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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.

Dermatology

Chair: Nicola Menzies-Gow

08:50 Exotic skin diseases that might come to the UK Emily Floyd 09:05 Electrochemotherapy for melanomas and sarcoids Mike Hewetson 09:25 Serology for the pruritic horse, useful diagnostic or delaying tactic until the steroids work? Mathjis Theelen 9:45 When are vaccines useful for atopic dermatitis? Paula Tilley 10:05 Discussion

8:50

Hall 5

Friday

Assisted reproduction and the competing horse

Chair: Camilla Scott

08:45 Assisted reproduction, setting up for success James Crabtree 09:05 Managing the breeding and competition stallion 09:35 How to breed with a competing mare 10:05 Discussion

8:45

Hall 9

Friday

Practical equine nursing

Chair: Cassie Woods

08:40 Keeping horses safe under anaesthesia: the Nurse's role Marie Rippingale 09:05 On the front line: critical care mastery for equine vet nurses Rebecca Bruford 09:25 Right tube, right time: the nurses role in lab success Carolynn Martin 09:45 Picture perfect: mastering equine x-rays as a nurse Alice Robinson

8:40

Hall 10

Friday

Clinical Research

Chair to be confirmed

Abstracts presented to be confirmed

8:30

Hall 8b

Friday

Lameness and diagnostic imaging case discussion panel

Chair: Annamaria Nagy

11:00 David Stack, Liz Brown, Filip Vandenberghe

11:00

Hall 1

Friday

Medicine use and abuse

Chair: Rose Tallon

10:45 Doping rules and detection times. Bastions of clean sport or a game to be played? James Given 11:05 Omperazole use in competition. Is there a basis for restricting it? Maddie Campbell 11:25 Lifestyle drugs: if they improve quality of life what's not to like? Harry Carslake 11:45 Which medicines are most environmentally damaging and what should we do? Callum Haseler 12:05 Are 'specials' the only viable route for innovation in the development of equine medicine? Mark Bowen 12:30 Discussion

10:45

Hall 5

Friday

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