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Stirling Conference  3^rd & 4th June 2008

Stirling Management Centre

Small Animal Programme    Production Animal Programme    Equine Programme    The Venue

Proceedings of the conference are available on CD in return for a donation to VET Trust.

                                                   Quotes from the conference delegates & speakers:

           "I enjoyed it

        Would be nice to see better attendance at equine talks in future

              Excellent conference – I look forward to next year

       As a venue Stirling Management Centre was first class.  It was more like a well-run luxury hotel.

      The atmosphere was relaxed and convivial and, as a speaker, I found all the delegates very eager to play an active role in the discussion.      It really was a pleasure to be invited to join such vibrant and well-motivated group

      Organisations such as VET Trust hold out a whole bunch of carrots to try to make CPD informative and enjoyable.  That has to be the most effective way of ensuring that CPD is not only carried out, but that it is approached in a way that makes a positive contribution to our performance in the workplace."

Small Animal 2-Day Programme

Tuesday 3^rd June 2008

Wednesday 4^th June 2008

Production Animal Programme

Tuesday 3^rd June 2008

Registration & Coffee     8.30 – 9.30am

Equine Programme

 Wednesday 4th June 2008

Speakers' Profiles

 

Professor David J. Argyle BVMS PhD DECVIM-Ca (Oncology) MRCVS

David Argyle graduated from the University of Glasgow Veterinary School and subsequently worked in general practice.  He returned to Glasgow to complete a PhD in the department of Veterinary Pathology and then worked as a lecturer and senior lecturer in clinical oncology in the Department of Clinical Studies.  In 2002, he became head of clinical oncology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.  In 2005 he returned to the UK to take the William Dick Chair of clinical studies at the University of Edinburgh.  He in an RCVS and European Specialist in Veterinary Oncology, a Diplomat of the European College of Internal Medicine in Oncology and is co-scientific editor of the Journal of Veterinary and Comparative Oncology.  His major research interests are cancer biology and gene therapy, telomeres and telomerase and cancer stem cells.

Safia Barakzai BVSc DipECVS CertES(Soft Tissue) MRCVS

Safia Barakzai qualified from Bristol University in 1998 and spent 2 years in general practice before taking up a temporary position at the University of Liverpool Equine Hospital as the equine radiographer. She started a HBLB funded equine surgery residency at the R(D)SVS in 2000 under the supervision of Professor Paddy Dixon, and gained the RCVS certificate in Equine Surgery (soft tissue) in 2002. Following her residency, she stayed at the Dick Vet as a lecturer in equine surgery, becoming a diplomate of the ECVS in 2005 and a RCVS recognised specialist in equine surgery in 2006. Her particular clinical and research interests are disorders of the equine upper respiratory tract, denitstry and imaging modalities for the equine skull.

Jason Barley BVetMed PhD MRCVS

Jason Barley qualified as a veterinary surgeon in 1985 and working in mixed practice became a research fellow of the Royal Veterinary College working in the Department of Diagnostic Pathology.  Following completion of his PhD he joined the veterinary pharmaceutical industry for fifteen years, latterly as international business director before returning to his roots as a veterinary pathologist and joining SACVS in Inverness in 2004.  He is a past president of the Sheep Veterinary Society and has been awarded the George Hedley Memorial Award for services to the UK sheep industry and the John Rodger Memorial Quaich for outstanding contribution to the health and welfare of sheep.  His interests include the health management of sheep flocks, the pathology of ruminant diseases and marine mammal medicine.  He currently manages the SAC Disease surveillance Centre in Inverness and the Marine Mammal Strandings Programme in Scotland.

 Callum Blair BVMS MRCVS

Callum Blair qualified from Glasgow in 1994 and spent 6½ years in general practice. During this time he spent 3 years in primarily equine practice where he first became interested in practical equine parasitology. He joined Virbac as a Veterinary Adviser at the end of 2000 which has provided him with the opportunity to further pursue and develop this interest. His other main areas of interest are feline medicine, companion animal dentistry and clinical immunology.  He is the Junior Vice Chairman of the Association of Veterinarians in Industry (A.V.I.), and a member of NOAH Technical and Strategic Affairs Committee. He is also the A.V.I. Representative on the BVA Medicines Group

Craig Devine BVSc DVC CertVC MRCVS

Craig Devine completed a Bachelor of Veterinary Science degree at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Onderstepoort, South Africa in June 1992. He spent the following ten years working in small animal practice in the South East of England before taking up a position as a senior training scholar in cardio-respiratory medicine at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Medicine in 2002. He completed his RCVS Diploma in Veterinary Cardiology in 2005 and has run a private cardio-respiratory referral service from his base in the Scottish Borders since leaving Edinburgh in the same year. Specific areas of interest include imaging of the thorax and the diagnosis and management of cardiac arrhythmias in dogs and cats.

Douglas Gray BVM&S MSc MRCVS

Douglas Gray graduated from Edinburgh in 1970. After three years in farm animal practice in Newton Stewart and Aberdeenshire, he completed the MSc in Tropical Veterinary Science in Edinburgh. This was followed by seven years of veterinary investigation work in Paraguay and South Australia. In both countries the laboratory diagnosis of brucellosis in cattle, goats and sheep was a feature of his work. Since returning to the UK in 1982 he has worked for the West of Scotland Agricultural College and the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) in Disease Surveillance Centres at Ayr and Aberdeen. His main areas of interest are ruminant pathology, nutrition and zoonoses. He is a co-author of the chapter on Fetal Loss in the textbook Bovine Medicine. Bovine abortion investigations are part of his everyday work.

Tom Pennycott BVM&S Cert PMP MRCVS

Tom graduated from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Edinburgh, in 1978. After four years in mixed general practice and two years in the Field Service of the State Veterinary Service, he became a veterinary investigation officer at what was then the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Veterinary Investigation Centre in Worcester. During his five years in Worcester Tom developed a growing interest in avian medicine and pathology. In 1988 the opportunity arose to return to his native Ayrshire and he joined what is now the Veterinary Services Group of SAC, based at Auchincruive near Ayr. Tom continued to concentrate on avian species, with advisory, research and education roles across a wide range of avian species, including poultry, game birds, racing pigeons, cage and aviary birds, exotics and wild birds. In December 2006 Tom was appointed as the Veterinary Centre Manager of Ayr Disease Surveillance Centre (DSC) at Auchincruive.

 Professor Claude Saegerman D.V.M, Dip Applied Animal  EpidemiologyD.V.Sc, Dip ECVPH         
Claude Saegerman is Professor of Epidemiology and Risk Analysis applied to Veterinary Sciences in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liege. A graduate of Liege University he has worked in field epidemiology studies of animal diseases and the risk evaluation in the food chain, including primary production.  His areas of work have included brucellosis, tuberculosis, BSE & PCB/dioxins.  While working for the Federal Agency for Safety on the Food Chain he was responsible for the instruction of several Belgian dossiers for the European Commission.   

Bradley Viner BVet Med, MSc(VetGP) Dprof, MRCVS

Bradley Viner graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 1978.  After a year as an assistant in Hertfordshire, he established the Blythwood Veterinary Group which has now expanded to five sites and holds “Investors in People” status. He writes for Vet Times, has presented radio programmes and authored numerous books. In 2001, Bradley joined a group of practitioners under the auspices of SPVS to establish a postgraduate qualification in veterinary general practice. In 2003 he graduated as a MSc in veterinary general practice and went on to further research the application of clinical audit in veterinary practice for a Doctorate, which was awarded by Middlesex University in 2006.  Bradley was invited onto the RCVS Modular Certificates Working Party. He is a  RCVS Council member, and is Chairman of the RCVS Certificate Sub-committee. His interests include tournament poker, films, skiing and travel.

Annette Wessmann Dr.Med.Vet. DipECVN MRCVS

Annette is a graduate of Hanover School of Veterinary Medicine.  After completing her dissertation on “Hereditary Ataxia in the Jack Russell” at Hanover, she worked as a Senior Clinical Training Scholar in Neurology at the Royal Veterinary College, London.  She became a diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Neurology in 2006 while working in North Downs Specialist Referrals.  There she introduced and established the neurology referral service including diagnostics (e,g. MRI, myelography and electrodiagnostics) and neurosurgery.  In January 2008 she joined the University of Glasgow as Senior University Clinician

Lesley Young BVSc, PhD, DipECEIM, DVA, DVC, MRCVS

Lesley Young graduated from the University of Liverpool in 1987. After a short spell at Glasgow, she attained her RCVS Diploma in Veterinary Anaesthesia in 1990 and worked as a lecturer in anaesthesia at Liverpool Vet School until 1991 whereupon she moved north to gain a PhD in the effects of general anaesthesia on the equine heart.  Her interest in equine cardiovascular physiology then shifted slightly to the clinical cardiology of athletic horses and she ran a referral cardiology and sports medicine service at the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket, making significant contributions to applied clinical research in both equine cardiovascular function under general anaesthesia and sports horse cardiology during that period.  She obtained her RCVS Diploma in veterinary Cardiology in 2000 and was given RCVS recognised specialist status in veterinary cardiology in 2006.  Since December 2005, she has provided an ambulatory equine cardiology referral service to general practitioners throughout the UK and Ireland.