VHC Hosting Small Animal Internal Medicine Conference

The University of Missouri Veterinary Health Center will offer a Small Animal Internal Medicine Conference from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Oct. 26. The event will be held in the Adams Conference Center. Participants will be eligible for eight hours of continuing education credit.

Topics covered will include nephrology, pulmonology, infectious diseases and endocrinology. There will be updates about the latest research pertaining to internal medicine.

Lectures include:

• “Feline Leukemia Virus Testing: What’s it all Mean?”
• “Bet You Hadn’t Heard,” a review a number of recent papers related to veterinary internal medicine.
• “Stressed? Updates on Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Disorders.”
• “The Ins and Outs of Protein Losing Nephropathies.”
• “Newly Characterized Respiratory Diseases in Dogs and Cats: What I Didn’t Learn in Vet School.”

For veterinary technicians and nurses, there will be special breakout sessions on transfusion medicine and glucose monitoring that will include discussions and hands-on laboratories.

Presenters will include Professors Leah Cohn, DVM, PhD, DACVIM-Small Animal Internal Medicine, and Carol Reinero, DVM, PhD, DACVIM-Small Animal Internal Medicine, Associate Professor Amy DeClue, DVM, MS, DACVIM-Small Animal Internal Medicine, Postdoctoral Fellow Aida Vientós-Plotts, DVM, and certified veterinary technicians Savannah Buckman, RVT, Internal Medicine and Matt Haight, CVT, Internal Medicine.

In an effort to provide CE opportunities for those who are not able to attend the conference in person, we are excited to announce that this year, we will be offering the option to attend virtually in real time.  If you select this option, you will be able to watch the conference, and ask questions in real time using Zoom, a video conferencing service that will allow you to participate from any device.

Note: The special break out veterinary technician and nurse sessions are not included in the virtual conference.

The cost is $265 ($255 virtual) for veterinarians and $65 ($45 virtual) for technicians. The registration fee includes breakfast, lunch and a copy of the proceedings notes.

To register, contact Teresa Egbert at (573) 882-1802, or via email at egbertt@missouri.edu. For questions about the conference, contact Egbert or DeClue at (573) 882-7821, decluea@missouri.edu.