An invitation to veterinary technicians and
veterinary technician students to attend the….
Veterinary Technicians Conference
Saturday, March 1, 2008
at the College of Veterinary Medicine
1700 Denison Avenue, Manhattan, KS
College of Veterinary Medicine
Kansas State
University
Date and Time
Saturday, March 1, 2008
EARLY BIRD session (extra 1.5 hrs CE!)
7:00 am – 8:30 am
General Conference and Wet Labs
8:35 am – 5:00 pm
Conference Contact
Hours
7 Clock Hours (without Early Bird
Session)
8.5 Clock Hours with Early Bird Session
Location
Frick Auditorium, Mosier Hall
College of Veterinary Medicine,
1800 Denison Avenue, Manhattan, KS
Frick Auditorium is located on the second floor of Mosier Hall.
Enter at the Emergency Entrance.
Signs will be posted in the building to direct you to
registration.
Parking
Parking is available on the west side (off Denison
Avenue) and on the east side (off Jardine Drive) of the
Veterinary Medical Complex. A parking permit is not required for
weekend parking.
Do not park in the client parking or reserved stalls as
you may get ticketed.
Conference Objectives
The KSU faculty and technicians’
interest is to generate professional pride and interest in the
veterinary technician profession. This continuing education
meeting will highlight many different species and help
technicians expand their horizons in animal health care.
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Conference Schedule |
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Saturday, March 1, 2008 |
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6:30 am |
Registration Opens (open all morning) 2nd Floor, Mosier Hall |
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7:00 am |
Early Bird
CE Session: Breakfast plus 1.5 extra hours of
CE!! |
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8:35 am |
Welcome — Mike
Dryden , Professor,
Continuing Education Committee Chair, K-State
College of Veterinary Medicine |
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8:40 am |
Keynote Lecture—Feline
Heartworm Disease — Mike
Dryden |
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9:40 am |
Refreshment Break (Change Sessions) |
| 10:00 am |
Oncology Basics —Mary Lynn Higginbotham |
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BQA Certification
Available! Beef Quality Assurance Topics: Influencing the Safety, Wholesomeness, and Quality of Beef and Beef Products — Jason Nickell, Gregg Hanzlicek, and Brandon Reinbold |
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“Lions, Tigers and Bears…
Oh My!” Zoo Animal Medicine for the Veterinary
Technician — Jill Murray |
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Cardiac Auscultation Wet
Lab — Marco Margiocco (Limited Registration) |
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Parasitology Fecal Wet
Lab — Mike Dryden and Vicki Smith (Limited Registration) |
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CSI Clinical Diagnostics
Session I (continued
from 7:00 am early bird session, MUST attend
early bird session to attend this lab)
Lab: Interactive Blood
Film Case Lab |
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10:50 am |
Refreshment Break (Change Sessions) |
| 11:05 am |
You Can Make a Difference
for your Obese Patients — Kara Burns Sponsored by Hill’s |
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BQA Certification
Available! Beef Quality Assurance Topics (continued) — Jason Nickell, Gregg Hanzlicek, and Brandon Reinbold |
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Avian Radiography for the
Veterinary Technician — Jill Murray |
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12:00 noon |
Lunch and
Presentation: You
Can Do It! - Getting the most out of your job
and your profession Sponsored by Hill’s KVTA Meeting |
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1:00 pm |
Door Prizes and CE Certificates |
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**Concurrent Lab
Sessions** Concurrent lab sessions are scheduled for both morning and afternoon. See reverse for Lab Descriptions. Rank your lab choices 1-5 on the registration form. Labs will be assigned on a space-available, first-come, first-served basis. Each participant should be able to participate in at least one lab. |
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Shelter Medicine |
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Care of the Scouring Calf — Meredyth Jones |
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Update on Equine
Respiratory Disease—Clinical Evaluation and
Therapeutic Management — Elizabeth Davis |
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Veterinary Techniques in
Llamas and Alpacas Wet Lab — David Anderson (Limited Registration) |
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Sunset Zoo Tour (Limited Registration) |
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CSI Clinical Diagnostics
Session II
Lecture: Clinical Chemistry Sponsored by Heska |
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| 2:30 pm | Refreshment Break (Change Sessions) |
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Restraint and Handling
Techniques with Fractious Cats — Amy Dixon-Jimenez |
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Triage and Surgical Prep
in Food Animal Practice — Matt Miesner |
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International Veterinary
Medicine Session: Afghanistan: Current Realities in the Third World — David Hodgson |
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4:00 pm |
Optional Tours of K-State College of Veterinary Medicine with CVM Ambassadors—optional tours leave at 4:00, 4:15, 4:30 and 4:45 pm |
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5:00 pm |
Veterinary Technician Hosts collect evaluations and meeting adjourned |
Conference Wet Labs
Cardiology Wet Lab
The Cardiology Wet Lab
will include a presentation on theory and practice of cardiac
auscultation in small and large animals and will include the
reproduction of a comprehensive database of heart sounds.
Following the presentation, participants will have the
opportunity to practice on live dogs and cats.
Parasitology Fecal Wet Lab
Parasitology, the last refuge of the diagnostically destitute.
This wet lab will highlight critical new information on
conducting proper fecal examinations through a hands-on
experience.
Veterinary Techniques in Llamas and Alpacas
This session will provide insight into the behavior, handling,
and performance of common procedures necessary to the treatment
of diseases in llamas and alpacas.
Sunset Zoo Tour
This session will consist of a behind-the-scenes experience at
Manhattan’s Sunset Zoo (detailing animal husbandry, holding,
enrichment, nutrition and education).
Tour led by zoo staff. A bus will be provided for transportation
to and from the zoo.
CSI Clinical Diagnostics
Course Description: As in-hospital Clinical Diagnostic Testing
becomes more affordable and accurate, hospital teams are able to
offer more thorough in-hospital testing for their patients in a
shorter period of time. Further, hospital team members must have
a better understanding of the clinical diagnostics, the
machinery, the anatomy and physiology being evaluated, changes
that occur with pathology, and how to discuss this with the
medical team and client. Heska Corporation and Veterinarian Team
Education Programs are offering advanced training in Complete
Blood Count, Blood Film Differentials, and Clinical Chemistry.
Session I: Complete Blood Count and Blood
Film Case Lab
Lecture I: Complete Blood Count: How to handle the blood sample,
make an effective blood film, and focus on the identification of
red blood cells and their abnormalities, white blood cell
populations, and their changes and platelet identification.
Interactive Blood Film Case Lab - The participants will work through full cases with special focus on performing blood film differentials, identifying cell artifacts, and evaluating the blood film for pathology. Further, the focus will be identifying normal architecture of cells in order to perform a normal blood film evaluation.
Session II: Clinical Chemistry and Case
Programs in Clinical Chemistry
Lecture II: Clinical Chemistry: The program will outline the
general concepts of what each clinical diagnostic evaluates,
sample handling, what is necessary to get a full clinical
diagnostics, and how disease and pathology can alter clinical
chemistry testing.
Interactive Case Programs- Clinical Chemistry - The participants will work through full cases with special focus on clinical diagnostics. The focus of the case studies is to reinforce the goals of the lectures to help medical team members understand the components of diagnostic testing, sample handling and how these values change with disease entities.
Guest Speakers
Kara Burns ,
MS, MEd, LVT
Veterinary Technician Specialist, Hill’s Pet Nutrition
Topeka, KS
Sharon Dial , DVM, ACVP
Associate Research Scientist, University of Arizona
Andrew Rosenfeld , DVM, Diplomate ABVP
President, Veterinarian Team Education Course
Scottsdale, AZ
K-State College of Veterinary Medicine Speakers
David Anderson ,
DVM, MS, DACVS
Professor and Section Head, Agricultural Practices
Jeff Anderson ,
UVIS Coordinator
Computing and Technical Support
Lisa Bryant ,
RVT
Veterinary Technician, Small Animal ICU
Eliza
beth Davis, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Assistant Professor and Section Head, Equine Medicine and
Surgery
Amy Dixon-Jimenez , DVM
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pet Health Center
Mike Dryden , DVM, MS, PhD
Professor, Veterinary Parasitology
Gregg Hanzlicek ,
DVM
Graduate Research Assistant, Beef Production Medicine
David Hodgson ,
DVM, DACVA
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
Meredyth Jones , DVM, MS, DACVIM
Clinical Assistant Professor, Agricultural Practices
Mary Lynn Higginbotham , DVM, MS, DACVIM
Assistant Professor, Oncology
Marco Margiocco ,
DVM, DACVIM
Assistant Professor, Cardiology
Matt Miesner ,
DVM, MS, DACVIM
Clinical Assistant Professor, Agricultural Practices
Jill Murray ,
RVT
Veterinary Technician, Exotics and Dermatology
Jason Nickell ,
DVM
Graduate Research Assistant, Beef Production Medicine
Brandon Reinbold ,
DVM
Graduate Research Assistant, Clinical Pharmacology
Vicki Smith , RVT
Veterinary Technician, Veterinary Parasitology
Questions
If you have any questions please contact
Linda Johnson or Marci Ritter by phone at 785-532-5696 or e-mail
at
VMCE@vet.k-state.edu,
Veterinary Medical Continuing Education at the College of
Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University
If you have questions regarding registration information, call
Rebecca at 785-532-5569.
Accommodations
A block of rooms has been reserved at
both the Holiday Inn at the Campus and the Super 8 Motel. The
block rates and cutoff dates are listed below. Please refer to
the “Veterinary Technicians Conference” when reserving your
room.
We advise you to make your room reservations as soon as possible as rooms are limited in Manhattan and blocks are reserved on a room availability, first-come, first-served basis.
Holiday Inn at the
Campus , 17th and Anderson
785-539-7531
Rooms: $89.95 + tax · Cutoff date: January 31, 2008
Super 8 Motel ,
785-537-8468
Rooms: $64.99 + tax · Cutoff date: January 29, 2008
Other motels in Manhattan are listed below.
Best Western ,
601 E Poyntz Ave., 785-537-8300
Clarion (formerly Holiday Inn), 530 Richards Drive, 785-539-5311
Comfort Inn ,
150 E. Poyntz Ave., 785-770-8000
Econo Lodge ,
1501 Tuttle Creek Blvd., 785-539-5391
Fairfield Inn ,
300 Colorado St., 785-539-2400
Hampton Inn ,
501 E. Poyntz Ave., 785-539-5000
Motel 6 ,
510 Tuttle Creek Blvd., 785-537-1022
Sponsors
Thank you to the following
sponsors for their support of this conference.
Manhattan area
information
http://www.vet.ksu.edu/index/local.htm
Visit our conference web site
at:
http://www.vet.ksu.edu/CE/index.htm