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BEVA Congress 2009
Dates: 9th-12th September
Birmingham, UK
BEVA Congress 2009 is back in Birmingham, a popular and central location with easy access for international delegates. Birmingham is a vibrant, multicultural city with the youngest population of any European city. The city is a centre for the arts, shopping, partying and eating and the state of the art conference centre is ideally located at its heart.
The BEVA Congress scientific programme develops every year and builds on what has gone before. The programme is designed to offer wide choice to as many delegates as possible but without compromise on quality, rigour or depth. The programme features varied lecture styles and formats and will include our popular, tried-and-tested formats including state-of-the-art reviews and panel discussions. New for 2009, in addition to our core sessions for practitioners, the programme features in-depth sessions, table top workshops, controversial ‘light the blue touch paper’ topics, refresher sessions and more.
The refresher sessions will be of particular interest to those returning to or starting out in equine practice, or any practitioners looking to refresh or develop key skills and knowledge. These sessions will offer practical advice and guidance from experts and practitioners, including ‘top tips’ and ‘when things go wrong’
Most sessions will be of interest to all in general practice but the programme will also include several clearly branded ‘In depth’ sessions that will have a narrow focus and cover cutting edge clinical science techniques and research. Major session themes that will be of interest to all include the foot, laminitis, the suspensory apparatus, pain management, oncology, wound management, dermatology, ophthalmology, gastroenterology, management of competitive injuries and the geriatric horse. The session ‘Towards 2012’ will examine how veterinary experiences from the 2008 Hong Kong Equestrian Games should inform preparations for 2012. There will be a major focus on practical reproduction topics including controlling the reproduction cycle, uterine biopsies and cytology, dealing with rectal tears, ovarian ultrasound and a mare discussion panel. New for 2009 will be a ‘Research in practice’ session covering practical epidemiology, study design and the challenges of conducting research in practice. Congress 2009 will also have sessions on welfare and the working horse and donkey.
Website: www.beva.org.uk
Contact: info@beva.co.uk
Equine NUtrition and TRAining COnference – ENUTRACO 2009
Dates: 26th-29th September
Madrid, Spain
Seminars on 26th September
Watch the gut: Effect of diet and feeding regimes on general health. Monika Krüger, Annette Zeyner (both Germany)
Effects of diet and feeding regimes on performance. Manfred Coenen (Germany), Brian Nielsen (USA)
Effects of diet and feeding regimes on behaviour. Pat Harris (UK), Sarah Ralston (USA)
Role of nutraceuticals and flavonoids in health and performance. Ray Geor (USA), Pat Harris (UK)
Forage conservation. Manfred Coenen (Germany), Annette Longland (UK)
Nutritive management of horses before and after surgery. Frank Andrews (USA), Andy Durham (UK)
Conference on 27th September
Practical and controversial news on equine nutrition (2007 to now). Pat Harris (UK), Brian Nielsen (USA)
Case presentations on failures and benefits of nutrition. All speakers
Is there an impact of feeding concentrate before or after forage on colonic pH and redox potential in horses? C. Philippeau et al. (France)
A survey of feeding practice for show jumping horses in Northern Italy. Are scientific new findings being applied? E. Valle et al. (Italy)
The effect of a feed ingredient with endogenous phytase activity on phosphorus availability in equine diets. C. Dunnett et al. (UK)
Preliminary report into the relationship between farm management and the incidence of OCD in young PRE horses in Spain. C.B. Wilson and P. Forés (Spain)
Gastric ulceration: Diet and treatment. Frank Andrews (USA)
Conference on 28th September
Practical and controversial news on the relation between nutrition and sports performance (2007 to now). Manfred Coenen (Germany), Ray Geor (USA)
How not to train horses: Detrimental regimens and exercises. Tim Parkin (UK)
Non-invasive bone assessment by quantitative ultrasonography in Lusitano suckling foals: A preliminary study. M.J. Fradinho et al. (Portugal)
Practical and controversial news on schooling, training and conditioning of horses (2007 to now). Rachel Murray (UK), Jeremy Naylor (UK)
Strength training in man. How to apply for horses. José Luis López Rivero (Spain)
NMR-based metabonomic analysis of serum from Standardbred yearlings with or without hock osteochondrosis dessicans lesions: Metabolic markers for OCD. S.L. Ralston et al. (USA)
Effect of long-term conditioning period on digesta total tract mean retention time and biochemical faecal profile in endurance horses. A.G. Goachet et al. (France)
A method of measuring the influence of rider interaction and training on the temporal relationships between limb cycles of horses using inertial motion sensors. J.M. Walters et al. (UK)
Seminars on 29th September
Activate the core muscles of horse and rider to improve performance and maintain health. Christel Auer (Germany), Michael Baxter (Spain)
Managing race and sport horses to keep them competing. Philippe Benoit (France), Jeremy Naylor (UK)
Knowledge on behaviour to better school and train horses. Martine Hausberger (France), Rachel Murray (UK)
Training sport horses. Michael Baxter (Spain), Rachel Murray (UK)
What about the equipment to compete horses – surcingle, sticking plaster, bridle, saddle etc. Philippe Benoit, Lars Roepstorff (Sweden)
Guiding exercise intensity through blood lactate and heart rate. Arno Lindner (Germany), Pablo Trigo (Spain).
Websites: www.agpferd.com and www.enutraco.info
Contact: Arno Lindner contact@agpferd.de
Orthopaedic Case Days
Dates: 3rd-4th October
Weilerswist-Mueggenhausen and Bonn, Germany
Instructors: Kent Allen (USA), Sue Dyson (England), David Frisbie (USA)
3rd October 2009
Clinical lameness examination, radiographic, ultrasonographic and magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of lame horses.
4rd October 2009
Presentation and discussion of the treatment of cases of 3rd October
Website: www.agpferd.com
Contact: Arno Lindner contact@agpferd.de
Medicating Sport Horses
Dates: 5th-6th October
Bonn, Germany
5th October 2009
Is there the sport horse that is not sick enough to not compete? The ethical approach (Dirk Lanzerath, Germany). With opinions of the veterinary surgeon (Kent Allen, USA), the FEI (John McEwen, UK), and the pharmacologist (Thomas Barragry, Ireland)
The new rules from the FEI antidoping task force. (John McEwen)
Is the regular intra-articular administration of steroids, chondroitins and hyaluronic acid as well as oral nutraceuticals safe for the health of horses? (David Frisbie, USA)
Detection times of intra-articular administration of steroids, chondroitins and hyaluronic acid as well as oral nutraceuticals. (Thomas Barragry)
6th October 2009
Expected developments in the doping of man. (Patrick Diel, Germany)
Questions and cases submitted by the participants. (All speakers)
The ‘new’ philosophy of antidoping rules: Acceptable and nonacceptable substances, thresholds and international screening limits. (Invited representatives from FEI and FN [German National Federation] and International Turf Club)
Hot topics, for example: Hypersensitisation of limbs, ban on antibiotics and anthelmintics. (All speakers)
Website: www.agpferd.com
Contact: Arno Lindner contact@agpferd.de
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