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Last chance to register for AASV Summer Conference

June 17, 2009 — AASV Staff

In these challenging times, are your clients truly getting "everything but the squeal" out of their swine operations? The AASV Summer Conference, "Advanced Techniques for Swine Veterinarians: Optimizing Resources," offers a variety of tools and techniques you can use to help producers maximize their efficiency and survive the difficult economy. Time is running out to register for the conference, scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, June 22 & 23, in Ames, Iowa. Pre-registration by Friday, June 19 is required.

Small-group, interactive sessions will explore the "optimizing resources" theme from multiple aspects:

  1. Optimizing the use of diagnostic testing
  2. Early detection and management of lame sows
  3. Addressing humane care with the producer and the public
  4. Troubleshooting ventilation systems to manage energy expense; use of inlets and filters
  5. Efficient administration of vaccines and antibiotics: needle-free vs. needle-based technologies
  6. Practice tips
  7. Identifying optimum market weight and ideal feeding strategies for varying marketing situations

Plus, just added - the conference attendees will also have the opportunity to gain in-the-lab training and an update on H1N1 influenza from the diagnosticians in the ISU Diagnostic Lab.

Conference sessions will be held at the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine in Ames, Iowa. Registration is limited to 80 veterinarians and 40 veterinary students to ensure a quality learning experience. For more information, or to register, go to http://www.aasv.org/summerconf or contact the AASV: 515-465-5255 or aasv@aasv.org.

The AASV is grateful for financial support of the conference from:

  • MVP Laboratories
  • Neogen
  • Novartis Animal Health, US
  • PrimaTech
  • Sirrah Bios
  • AcuShot
  • Allflex
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc.
  • Dow Microbial Control
  • Fort Dodge Animal Health
  • IDEXX Laboratories

Representatives from the sponsor companies will be present at the Practice Tips Dinner on Monday evening to meet and visit with the meeting attendees.

In addition, veterinarians and veterinary students will have the opportunity to interact via "speed interviews," scheduled for Tuesday morning before the start of the conference educational sessions.

AASV staff contributed to or researched this story. For more information about the AASV, please visit http://www.aasv.org/.