Speakers

Large Animal Speakers

Mike Apley, DVM, PhD, ACVCP - Clinical Sciences, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • "A Regulatory Update on Food Animal Drugs"

      • Dr. Apley is a veterinarian with a PhD in physiology (pharmacology). He is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology. His practice background includes general practice in central Kansas and a feedlot consulting/contract research practice based in Colorado. Dr. Apley is currently a professor in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at Kansas State University. His research interests include infectious disease, antibiotic efficacy and resistance, antibiotic stewardship, drug residues, and applications of drugs in food animals.

Rodrigo Bicalho, DVM, PhD, Founder and CEO, Fera Diagnostics and Biologicals Corp.

• • • • "Novel Strategy to Mitigate Stress and it’s Deleterious consequences in Cattle"
      • With an extreme passion for science, Dr. Bicalho was a professor at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine for thirteen years, and founder and CEO of FERA. He is one of the world’s leading experts on dairy cattle health, and advises many of the largest and most progressive dairy farms around the world. Dr. Bicalho received his PhD degree from the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, joined the faculty in 2008, and has published more than 100 scientific articles related to cattle health, microbiology and infectious diseases. Dr. Bicalho is the founder and CEO of Fera Diagnostics and Biologicals Corp.

Gregg Hanzlicek, DVM, PhD

• • • • "Bovine Theileriosis: An Update"
      • Dr. Gregg Hanzlicek received his DVM from Mississippi State University. After graduation he was a cow-calf and dairy private practitioner for 16 years. Gregg completed a PhD in epidemiology at KSU-CVM and is now the the Associate Director of the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and the section leader for Outreach and Field Disease Investigations.

W Mark Hilton, DVM, PAS, DABVP (beef cattle), Midwest Beef Cattle Consultants, LLC

• • • • "Developing a customized vaccination protocol for each cow-calf client"
      • "Reproductive success is an accumulation of little successes"
      • "How to become more of an asset to your clients through consultation"
      • "Open forum on workforce issues"
      • W. Mark Hilton was born and raised on a swine and beef farm in Indiana. He earned a BS in Animal Science and DVM from Purdue University. Hilton began his veterinary career with Dr. Bill Speer in an 80% farm animal practice in DeWitt, Iowa. In practice he developed “The Total Beef Herd Health Program”. This was a comprehensive, preventative medicine program where he consulted with beef cow-calf producers concerning nutrition, genetics, herd production and financial records, marketing, health, fertility, and environmental improvement.

Shaun M. Huser, DVM, Clinical Sciences, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • "BLV Prevalence in North-East Kansas Beef Herds"
      • I was in mixed animal practice for 13 years prior to accepting a position at KSU CVM in 2017. I am a large animal field service clinician for the veterinary school, and I have a focus on teaching livestock general veterinary practice to veterinary students.

Phillip Lancaster, MS, PhD, Clinical Sciences, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • "Feeding Cows Consuming Dormant Low-Quality Forages: How, When, What?"
      • Phillip Lancaster was born and raised on a family livestock and crop farm in west central Illinois. He earned his B. S. degree in Agricultural Science from Western Illinois University in 1999. After which, he worked as assistant manager of a 2,400-head capacity feedlot in Illinois for 3 years before returning for his M.S. degree in Animal Science in 2004 from the University of Missouri, and Ph.D. degree in Animal Science with an emphasis in ruminant nutrition in 2008 from Texas A&M University. Prior to joining Kansas State University, he has held positions at Oklahoma State University, University of Florida, and Missouri State University. His research efforts focus on developing strategies to enhance sustainability of beef production through identification of improved management practices. Dr. Lancaster also teaches animal nutrition and beef production courses in Departments of Clinical Sciences and Animal Sciences and Industry. He has two boys, Levi, 10, and Caleb, 8.

Robert Larson, DVM, PhD, DACT, DACVPM (Epidemiology), ACAN, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • "Open forum on workforce issues"

Brian Lubbers, PhD, ACVCP, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • "Ins & Outs of the USDA Veterinary Medical Loan Repayment Program"
      • Dr. Lubbers is currently an Associate Professor of Food Animal Therapeutics at Kansas State University. Dr. Lubbers began his veterinary career as a private practitioner in California and Iowa working primarily with dairy and beef producers. In 2005, he returned to Kansas State University, where he completed his PhD in Microbiology (Pharmacology). He served as the Director of Clinical Microbiology at the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory for 10 years. He is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology and currently serves as the chairholder for the CLSI – Veterinary Antimicrobial Susceptibility testing subcommittee. His teaching and research interests are antimicrobial stewardship & therapy, antimicrobial resistance and application of diagnostic testing in food animals.

Matt Meisner, DVM, MS, DACVIM-LA, Clinical Sciences, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • "Camelid dentistry and teeth problems"
      • Dr. Miesner has been at KSU since 2006. He was at The Ohio State University for his Residency and time on Faculty from 2001-2006. Upon Graduation from Washington State University in 1999 he was in private Mixed Practice in Pasco, WA. Dr. Miesner teaches primarily 4th year students during their clinical food animal medicine and surgery rotation in the hospital. He also spends a large part of his time consulting various medical and surgical issues with clients and referring veterinarians as questions from the field arise. The remainder of his position is teaching labs and didactic lectures involving livestock species including cattle, small ruminants, camelids, and some swine.

Emily Reppert, DVM, MS, DACVIM-LA, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • "Update on management of calf scours"

      • Dr. Reppert is an associate professor within the Livestock Services section. She provides care to all livestock species in the Veterinary Health Center as well as teaching students in the 3rd and 4th year of the veterinary curriculum. Her research interests are tick borne diseases and pain management of livestock species.

Paige Schmidt, Class of 2024, Master's of veterinary biomedical sciences candidate, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • "Frequency of Pulmonary Lesions in Feedlot Mortalities"

      • Paige Schmidt is a 4^th year veterinary student from Crystal Springs, North Dakota. She grew up working on her family’s 4th generation commercial cow/calf and backgrounding operation. Concurrent to her DVM, Paige is working towards a master’s in biomedical sciences with the Beef Cattle Institute, focusing on pulmonary diseases in feedlot cattle. Paige enjoys beef cattle production medicine and advocating for the industry. She is unsure of her future career plans but hopes to focus on beef cattle production on a large scale in the cow/calf or feedlot sector, while implementing advocation for the industry into her professional career.

Brad White, DVM, MS, Director of the Beef Cattle Institute at Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • "Ins & Outs of the USDA Veterinary Medical Loan Repayment Program"
      • "Frequency of Pulmonary Lesions in Feedlot Mortalities"
      • "Open forum on workforce issues"

      • 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.

Equine

Haileigh Avellar, DVM, MS, DACVS-LA

• • • • Orthopedic Infection: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recent Literature
      • Diplomate American College of Veterinary Surgeons

Scott Fritz, DVM, Diplomate ABVT, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • Common Equine Toxins
      • Dr. Fritz earned his DVM in 2014 from Iowa State University and spent five years in private practice before completing a residency in toxicology at Kansas State University with a focus in diagnostics. He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Toxicology in the Department of Anatomy and Physiology at Kansas State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Toxicology and primarily focuses his efforts on diagnostic service through the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory as well as teaching toxicology in the veterinary curriculum.

Andy Hawkins, DVM, Epidemiologist, Kansas, USDA-APHIS-Veterinary Services, Field Operations District 4

• • • • "High-Impact Equine Diseases in the U.S. National Veterinary Accreditation Program, Module 31"
      • Dr. Hawkins received his DVM from Kansas State University. He then went on to complete an internship in equine surgery and medicine at Sheridan Equine Hospital in Sheridan, Wyoming. His practice experience was exclusively equine for the next 9 years until pursuing a career in regulatory medicine. In July of 2017 he was appointed Assistant Animal Health Commissioner and held that position until 2022. He is past president of the Kansas Veterinary Medical Association and continues to remain active in organized medicine.

Heather Kynch, DVM, PhD, MS, ACVCP, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California-Davis

• • • • Pharmacology of Antimicrobials I
      • Pharmacology of Antimicrobials II
      • NSAIDs in Horses I
      • NSAIDs in Horses II
      • Analgesic Pharmacology and Pain Management
      • Compounding and ELDU
      • Dr. Knych is Professor of Clinical Veterinary Pharmacology and Head of the Pharmacology Section at the K.L. Maddy Equine Analytical Pharmacology Laboratory at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis. Dr. Knych earned her DVM and PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the University of California, Davis and followed this with a residency in Veterinary Pharmacology. She is a board certified Clinical Veterinary Pharmacologist with an extensive publication record in the areas of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs in performance horses, with an emphasis on anti-inflammatories and analgesic agents and in equine drug metabolism and pharmacogenomics.

Dylan Lutter, DVM, MS, DACVS-LA, CERP, CAC

• • • • "Managing Equine Heel Bulb Lacerations"
      • "Field Management of Equine Fractures"
      • Dr. Dylan Lutter is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine. He is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons in Large Animal Surgery and practices at the KSU Veterinary Health Center in Equine Performance Medicine and Surgery. In addition he teaches throughout all 4 years of the KSU veterinary curriculum in subjects ranging from: equine anatomy, diagnostic imaging, surgical & clinical skills, lameness recognition and treatment, regenerative therapies, and equine rehabilitation. He earned his DVM from Kansas State University in 2009 and went on to an equine surgical residency, concurrent with a Master’s degree, followed by a fellowship in equine MRI at Washington State University completed in 2014. In 2015 Dr. Lutter joined the faculty at Kansas State University as the Large Animal Emergency Clinician. In 2019 he initiated the KSU VHC Equine Performance Medicine Service following his certification as an Equine Rehabilitation Practitioner from the University of Tennessee. In 2020, he joined the rotation of clinicians on the KSU Equine Surgery Service and completed the Animal Chiropractic Program at Parker University. Dr. Lutter earned certification in animal chiropractic by the AVCA in 2021. Dr. Lutter has specific clinical interest in diagnosing the cause of lameness in performance horses and returning those horses to their peak performance through the use of cutting edge and integrative therapies. His primary research interests include tendon/ligament injury, fracture splinting techniques, regenerative medicine/orthobiologic therapies, equine MRI, and equine rehabilitation.

Katherine Delph Miller, DVM, MS, DACVIM-LAIM, Kansas State University

• • • • "Respiratory disease of foals – Part One"
      • "Respiratory disease of foals – Part Two"
      • Katherine Delph Miller is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Equine Internal Medicine at Kansas State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. She graduated with her DVM from Purdue University in 2012, and she obtained board certification in large animal internal medicine from the ACVIM following a residency at Kansas State University. She has clinical and research interests in infectious diseases, especially involving the respiratory system, along with neonatology.

Poultry

Kristen Hill-Thimmesch, DVM, MS, DACPV, DACVP, Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory

• • • • "Backyard Poultry"
      • Kristen Hill-Thimmesch is an anatomic pathologist who joined KSVDL in September 2022. Following graduation from Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, she joined the Department of Comparative Pathobiology at Purdue University as a poultry diagnostic medicine resident. The poultry residency program at the Indiana ADDL fostered a keen interest in pathology and after completing her poultry residency, she began an anatomic pathology residency at Purdue University. She is a diplomate of the American College of Poultry Veterinarians and the American College of Veterinary Pathologists.

Practice Management

Dan Goehl, DVM

• • • • Practice Tips and Understanding Your Value Proposition; A review of 20 years of trial and error in practice and practice management of clients, staff and self.
      • Dr. Dan Goehl graduated from University of Missouri-Columbia Veterinary Teaching Hospital in 1998. Post graduation he joined a mixed animal practice in northeast Missouri. Currently he and his wife own and operate Canton Veterinary Clinic LLC, a six doctor practice, where Dr. Dan Goehl works primarily with progressive large animal consisting of stocker and cow/calf beef operations. Dr. Goehl is a partner in Professional Beef Services, LLC; a data management and contract research organization and Precision Animal Solutions, LLC; a company that uses remote monitoring to identify cattle wellness. The Goehl’s also are personally active in the cattle business. He is a member of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP), Academy of Veterinary Consultants (AVC), and the Missouri Veterinary Medical Association (MVMA). Dr. Goehl is a past president of the AVC. He was awarded the AVC Consultant of the Year and AABP Excellence in Preventive Medicine awards.

Clint Neill, PhD

• • • • State of the Rural and Food Animal Animal Veterinary Workforce

      • Clint Neill, PhD, is a senior economist and associate director for strategic business research and outreach at the AVMA. His role is to assist in translating the work of the Veterinary Economics Division and various stakeholders into actionable items for veterinary teams and clinics. He also holds a part-time appointment as assistant professor in veterinary economics for the Cornell Center of Veterinary Business and Entrepreneurship. His research focuses on the broad scope of issues facing veterinary medicine.

James K. Roush, DVM, MS, DACVS, Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Student Success, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • "2023 DVM Graduate Expectations for Salaries and Contracts"
      • Dr. Roush is the current Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Student Success in the College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, and Professor of Small Animal Surgery. He has been a faculty member at Kansas State University since 1989

Small Animal Speakers

Neala Boyer, DVM, DABVP (canine and feline practice), Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • "Feline House Soiling and Marking-“Make it Stop Doc”
      • "When Separation Leads to Anxiety in our Companions"
      • Dr. Boyer is a board certified practitioner through the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners in Canine and Feline Practice with 20 years of experience in primary care case management. She spend 12 years at an AAHA hospital and is currently a Clinical Associate Professor at Kansas State University in the Pet Health and Nutrition Center where she has been for the past 8 years. Dr. Boyer is a co-coordinator and lecturer in the behavior elective in the College and an Elite FearFree Certified Practitioner.

Maria Jugan, DVM, MS, DACVIM (SAIM), Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • "Antimicrobial Stewardship & Small Animal Gastrointestinal Disease: Balancing Patient Outcomes & One Health"
      • Dr. Maria Jugan received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Tennessee in 2013. She completed a small animal rotating internship at Texas A&M University, followed by master's degree and residency in small animal internal medicine at The Ohio State University. She is board-certified in small animal internal medicine and currently serves as an assistant professor at Kansas State University. Clinical and research interests include chronic gastrointestinal disease in small animals, specifically involving GI interactions with the microbiome and the enteroendocrine system, as well as feline medicine.

Nathaniel Kapaldo, MPH, DACVAA, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • "Open Q & A"
      • Dr. Kapaldo is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Kansas State University's College of Veterinary Medicine (KSU-CVM). He is from Northern Virginia, earned his B.S. in Biology at Slippery Rock University (PA), his DVM from KSU-CVM, completed a one-year rotating internship at the Animal Medical Center (NYC, NY), before completing his residency in Anesthesia and Analgesia at KSU-CVM.

Kate KuKanich, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (SAIM), Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • "Optimizing our use of antibiotics and stewardship in small animal medicine"
      • "What's new with managing companion animal respiratory infections?"
      • Dr. Kate KuKanich is a small animal internist and professor at Kansas State University with a clinical and research interest in infectious disease and public health, specifically antimicrobial resistance and optimizing use of antibiotics in our patients. She is married to a veterinary clinical pharmacologist, Butch KuKanich, and they have 2 sons, a standard poodle, some farm cats, and a barn full of pet ducks.

Morgan Murphy, DVM, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • "Anesthesia in dogs & cats with cardiac disease"
      • Dr. Murphy received her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Kansas State University. She received her DVM from Kansas State University and completed internships at Oklahoma State University and Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists in Houston, Texas before returning to Kansas State University for a residency in Anesthesia and Analgesia. She then worked as an anesthesia faculty member at Iowa State University's College of Veterinary Medicine before returning to Kansas State where she is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesia. Her clinical interests include methods to reduce morbidity and mortality in veterinary patients in the perioperative period.

Heidi Phillips, VMD, BA, DACVS-SA, University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine

• • • • "What's New in Brachycephalic Syndrome" - Parts 1 & 2
      • "Cystotomy and Perineal Urethrostomy- Easier Said than Done? Tips for Success and When to Refer"
      • "Thoracic Trauma- Triage and Stabilization"
      • "Thoracic Trauma- Perioperative Consideration and Planning"
      • "Thoracic Trauma- Post-Surgical Decision-Making, Care, and Prognosis"
      • An Associate Professor of small animal surgery at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Heidi Phillips is a board-certified small animal surgeon with a passion for treating canine and feline surgical diseases. Dr. Phillips graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in 2001 and completed a rotating internship in medicine and surgery and small animal surgical residency at the University of Pennsylvania. She achieved specialty certification in 2006, becoming a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons-Small Animal. Following her residency, she began Allegheny Veterinary Surgery, a surgical practice in Pittsburgh, PA, in cooperation with Allegheny Veterinary Emergency Trauma and Specialty before returning as a staff surgeon to the University of Pennsylvania. With a soft tissue surgical focus, she became additionally skilled in transplantation, microvascular surgery, and microsurgery completing microsurgical training at Columbia University and the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Phillips accepted a faculty position with the University of Illinois in 2012, and started the University of Illinois Microsurgery research and training Laboratory. Since then, she has received grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Winn Feline Foundation, and American College of Veterinary Surgeons Foundation to support her research including work with chemotherapy eluting substrates, urinary and vascular surgery, microsurgery, laboratory animal surgery and animal models of human diseases, and, most recently, brachycephalic airway surgery of dogs and cats. Dr. Phillips leads a respiratory clinic at the University of Illinois, the only surgeon to perform laser assisted turbinectomy (LATE) in combination with multilevel upper airway surgery for brachycephalic dogs in the United States. She has served as member and co-Chair of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons Examination Committee and is currently director of the Small Animal Surgery Residency and Chief of Soft Tissue Surgery at the University of Illinois.