ACVA Events Calendar

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

AVA Spring meeting 2012, Davos Switzerland
March 21st - 24th


Programme
21st March Resident Day - veterinary cardiology
22nd & 23rd March AVA Main Conference -
22nd - Blood Skills: monitoring coagulation, hemostasis, transfusion; abstracts
23rd - Opioid Therapy - Friend or Foe: hazards, opium, controversies
24th March Practitioners Day - Chronic pain - physiology and management


Venue
Hotel Schatzalp
7270 Davos Platz
Switzerland
http://www.schatzalp.ch

It is a pleasure for us to invite you to the spring meeting of the Association of Veterinary Anaesthetists (AVA) 2012 held in Davos, Switzerland at the Schatzalp Hotel.
The main congress will be held on the 22nd and 23rd of March 2012. The main topics will be ‘News on blood transfusions’ and ‘Opioid controversies’. Recognised and well known speakers from all over Europe are invited to speak on these ‘hot’ topics.

The resident day will be held on the 21st of March 2012. The topic will be ‘Small animal and equine cardiology’ with a focus on ECG evaluation.

A practitioners day will follow on the 24th of March 2012. The topic of the practitioners day will be ‘Chronic pain – Physiology and Management’.

The congress venue is located in the Swiss alps in the middle of a skiing and winter walking area. Davos itself is one of the biggest skiing resorts in the alps. A fantastic social program is planned including sledging, the traditional congress dinner and a fondue dinner.

We are looking forward to see you all in Davos in March 2012!

The AVA Davos Organizing Team

For more information visit

Friday, May 11, 2012

The first, qualifying, part of the ACVA Certifying Exam will be administered at the Embassy Suites hotel in Lexington, KY. This is a 2 day written exam covering all aspects of veterinary anesthesia in multiple choice and essay format to candidates who have successfully fulfilled the credentials requirement.
For further information contact Dr. Lydia Donaldson at execdir@acva.org.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Interest in pain management has increased in veterinary medicine and
animal husbandry. This interest coincides with an explosion in our
understanding of basic pain mechanisms.

Current meetings and educational opportunities focus on therapeutics.
While important, there is a further need for the veterinarian, researcher
and those interested in drug therapeutics to be exposed to the current
thinking related to basic pain mechanisms. Accordingly we undertook to
initiate the UCSD Veterinary Pain Short Course, to be held June 20-23,
2012 at the Holiday Inn on the Bay in San Diego.

Program goals are to provide: i) an intense review of pain mechanisms;
ii) an application of mechanisms to pain syndromes and iii) review current
and developing analgesic drugs.

Well known, internationally respected, experts in basic pain processing
and veterinary therapeutics have agreed to participate.

This course will be sponsored by the University of California, San Diego
along with the International Veterinary Association for Pain Management
(IVAPM: http://www.ivapm.org) and will provide up to 21 CE credits.

Registration fees paid prior to April 7, 2012: $400 for DVM, PhD and
industrial participants; $150 for residents, fellows and students.
Registration fees include detailed handouts, a "meet and greet", snack
breaks and dinner at the world famous San Diego Zoo.

The meeting will be held in a highly desirable venue, the Holiday Inn on
the Bay, immediately adjacent to the San Diego Harbor, (10 min from the
airport), in an area offering many amenities, including fine restaurants
and sight-seeing opportunities.

For further details, please visit

Sunday, September 09, 2012

The ACVA's Annual Meeting will be held at the Grand Hyatt in San Antonio, TX in conjunction with the IVECCS. The preliminary schedule is for abstracts on Sunday, September 9th, a full day of lectures on Monday, September 10th and scattered lectures and labs.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

11th World Congress of Veterinary Anaesthesiologists at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa from September 24 - 26, 2012.

WCVA 2012