Welcome
Spring is approaching fast and it is going to be BSAVA congress before we know it. We would like to invite you to the Spring meeting for BrAVO which as usual is a satellite day pre-BSAVA congress. The meeting is on Wednesday April 7th in Hall 8a of the ICC, Birmingham.
The Venue
At The ICC we offer all the elements key to delivering a superb conference, seminar, banquet or meeting. These include professional customer service, advice and support in event management, logistics, catering, staging and AV technology.
Our ten halls and ten executive meeting rooms, with dedicated registration and foyer areas, mean we can offer one of the UK's largest selections of facilities under one roof. And you’ve the support of a dedicated team of event managers and presentation specialists to ensure everything runs smoothly from start to finish.
Speakers
We have an excellent programme this year, with two international speakers (Professor Mike Lappin and Associate Professor Dr David Maggs), a UK based feline specialist (Professor Danielle Gunn-Moore) and an ophthalmology specialist (Professor Sheila Crispin) to guide us through feline ophthalmology topics.
After graduating from Oklahoma State University in 1981, Dr Lappin completed a rotating internship in small animal medicine and surgery at the University of Georgia. After two years in small animal practice in Los Angeles, Dr Lappin returned to the University of Georgia where he completed a small animal internal medicine residency and a PhD in Parasitology. Dr Lappin was board-certified by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in 1987. He is currently an Associate Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University and directs the Toxoplasma gondii Serology Laboratory. He has had multiple research grants funded and is the author of more than a hundred research papers and book chapters. Dr Lappin is an associate editor for the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine and the Compendium for Continuing Education for the Practicing Veterinarian. Dr Lappin has received the Beecham Research Award and the Norden Distinguished Teaching Award.
Dr. David Maggs is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists and has published in the major veterinary journals & texts including JAVMA & Consultations in Feline Internal Medicine & is co-editor of the Feline issue of Veterinary Ophthalmology.David spent several years in private practice prior to obtaining an internship at Colorado State University. He is currently is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at The University of California at Davis.
Danièlle Gunn-Moore graduated with Distinction from the R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh, in 1991. After a year in small animal practice she joined The Feline Centre, University of Bristol, initially as the Feline Advisory Bureau Scholar, then the Duphar Feline Fellow, and completed a PhD study into Feline Infectious Peritonitis in 1997. After a short period as Lecturer in Veterinary Pathology, University of Bristol, she returned to Edinburgh to establish the Feline Clinic and she is now Professor of Feline Medicine. She is interested in all aspects of feline medicine; she is an internationally recognised expert in her area, lectures extensively and her work has been published widely. She is a Trustee/Director of the Feline Advisory Bureau, on the Executive Committee of the European Society of Feline Medicine, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery.
Sheila Crispin was awarded an Agricultural Research Council Veterinary Training Scholarship after obtaining an honours degree in Zoology and Applied Zoology, and qualified from the University of Cambridge. After a period of mixed, mainly large animal, practice in Cumbria she returned to education, ending with a full-time academic career as Head of the Ophthalmology Service and Professor of Comparative Ophthalmology at the University of Bristol. Sheila has been a member of RCVS Council since 1997, served on most Committees and chaired a number of them. She was President in 2006-07. Currently, Sheila is Chief Panelist of the BVA/Kennel Club/International Sheep Dog Society Eye Scheme. She has published numerous scientific papers in peer-reviewed academic journals, is co-author and editor of three standard textbooks on veterinary ophthalmology and sole author of another.
Abstract Submissions
We are looking forward to abstract presentations from you! Please submit abstracts, in electronic form, for consideration to Rob Lowe by midnight March 15th to rob@loweworld.com (click here for information on submitting an abstract). If you present an abstract you will get free registration for the day, and it is an excellent addition to your CV if you are considering a residency in ophthalmology.
As always, we welcome Abstract Submissions from all members, so please read through this section of the information pack for abstract guidelines and the abstract submission form. Please note that the deadline for Abstract Submissions is earlier than usual this year.
Sponsors & Exhibitors
Again we have great sponsors for our meeting who will be exhibiting their products and are full of information on how to get the best out of your equipment.
More details of these supporting companies will be available in due course.
Event and Delegate Management
Lunch and wine is included in the meeting cost, so you will be able to eat and browse the exhibition at your leisure! JC conference organisers are going to be helping the committee with the Spring meeting as well this year, ensuring an efficient and rapid registration process (via www.bravo.org.uk). The meeting cost is £100 and those who wish to renew their BrAVO membership can do so at the same time (£35).
We hope you will be able to join us.BrAVO Committee
