Small Animal Internal Medicine Continuing Education Series Behavioral Problems: Is It All In Their Heads?

September 12, 1999

College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University
Continuing Education Programs

 

• Date and Time
  Sunday, September 12, 1999
  1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
   

• Location
  Practice Management Center, Trotter Hall,
  College of Veterinary Medicine, 1700 Denison Avenue,
  Manhattan, KS
  The Practice Management Center is located on the fourth floor of Trotter Hall. Enter at the Dean’s Office Entrance. Signs will be posted to direct you to registration.
   

• Continuing Education Contact Hours for Veterinarians
  4 Clock Hours
   

• Objectives
  To provide the general practitioner with an update on the management of common behavioral problems in dogs and cats, and to address specific questions from the seminar participants. Additionally, medical differentials for behavioral abnormalities will be discussed.
   

• Schedule
  
  12:45 pm Registration and Coffee

1:00 pm Welcome
Ralph C. Richardson, Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine
Ruthanne Chun, Program Coordinator

1:05 pm Review and Update on Separation Anxiety, Inappropriate Elimination and Other Common Behavioral Problems
-- Dr. Kathy Gaughan
Dr. Gaughan will also address questions from the audience. Please send your questions along with your seminar registration; she will answer as many questions as she can during her session.

3:00 pm Hepatic Encephalopathy
-- Dr. Ken Harkin
Dr. Harkin will discuss the diagnosis and management of diseases that are associated with hepatic encephalopathy.

4:00 pm Medical Causes of Behavioral Abnormalities
-- Dr. Dianne Phillips
This session will focus on how to recognize behavioral manifestations of systemic disease.

5:00 pm Adjourn

• Speakers
  
  Ruthanne Chun, DVM, Diplomate ACVIM
  Assistant Professor, Clinical Oncology
  Dr. Chun received her DVM degree from the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. She did a one-year rotating internship in small animal medicine and surgery at Cornell University. She completed a three-year residency in comparative oncology at Purdue and then worked as a clinical instructor in oncology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine before joining the Kansas State University faculty in 1997.

Kathy Gaughan, DVM, Diplomate ABVP
Assistant Professor, Community Practice
Dr. Gaughan received her DVM degree from Kansas State University in 1992. Kathy was in private practice before joining the Kansas State University faculty in 1993. Her special interest is in behavior and the human/animal bond. Dr. Gaughan has been certified as a Diplomate by the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (ABVP) specializing in Canine and Feline Practice.

Kenneth Harkin, DVM, Diplomate ACVIM
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
Dr. Harkin is an assistant professor of small animal internal medicine in the department of Clinical Sciences at Kansas State University. He received his DVM from Iowa State University and completed a residency in internal medicine at Michigan State University. He was in a private referral practice for three years before joining the faculty at Kansas State University in 1997.

Dianne Phillips, DVM
Resident, Small Animal Medicine
Dr. Phillips received her DVM from the Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada in 1998. After completing a one-year small animal rotating internship in medicine and surgery at the VCA Berwyn Animal Hospital/VCA Franklin Park Animal Hospital in Chicago, IL, she joined the faculty at Kansas State University in 1999.