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The 19th Annual Feline Conference
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About the Course.......
Join us for one of the SVM’s most popular
continuing education conferences... The 19th Annual Feline Conference.
This day-long conference will concentrate on feline nutrition. At the
completion of this program, the participant should develop a clear
understanding of the importance of nutrition management and key
nutrients of concern for common feline disorders ( i.e. adverse food
reactions, calcium oxa-late urolithiasis, diabetes mellitus, obesity
and hepatic lipidosis).
The
participant should be able to select appropriate commercial diets,
calculate caloric needs, and defi ne nutritional risk factors for these
select disorders. In addi-tion, a review of critical care nutrition
will include the importance of early manage-ment of hypermetabolism and
the indications for use of various feeding tubes and critical care
diets.
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Course Faculty......
Special Guest Speaker:
Dr. Claudia Kirk
Dr. Kirk received her DVM from the
University of California at Davis in 1986. She completed an internship
at the Animal Medical Center in New York, an internal medical residency
and PhD in Nutrition at UC Davis.
Dr. Kirk was a senior scientist for 9
years at Hill’s Science and Tech-nology Center and serves as teaching
faculty for the Mark Morris Institute. She is currently Associate
Professor of Medicine and Nutri-tion at the University Of Tennessee
College Of Veterinary Medicine.
Dr. Kirk is a Diplomate of the American
College of Veterinary Nutrition and American Col-lege of Veterinary
Internal Medicine. Her areas of research interest are feline calcium
oxalate urolithiasis, obesity and feline diabetes.
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