SWVS attendees won’t want to miss these 8 featured sessions at this year’s event
The 2024 Southwest Veterinary Symposium (SWVS) kicked off today, Thursday, September 26, and CE sessions will run through Sunday, September 29, in Fort Worth, Texas. Below are 8 sessions that attendees won’t want to miss before the symposium ends.
Sponsored by the American Veterinary Medical Association
Speaker: Steve Dale, CABC
This presentation explains why practices should implement telehealth as part of their service offerings, and how integration can be comprehensive, and legal. Dale provides practical case examples, and draws from human health care, to determine the best ways to introduce telehealth into a practice.
Sponsored by Merck Animal Health
Speaker: Jenifer Chatfield, DVM, DACZM, DACVPM
With the persistent evolution of influenza, veterinarians can never let their guard down. In this presentation, Chatfield explains that with an increased understanding of the immune system, vaccine technologies continue to evolve.
Sponsored by Elanco
Speaker: Darren Berger, DVM, DACVD
In this session, Berger provides the definition and diagnosis procedure for canine atopy, in addition to updates regarding communication with owners, realistic expectations, and therapeutic options.
Sponsored by Elanco
Speaker: Carly Patterson, DVM, DACVIM (SAIM)
SGLT2 inhibitors have been made available for veterinary use for the treatment of diabetes. This presentation covers concepts, clinical cases, and top FAQs, also explaining flash glucose monitors.
Speaker: Theresa Cosper-Roberts, RVT, CVPM, ACE(DE), CVBL
This session explains the best methods for implementing changes into a veterinary practice, including developing compelling arguments when personnel initially resists change.
Speaker: Lauren Thielen, DVM
Thielen will highlight the processes of sampling and handling blood, explain chemical values that are clinically relevant in avian medicine, and explain the evaluation process for each organ system through clinical pathology.
Speaker: Guilherme G. Verocai, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVM (Parasitology)
This presentation will examine the clinical relevance and epidemiology of selected gastrointestinal (GI) parasites, providing recommendations for prevention, diagnostics, and control.
Speakers: Steve Marsden, DVM, ND, MSOM, and Kären Marsden, BA, DVM
This session outlines a simple, safe, and inexpensive approach to treating dogs with Cushing’s disease. Steve and Kären Marsden share that this approach has cured dogs without the use of any pharmaceuticals—and explain how that’s possible.