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The AVA Annual Conference is the nation’s premier veterinary event, covering all fields of veterinary science and in 2017 brought together over 920 veterinary professionals and 115 exhibitors.
We hope you will join us for the 2018 AVA Annual Conference in Brisbane, 13-18 May.
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Sunday
, May 13
Workshops & Field Trips
1:00pm •
Australian Small Animal (ASAV) Innovation, Research and Development Symposium
Monday
, May 14
Great Hall Doors 1 and 8
8:15am •
Allergic disease: diagnosis: cutaneous adverse food reaction ** Note change of time**
9:15am •
Immune suppressive drugs: do we need more than prednisolone?
10:45am •
Plenary - The boundaries between human and technological evolution and intelligent technologies
1:30pm •
Allergy: Diagnosis: atopic disease versus contact allergy
2:30pm •
Approach to IMHA in the Dog and Cat **Note change of time **
Mezzanine M1
8:15am •
Equine Cushing’s Disease/PPID – what do we know now?
9:15am •
Getting the old guys back on track: Management of PPID
1:30pm •
2 types of ponies
2:30pm •
Feeding Healthy Older Horses
Mezzanine M2
8:15am •
Oral examination
9:15am •
Intraoral radiographs – technique and interpretation
1:30pm •
Simple and surgical tooth extractions
2:30pm •
Fundamentals of endodontic disease
Mezzanine M3
8:15am •
Aggressive dogs: Reading the Signs
9:15am •
Aggressive dogs at the Veterinary Hospital
1:30pm •
A Tale of Two Tails: Causes of Tail Chasing
Mezzanine M4
8:15am •
Making your health care messages consistent, engaging the team in clear messages. Yes you need to be clearer
9:15am •
Creating a values-based culture ….how to get to your values and how to make them mean something
1:30pm •
Living the dream
2:30pm •
Panel Discussion: State of the Market
Plaza P1
8:15am •
Antimicrobial Resistance: Ongoing challenges and opportunities
9:15am •
Calculating appropriate withholding periods for off-label use of drugs
1:30pm •
Calving/lambing tips and tricks
2:30pm •
Cattle nutrition 101
Plaza P2
8:15am •
Do animals experience happiness and why does it matter? Research into positive emotions
9:15am •
The companion animal conundrum: Different values lead to different welfare challenges
1:30pm •
What can be done to make kangaroo harvesting more humane?
2:30pm •
Kangaroos can be assets rather than pests
Plaza P3
8:15am •
Fostering Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Veterinary Profession
1:30pm •
Implementing new post-mortem inspection procedures and disposition judgements
2:00pm •
Public Health, Biosecurity and Exports – Government Veterinarians’ Role
2:30pm •
Modelling who infected whom in outbreaks
3:00pm •
Ross River virus forecasting
Tuesday
, May 15
Great Hall Doors 1 and 8
8:00am •
Approach to IMT in the Dog and Cat
9:00am •
Management of Allergic Skin Disease: Immunotherapy (SCIT versus SLIT)
10:45am •
Fear free clinics
12:00pm •
Plenary - Beyond Bias: Leveraging the Power of Difference
2:30pm •
A vet confesses: Why my pets aren’t vaccinated or wormed …A vet becomes a customer and it all goes badly wrong
4:00pm •
Feline pemphigus foliaceus: diagnosis and management
5:00pm •
Management of allergic skin disease: immunotherapy (subcutaneous versus sublingual)
Mezzanine M1
8:00am •
Pain Management in horses : beyond NSAIDs
9:00am •
Colitis in the horse with a focus on right dorsal (RDUC)
10:45am •
Common arrhythmias and causes of murmurs in horses, and how to diagnose them
2:30pm •
Weight Loss and management of the starved horse
4:00pm •
The Hendra virus vaccine: a review of antibody responses in the field
4:30pm •
Psittacosis, placentas, foals and students
5:00pm •
Practical biosecurity for day to day practice - raising the bar
Mezzanine M2
8:00am •
The national security implications of biological warfare against animals
8:30am •
Managing the risk of human exposures to ABLV
9:00am •
Equine Arboviruses of Australia
9:30am •
African swine fever: a devastating disease of pigs
10:45am •
How collaborative is One Health in practice?
2:30pm •
Domestic violence, animal abuse/human behaviour
4:00pm •
Feline tooth resorption
5:00pm •
Feline gingivostomatitis - things that we all need to know!
Mezzanine M3
8:00am •
Fighting felines: why cats fight and how to help them
9:00am •
Use of Psychotropic Medications and Nutraceuticals for Acute Anxiety in Cats
10:45am •
The customer isn't always right: Why business ethics is not professional ethics
2:30pm •
Behaviour Modification: Can’t the trainer do it?
4:00pm •
Raising a sane cat
5:00pm •
PANEL:Terminology - Labels stick
Mezzanine M4
8:00am •
Team member engagement ,why they stay and why they go
9:00am •
What leaders do that mean managers can actually manage
10:45am •
Regional nerve blocks in equine dentistry
2:30pm •
Equine Dentistry: When to Tackle What: DIY or refer?
4:00pm •
VetEd Talks
Plaza P1
8:00am •
Cattle Medicine - The clinical exam
9:00am •
A practical approach to treat lame cows in the farm
10:45am •
Cattle Medicine - Metabolic Disorders
2:30pm •
Cattle Medicine - Neurological Disease
4:00pm •
Production Animal Emergency Management
5:00pm •
Trace Minerals for Cattle 101 - Diagnosis, Treatment and Monitoring
Plaza P2
8:00am •
The role of professional societies in the education of veterinary students and graduates: Australian Society for Parasitology
8:30am •
The demise of the didactic lecture? Staff and student perspectives
9:00am •
Adaptive eLearning for veterinary science – students as partners
9:30am •
Application of flip teaching principals to equine anaesthesia practical settings
10:45am •
Does audience response system use in lectures improve assessment performance?
11:15am •
Altruism in the next generation- a professional trait?
2:30pm •
Poster Session (Education)
4:00pm •
Veterinarians making ethical decisions - how do they do it?
4:30pm •
Perfect match! How employers select new graduate veterinarians for employment
5:00pm •
Attributes university students think veterinary employees value in their employees
5:30pm •
Excellence in teaching winner
Plaza P3
8:00am •
Guinea pig dermatology
8:30am •
Management of a Canine Distemper Virus outbreak in a ferret rescue facility
9:00am •
Avian anaesthesia
9:30am •
Common Avian Consultations: What I Need and What I Need to Know?
10:45am •
Pesky Parasites in Mammals: The good, the bad and ugly
11:15am •
Investigation and treatment of upper respiratory tract disease
2:30pm •
It Ate What?... Reptilian Foreign Bodies!
3:00pm •
Once bitten: the delights and perils of treating venomous creatures
4:00pm •
Wildlife rescue and rehabilitation - the conservation and ethical conundrum
4:30pm •
The wild koala consult
5:00pm •
Understanding the factors influencing chlamydial blindness in koalas
5:30pm •
Population genetics of Chlamydia pecorum infections in livestock and marsupials
Wednesday
, May 16
Great Hall Doors 1 and 8
8:00am •
Transfusion based laboratory testing
9:00am •
Blood products and their uses
10:30am •
Diagnosis and Treatment of Immune-Mediated Polyarthritis
11:30am •
Fever of Unknown Origin
12:30pm •
Plenary - The science of high performance thinking: Thrive by design
2:30pm •
To close your eyes does not ease another's pain: the problem with assessing pain
4:00pm •
Practical blood transfusions in the dog
5:00pm •
How to monitor dogs on Ïmmune-suppressive drugs - Anything new?
Mezzanine M1
8:00am •
Endocrine laminitis
9:00am •
Back on their feet again: Management of endocrine laminitis
10:30am •
Navicular Disease diagnosis and treatment
11:30am •
Tendinopathies diagnosis and treatment
2:30pm •
Techniques for Regional Antimicrobial delivery in Clinical Practice
4:00pm •
Hoof capsule distortion and it's effect on Internal Structures
5:00pm •
Applying support and reducing stresses in the Acute/Chronic laminitic hoof
Mezzanine M2
8:00am •
Periodontal disease – pathogenesis and treatment options
9:00am •
Regional nerve blocks in canine and feline dentistry
10:30am •
Emerging diseases in Australian marine wildlife
11:00am •
Turtle Trials and Tribulations
11:30am •
Crocodiles in northern Australia: sustainable conservation initiatives
12:00pm •
Crocodile sustainable harvest for conservation in western Cape York
2:30pm •
Taking the fear out of fish medicine
4:00pm •
Tools of the trade: what equipment do I need?
5:00pm •
Benign oral tumors
Mezzanine M3
8:00am •
Helping those in need: behavioural care for rescue, shelter and newly adopted dogs
9:00am •
Raising a sane dog: importance of optimal socialisation
10:30am •
Managing the behaviour of dogs and cats to improve their welfare
11:30am •
Just because it works doesn't mean it's right: The ethics of training animals
2:30pm •
Anaesthesia free dentistry: two views, one issue
4:00pm •
Anxiety and Epilepsy: An Update
5:00pm •
Alleviating Canine Fears & Phobias of Thunderstorms
Mezzanine M4
8:00am •
Making vet care easy to use, simplify the processes and employ better people
9:00am •
Fix the little stuff that makes the big stuff happen...
10:30am •
The Hub
2:30pm •
Panel Discussion: Technology, what’s emerging and where are we headed
4:00pm •
Practice Management: Connecting all the dots
Plaza P1
8:00am •
Cattle Medicine - Disorders of the Reproductive System
9:00am •
A refresher on sperm morphology
10:30am •
Obstetrics - It's all in the delivery
11:30am •
Minor procedures – Tips and Techniques
2:30pm •
Emergency Animal Disease: Are we adequately prepared?
4:00pm •
Effects of human behaviour on welfare and productivity outcomes for livestock
5:00pm •
Public perceptions of farm animal welfare and their effects on livestock welfare
Plaza P2
8:00am •
Why you need to know about online relinquishments of pets
8:30am •
Veterinary attitudes to mandatory prepubertal desexing in the ACT
9:00am •
The influence of human factors on the effectiveness of stunning
10:30am •
Are you what you eat? Herbal medicine and the microbiome
11:00am •
Why use herbs in practice?
11:30am •
Nutrition: Functional Foods and Nutrigenomics
2:30pm •
Healing the healers: the challenge of self-care
3:00pm •
Building resilience
4:00pm •
Resilience Workshop
Plaza P3
8:00am •
Successful parasite control on goat farms
8:30am •
Investigating the impact and control of lungworm in lambs
9:00am •
Control of scour worms in prime lambs in Western Australia
9:30am •
A diagnostic and geographic analysis of liver fluke in South Eastern Australia
10:30am •
Diagnosing Anthelmintic Resistance in small ruminants: Problems and solutions
11:00am •
An update on FECRT methodology and efficacy calculations
11:30am •
A review of helminth infections in alpacas
12:00pm •
Gastrointestinal nematodes of alpacas in Australia
2:30pm •
One Health - Training at the coal face
4:00pm •
Research priorities for GPs and veterinarians with respect to zoonoses
4:30pm •
Q fever: validation of serological tests for Coxiella burnetii exposure in Australian cattle
5:00pm •
Raw chicken consumption, campylobacter infection and acute polyradiculoneuritis in dogs
5:30pm •
Epidemiology of Salmonella in poultry: the use of whole genome sequencing to identify points of entry and transmission pathways
Thursday
, May 17
Great Hall Doors 1 and 8
8:00am •
Practical blood transfusion in the cat
9:00am •
Emergency Management of the Immune-Mediated Blood Disorders
10:30am •
Ben Cunneen Memorial Plenary: One Health and its potential for integrated disease surveillance and control
11:30am •
Canine chronic enteropathy - time for prednisolone... or not
2:00pm •
Feline Intestinal small cell lymphoma or chronic enteropathy? How to differentiate them and treat them.
3:00pm •
Chronic Management of the Immune-Mediated Blood Disorders
4:30pm •
MEMBER FORUM - with James O'Loghlin
Mezzanine M1
8:00am •
Endocrinology in Emergencies
8:30am •
Heat Stress in Horses: Focus on Exertional Heat Illness
9:00am •
Equine metabolic syndrome – what do we know now?
11:30am •
Communicating with the Emotional or Irrational Client
2:00pm •
Dilemmas in diagnosis of EMS: is it the waistline or the carbs?
3:00pm •
Managing the waistline: Prevention and Management of EMS
Mezzanine M2
7:00am •
Public Health Workshop (Jakob Zinsstag)
9:00am •
Exercise. Is it worth it?
9:30am •
NZ’s Mycoplasma bovis emergency response and IAHER
11:30am •
Complications of dental extractions
2:00pm •
Jaw fractures: non-invasive stabilisation
3:00pm •
Panel Discussion: Dental Dillemas - What would you do?
Mezzanine M3
8:00am •
"One World - One Welfare": International work on human behaviour change and animal welfare
9:00am •
Are we meeting the welfare needs of pet cats in Australia?
9:30am •
Incorporating welfare assessments into decision making in wild horse management
11:30am •
Misbehaving or misunderstood? Addressing problems with horse behaviour and human safety
2:00pm •
The welfare aspects of using medication to manage behaviour
3:00pm •
Puppy Class at the Vet Hospital
Mezzanine M4
8:00am •
What do animal owners really want from you? Did we ask them yet?
9:00am •
Communication clarity for compliance- what do we really say to owners, no wonder they don’t come in!
11:30am •
PANEL: State of Leadership
2:00pm •
Women in the workplace
3:00pm •
Flexible working careers
Plaza P1
8:00am •
Cattle Medicine - Diarrhoea in post-rearing cattle
9:00am •
Cattle medicine - Surgical conditions of the gastrointestinal tract
11:30am •
Control of tick fever in introduced cattle
2:00pm •
The eye's have it. Diseases of the bovine head
3:00pm •
Cattle Medicine - Practical Therapeutics
Plaza P2
8:00am •
Setting Up and Operating Animal Blood Banks
9:00am •
Genomics, Genetics and Epigenetics for Animal Health and Longevity
11:30am •
Health and disease causation: epidemiological concepts in integrative medicine
12:00pm •
The Integration of standard treatment for canine mitral valve disease and dilated cardiomyopathy, with complimentary therapies
2:00pm •
Cellular Oxidative Stress and Cancers
3:00pm •
Vaccine Essentials and Potential Adverse Events
Plaza P3
8:00am •
Gaps in nematode research and communication capacity – an industry risk ?
8:30am •
Bridging the gap between research and development and adoption
9:00am •
PANEL: The gap between livestock research & implementation: the role of veterinarians and others
11:30am •
Apicomplexa in Australian livestock – concerns and knowledge gaps
2:00pm •
Efficacy of three lice treatments in Dorpers
2:30pm •
Emerging strategies for sheep flystrike control Part 1
3:00pm •
Emerging strategies for sheep flystrike control Part 2
3:30pm •
Wool production without mulesing - a producer perspective
Friday
, May 18
Workshops & Field Trips
8:00am •
Australian Veterinary Conservation Biology Field Trip “Wildlife Care and Treatment, Captive Breeding”
8:30am •
Veterinary Business Group (VBG) Practice Management Exclusive Insights Tour
8:30am •
Sheep, Camelid and Goat Veterinarians Field Trip to Goat Farms
9:00am •
Equine Veterinarians Australia (EVA) – Pre Purchase Examination Workshop
9:00am •
Integrative Vets Australia (IVA) "Chronic illness: conundrums and case studies"
9:00am •
AVA Mental Health First Aid Training Workshop*
9:00am •
Unusual Pet and Avian Veterinarians (UPAV) Sea World Field Trip
9:00am •
Australian Cattle Veterinarians (ACV) Bovine Basics from Gatton Gurus
9:00am •
Hands-on Urinalysis workshop
9:00am •
Australian Veterinarian Behaviour Interest Group (AVBIG) - The Behaviour Case: From diagnosis to successful long-term management
9:30am •
Veterinary Business Group (VBG) – Building world class veterinary teams – Alison Lambert
10:00am •
Australian Veterinarians for Animal Welfare and Ethics (AVAWE) workshop “Changing human behaviour: Changing animal lives”
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