Basepaws to sponsor and support AAFP

Basepaws, a Zoetis company, providing veterinary teams with early detection health risk tests based on genetic and oral microbiome data, announces its sponsorship and support of the American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP).

A leading organization in feline medicine, "The AAFP works to improve the standards of feline health and well-being, in part by providing its members and the veterinary community with valuable feline resources."1 The sponsorship from Basepaws will help the association support feline practitioners through the AAFP's weekly Newsbrief, the annual conference, and speaker sponsorships. “Basepaws joined the AAFP as a sponsor in 2022. We are delighted to work together to create educational resources and support veterinary professionals as they strive to increase the standard of care provided to cats,” statesHeather O'Steen, CAE, AAFP's CEO

Kristin Wuhrman, EVP of Veterinary Strategy and Operations at Basepaws shares, "We are very excited to support AAFP and their dedication to advancing feline medicine. Basepaws is committed to improving the health and well-being of cats everywhere. Genetic testing can help deliver personalized, proactive pet care by enabling veterinarians and pet parents to better monitor for subtle signs of illness based on a pet's genetic risk profile."

Feline health has also been the focus of Basepaws since its founding in 2016 and the introduction of the first-of-its-kind feline breed and health DNA test. Today, Basepaws continues its mission to support feline health and veterinary care teams with the introduction of an exclusive veterinary line of genomic tests, including the Feline Baseline Breed & Health and Oral Microbiome-Dental Disease tests.

Basepaws is proud to be a sponsor and exhibitor at this year's AAFP Annual Conference in-person and virtual conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from October 27-30. The 2022 conference theme is Enriching Feline Care & the Veterinary Experience, which will provide practical and relevant feline content. Get conference details here.

Ashlie Saffire, DVM, DABVP (Feline), will deliver a CE session titled, Early Prediction Advantagesfor CKD on October 30, 2022, sponsored by Basepaws. In this session, Dr. Saffire will discuss the benefits of early detection of CKD through diagnostics and the potential for a newly emerging tool that uses oral microbiome data to help identify at-risk patients for CKD. Knowledge of risk factors and early intervention is key to treating CKD early, elevating patient care, and improving prognosis over time. Learn more here.

For more information about Basepaws, visit www.basepawsvet.com