Saturday, December 7 • Sunday, December 8 •Monday, December 9 •Tuesday, December 10
Program for Monday
Tour & Labs Track
Behind-the-scenes Tour of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
DeeAnn Wilfong, Hospital Manager
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo / Colorado Springs, CO
7:00A Tour Sign-in & Breakfast
7:30A Bus departs for Colorado Springs
9:00A Arrive at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
9:00A – 12:00P Tour of the Zoo and facilities, feeding the giraffes, interacting with the elephants, and more!
12:00P Lunch
1:00P Bus departs for Denver
2:30P Arrive back to Colorado Convention Center
Dry Labs: Blood Analysis Tools
Colorado Convention Center
Sponsored by Zoetis
2:30P – 3:30P i-STAT Blood Analyzer Lab: demonstration & practice
3:30P – 4:30P Stablelab hand-held, point-of-care diagnostic blood test (SAA): demonstration & hands-on lab
Lecture Track
8:00A – 9:00A
“Veterinary Wellbeing Study and Horses, Building Resilience”
Dr. Earl Gaughan, DVM, Dipl. ACVS
Sponsored by Merck
Colorado Convention Center
9:00A – 10:00A
“The Eight Things Your Owner/Practice Manager Wishes You Knew – How to help the practice
AND yourself”
Ky Mortensen, JD, MBA
10:00A – 11:00A
“Ophthalmology Procedures: Standing vs. General Anesthesia”
Dr. Nikki Scherrer
11:00A – 12:00P
“Subpalpebral Lavage Tube Placement & Management”
Dr. Ann Dwyer
12:00P – 1:30P
Lunch Break
Time to visit the Trade Show!
1:30P – 2:30P
“How Technicians Can Increase the Profitability of Practices & Why that is so Important”
Dr. Amy Grice
2:30P – 3:30P
“Leaky Gut and GI, Dysbiosis: An update on research and the Microbiome study”
Dr. Torri Maxwell
Sponsored by Platinum Performance
3:30P – 4:30P
Current Trends in Compounding
Dr. Scott Stanley
Sponsored by American Regent (Adequan)