 Dr. Gregg Hanzlicek
DVM, PhD
Conference Presentation Times:
- June 6, Sunday, 8:30 am
- June 6, Sunday, 9:30 am
Conference Presentation Topics:
- Practical Diagnostics to Investigate Nutritional Issues in Cow Calf Herds (8:30 am)
- Vitamin nutrition for beef cows
(9:30 am)
Associate Director of the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (KSVDL) and Section Head for the Production Animal Field Investigation Unit at KSVDL
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 Dr. Bob Larson
DVM, PhD, DACT, DACVPM (Epidemiology), ACAN
Conference Presentation Time:
June 6, Sunday, 10:50 am
Conference Presentation Topic:
- Beef cattle reproduction: What can go wrong?
Dr. Bob Larson received his DVM from Kansas State in 1987 and a Ph.D from the KSU Department of Animal Sciences in 1992. He spent five years in private practice and then 10 years at the University of Missouri. In 2006 he returned to Kansas State University as the Coleman Chair of Food Animal Production Medicine where his teaching and research focuses on beef cattle production and health.
The Changing Landscape of Ruminant Parasite Control: Principles and Approaches for Success and Sustainability
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 Dr. Steven Ensley
DVM, PhD
Conference Presentation Times:
June 6, Sunday, 1:00 pm
June 6, Sunday, 2:00 pm
Conference Presentation Topics:
- Toxicology I (1:00 pm)
- Toxicology II (2:00 pm)
Dr. Steven Ensley graduated in 1981 from Kansas State University with a DVM. After 14 years in mixed practice in the Midwest he received a MS and PhD in veterinary toxicology at Iowa State University completing his PhD in 2000. Dr Ensley has worked for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Bayer AG, Iowa State University and Kansas State University.
Dr Ensley’s interests are clinical veterinary toxicology and applied veterinary toxicology research. Dr Ensley has published extensively on applied veterinary toxicology and gives numerous presentations on these topics. Food animal veterinary toxicology is his passion.
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 Dr. Michael Kleinhenz
DVM, PhD
Conference Presentation Times:
June 6, Sunday, 3:30 pm
Conference Presentation Topics:
Dr. Michael Kleinhenz an Ohio native. He attended The Ohio State University where he received his DVM in 2009; and completed a food animal internship in 2010. He joined a mixed animal veterinary practice in West Central Ohio with a focus in large animal medicine and surgery. He joined Iowa State University Veterinary Field Services in 2013 as an adjunct instructor and dairy production resident. He completed an ABVP dairy residency in June of 2015. Dr. Kleinhenz completed his PhD in Pharmacology and residency training in clinical pharmacology at Kansas State University. He joined the faculty at Kansas State in 2019 in food animal production medicine. His research focuses on pain assessment and therapeutic management of pain in food production animals.
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 Dr. Brad White
DVM, MS
Conference Presentation Time:
Sunday, June 6, 4:30 pm
Conference Presentation Topic:
- Morbidity and mortality in feedlot cattle: an update
Dr. Brad White received his D.V.M. from the University of Missouri-Columbia and worked for six years in a mixed animal practice in southeast Missouri. His emphasis in practice was beef cow-calf and stocker medicine and management. He then worked for two years in beef production medicine at Mississippi State concurrent with completion of his Masters degree. He is currently on faculty at the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine and serves as director of the Beef Cattle Institute. Dr. White is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Kansas Veterinary Medical Association, American Association of Bovine Practitioners, and Academy of Veterinary Consultants.
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 Dr. Maggie Highland
DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVP
Conference Presentation Time:
June 7, Monday, 8:30 am
Conference Presentation Topic:
- Goat Diseases and Diagnostics
Maggie is a DVM and board-certified anatomic pathologist and has a Ph.D. in Infectious Diseases and Immunology. She earned her DVM at UW-Madison, WI in 2006 and completed 2 years of anatomic pathology training at UC-Davis. This was followed by a 2-year training fellowship in zoo and wildlife pathology at UW-Madison in conjunction with the Milwaukee County Zoo. In 2016, Maggie completed her PhD at Washington State University as a PhD Student Trainee with the USDA-ARS-Animal Disease Research Unit in Pullman, WA. She then served as a Veterinary Medical Officer at the Animal Disease Research Unit for just over 3 years as a small ruminant infectious disease researcher. In August of 2019, Maggie moved to Manhattan, KS to start her current position as an Assistant Professor at Kansas State University-Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology and Anatomic Pathologist at the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (KSVDL) where she continues outreach work and research on small ruminant health and disease.
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 Dr. Shaun M. Huser
BS, DVM
Conference Presentation Time:
June 7, Monday, 9:30 am
Conference Presentation Topic:
Field Service Clinician at Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine. I am finishing my 4th year at Kansas State University, and prior to coming here, I was in mixed animal private practice for 13 years.
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 Dr. Emily Reppert
DVM, MS
Conference Presentation Time:
June 7, Monday, 10:50 am
Conference Presentation Topic:
- Interpreting the ruminant hemogram and biochemical profile
Dr. Emily Reppert is an associate professor in the Livestock Services section at Kansas State University. Dr. Reppert completed her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Colorado State University and an internship and residency in food animal internal medicine at Oklahoma State University. She is board certified in Large Animal Internal Medicine.
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 Dr. Sara Gardhouse
DVM, DACZM
Conference Presentation Times:
June 7, Monday, 1:00 pm
June 7, Monday, 2:00 pm
Conference Presentation Topics:
- Survival Guide to Backyard Poultry Medicine: Part 1 (1:00 pm)
- Survival Guide to Backyard Poultry Medicine: Part 2 (2:00 pm)
Dr. Sara Gardhouse graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph, Ontario in 2012. She then went on to complete an exotics internship in 2013 at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatchewan, followed by a small animal rotating internship at Kansas State University in 2014. Sara then completed a three year residency in zoological companion animal medicine and surgery at UC Davis. She returned to the Ontario Veterinary College as a clinical specialist where she worked for 3 years. Sara now resides in Kansas, as an assistant professor in the Exotic Pet, Wildlife, and Zoological Medicine department.
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Dr. Matt Miesner
DVM, MS, DACVIM
Conference Presentation Time:
June 6, Sunday, 12:30 pm
Conference Presentation Topic:
- Bull Reproductive Injuries
Dr. Matt Miesner is a Clinical Professor and Section Head in Livestock Services Section at the KSU-VHC. He has been on faculty at K-State since 2006. Dr. Meisner got his BS from New Mexico State University in Animal Sciences, and graduated with his DVM from Washington State University. He completed his Food Animal Medicine Residency and ACVIM Board Certification at The Ohio State University and served as faculty before coming to Kansas State University
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 Dr. Leslie Weaver
BS, DVM
Conference Presentation Time:
Monday, June 7, 4:30 pm
Conference Presentation Topic:
- Johnes Disease in Small Ruminants
Dr. Weaver is originally from the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. She received her BS and DVM from Texas A&M University. She did a food animal medicine and surgery internship/residency at Oklahoma State University and is board certified in Large Animal Internal Medicine. She has been faculty at Kansas State University in Livestock Services since 2019 where she does both ambulatory and hospital services.
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Dr. Elizabeth Santschi
Dr. Bruce P. Whittle
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