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Schedule - Saturday 4th October

VICAS

CAVI

Equine

Joint sessions

Nursing

Social Events/Exhibition

Saturday 4th October

VICAS, CAVI, Equine, Nursing

Time
09.00 - 10.00
Registration & Exhibition
TimeSponsor/SupporterSessionSpeaker
09.00 - 10.00
1. Endoscopy skills

Mark Dunning

09.00 - 10.00
2. Suturing and surgical knots

Jon Hall

09.00 - 10.00
3. Cytology preparation and interpretation - Doing Derm Right

Darragh O'Hanlon

VICAS

TimeSessionSpeaker
10.00 - 11.00
Introduction to understanding ECGs

Mike Martin

CAVI

TimeSessionSpeaker
10.00 - 10.45
Calf nutrition day 5 - 100

Catherine McAloon

10.45 - 11.30
Personalising veterinary medicine leveraging genetic information

Donagh Berry

EQUINE

TimeSessionSpeaker
10.00 - 10.45
Dentistry when it gets complicated

John Ortega - McCormack

10.45-11.30
Parasites and their role in poor performance

Nikki Walshe

NURSING

TimeSessionSpeaker
10.00 - 11.00
Anaesthesia in 2025 - The Veterinary Nurses role

Lou Northway
TimeVenue
11.00 - 11.30
MORNING BREAK, Expo and Practical Village

VICAS, Nurses

11.30 - 12.00
MORNING BREAK, Expo and Practical Village

CAVI, Equine

VICAS

TimeSessionSpeaker
11.30 - 12.15
Top Tips for your Neuro Exam in Practice

Sebastien Behr

12.15 - 13.00
Surgery for septic abdomen - the ‘simple’ ones

Jon Hall

EQUINE

TimeSessionSpeaker
12.00 - 12.30
Reproductive emergencies in the field 1

Tom O'Brien

12.30 - 13.00
Donkeys are different, from drugs to pain to parasites! Part1

Joe Collins

NURSING

TimeSessionSpeaker
11.30 - 12.15
CPR

Samantha Thompson

12.15 - 13.00
Learn to love your capnograph with Lou

Lou Northway

CAVI

TimeSponsor/SupporterSessionSpeaker
12.00 - 12.45
How will weather and climate change affect the success of refugia-based strategies in Ireland?

Eric Morgan

12.45 - 13.30
Diagnostics
Maresa Sheehan
TimeVenue
13.00 - 14.00
LUNCH, Expo and Practical Village

VICAS, Nurses, Equine

13.30 - 14.30
LUNCH, Expo and Practical Village

CAVI

VICAS

TimeSessionSpeaker
14.00 - 14.45
Collapse & Syncope: A Cardiologist's Perspective

Mike Martin

14.45 - 15.15
Diaphragmatic rupture

Jon Hall

EQUINE

TimeSessionSpeaker
14.00 - 14.45
Disease investigation – the diagnostics

Siobhan McAuliffe, Nikki Walshe

14.45 - 15.00
Disease investigation – on the farm

Siobhan McAuliffe, Nikki Walshe

NURSING

TimeSponsor/SupporterSessionSpeaker
14.00 - 14.35
Nursing care of the BOAS patient

Samantha Thompson

14.35 - 15.15
Pain scoring & assessing pain management in practice

Lou Northway

CAVI

TimeSponsor/SupporterSessionSpeaker
14.30 - 15.00
Important nutritional and management issues for fertility outcomes in grazing dairy cows

Finbar Mulligan

15.00 - 15.30
Sexed Semen & Its Impact in Irish Dairy & Beef Herds

Rosalish Goulding

15.30 - 16.00
Minerals and trace elements for grazing cows: links with fertility and health

Finbar Mulligan
TimeVenue
15.15 - 16.00
AFTERNOON BREAK

VICAS, Nursing

15.30 - 16.00
AFTERNOON BREAK

Equine

16.00 - 16.30
AFTERNOON BREAK

CAVI

VICAS

TimeSessionSpeaker
16.00 - 16.30
Feline Arterial Thromboembolism (FATE)

Julie Hamilton-Elliott

EQUINE

TimeSessionSpeaker
16.00 - 16.30
Donkeys are different, from drugs to pain to parasites! Part2

Joe Collins

NURSING

TimeSessionSpeaker
16.00 - 16.30
Triage

Samantha Thompson

VICAS, CAVI, Equine, Nursing

TimeSpeakers
16.30 - 17.00
The Missing Link in One Health? Think Outside the Livestock

Niamh McGill

17.00 - 18.00
Politically topical

Jane Pigott - President of Veterinary Ireland
Rory Breathnach - Head of School and Dean of Veterinary Medicine, UCD
Kevin McConnell - Deputy President Veterinary Council of Ireland
June Fanning - Chief Veterinary Officer, DAFM
TimeSponsor/Supporter
from 19.00
PRE DINNER DRINKS (VICAS, CAVI, Equine, Nursing)
19.30 - Late
CONFERENCE DINNER, BAND, BLACK TIE