2023 MVVMA Speaker Proceedings

Kara Burns, MS, Med, LVT, VTS (Nutrition), VTS Hon (Internal Medicine, Dentistry)

Wednesday March 1
•Starting Strong: Nutrition for Your Kitten
• Getting Cats to Eat: It is More than Pouring Food in a Bowl
• FLUTD: Nutrition’s Role in Management
• Feline IBD: Pathophysiology, Treatment Goals and Client Communication
• Feline Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and the Role of Nutrition
• The Other Malnutrition: Unintentional Weight Loss in Cats

Thursday March 2
• Busting Nutritional Myths
• Getting the Pet’s Weight Off: Utilizing a Nutritional Advocate
• Cachexia: When All They Can Eat is Themselves
•Successful Dental Homecare: Selecting the Appropriate Regimen for Clients and Patients
• Professional Dental Cleaning: Performing Periodontal Therapy
• Keeping the Senior Pets Youthful with Nutrition

Mark Opperman, CVPM
•How to Determine Your Practice’s “Perception of Value”
• How to Enhance Your Practice’s “Perception of Value”
•Financial Management
• Implementing Internal Controls and How to Set Client Fees

Ray Ramirez, DVM
•How to be Student Debt-Free in Less than 10 Years…No Matter What Your Debt Total!

Phillip Seibert, CVT
• Starting and Maintaining a Hospital Safety Program
• Top Safety Problems in Veterinary Hospital
• Surviving an OSHA Inspection
• Security & Access for Controlled Drugs
• Controlled Drug Logs Documenting the “Ins” and “Outs”
• Fixing Controlled Drug Problems

Craig Webb, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (SAIM)
• The Feline Philosophy Behind GI Disease
• Getting Nutrition into a Cat
• Getting Crap Out of a Cat
• The Yellow Cat: Case Rounds
• The Diabetic Cat: Case Rounds
• The Coughing Cat: Case Rounds