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Feline Behavior and Behavior Disorders |
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Feline Endocrine Disorders |
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Feline Infectious Disorders |
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Feline Gastrointestinal and Liver Disorders |
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Feline Genetics and Genetic Disorders |
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Speakers
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Feline Behavior
Nicholas Dodman, BVMS, DVA, DACVA, DACVB
Director, Animal Behavior Clinic
Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences
Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
North Grafton, Massachusetts
Dr. Nicholas H. Dodman, BVMS and Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists is one of the world's most noted and celebrated veterinary behaviorists. He grew-up in England and trained to be a vet in Scotland. At the age of 26, he became the youngest veterinary faculty member in Britain. It was at that time that Dr. Dodman began specializing in surgery and anesthesiology.In 1981 Dr. Dodman immigrated to the United States where he became a faculty member of Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. Shortly after his arrival, Dr. Dodman became interested in behavioral pharmacology and the field of animal behavior. After spending several years in this area of research, he founded the Animal Behavior Clinic — one of the first of its kind — at Tufts in 1986. Subsequently he received an additional board certification in animal behavior from the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists. Dr. Dodman began to see clinical cases in 1987 and since 1990; he has devoted all of his time to his specialty practice of animal behavior.
Since the mid 1990s, Dr. Dodman has written two textbooks, over 130 scientific articles and made frequent contributions to scientific books and lay journals. He has written five acclaimed bestselling books, including The Dog Who Loved Too Much, Dogs Behaving Badly, If Only They Could Speak, and his latest, The Well-Adjusted Dog. Dr. Dodman appears regularly on radio and television including: 20/20, Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Dateline, World News with Peter Jennings, Discovery Channel, NOVA and Animal Planet. In addition, Dr. Dodman is a columnist for Martha Stewart's Body and Soul magazine. Dr Dodman appears regularly on Animal Planet’s Dogs 101 and Cats 101 as well as other Animal Planet shows. Good Morning America producer Patty Nager has dubbed Dr. Dodman their ad hoc pet behavioral expert.
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Feline Endocrine Disorders
Cynthia R. Ward, VMD, PhD, DACVIM
Professor of Medicine and Chief of Inpatient Medicine
College of Veterinary Medicine • University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
Dr. Cynthia Ward received her VMD and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed residency training at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania in small animal internal medicine and a reproductive endocrinology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She was on faculty at the University of Pennsylvania until 2005 when she moved to the University of Georgia where she is currently an associate professor of small animal internal medicine. Dr. Ward has been Chief of the Small Animal Inpatient Medicine section since 2008. Dr. Ward has been honored by numerous teaching awards including the Alumni Teaching Award in 2003, the Norden Distinguished Teaching Award in 2000 and 2009, and the National SCAVMA Teaching Award in 2009. She has an active research program in clinical and basic endocrinology. She has authored or co-authored 39 research abstracts, 43 journal articles, and 11 book chapters. Dr. Ward is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (small animal internal medicine).
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Feline Infectious Disorders
Jane Sykes, BVSc, PhD, DACVIM
Associate Professor of Small Animal Medicine
University of California at Davis • School of Veterinary Medicine
Davis, California
Dr. Sykes obtained her veterinary degree at the University of Melbourne in Australia and a PhD in veterinary microbiology, which focused on upper respiratory tract infections of cats. She completed a residency at the University of Minnesota and is Board Certified in Small Animal Internal Medicine, with a special interest in infectious disease, immune-mediated disease and hematologic disease. She is the founder of the International Society for Companion Animal Infectious Diseases, a group dedicated to enhancing control of infectious diseases in animals and thus reducing spread of disease.
Her research interests are primarily in the field of canine and feline infectious diseases, including canine and feline hemoplasmosis, leptospirosis, cryptococcosis, infections of immunosuppressed dogs and cats, and tick-borne diseases, and she has contributed several textbook chapters on canine and feline infectious diseases. She also has 3 children, an energetic Lab and 2 cats.
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Feline Gastrointestinal and Liver Disorders
Joseph Taboada, DVM, DACVIM
Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine and Associate Dean for Student and Academic Affairs
School of Veterinary Medicine • Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Dr. Taboada is Associate Dean of Student and Academic Affairs and a Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine at Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine. He is a graduate of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine and pursued specialty training in internal medicine by first completing an internship at The Animal Medical Center in New York City and then a small animal internal medicine residency at the University of Florida. Dr. Taboada is a diplomate of the ACVIM; is a past Chair of the Board of ACVIM and president of the Specialty of Internal Medicine. He was a member of the Board of Regents of ACVIM from 1996-2000 and again from 2001 to present and is the president and a member of the board of the ACVIM Foundation. He served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine from 2002-2007, was on the editorial review board for the Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association for many years and is on the editorial review board for the NAVC Clinicians Brief. He has served as program chair for AAHAs Annual Meeting Development Committee and small animal program chair for NAVC. He is a member of the International Liver Study Group, the Infectious Disease Study Group, and past at-large member of the board of directors of the Comparative Gastroenterology Society.
He has won 19 national and school wide teaching and service awards, including the Pfizer-Norden Distinguished Teacher Award in 2007, the Animal Medical Center Distinguish Alumni Award in 2004, the American Animal Hospital Association Innovative Veterinary Diets Award for contributions to the profession in 2003, and the American Animal Hospital Association Distinguished Service Award in 2005. He has spoken at over 150 international, national, regional, and local meetings, and has edited a textbook that has been published in 3 languages, has written over 70 book chapters, and over 100 scientific articles. Dr. Taboada’ special interests are feline medicine, hepatology, fungal and other miscellaneous infectious diseases, and endoscopy. He is married to Dr. Sandra Merchant, a veterinary dermatologist and they have 2 children, Michael age 15 and Robert age 13.
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Feline Genetics and Genetic Disorders
Leslie A. Lyons, MS, PhD
Professor, Department of Population Health & Reproduction
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of California, Davis
Davis, California
Dr. Lyons received her graduate degrees from The University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, Department of Human Genetics. In 1992, Dr. Lyons joined the National Cancer Institute, Laboratory of Genomic Diversity for her post-doctoral career in comparative genetics. While at the NCI, she helped organized the Feline Genome Project. Dr. Lyons developed a feline genetic mapping pedigree using natural mating and assisted reproductive techniques between domestic and Asian Leopard cats. These hybrid cats are known as Bengals by cat breeders. In the fall of 1999, Dr. Lyons joined the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Population Health and Reproduction. The laboratory’s major focus is the genetics of the domestic cat, including disease, inherited traits, and population diversity. Dr. Lyons’ research laboratory has had success with the identification of the gene causing Persian cat polycystic kidney disease. The laboratory has also identified the mutations for Siamese, Burmese, albino, chocolate and cinnamon coat colors as well as the mutation causing cat blood group B. Each of these mutations can now be used as a genetic test in cats. The Lyons’ laboratory has been used to confirm the cloned domestic cats and African wildcats and also the first green fluorescent protein (GFP) cats. Recent work has included the analysis of the origin of cat breeds and the sites of cat domestication, which resulted in a documentary with National Geographic as an episode of Explorer entitled “The Science of Cats”.
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Location
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Where is It?
The ContinuEd Feline Symposium will be held at the Conference Center, located at 8th and Pike in downtown Seattle. It's part of the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. The Conference Center is a state-of-the-art meeting facility, and LEED certified, "eco-friendly" facility in keeping with our philosophy to seek "green" meeting facilities for our programs.
The Conference Center is five blocks from the University Light Rail/Bus Tunnel Station, in addition to countless shops and restaurants in downtown Seattle. Click here for a map of downtown Seattle to see the location of the Conference Center.
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More about Seattle
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More about Seattle
Seattle… the "Emerald City"… is the jewel of the Pacific Northwest. With salt-water Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains to the west, and Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountains to the east, Seattle's setting is stunning. Numerous companies you know call the Seattle area home… like Microsoft, Costco, Amazon, Nordstrom, Starbucks, and REI among many others. Seattlites are outdoor-oriented, and it's no wonder, with the range of oppotunities for outdoor activity.
For more about Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, click here.
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Getting there
Sea-Tac International Airport (SEA) is the main airport serving the Seattle area
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Getting to Seattle… and to The Conference Center in Downtown Seattle
By air
The main airport serving Seattle is Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), or SeaTac. It's located about 20 miles/minutes south of downtown Seattle and "The Conference Center" (where our meeting is).
Making Your Air Travel Reservations
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United Airlines is offering discounted fares to Seattle for our meeting. Discounted fares (5-10% off, depending class of service and how far in advance you book your ticket) are available on United Airlines for travel to Seattle. Valid travel dates are 4/21/2012 through 5/2/2012.
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To make reservations on United:
Call the United Meetings meetings reservation desk at 800-521-4041.
Reference the meeting code: 589MJ.
The meeting is under the name "ContinuEd Feline Symposium".
There are no fees or surcharges for using the live-operator meeting desk for making your reservations. |
To search for travel options on other carriers, we recommend using a popular travel site like www.expedia.com, www.bing.com, www.kayak.com, or www.hipmunk.com. We recommend purchasing your air travel at the earliest possible time, since space can be limited. You can also get help in deciding when to buy. Several web sites (like kayak.com) allow you to set "fare alerts" that will alert you if fares are going up. Other web sites (like bing.com), sometimes provide fare predictors that make their best guess (based on past data) of whether fares will go up (and you should buy now) or may go down (and you should wait).
Getting from the airport to Downtown Seattle
There are several options for getting to downtown Seattle. Light Rail offers the best combination of convenience and cost.
- Shuttle Express
Most downtown hotels don't have their own shuttles from SeaTac to downtown, but rely on third party providers for shuttle service. Super Shuttle provides service to downtown. Click here for pricing and scheduling.
- Light Rail (Sound Transit LINK)
Sound Transit provides light-rail LINK service from Sea-Tac Airport to downtown Seattle. It's very convenient, and a great deal at around $2.50 per person, one way. Click here for scheduling, map and pricing. The University Street station in downtown Seattle is less than five blocks from the Conference Center. Light rail also takes within walking distance of a wide range of hotels.
- Public Bus Transit
This is the least expensive option, although not necessarily the most convenient. Express Bus service to downtown Seattle is avaiable and runs about $2.00 from the airport to downtown. Click here for information about public transit bus service.
- Downtown Airporter
Airporter bus service is available. These buses make numerous stops at downtown Seattle hotels. Click here for information about Downtown Airporter service.
- Cab
Cab service to downtown Seattle from SeaTac International Airport is an option. One-way cab fares to downtown are a flat fee, running around $35.
- Car rental
If you're planning to play tourist and head out from places outside of the downtown Seattle area, car rental may be your best option. Just remember that you'll need to pay for overnight parking at your hotel if you're staying downtown.
Driving to and parking at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center Parking Garage
The parking gararge for the Washington State Convention and Trade Center (WSCTC), which adjoins the Conference Center (where our meeting is) is the most convenient and lowest priced location to park. As with any large city, parking downtown is expensive. The current rates for the Convention Center garage for the amount of time you would need to park is $17.00 for 8-10 hours, or $18.00 for 10-12 hours.
For driving directions to the WSCTC Garage, click here.
Getting to Seattle by train
If you don't like to fly, Amtrak provides service to Seattle. The train station in Seattle is located at the south end of the downtown core, about 2 miles from the Conference Center where the symposium is being held. A short cab ride (or free public transit bus service) would take you to your hotel accommodations downtown. Click here for information about Amtrak and scheduling.
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Symposium sessions
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Symposium Sessions
All symposium seminar sessions will be held at the Conference Center, at 8th Avenue and Pike St., in downtown Seattle. To assure the comfort of all participants, the total number of registrants for the symposium is limited.
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Agenda |
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Agenda
The symposium meeting days are Thursday, April 26, 2012 through Saturday (mid-day), April 28, 2012.
A thumbnail agenda is shown below. For a more detailed agenda, with topics, click here (.pdf).
| Wednesday, April 25, 2012 |
Registration/sign-in desk open |
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3:00 PM to 6:00 PM |
Sign-in and pick up course materials, or do so on Thursday morning. |
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| Thursday, April 26, 2012 |
First day of seminar sessions |
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7:00 AM to 8:30 AM |
Registration/sign in (registration open all day); continental breakfast (provided); exhibits |
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8:00 AM to Noon |
Session 1: Feline Genetics and Genetic Disorders - with refreshment breaks, exhibits |
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Noon to 1:30 PM |
Lunch (on your own; box lunches available for purchase with pre-order); exhibits |
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1:30 PM to 5:30 PM |
Session 2: Feline GI and Liver Disorders - with refreshment breaks, exhibits |
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5:30 PM |
Adjourn for the evening; dinearound |
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| Friday, April 27, 2012 |
Second day of seminar sessions |
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7:00 AM to 8:00 AM |
Registration/sign in; continental breakfast (provided); exhibits |
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8:00 AM to Noon |
Session 3: Feline Behavior and Behavior Disorders - with refreshment breaks, exhibits |
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Noon to 1:30 PM |
Lunch (on your own; box lunches available for purchase with pre-order); exhibits |
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1:30 PM to 5:30 PM |
Session 4: Feline Endocrine Disorders - with refreshment breaks, exhibits |
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5:30 PM |
Adjourn for the evening; dinearound |
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| Saturday, April 28, 2012 |
Third day of seminar sessions |
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7:00 AM to 8:00 AM |
Registration/sign in; continental breakfast (provided) |
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8:00 AM to Noon |
Session 5: Feline Infectious Disorders - with refreshment breaks |
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12:00 Noon |
Symposium adjourns |
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Where to stay
The Paramount Hotel
724 Pine Street
Seattle, WA 98101
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Accommodations
We have selected The Paramount Hotel as our host hotel. It's one of the closest hotels to the Conference Center, and is located just one block west at 724 Pine Street. The Paramount is a lovely, boutique hotel featuring the amenities you'd expect in a downtown hotel property. We have a block of discounted rooms there for arrival on Wednesday, April 25, and departure on Saturday, April 28.
If you wish to extend your stay on either end and make reservations outside of those dates, please call the hotel directly for reservations, as the online reservations link will indicate "no availability" if you try to book outside of the group dates. If you encounter any difficulty making reservations, please contact the office of ContinuEd at 1-800-539-7395, or by e-mail at info@continu-ed.com.
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Go to the Paramount Hotel web site (link is below) |
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Under reservations, to the left, enter your arrival and departure dates, and click "Get Rates" |
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On the next page, enter our group code in the box that says "Group Code". Our code is PHS-GF919. |
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After you enter the code, click "Check again", and the rates for ContinuEd should come up. |
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Click here to go to the Paramount Hotel web site to make your reservation and see additional information about the hotel. |
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Call the hotel at 206.292.9500, and ask for reservations. |
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Tell the agent you are with a group: ContinuEd, and tell the agent you have a group code, which is PHS-GF919. |
There are numerous other hotels in downtown Seattle within walking distance of the Conference Center, and many more within easy driving distance (if you're planning to have a car). For additional options on accommodations, the Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau has a convenient link for searching for downtown properties.
Click here to search for accommodations in downtown Seattle. When you get to the page:
- Type "Seattle" in the location window, and the dates of your stay.
- When the Seattle hotels come up, you can narrow your search by distance from the Conference Center by clicking on "Near an address" in the "More search Options" area to the left.
- Type in 800 Convention Place, Seattle, 98101 and you'll get hotels by distance from the Conference Center.
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Registration |
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Symposium Registration
Registration is open for the ContinuEd Feline Symposium, April 26-28, 2012. Registration is for all three days of symposium sessions. Registration does not include accommodations, travel, lunch on symposium days. One-day or partial registrations are not available.
The early bird registration fee is $645 per person for registration by March 23, 2011.
- The fee is $645. After March 23, 2012, the fee increases to $695 per person.
- Technicians are welcome to register. The fee is reduced by $100.
- Symposium proceedings are only available to symposium registrants. Purchase without registration is not available.
The final registration deadline is April 15, 2012.
Registration includes:
- Twenty hours of continuing education over two and one-half days
- Continental breakfast on each of the seminar days
- Morning and afternoon refreshments on Thursday and Friday, and morning refreshments on Saturday
- Symposium proceedings on a USB "thumb" drive; printed proceedings available for an additional fee (see registration form)
- Certificate of completion for reporting your CE hours to state or provincial authorities
- Certificate (suitable for framing) showing your additional advanced training in feline medicine
Registration does not include accommodations, meals (besides continental breakfast on the meeting days), travel, hotel transfers, or optional activities. Symposium proceedings are available only to registrants, and are not available for purchase outside of registration.
Registration is available online, my mail, by fax or by phone.
| To register online, click the button to the right |
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| To register by mail or fax |
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Click here to download the form |
| To register by phone |
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Call 1-800-539-7395
(M-F, 9am to 4pm, Pacific Time) |
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Toll-free in the U.S. and Canada. For calls outside of the U.S. and Canada, call 206-230-8363. |
Cancellation policy: We have the most liberal cancellation policy of any continuing education provider. You may cancel your registration right up to the final registration deadline of April 15, 2012, and receive a refund, less a 10% administrative fee. In lieu of a refund, you can choose to transfer 100% of your fees paid to a future program within two calendar years. There are no refunds for cancellation after April 15, 2012, although fees paid can be transferred to a future program, minus the 10% administrative fee. There are no refunds for no shows, including winter weather-related issues. However, if you notify us in advance that you are not able to make it due to the weather, we will transfer that registration forward, minus the 10% administrative fee. Remember to cancel your hotel reservations if you need to cancel your symposium registration.
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Continuing Education Credit |
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Continuing Education Credit
The symposium has been submitted for twenty hours of continuing education credit in jurisdictions that accept the AAVSB RACE credit. The symposium has similarly been submitted to the North Carolina Veterinary Medical Board for continuing education credit. Participants should know that some jurisdictions limit the number of continuing education credit hours that can be claimed from certain types of programs, or methods of delivery. (Those restrictions do not typically apply to a program such as this). If you have questions, contact ContinuEd at 1-800-539-7395 (M-F, 9am to 4pm, Pacific Time) or info@continu-ed.com (24/7).
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