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Programme

Your complete guide to BEVA Congress, packed with expert speakers discussing the issues that matter and over 50 sessions to choose from across the programme.

Newshour: the year in review

Chair: Edd Knowles

8:45 Qualitative and social Tamzin Furtado 9:05 Medicine Nicola Menzies-Gow 9:25 Sports medicine and orthopaedics Andrew Fiske-Jackson 9:45 Surgery Ceri Sherlock

8:45

Hall 1

Thursday

Donkeys

Chair: Mathijs Theelen

8:35 PPID: what's different about the donkey? Alex Thiemann 8:55 GI parasites: what's different about the donkey? Karen Rickards 9:10 Care of the hospitalised donkey Marie Rippingale 9:30 Objective pain assessment in the donkey Karen Rickards 9:50 Discussion

8:35

Hall 5

Thursday

Modern equine veterinary buisness

Chair: Malcolm Morley

8:30 What is the business case for EVNs in frontline equine practice? Cassie Woods 8:50 What's the future of equine veterinary businesses post CMA? Vicky Jux 9:10 How do the finances of first opinion equine practice work? Chris Tufnell 9:30 Can equine practices learn from farm practice buisness models? Paul Horwood 9:50 Discussion

8:30

Hall 9

Thursday

Wound Management

Chair: Henry Tremaine

8:35 Achieving closure - tips for closing acute wounds Dylan Gorvy 8:55 Wound creams and potions, which one and when? Russell Parker 9:10 Advanced surgical techniques: plastic and reconstructive surgery for wounds Dylan Gorvy 9:30 My worst case ever - case presentations by all speakers 9:50 Discussion

8:35

Hall 10

Thursday

Clinical Research

Chair to be confirmed

Abstracts presented to be confirmed

8:30

Hall 8b

Thursday

Opening address and John Hickman Memorial Lecture

Chair to be confirmed

10:50 Opening Address Imogen Burrows, BEVA President 11:10 John Hickman Memorial Lecture Threads, patterns and boundaries - understanding veterinary influence on equine welfare Meta Osborne

10:50

Hall 1

Thursday

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