8.30 – 9am

Registration

9 – 9.45

Epilepsy: when the (usual) drugs don’t work...

Dr Holger Volk DrMedVet PhD DipECVN MRCVS (RVC, UK-Germany)

9.55 – 10.40

Antimicrobial usage in companion animal practice: facts and moral dilemmas

Dr Susan Dawson BVMS PhD MRCVS (University of Liverpool, UK)

10.40–11.10

Break

11.10-12.05

Case Reports – sponsored by Vetoquinol

1. Abdominal mycetoma in a dog caused by Scedosporium apiospermum
2. Deoxycorticosterone-producing adrenal carcinoma causing signs of mineralocorticoid excess and hypokalaemic myopathy in a dog
3. Colonic candidiasis in a dog

4. Four cases of feline hyperprogesteronism

Rosanne  Jepson (RVC)

Ruth Gostelow (RVC)

Caroline Kisielewicz (Glasgow University)

Natasha Hetzel (Bristol University)

12.05 – 1.00

Venous thromboembolism: learning from a human perspective

Dr Nandan Gautam MA, BM ChB, MRCP DICM. Consultant in medicine and critical care. Member of the NICE venous thromboembolism prevention committee       (Birmingham UK)

1.00 -2.30

Lunch (till 2.00 for those attending lunch-time session)

2.00-2.30

How to write a successful CertSAM casebook? (optional)

Jon Wray BVSc DSAM CertVC MRCVS (Dick White Referrals, UK)

2.30-3.15

Controversies surrounding treatment of aortic thromboembolism

Dr Matt Beal DVM DipACVECC

(Michigan State University, USA)

3.25-3.35

Break

3.35-4.20

Feline Acromegaly: separating facts from assumptions

Stijn Niessen DVM DipECVIM-CA MRCVS (RVC, UK-Netherlands)

4.30-5pm

AGM and presentation  “best case report award” sponsored by Vetoquinol