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This program has been approved by the AAVSB RACE to offer a total of 32 CE Credits.Day 01 (April 27, 2018)
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4:20:00 AM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Introduction
Speaker:
Dr Jolle Kirpensteijn -
4:30:00 AM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Nutrition in clinical practice. Is it more than just selling bags and opening cans?
Speaker:
Dr Nick Cave -
5:15:00 AM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Now, why did I come here? A look at cognitive dysfunction in aging pets
Speaker:
Dr Kersti Seksel -
6:30:00 AM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Keys to managing Feline Diabetes Mellitus
Speaker:
Dr Katie Lott -
7:00:00 AM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Beyond osteoarthritis: Other orthopaedic conditions in aging dogs
Speaker:
Dr Chris Tan -
7:30:00 AM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Latest advances in managing mitral valve insufficiency in aging dogs
Speaker:
Rob Labuc -
8:15:00 AM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Introduction
Speaker:
Alain Semeneri -
8:35:00 AM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Keynote: Adapting to a New Diet During Dog Domestication: How Dogs Coped with the Agricultural Revolution
Speaker:
Dr Erik Axelsson -
9:10:00 AM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Factors involved in the progression of CKD
Speaker:
Dr Harriet Syme -
10:15:00 AM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Vitamin D Metabolism and Canine Chronic Kidney Disease
Speaker:
Dr Valerie Parker -
10:50:00 AM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Nutritional management of early CKD: IRIS Stage 1 and 2
Speaker:
Dr Angela Witzel -
11:30:00 AM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Modulation of the RAAS as a treatment for CKD
Speaker:
Dr Harriet Syme -
1:30:00 PM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Motivational speaker: Dogs are good for us
Speaker:
Peter Gorbing -
2:05:00 PM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Communication: Why is Dr Google so popular, and should vets be worried?
Speaker:
Zoe Belshaw -
2:45:00 PM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] How can digital & social media help your practice?
Speaker:
David Glenwright -
3:45:00 PM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] New ideas for old pets: Understanding poor owner compliance in elderly patients
Speaker:
Zoe Belshaw -
5:00:00 PM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Nutritional Myths
Speaker:
Dr Becky Mullis -
5:30:00 PM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] - Canine Urinary Disease
Speaker:
Dr Eva Furrow
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6:30:00 PM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Topic: Feline CKD: Getting Sick Cats to Eat
Speaker:
Dr Kathy Gross & Melissa Vanchina -
7:00:00 PM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Topic: The Science of Fighting the Effects of Aging with Nutrition
Speaker:
Dr Kathy Gross & Jodi Vondran -
7:30:00 PM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Topic: Dietary Influences on the GI Microbiome
Speaker:
Dr Jennifer Radosevich -
8:00:00 PM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Topic: Food Is Love.....For the GI Microbiome
Speaker:
Dr Jen MacLeay -
9:00:00 PM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] FIC
Speaker:
Dr. John Kruger -
9:30:00 PM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Microbiome
Speaker:
Dr Jan Suchodolski -
10:00:00 PM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Dietary Management of Primary Enteropathies
Speaker:
Dr Katie McGonigle
Day 2
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9:00:00 AM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Good Morning Introduction
Speaker:
Hein Meyer -
9:15:00 AM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Keynote: Is Ageing Inevitable? Understanding the Biology of Ageing
Speaker:
Dr Jennifer Tullet -
9:50:00 AM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Sarcopenia of ageing and cachexia in dogs and cats
Speaker:
Dr Valerie Parker -
10:35:00 AM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Telomeres: beginning to understand the end Can we defeat the aging process?
Speaker:
Joyce De Vos-Houben -
11:35:00 AM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Myths about senior cat and dog nutrition
Speaker:
Dr Ronald Corbee -
12:10:00 PM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Innovations in nutrition for ageing cats and dogs
Speaker:
Dennis Jewell -
14:00:00 PM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] E-Commerce: Not all gloom and doom for vet clinics!
Speaker:
Jeroen van Dam -
12:35:00 PM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] E-commerce: How winners successfully embrace digital disruption
Speaker:
Casper Fransz -
15:20:00 PM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Top mistakes veterinarians make with social media
Speaker:
Dr Justine Lee -
16:10:00 AM [GMT +1 (Lisbon)] Live Session: Show us your website and we will make it awesome!
Speaker:
Dr Justine Lee, David Glenwright & Dr Jolle Kirpensteijn
Joyce Houben
Jennifer Tullet
Valerie Parker
Dennis Jewell
Jeroen van Dam
Ronald Jan Corbee
Jolle Kirpensteijn
Justine Lee
Erik Axelsson
Harriet Syme
Angela Witzel
Peter Gorbing
Zoe Belshaw
David Glenwright
Chris Tan
Katie Lott
Kersti Seksel
Rebecca Mullis
Eva Furrow
John Kruger
Jan Suchodolski
Jen Macleay
Jennifer Radosevich
Kathy Gross
Chief Executive – Dogs for Good
Zoe is a European Recognised Specialist in small animal medicine. She has worked in primary, charity and referral practices in the UK and as a clinical lecturer. In 2017 she was awarded a PhD from the University of Nottingham for a thesis which explored how vets and owners make decisions about osteoarthritis dogs. Since then, she has been a researcher at the Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine, University of Nottingham where her research interests range from the design and validity of quality of life tools to the role of Facebook in owner decision making.
David Glenwright is the Head of training & special projects at Birmingham-based digital agency JC Social Media. A trainer and a speaker with over 5 years experience in social media, David has worked closely with a range of clients including Citroen, Yodel, the University of Birmingham and Nandos. He is one of only 8 trainers in the UK accredited under Facebook’s “She Means Business” initiative; and was also a shortlisted finalist in the 2017 Birmingham Young Professional of the Year. In his spare time David mixes his love of social media with his love for craft ale as the national social media advisor for the Campaign For Real Ale, the largest consumer organisation in Europe.
Chris is a graduate of the University of Sydney and registered specialist in small animal surgery. He spent 8 years in general practice both in Australia and the UK, before returning to Sydney to complete his specialist surgical training. After completion of his residency, Chris remained at Sydney university as a PhD student and later senior lecturer in small animal surgery. He continues to follow his passion for teaching as a tutor for the Centre for Veterinary Education and through his involvement with the AO foundation, a not for profit organisation which aims to improve patient outcomes through worldwide education programs for practitioners and research.
Dr. Justine Lee is a board-certified veterinary specialist in both emergency critical care (DACVECC) and toxicology (DABT). Dr. Lee attended veterinary school at Cornell University and completed her internship at Angell (Boston, MA). She completed her fellowship and residency in emergency and critical care at University of Pennsylvania. Previously, she was on faculty at University of Minnesota (2003-2008) and the head of an animal poison control center (2008-2013). She is the founder and CEO of VETgirl, a subscription-based podcast and webinar service offering RACE-approved, online veterinary continuing education.
Ronald Jan Corbee received his DVM degree from Utrecht University in December 2003. After several temporal positions in first line companion animal practice he was employed by Dierenkliniek ‘t Ossehoofd in Heerhugowaard, where he worked for 2 years as a veterinarian for companion animals. In December 2006 he opened his private practice, which he sold in 2016. He passed the board certifying exam in Veterinary Nutrition (Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary and Comparative Nutrition) in Zaragoza (Spain) in September 2011. He successfully defended his PhD (Nutrition and the skeletal health of dogs and cats) on the 28th of August 2014. In March 2013 he was awarded the University Teaching Qualification. At the moment he is employed as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University.
Jeroen van Dam, MSc. studied Molecular Biology at Wageningen University in the Netherlands after receiving an International Baccalaureate at the Lester B. Pearson UWC in Canada. After receiving his MSc. title he decided not to pursue an academic career and started working within the pharmaceutical world. Not long after he switched to the medical device business by first starting to work for, and later co-owning a development and production company for a disposable semen testing diagnostic device for both veterinarian and human applications. In 2013 this company was sold to a French company where he remained active as a manager for a year. Jeroen now leads the Dutch Veterinarian Cooperative and their E-commerce business 
MS, PhD, Diplomate American College of Animal Nutrition
Lecturer at the University of Kent, UK.
Joyce de Vos-Houben was born on April 18th 1983 in Sittard, The Netherlands. After finishing secondary school at the Trevianum in Sittard, she started in 2001 her study “Biological Health Sciences” at the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands. In 2004 she worked as a trainee at the department of Human Biology, at the University of Maastricht and she performed research on the effects of nutrition on cytokine expression in inflammatory bowel disease. In 2005 she graduated on the subject “Redox modulation of DNA repair”. From September 2005 until November 2009 she worked as a PhD student at the department of Health Risk Analysis and Toxicology at the University of Maastricht. The title of her thesis was “Chronic oxidative stress and telomere shortening”. Her research appeared in the local news and she gave a television and radio interview. Since May 2010 she works as a cardiogenetic counselor at the department of Clinical Genetics at Maastricht University Medical Centre+. She focuses on innovative cardiogenetic research and education, improving health- and patient care. In December 2017 she obtained her University Teaching Qualification. Her current position and ambition can be described as a bridge builder between scientific research and health care in practice. She loves to spend her free time with her husband Tim, daughters Sara and Iris and cats Tommy and Lana. She also loves to spend time with friends and she is currently training for the Holy Hill Obstacle run in Sittard. She can be contacted at joyce.de.vos@mumc.nl.
BVSc (Hons) MRCVS MA (Hons) FANZCVS DACVB DECAWBM FAVA
Dr. Parker received her DVM from Tufts University. She then completed a small animal internship at the Animal Medical Center in New York City, followed by a small animal internal medicine residency at Iowa State University and a clinical nutrition residency at Tufts University. She is a diplomate of both the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and the American College of Veterinary Nutrition. Dr. Parker’s primary areas of interest include to kidney disease, gastrointestinal disease, and vitamin D metabolism, as well as nutritional management of dogs and cats.
Nick Cave graduated from Massey University (NZ) in 1990 with a BVSc, and worked in general practice for 6 years until 1997, when he returned to Massey for a residency in small animal internal medicine, and attained membership in the Australasian College of Veterinary Scientists by examination, and graduated with a Masters in Veterinary Science in 2000. In 2004 he moved to the University of California, Davis, where he attained a PhD in nutrition and immunology. At the same time, he completed a residency in small animal clinical nutrition, and became a diplomate in the American College of Veterinary Nutrition by examination in 2004. In late 2005, he returned to Massey University to lecture in small animal medicine and nutrition. He is a founding member of the WSAVA Global Nutrition Committee, and a founding board member for the Massey University Centre for Working Dogs. He has served on the editorial board for Veterinary Quarterly, has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed articles, several textbook chapters, and is a frequent commentator in public media.