“From Our Practice To Yours”
September 28th - October
2nd, 2011
Norfolk, Virginia
Educational Schedule


18 CE
Total Hours
Pre-Registration
Ends September 1st, 2011
Welcome to
the Reproduction portion of our 2011 Annual Symposium! Our program this year
offers attendees an interactive experience sure to provide an
amazing continuing education experience with 18 total hours of continuing
education credits.
Our
scientific program will feature practical discussions covering both
stallion- and mare-related subjects. With topics ranging from ultrasound of
early pregnancy to frozen semen techniques, this year’s program is sure to
offer information that can be utilized in a variety of practice situations.
The always-popular interactive panel discussions will be available to
attendees, with presenters discussing difficult cases in a format designed
to encourage audience participation. Select presentations throughout the
schedule will be enhanced this year with the addition of an audience
response system, allowing each attendee to directly participate in these
special presentations! Several sessions will also feature a combination of
subjects addressing Reproduction and Internal Medicine topics.
Thursday, September
29th Educational Schedule
7:00am –
8:00am: BEVERAGE SERVICE
9:00am –
9:50am: Ultrasound of the non pregnant mare; detecting ovarian and uterine
abnormalities - Dr. Stefania Bucca
10:00am –
11:00am: BREAK IN EXHIBITOR MARKETPLACE
11:00am –
11:50am: Ultrasound of early pregnancy in the mare, detecting embryonic
abnormalities and reducing twins - Dr. Stefania
Bucca
12:00pm –
12:50pm:
Ultrasound of mid to late term pregnancy, including fetal sexing, detection
of fetal abnormalities and assessment of the cervix - Dr. Stefania
Bucca
1:00pm –
2:30pm: LUNCH IN EXHIBITOR MARKETPLACE
2:30pm –
3:20pm: Medical Management of the Peri-Parturient Mare - Drs. Tom
Divers, Jeanette McCracken and Peter
Morresey. Interactive panel discussion
with Audience Response System utilized
3:30pm –
4:20pm: What not to forget in the late pregnant mare -
Dr. Peter Morresey
4:30pm – 5:30pm:
Getting the foal
on the ground: managing pregnancy and parturition - Drs. Peter
Morresey, Stefania Bucca, Jeanette McCracken & Tom Divers.
Case presentations.
Interactive panel discussion with Audience Response System
utilized
5:30pm –
6:20pm:
COCKTAIL RECEPTION IN EXHIBITOR MARKETPLACE
Friday, September 30th Educational Schedule
7:00am –
8:00am: BEVERAGE SERVICE
8:00am –
8:50am: Managing mare behavior - Dr. Kristina Lu
9:00am –
9:50am: Infectious diseases and concerns of importance to the reproductive
veterinarian, especially in transport of semen, embryos, mares and stallions
- Drs. Kristina Lu and Peter Morresey
10:00am –
11:00am: BREAK IN EXHIBITOR MARKETPLACE
11:00am –
11:50am: Nutritional
management on the breeding farm - Dr. Ray Goer
12:00pm –
12:50pm: The first 24 hours. Routine examination, preventive medicine and
milestones expected of a newborn foal - Dr.
Jeanette McCracken.
1:00pm –
2:30pm: LUNCH IN EXHIBITOR MARKETPLACE
2:30pm –
3:20pm: Marketing embryo transfer to your clients -
Dr. Rob Foss
3:30pm – 4:20pm: Increase your success with frozen semen
- Dr. Rob Foss
4:30pm – 5:20pm:
Getting the mare
in foal: managing stallion collection, breeding, AI and embryo transfer - Drs. Lu, Peters, Love,
Foss, Bucca & Geor. Case
presentations.
Interactive panel discussion with Audience Response System utilized
5:30pm – 6:00pm: NEAEP Annual General Meeting
6:15pm: Transportation to
Nauticus Center
6:30pm:
COCKTAIL
RECEPTION at the Nauticus Center with a tour of the USS Wisconsin
Battleship
Saturday, October 1st Educational Schedule
7:00am –
8:00am: BEVERAGE SERVICE
8:00am –
8:50am: Accurate diagnosis and effective management of poor quality semen
(1) - Dr. Charles Love
9:00am –
9:50am: Accurate diagnosis and effective management of poor quality semen
(2) - Dr. Charles Love
10:00am –
11:00am: BREAK IN EXHIBITOR MARKETPLACE
11:00am –
11:50am: Managing the painful stallion - Dr. Duncan
Peters
12:00pm –
12:50pm: Anesthesia and sedation of foal, stallion and of early to mid
gestation mare - Dr. Lori Bidwell
1:00pm –
2:30pm: LUNCH IN EXHIBITOR MARKETPLACE
2:30pm –
3:30pm: Anesthesia and sedation during dystocia and reproductive
emergencies - Dr. Lori Bidwell
5:30pm:
COCKTAIL RECEPTION
featuring Mechanical Bull Riding Fundraiser


Scientific presentations
& speakers are
subject to change.
Course materials will be provided to participants in CD format.