Therio 2015
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Small Animal Track 1 Rio Grande West
Small Animal Track 2
Production Animal Rio Grande East
Equine Rio Grande Center
Wednesday August 5, 2015 - Seminars
8:00am – 9:00 am
9:00am – 10:00am
10:00am – 10:15am
10:15am – 11:15am
11:15am – 12:15pm
12:15pm – 1:15pm
1:15pm – 2:15pm
2:15pm – 3:15pm
3:15pm – 3:30pm
3:30pm – 4:30pm
4:30pm – 5:00pm
5:00pm – 7:00pm
7:00pm – 8:30pm
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Exhibit Hall not open
7:00am – 4:30pm
Rio Grande EAST
ACT EXAM
ACT EXAM
Registration Open – Los Rios Foyer
Rio Grande WEST
ACT EXAM
ACT EXAM
Lunch on your own!
ACT EXAM
ACT EXAM
Opening Session Abstracts
Opening Session Reception
Rio Grande Ballroom
Rio Grande Foyer
ACT Educators Forum
Live Oak Boardroom
Ideas for clinical teaching –
learn alternative techniques
for teaching in the clinics!
Peggy Root Kustritz and
Walter Threlfall
Outcomes assessments –
John Dascanio
Revised: 24-Dec-14
Therio 2015
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Small Animal Track 1 Rio Grande West
Small Animal Track 2
Production Animal Rio Grande East
Equine Rio Grande Center
Thursday August 6, 2015
7:00am – 4:30pm
6:45am – 8:00am
7:30am – 8:50 am
9:00am – 11:00am
11:00am – 12:00 pm
12:00pm – 1:00pm
1:00pm – 3:00pm
3:30pm – 5:00pm
5:00pm – 5:30pm
4:30pm – 8:00pm
Exhibit Hall Kick off
4:30pm – 8:00pm
Registration Open - Los Rios Foyer
Coffee in Rio Grande Foyer
Bartlett Award and Address/TOY award and address
Introduced by:
Dr. Jerry Rains Memorial Abstract competition Moderator: Dr. Sandra Ayres
Rio Grande Ballroom
Rio Grande CENTER & EAST
SFT Business Meeting - Rio Grande WEST
Lunch on your own!
ACT Business Meeting - Rio Grande WEST
Moderator: Dr. Jimmy Alexander
Student Case Presentations
Student/Mentor reception
Rio Grande CENTER & EAST
Rio Grande WEST
Opening Reception in the Exhibit Hall - Regency Ballroom
Exhibit Hall Opening Kickoff
5:45 pm Merck Student
Silent Auction
Cash bar – carving station
Quiz Bowl
Revised: 24-Dec-14
Therio 2015
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Small Animal Track 1 Rio Grande West
Small Animal Track 2
Production Animal Rio Grande East
Equine Rio Grande Center
Friday August 7, 2015
7:15am – 8:15am
8:00am – 9:00 am
9:00am – 10:00am
10:00am – 10:30am
10:30am – 12:30am
12:30pm – 1:30pm
1:30pm – 2:30pm
2:30pm – 3:30pm
3:30pm – 4:00pm
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Exhibit Hall open from 7 :00a– 4:30p
Regency Ballroom
7:00am – 4:30pm
6:45 am – 8:00 am
Registration Open - Los Rios Foyer
Educators Extra Forum – discuss exam
Small Animal 1
Small Animal 2
Production Animal
Continental Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall- Regency Ballroom
Keynote Speaker: David Hardin, BS, DVM, DACT – veterinary supply and demand
Keynote Speaker: D. Kirk Eddleman, MHA – Practice management
Break in the Exhibit Hall – Regency Ballroom
Rio Grande Ballroom
Rio Grande Ballroom
Rio Grande WEST
Abstracts
Blanco/Llano/Pecos
Rio Grande EAST
Abstracts
Abstracts
Lunch in the Exhibit Hall – Regency Ballroom
Rio Grande CENTER
Abstracts
Principles of evidence based
medicine
Diagnostic approaches to assessing
reproductive tract health (pre-breeding
assessment) and infectious infertility in the
canine population
A review & update of research on
pregnancy associated
glycoproteins (PAGs) in cattle
The business side of equine
reproduction
Mr. Ky Pohler
Application of PAGs to improve
reproduction efficiency in cattle
Mr. Ky Pohler
D. Kirk Eddleman, MHA
The business side of equine
reproduction
D. Kirk Eddleman. MHA
Brennen McKenzie, MA, VMD
Application of evidence based
medicine
Melissa Goodman, DVM, DACT
Patrick McDonough, MS, PhD
Canine Brucellosis: Current situation
and diagnostic approaches
Patrick McDonough, MS, PhD
Break in the Exhibit Hall – Regency Ballroom
Comparative semen evaluation using
automated and manual counting
Greg Burns, DVM
6:00pm – 7:10pm
7:15pm – 10:30pm
Mesquite
Equine
Awards dinner reception
Awards dinner
Comparative Progesterone testing
Natalie Fraser, DVM
Auburn University AKC resident
Live Auction
Applying ultrasonographic evaluation
of antral follicle count & reproductive
tract development to improve
reproductive management in heifers
Current topics: a review of recent
articles
Robert Cushman, PhD
TBA
Rio Grande Ballroom
Revised: 24-Dec-14
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Therio 2015
Small Animal Track 1 Rio Grande West
Small Animal Track 2
Production Animal Rio Grande East
Equine Rio Grande Center
Saturday August 8, 2015
7:00am – 2:30pm
7:00am – 8:15am
7:00am – 8:00am
Registration Open - Los Rios Foyer
Continental Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall
So you want to become a diplomate?
Kara Kolster DVM, DACT - Exam committee chair
Rio Grande West
Blanco/Llano/Pecos
Rio Grande EAST
8:00am – 9:00 am
Sperm Morphological Defects in Dogs:
Causes and Consequences
9:00am – 10:00am
10:00am – 10:30am
10:30am
10:30am – 11:30am
11:30am – 12:30pm
12:30pm – 1:30pm
1:30pm – 2:30pm
2:30pm – 2:45pm
2:45pm – 3:45pm
3:45pm – 5:00pm
6:00pm – 10:00pm
Exhibit Hall open from 7:00am – 1:30 pm
Vanmathy Kaimanickam, DVM, MS
Reproductive Pathology: What’s love
got to do with it? Part I
Catherine Lamm, DVM, MRCVS, DACVP
Reproductive ultrasound I
Rachel Pollard, DVM, PhD
Reproductive ultrasound II
Basic mechanisms influencing
establishment of the ovarian reserve &
development in reproductive tract in
heifers
Robert Cushman, PhD
The effects of stressors on the
reproductive axis/system of cattle
Rachel Pollard, DVM, PhD
Jeff Carroll, PhD
Mesquite Boardroom
Rio Grande Center
Protecting your investment:
Infectious disease and parasite
control for the broodmare and foal
Wendy E. Vaala, VMD, DACVIM
Protecting your investment:
Infectious disease and parasite
control for the broodmare and foal
Wendy E. Vaala, VMD, DACVIM
Break in the Exhibit Hall - Regency Ballroom
Silent Auction ENDS – pick up your item and the yellow sheet and bring to the registration counter to pay.
Reproductive Pathology: What’s love
got to do with it? Part II
Methods of assessing the stress level of
cattle in order to bring about positive
changes in reproduction
Jeff Carroll, PhD
Catherine Lamm, DVM, MRCVS, DACVP
Dewar maintenance and
international shipping
Bull Diagnostics
Kim Hesler
Protecting your investment –
Nutrition for the Broodmare
Megan Shepherd, DVM, PhD, DACVN
Protecting your investment –
Nutrition for the foal
Dwight Wolfe, DVM, MS, DACT
Megan Shepherd, DVM, PhD, DACVN
Lunch in the Exhibit Hall – Regency Ballroom
Exhibit Hall closes at 1:30pm
Tickborne & other stealth pathogen
reproductive concerns Part I
Meryl Littman, AB, VMD
BSE/eBSE and lameness
Robert Carson, DVM, MS, DACT
Epigenetics & fetal programming:
what do we know?
Carey Satterfield, BS, MS, PhD
Break in the Rio Grande Foyer
Tickborne & other stealth pathogen
reproductive concerns Part II
Meryl Littman, AB, VMD
Genetic counseling for inherited
kidney & urinary tract diseases
Meryl Littman, AB, VMD
Trichomoniasis
Minimizing DOD/limb deformities?
Misty Edmondson, DVM, MS, DACT
Sperm cell abnormalities/semen
evaluation
Richard Hopper, DVM, DACT
Mary Beth Stanton, DVM, DACT
Feeding & supplementing the stallion
for maximum fertility
Steven Brinsko, DVM, PhD, DACT
Group Event – TBD
Revised: 24-Dec-14
Therio 2015
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Small Animal Track 1 Rio Grande West
Small Animal Track 2
Production Animal Rio Grande East
Equine Rio Grande Center
Saturday – Semen Handling and Evaluation Seminar
Ultrasound labs
Ticketed events (2)
Losoya Conference Center
7:30am – 8:00am
8:00am – 8:30 am
8:30am – 9:00am
9:00am – 10:00am
10:00am – 11:30 am
11:30am – 12:00pm
12:30pm – 1:30pm
1:30pm – 2:00pm
2:00pm – 2:30pm
2:30pm – 3:00pm
3:00pm – 4:00pm
4:00pm – 5:30pm
5:30pm – 6:00pm
6:00pm – 10:00pm
Registration Open - Los Rios Foyer
Continental Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall
Navarro (conf center)
Maverick (conf center)
Exhibit Hall open from 7:00am – 1:30 pm
7:00am – 2:30pm
7:00am – 8:15am
Presenters:
Peter J Chenoweth BVSc, PhD, DACT
and Steven P Lorton, PhD
Reproductive anatomy/physiology
What makes a sperm?
Semen collection
Initial semen handling & evaluation,
including volume, sperm number and
mobility
Essential microscopy & sperm
morphology
Other tests and wrap up
Presenter:
Rachel Pollard, DVM, PhD
1 – 2 hour ultrasound lab
10:30am – 12:30pm – limit 10
Lunch in the Exhibit Hall – Regency Ballroom
Reproductive anatomy/physiology
1 – 2 hour ultrasound lab
1:30pm – 3:30pm – limit 10
What makes a sperm?
Semen collection
Initial semen handling & evaluation,
including volume, sperm number and
mobility
Essential microscopy & sperm
morphology
Other tests and wrap up
Group Event - TBD
Revised: 24-Dec-14
Therio 2015
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Small Animal Track 1 Rio Grande West
Small Animal Track 2
Production Animal Rio Grande East
Equine Rio Grande Center
Sunday August 9, 2015
7:00am – 8:00am
8:00am – 9:00 am
9:00am – 10:00am
10:00am – 10:30am
10:30am – 11:30am
11:30am – 12:30pm
12:30pm – 1:30pm
1:30pm – 2:30pm
2:30pm – 3:00pm
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Gary Warner’s Bull Lab
Bus from Hyatt Regency – riverwalk to Agri-science magnet at Madison High School
Dwight Wolfe/Misty E.
Robert Carson
Break – visit the exhibitors
Richard Hopper
Juan Romano
LUNCH
Break – visit the exhbitors
Revised: 24-Dec-14