To reserve a seat for any of the above lectures, please email Tricia Cassidy.

All of the above lectures are held at Massachusetts Veterinary Referral Hospital (MVRH) in Woburn.

Directions

 

March 28, 2006 at 7:00pm
Transfusion Medicine
Presented by Heidi L. White, DVM, DACVIM
(Internal Medicine)
We will discuss selecting appropriate canine and feline donors, preparing blood components, choosing the appropriate blood products to administer, how to administer blood components and transfusion reactions.

April 13, 2006 at 7:00pm
Fever – Is it hot in here?
Jennifer E. Waldrop, DVM, DACVECC
(Emergency/Critical Care)
This lecture will cover a range of materials including physiology, diagnostic techniques, treatment options and prognosis. First, a short introduction to the pathophysiology of fever as it relates both to clinical signs and drug treatments. This will include criteria regarding when to treat a fever. Common clinical diseases that cause fever in dogs and cats and their concomitant clinical picture, appropriate diagnostics and theapeutics will be discussed thoroughly. Confounding diseases such as Lyme, Baronella and selective emerging diseases will also be discussed. We will also discuss situations such as a developing fever in the hospitalized patient, fever in pediatric patients and when a fever is not a fever (hyperthermia, exogenous pyrogens, etc.)

May 9, 2006 at 7:00pm
Update on Management of diabetes in dogs and cats
Presented by Karen L. Campbell, DVM, DACVIM
(Internal Medicine)

July 11, 2006 at 7:00pm
An Introduction to the benefits of small animal physical therapy
Presented by Lisa B. Corti, DVM, DACVS
(Surgery)
The lecture will discuss disuse and immobilization and how they effect bones and soft tissues, how to prevent these changes through PT, why rehabilitation after surgery is so important to the veterinary patient, a brief description of various PT techniques, and how PT benefits orthopedic, neurologic, and critical patients. Physical Therapy's role in pain control and weight management will also be discussed.

September 12, 2006 at 7:00pm
Neurologic Video case reviews
Presented by Gena A. Silver, DVM, MS, DACVIM
(Neurology)
A video review of various neurological cases with group discussions on problem identification, neuroanatomic lesion localization, work up out comes and treatment options.

We will cover a variety of neurological topics of the brain and spinal cord.

October 10, 2006 at 7:00pm
Logical Approach to Cancer Therapeutics
Michael S. Buss, DVM, MS, DACVIM (Oncology)
Dr. Buss will be discussing the basic principles and terminology associated with chemotherapy, clinical oncology, tumor growth and the general side effects that may occur with chemotherapy.

November 14, 2006 at 7:00pm

New Technologies in Wound Closure: Innovative New Polymers in Suture Materials

Presented by Greg Brown, through Novartis and Ethicon

 

We apologize for the inconvenience,

but this lecture has been canceled.

 

December 5, 2006 at 7:00pm
Hyperadrenocorticism: A review of treatment and management of canine cushing's disease
Presented by Dianne E. Phillips, DVM, DACVIM
(Internal Medicine)
Discussion will include a review of the diagnosis, treatment, and management of canine cushing's disease. Traditional and new approaches to therapy will be discussed, followed by case examples.