations either due to cost implications or due to lack of positive findings and logical approaches to this will be discussed. Ideally, a definitive diagnosis and treatment plan is reached, but this is not possible in up to 20% of cases. Clinical cases will be used to highlight the problem-solving approach to pyrexia and guidance on treatment will be provided. Immune mediated polyarthritis and meningitis will be discussed in this webinar as they are common immune mediated causes of PUO.
SPEAKER:
Dr Kate Murphy BVSc(Hons) DSAM, DipECVIM-CA FRCVS PGCert(HE)
European Veterinary Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine and RCVS Specialist in Small Animal Medicine
LIVE DATE:
Wednesday 23rd September @ 8pm GMT
LENGTH:
45 mins + 15 mins Q&A
Kate graduated from the University of Bristol in 1996 and completed her residency in Small Animal Medicine there in 2000. She worked in first opinion private practice for 2 years and then returned to the University of Bristol from 2002 until 2011, where she was latterly a Senior Clinical Fellow in Small Animal Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care and Medicine Team Leader. Kate has since worked as a Small Animal Medicine Referral Clinician in private referral practice in South West England and has worked for Idexx providing a telemedicine service from 2017-2020. Kate has worked at Rowe Referrals since October 2017 and offers a comprehensive internal medicine service and joined VetCT Telemedicine Hospital in June 2020. Kate is an RCVS Specialist in Small Animal Medicine and a EBVS® European Veterinary Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine and has interests in all aspects of medicine. She is co-author of a textbook “notes on canine internal medicine” and “Differential Diagnosis in the Dog” and is also an author on peer-reviewed publications, continuing education articles and book chapters. Kate is a pragmatic clinician who will work with clients and their referring vets to find the most logical clinical approach to investigate their pets’ problems and to support management and follow-up plans.
October Webinars
Small Animal - “Principles and tips for in-house Cytology’'
This webinar will focus on the cytological examination of material aspirated from cutaneous lumps & bumps; tips for optimising the quality of the prepared smears, performing a methodical microscopic examination and taking photographs of suspicious cells for a second opinion will be discussed using clinical cases.
LIVE DATE:
Thursday 15th October 2020 @ 8pm GMT
SPEAKER:
Dr Kostas Papasouliotis DVM PhD DipECVCP MRCVS
EBVS® European Specialist in Veterinary Clinical Pathology
LENGTH:
50 mins + Q&A (1 hour)
1 hour CPD/CE | VCI Registered - 1 CVE point
Kostas graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (AUTh) in Greece. He completed a PhD and a residency in Feline Gastroenterology, a residency in Clinical Pathology and was a Lecturer and a Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Clinical Pathology at the Bristol Veterinary School for more than 25 years. Kostas has served as the Head of Clinical Pathology at Axiom Veterinary Laboratories and Finn Pathologists; has also worked as a senior clinical pathologist and the scientific standards coordinator for IDEXX Laboratories UK. He has published more than 130 scientific papers, research abstracts, professional articles and book chapters and lectures regularly in the UK and Europe. He is the Vice-President of the European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology (ECVCP).
FARM Animal - “‘The A-Z of Johne's disease in cattle’'
This webinar will address the current situation regarding the control of Johne’s Disease, it’s epidemiology, diagnostics, control and perhaps some crystal ball gazing.
LIVE DATE:
Tuesday 20th October 2020 @ 8pm GMT
SPEAKER:
Mr Keith Cutler BSc BVSc DipECBHM MRCVS
Synergy Farm Health
LENGTH:
50 mins + Q&A (1 hour)
1 hour CPD/CE | VCI Registered - 1 CVE point
I qualified as a Veterinary Surgeon from Bristol University in 1990 and entered farm animal practice in the central south of England, where I remained for thirty years, rising to the position of senior partner. In January of this year I moved further west and joined Synergy Farm Health as a senior assistant. My day-to-day work covers all aspects of proactive and emergency farm animal medicine, surgery and herd health planning. My current particular interests include single-agent infectious disease diagnostics, management and control and suckler herd management and productivity (and non-human primate health!). I became a diplomat of the European College of Bovine Health Management in 2006, which has been re-ratified in 2011 and 2016. I was voted the Farmers Weekly Livestock Advisor of the Year in 2007. I served as BCVA president in 2009/10. I was appointed as chair of the CHeCS (Cattle Health Certification Standards) Technical group in 2013 and I am a member of the BVDFree England and Action Johne’s Technical Groups. I have spoken on a variety of cattle-related topics at meetings both at home and abroad, am widely published in the Veterinary and Farming press and have authored an Atlas of Bovine Pathology.
November Webinars
‘Feline hyperthyroidism - are you up to date?'
This webinar will cover the latest research findings and practical updates, to help you know that you are managing your hyperthyroid patients with current clinical information. The various treatment options will be discussed, including information about radioactive iodine therapy, along with practical tips to help manage the condition effectively with medical treatment, for those cases where radioiodine or thyroidectomy is not possible.
LIVE DATE:
Tuesday 10th November @ 8pm
SPEAKER
Angie Hibbert BVSc CertSAM DipECVIM-CA MRCVS
EBVS ® European Veterinary Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine and RCVS
Recognised Specialist in Feline Medicine
Angie graduated from the University of Bristol in 2000 and after almost 5 years in general practice returned to Bristol to take up the post of FAB (now ISFM) Resident in Feline Medicine. She became a diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in 2009 and an RCVS Recognised Specialist in Feline Medicine in 2010. She is currently Clinical Lead at the Feline Centre, Langford Vets (University of Bristol) where she runs the radioiodine service. Angie’s research interests lie in feline hyperthyroidism and antimicrobial stewardship. Angie enjoys the challenges of feline medicine, in particular geriatric medicine, respiratory and emergency care.
LENGTH:
50 mins + Q&A (1 hour)
1 hour CPD/CE | VCI Registered - 1 CVE point
'On Farm Post Mortem of Ruminants'
In this webinar, we will cover the when, where, what and how to carry out a post mortem examination on farm, lesions seen with some common disease presentations and how to use ancillary testing to reach a diagnosis without blowing the budget’.
LIVE DATE:
Wednesday 25th November @ 8pm
SPEAKER
James Barnett BSc(Hons) BVSc MRCVS
Veterinary Advisor at Axiom Veterinary Laboratories.
James manages a large, busy farm animal diagnostic workload along with his colleague, Catriona Ritchie. Work includes results validation and provision of telephone advice on all aspects of diagnostic testing in both live and dead stock.James started at Axiom in March 2013 with the remit of setting up a farm animal diagnostics service, having previously worked for 8 years as a Veterinary Investigation Officer in southwest England. While he was at what was then the AHVLA, James was involved in all aspects of farm animal diagnostic work, both pathology and clinical pathology, with a particular focus on cattle, sheep and camelids. James has co-authored a number of publications arising from the diagnostic caseload and also managed two of the AHVLA’s TB programmes. Although he no longer provide a post mortem service in his day job, He still carry out post mortem examinations at evenings and weekends for a group of local practices in Cornwall, as well as being responsible for the post mortem examination of stranded cetaceans and seals around the Cornish coast.
Axiom is a veterinary diagnostic laboratory providing a comprehensive service to small animal, equine and farm practices in the United Kingdom and Ireland, with a large team of veterinary surgeons, technical and support staff providing an efficient, integrated service across a wide range of diagnostic disciplines. The farm animal service has been in operation since 2013 and now has over 300 practices on its books across the whole of the United Kingdom. The service’s aim is to meet all the farm animal diagnostic needs for the large animal practitioner, providing a one stop shop for testing and, where available, an overnight courier for samples. Axiom now also provides a comprehensive range of cattle and sheep health schemes under the direction of Catriona Ritchie, an ex VIO and disease surveillance centre manager with 14 years’ experience in cattle and sheep health schemes at the SAC.
Length:
50 Mins + Q&A (1 hour)
1 hour CPD/CE | VCI Registered- 1 CVE point
December Webinars
Small Animal - 'Haematology evaluating in-house haematology and blood smear examination'
This webinar will present a question-based, structured approach for the collection of clinically important information; it will focus on the evaluation of numerical results generated by the in-clinic analyser in conjunction with the findings of the blood smear examination.
LIVE DATE:
Thursday 3rd December @ 8pm GMT
SPEAKER:
Dr Kostas Papasouliotis DVM PhD DipECVCP MRCVS EBVS® European Specialist in Veterinary Clinical Pathology
LENGTH:
50 mins + Q&A (1 hour)
1 hour CPD/CE | VCI Registered - 1 CVE point
Kostas graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (AUTh) in Greece. He completed a PhD and a residency in Feline Gastroenterology, a residency in Clinical Pathology and was a Lecturer and a Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Clinical Pathology at the Bristol Veterinary School for more than 25 years. Kostas has served as the Head of Clinical Pathology at Axiom Veterinary Laboratories and Finn Pathologists; has also worked as a senior clinical pathologist and the scientific standards coordinator for IDEXX Laboratories UK. He has published more than 130 scientific papers, research abstracts, professional articles and book chapters and lectures regularly in the UK and Europe. He is the Vice-President of the European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology (ECVCP).
FARM Animal - ‘Calf nutrition, from birth to weaning’
Trouw Nutrition is the global leader in innovative feed specialties, premixes and nutritional services for the animal nutrition industry. Trouw Nutrition provides species-specific nutritional solutions consisting of feed concepts, products and nutritional know-how. The unique combination of products, models and services to meet the needs of farmers, home-mixers, feed producers, integrators and distributors. We focus on four main areas: Early Life Nutrition, Healthy Life Nutrition, Precision Nutrition and Feed safety. Trouw Nutrition was founded in The Netherlands in 1931 as a family business and now operates in 25 countries with around 5000 employees with our heritage in Ireland going back over more than 65 years. On behalf of Trouw Nutrition, Mark is happy to share some of the recent findings in calf nutrition research and talk through some practical advice.
LIVE DATE:
Tuesday 8th December @ 8pm GMT
SPEAKER:
Dr. Mark Little MVB CertDHH PhD MRCVS NSch
LENGTH:
50 mins + Q&A (1 hour)
1 hour CPD/CE | VCI Registered - 1 CVE point
Mark is originally from a dairy and beef farm in County Fermanagh and is now living near Hillsborough, County Down. Mark qualified from University College Dublin in 2002 and spent 10 years in large animal practice in County Tyrone and Armagh. During this time, he focused on herd health investigations and completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Dairy Herd Health from UCD in 2012. He then worked for Zoetis as Area Veterinary Manager for Northern Ireland before moving to the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute in Hillsborough, where he completed a PhD with Queens University Belfast on the nutritional impacts on immunity in the transition dairy cow. In November 2016, Mark joined Trouw Nutrition Ireland as Technical Manager where he heads up the technical team giving mill customers and their farmers nutritional advice. He is also a 2019 Nuffield Scholar studying the topic ‘Feeding for health, combating antimicrobial resistance.’
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