HSVMA Presents: HSVMA will host our 7th annual Animal Welfare Symposium for Students online again this year. With the theme of Access to Care, we will present five live lectures and two networking events. Although geared towards veterinary and veterinary technician students, veterinary professionals and affiliates are welcome to attend.
IVS Presents (fee applies): This all new seminar has been designed to provide you with practical information on the current thoughts on anesthesia along with acute and chronic pain management in your practice.
Community Cats Podcast Presents (fee applies): Join Community Cats Podcast on Sunday, October 17, 2021 for an Online Diversity Day featuring experts from the animal welfare world. The day includes a variety of online sessions to help you learn about the challenge issues around diversity in our community cat environment. Bring your questions!
VETGirl Presents: In this complimentary VETgirl–Zoetis webinar, Dr. Michael R. Lappin, DACVIM, PhD will discuss current issues related to the prevention of infectious diseases in cats. Tune in to learn current thoughts on injection side sarcomas and vaccine-associated side effects, while maximizing the benefits of feline vaccinations. Find out how to avoid real or perceived adverse events or if there are alternative protocols to consider!
University of Florida – Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program Presents (fee applies): Compassion Fatigue Strategies is a unique online course designed to support people who work with animals. The course will help you recognize signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue, learn to manage your stress levels and increase your self-care practices, connect with the rewards of your work, build your resiliency, and commit to making successful changes in your life and in your organization.
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Maddie’s Fund, in concert with American Pets Alive!, hosts a weekly hour-long Zoom call for animal welfare workers and volunteers. While these calls started out as a response to COVID-19, it’s grown into so much more. These calls are a safe place to discuss uncomfortable topics, all while sharing a common goal of preserving the human-animal bond.
NACA Presents: Join NACA for our first ever live streamed training opportunity!! An hour of presentation and open discussion!! Let’s talk about taking steps towards supportive field services practices, how to move towards resource provision and away from punishment while building trust and positive relationships within the community.
CARE Presents: CARE and Industry Leaders will be discussing their own personal journeys towards making this field and their own personal lives equitable. We will also be highlighting CARE’s new REDI Certification, which will be released soon!
VETGirl Presents: In this complimentary VETgirl–Merck Animal Health YouTube LIVE event, Dr. Michael Canfield, DACVD reviews ear anatomy, equipment, clinical procedures, and treatment of otitis externa to promote quality patient outcomes.
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Each Open Arms Challenge Zoom Huddle will consist of two 10-minute presentations followed by a 20-minute Q&A. About this huddle: Find out how to bring open and welcoming customer service into every aspect of your work.
Network for Good Presents: It is imperative that your organization participates in the end of year giving season. But during such a busy time, how do you ensure your year-end giving plan is going to work? How do you ensure your precious time is well spent? Join Professional Fundraising Coach, Robin Cabral, to kick your year-end off the right way.
HeARTs Speak Presents: This 1-hour workshop examines the easy-to-implement, often subtle shifts we can make to reach new audiences and the power of positivity in building relationships and changing minds. With a focus on imagery, the language we use, and transparency, we’ll also explore how the concept of positive marketing contributes to life-saving goals.
VETGirl Presents (fee applies for non-members): In this 1-hour, VETgirl anesthesia webinar, Dr. Mike Barletta, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVAA reviews how the anesthesia machine works, different oxygen sources, oxygen flowmeters, vaporizers, CO2 absorbent, and scavenging systems. Dr. Barletta will also describe different breathing systems available on the market and will review how to choose the appropriate breathing system for different patients.
CARE Presents: CARE is going LIVE with for part 2 of our celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month.
We have three more amazing guests: Alana Yanez, Executive Director for Animal Shelter Assistance Program (ASAP Cats); José Ocaño, Senior Director, People and Culture, Best Friends Animal Society; and Nicole Galvan, Southwest Regional Coordinator, Bailing Out Benji.
PPG Presents (fee applies): Given how behaviorists, ethologists, neuroscientists and veterinarians often get into conflict, this talk discusses how our cognitive biases impact knowledge acquisition. Cognitive biases makes us reject information that we should accept, and accept information that we should reject.
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Join us for an open, informal 30-minute conversation and Q+A with Allison Cardona, Deputy Director of Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control. In this discussion with Maddie’s Fund Executive Leadership Team member Mary Ippoliti-Smith, Allison speaks of overcoming her own experiences with systemic bias and what she sees as initial steps we can take to widen diversity, equity and inclusion in our field while strengthening the human-animal bond.
The AAWA Presents: Learn about eye injury treatment and disease management both in the shelter and in foster care. This presentation will discuss common eye diseases in the shelter environment, including causes of corneal ulceration, conjunctivitis, and eye loss. Attendees will gain an understanding of the challenges of providing proper eye care to shelter animals, including staff training, equipment, and costs.
Fear Free Presents: In part due to the excellent veterinary care that we deliver to our patients, we are presented with more geriatric cats and dogs now than we were 10 years ago. Most of us didn’t learn much about how to recognize and treat cognitive dysfunction syndrome (CDS) in dogs and cats. In this session, attendees will learn the most up to date prevention strategies and treatments of CDS in dogs and cats.
VETGirl Presents (fee applies for non-members): Join us for a 2-hour, VETgirl ophthalmology CE track webinar where Dr. Shelby Reinstein, DACVO reviews the eye conditions related to Feline Herpes Virus. In this lecture, she’ll review the basic pathogenesis and various clinical syndromes of FHV-1 including conjunctivitis, corneal ulceration, corneal sequestra, and eosinophilic keratoconjunctivitis.
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Each Open Arms Challenge Zoom Huddle will consist of two 10-minute presentations followed by a 20-minute Q&A. How do you reach those in your community who don’t use social media or have not heard of your organization? Find out how in this Huddle presentation.
