An invitation to Veterinary Medical Practitioners and Veterinary Medical Students to attend the...
Veterinary Technicians Conference
Saturday, February 24, 2001
Date and Time
Saturday, February 24, 2001
8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location
Frick Auditorium, Mosier Hall, College of Veterinary Medicine, 1800 Denison, Manhattan, KS
Frick Auditorium is located in Mosier Hall. Enter at the Small Animal Entrance.
Signs will be posted to direct you to registration.
Continuing Education Contact Hours for Veterinarians
6 Clock Hours
Objectives
The KSU faculty’s 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.
Schedule |
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7:30 am |
Registration |
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8:00 am |
Welcome |
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8:10 am |
Putting
Behavior Into Practice: The Technician’s Role – Debra Horwitz. |
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9:40 am |
Refreshment break |
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| Frick Auditorium | 201 Trotter Hall | |
10:00 am |
Unruly and Disobedient Behavior in Dogs: Understanding Learning Theory and how
to Change Behavior to Help Owners with those Pesky Problems of Jumping, Barking, Stealing, Chasing and Digging
– Debra Horwitz |
Equine Hemotology: Interpretation of Blood Values – Kelly Stich |
11:00 am |
Change sessions |
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11:10 am |
Diagnostic Techniques When Working up Skin Cases – Mary Bagladi |
Bovine Fluid Replacement Therapy – Amy Roberts |
12:10 pm |
“Build-a-sandwich”
lunch is available if ordered by Feb. 9, 2001, Trotter Hall Room 2 |
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12:45 pm |
KVTA
Business Meeting (everyone is welcome to attend) with Mark Jones, KVTA President, Trotter
Hall Room 2 |
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1:15 pm |
Dispensing, Narcotic Control and Compounding: What You Need to Know,
but Were too Busy to Ask – Shirley Arck |
Introduction to Infrared Thermography – Mark Spire |
2:15 pm |
Change
sessions and refreshment break |
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2:30 pm |
Chemical and Physical Restraint of Exotic Animals – Christal Pollock |
Meat and Technology: What Is Considered Safe? – Liz Boyle |
3:30 pm |
Change
sessions |
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3:40 pm |
Use of Dogs in
Search and Rescue — Dave Meek, director of the Kansas Search and Rescue Dog Association. Dave will be
accompanied by one of the association’s search and rescue dogs. Dave will tell us about the association,
working with the dogs and their training and rescue stories. He will be available to answer your questions. |
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4:30 pm |
Wrap-up, evaluation, door prizes, adjourn |
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Speakers
Shirley Arck, RPh, FSVHP
Shirley Arck received her pharmacy degree from the University of Kansas. She is currently Director of Pharmacy at the
KSU Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital after practicing community pharmacy for 17 years. She is a fellow of the
Society of Veterinary Hospital Pharmacists and serves as Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the
University of Kansas teaching future pharmacists about veterinary pharmacy.
Mary Bagladi, DVM, Diplomate ACVD
Dr. Bagladi graduated from Kansas State University and then entered private practice.
In 1995, she completed a dermatology residency from Cornell University.
Before joining the KSU faculty, Dr. Bagladi was a faculty member at the Iowa State
University Teaching Hospital.
Liz Boyle, PhD
Dr. Boyle is an associate professor and extension specialist in meat science in the
Department of Animal Sciences and Industry at KSU. She works extensively with the
meat industry in the area of food safety and HACCP.
Debra Horwitz, DVM, Diplomate ACVB
Dr. Horwitz received her DVM from Michigan State University. She is a diplomate of
the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists. Dr. Horwitz has had a referral
practice for behavioral problems in companion animals since 1982. Her behavioral
practice is located in St. Louis and is affiliated with Associated Veterinary Specialists,
a veterinary referral facility. She appears locally and nationally on both radio and
television as well as in local print publications and lectures.
Dave Meek
Dave Meek and Thunder founded the Kansas Search & Rescue Dog Association in 1992.
Currently they have 16 trained teams ready to respond throughout the state of
Kansas and provide teams trained in wilderness search, water search, cadaver search and
disaster (collapsed structure) search.
Christal Pollock, DVM, Diplomate ABVP
Dr. Pollock received her DVM in 1995 from The Ohio State University. She completed a
small animal medicine and surgery internship in a private practice in Ohio followed by a
residency in zoological and avian medicine at the University of Tennessee. Dr.
Pollock become board certified in avian medicine while she was a resident. She
remained at Tennessee as a clinical instructor before joining the KSU faculty in the
Exotic Animal, Wildlife and Zoo Animal Medicine Service.
Amy Roberts, DVM
Dr. Roberts received her DVM from the University of Missouri in 2000. She then
joined the KSU faculty as an intern in Agricultural Practices.
Mark
Spire, DVM, MS, Diplomate ACT
Dr. Spire received his DVM from Texas A&M in 1974. He is a diplomate of the
American College of Theriogenologists and is currently a professor in the Department of
Food Animal Health and Management Center at the College of Veterinary Medicine, KSU.
Kelly Stich, DVM
Dr. Stich received her DVM from KSU in 1998. She went to Texas A & M for a large
animal internship and then joined an all-equine practice in North Texas. In 2000,
Dr. Stich became a KSU faculty member as an intern with the Equine Surgery and Medicine
Service.