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2022 COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINEFEBRUARY 4-6, 2022 865.974.7264 vetmed.tennessee.edu/cePRE-REGISTER BY JANUARY 28th!CROWNE PLAZA - KNOXVILLE, TN20 CE CREDITS FOR VETERINARIANS!8 CE CREDITS FOR VET TECHS!Annual ConferenceTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE

2022 COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINETHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEEAnnual ConferenceFEBRUARY 4-6, 2022CROWNE PLAZA401 W. Summit Hill DriveKnoxville, TN 37902865-522-2600HOTEL RESERVATIONSA block of rooms has been reserved at the Crowne Plazafor those attending the UTCVM Annual Conference.Please call the Holiday Inn at the phone number listedabove to make your reservations within this block no laterthan January 24, 2022. Please make your reservationsearly!Parking at the hotel will be free for the conference.REGISTRATION FEESPlease register online or fill out the appropriate form in thispacket, making sure to check your registration type.Veterinarian Full Conference . 310Veterinarian Single Day . 150Veterinary Technician . 80Technician Student . 30Lifetime TVMA Member.Complimentary – must preregisterAdvance registration is required to ensure adequate food and supplies.REGISTRATION FEE INCLUDES:Registration Packet, Electronic Conference Proceedings,coffee & snack breaks, lunch on Friday & SaturdayLunch is not provided on Sunday and is not provided for those who register on site.Refunds will be available if requested more than 10 days prior to the conference.Registration Packets will be available at the UTCVMregistration table during the conference.20 CE CREDITS FOR VETERINARIANS*!8 CE CREDITS FOR VET TECHS!*Breakfast With a Professor sessions are necessary to achieve 20 credit hours.QUESTIONS?865-974-7264 cvmce@utk.eduvetmed.tennessee.edu/ce

FRIDAYFebruary 4, 20227:30amREGISTRATIONVETERINARY PRACTITIONERS8:30amRegulatory: Controlled Drugs — T. Stevens, PharmD,UTCVM Pharmacy10:00amBREAK10:30amEthics & Wellbeing: How to Use Values as a Guide forYour Wellbeing — S. ManifoldNOONLUNCHRemarks — Dr. J. Thompson, UTCVM Dean1:30pmNutrition: New Direction in Pet Foods – Should yourecommend grain free, raw and more — Dr. C. Kirk,UTCVM Internal Medicine and Nutrition, DistinguishedCoughlin Professor3:00pmBREAK3:30pmNutrition: Nutritional Management of Lower Urinary TractDisease in Cats — Dr. C. Kirk5:00pmDISMISSEVENING SESSION6:00-7:00pmThe Dynamics of Tick-Pathogen Interactions —Dr. G. Neelakanta, UTCVM Research7:00-8:00pmHow to Choose the Best Implants to Treat Fractures —Dr. C. Ferrigno, UTCVM Surgery

SATURDAYFebruary 5, 20227:30amREGISTRATIONBREAKFAST WITH THE PROFESSORContinental Breakfast7:30amLocal Anesthesia — Dr. R. Seddighi, UTCVM AnesthesiologyEarly Age Spay & Neuter: Updates and Information forPractitioners — Dr. J. Weisent, UTCVM Shelter MedicineECC: Managing the Neurologic Patient in Private Practice— Dr. K. Anderson, UTCVM Emergency & Critical CareVETERINARY PRACTITIONERS8:30amOcular Diseases in Geriatric Dogs and Cats— Dr. B. Foote, UTCVM Ophthalmology9:15amAnesthesia: Perioperative management of the Diabetic Dog– Fine Tuning for a Successful Outcome — Dr. C. Hampton,UTCVM Anesthesiology10:00amBREAK10:30amUnderstanding Patellar Luxation in Dogs — Dr. C. Ferrigno,UTCVM Surgery11:15amEasy as One, Two, Pee: Updates on Feline Housesoiling— Dr. J. Albright, UTCVM BehaviorNOONLUNCHPresentation of the UTCVM DistinguishedCoughlin Professors’ Certificates1:30pmCardiology: Canine Mitral Valve Disease – Current TherapyPulmonary Hypertension — Dr. J. Abbott, DistinguishedCoughlin Professor3:00pmBREAK3:30pmCardiology: Diagnosis And Management ofPericardial Disease Arrhythmogenic (“Boxer Dog”)Cardiomyopathy — Dr. J. Abbott5:00pmDISMISSALUMNI ACTIVITIESAlumni Class ReceptionsClass of 1981Class of 1982Class of 1986Class of 1987Class of 1992Class of 1996Class of 1997Class of 2001Class of 2002Class of 2006Class of 2007Class of 2011Class of 2012Class of 2016Class of 2017Further details and reservation information will besent from the UTCVM Alumni Relations office.

SATURDAYFebruary 5, 20227:30amREGISTRATIONVETERINARY TECHNICIANS8:30amDeep Dive: Shock and Fluid Therapy — M. Brashear, BS, RVT,VTS (ECC), Invited Speaker10:00amBREAK10:30amCritical Thinking Case Studies — M. BrashearNOONLUNCHPresentation of the UTCVM DistinguishedCoughlin Professors’ Certificates1:30pmGet Pumped! Blood Pressure — M. Brashear2:15pmBasic ECG Interpretation — M. Brashear3:00pmBREAK3:30pmThriving, Not Just Surviving in Veterinary Medicine— M. Brashear5:00pmDISMISSI accept as a lifelong obligation thecontinual improvement of my professionalknowledge and competence.

SUNDAYFebruary 6, 20227:30amREGISTRATIONBREAKFAST WITH THE PROFESSORContinental Breakfast7:30amUpdates On Canine Adrenal Panels - Tips— Dr. L. Giori, UTCVM EndocrinologyECC: Managing the Neurologic Patient in Private Practice— Dr. T. Moore, UTCVM NeurologyTriaging the Wildlife Patient— Dr. J. Sheldon, UTCVM Avian, Exotic, Zoo MedicineVETERINARY PRACTITIONERS8:30amCardiology: Managing Cardiac Cases .When EchoIsn’t Available — Dr. J. Abbott9:15amSyncope: Diagnosis and Management — Dr. J. Abbott10:00amBREAK10:15amCardiology: Feline Cardiomyopathy – An UpdateCanine Congenital Cardiac Disease – A Mini-Review— Dr. J. AbbottNOONDISMISS

OUR GRATITUDE FOR THECoughlin EndowmentWe would like to take this opportunity to thank the lateDr. Dennis Coughlin Jr., an orthopedic surgeon in Knoxville,Tennessee, and his family for their continued financialsupport, namely, “The Coughlin Endowment” in memoryof Dr. Dennis Coughlin Sr. (1890-1954).The Coughlin Endowment provides funding for theUniversity of Tennessee College of Veterinary MedicineContinuing Education Annual Conference for Veterinariansand Veterinary Technicians. UTCVM is very grateful that Dr.Coughlin’s family provides this means to honor his father,Dr. Dennis Coughlin Sr.The senior Dr. Coughlin’s illustrious career includedveterinary practice with the U.S. Department ofAgriculture and as president of the Tennessee VeterinaryMedical Association from 1940-1941. A native of SouthDakota, he completed his veterinary degree in 1916 atKansas City Veterinary College in Kansas City, Missouri.During his career in the Tennessee area, he met andmarried Esther Brackin, a member of the University ofTennessee faculty.UTCVM is grateful for the support of theCoughlin Endowment.The University of Tennessee is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA institution in theprovision of its education and employment programs and services.All qualified applicants will receiveequal consideration for employment and admission without regard to race, color, national origin, religion,sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability,genetic information, veteran status, and parental status.E181705-00-002-2212/09/21

INVITED GENERAL SESSION SPEAKERTerry StevensPharmD, DICVP, FSVHP, FACVPUTCVM PHARMACYKNOXVILLE, TNDr. Terry Stevens, a 1980 graduate of the UTCollege of Pharmacy, has been active with theAnderson County and Roane County Anti-DrugCoalitions and was recently appointed by Governor Bill Haslam toserve on Tennessee’s Commission on Pain and Addiction MedicineEducation. After many years in the pharmaceutical industry servinghumans, Dr. Stevens joined UTCVM in 2007. He has worked tirelesslyto improve services to the college and to make the pharmacyaccessible to veterinarians throughout the country. During his timeat the veterinary college, Dr. Stevens developed a highly competitiveveterinary pharmacy externship program that attracts clinical-yearpharmacy students throughout the US.INVITED GENERAL SESSION SPEAKERSarina ManifoldLCSWAUTHENTIC HEALING COUNSELING, PLLCFUQUAY-VARINA, NORTH CAROLINASarina is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker(LCSW) in TN and NC.Sarina previously worked at the University of Tennessee College ofVeterinary Medicine for 10 years as a clinical social worker for theUTCVM Veterinary Medical Center.She moved to NC with her family and now owns a private practicewhere she continues to provide Veterinary Social Work services.Specifically she offers grief counseling for the loss of an animal,counseling to animal care professionals to help manage compassionfatigue, and consultation to the community for animal-relatedissues. Sarina also conducts presentations on the following topics:animal-related grief & bereavement, supporting animal owners inemotional distress, compassion fatigue & self-care, and improvingcommunication within veterinary teams. In addition, Sarinacontinues to contribute to the University of Tennessee VeterinarySocial Work Certificate Program, and she has recently startedworking with the MentorVet program providing mental healthcoaching sessions to participants.

DISTINGUISHED COUGHLIN PROFESSORClaudia KirkDVM, PhD, DACVN, DACVIMUTCVM INTERNAL MEDICINE & NUTRITIONKNOXVILLE, TNDr. Kirk received her DVM from the Universityof California at Davis. She completed a smallanimal rotating internship at the Animal MedicalCenter in New York and an Internal Medical Residency in SmallAnimal Medicine and Fellowship/PhD in Nutrition at UC Davis.Dr. Kirk was a senior scientist for 9 years at Hill’s Science andTechnology Center and served as teaching faculty for the MarkMorris Institute. In 2003, she joined the faculty of the University ofTennessee, College of Veterinary Medicine in Knoxville, Tennessee asAssociate Professor of Medicine and Nutrition. During this time, sheestablished the Clinical Nutrition Service, which included a nutritionresidency program, graduate training, and expanded collaborativeresearch to include pet obesity and feline metabolic diseases.Dr. Kirk has served as Professor and Head of the Small AnimalClinical Sciences Department and Small Animal Clinical HospitalProgram and, more recently, as Associate Dean for Academic Affairsand Student Services. Currently, she is the Lindsay Young Professorof Medicine and Nutrition and oversees the development of the newWebb Center for Feline Health.Dr. Kirk is a Diplomate of the American College of VeterinaryNutrition and Diplomate of American College of Veterinary InternalMedicine. Her areas of research interest concern nutritionalinteraction with disease, with a special interests in obesity, felinediabetes, and feline lower urinary tract disease.

DISTINGUISHED COUGHLIN PROFESSORJonathan AbbottDVM, DACVIM (Cardiology)UTCVM CARDIOLOGYKNOXVILLE, TNDr. Jonathan Abbott received his DVM fromthe Ontario Veterinary College, University ofGuelph and trained in veterinary cardiologyat the University of Florida and at North Carolina State University.Dr. Abbott was board certified in the specialty of cardiology by theAmerican College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) in 1993.Prior to his appointment at the University of Tennessee, where he iscurrently Associate Professor of Veterinary Cardiology, Dr. Abbottheld faculty positions at Virginia-Maryland College of VeterinaryMedicine, Virginia Tech and the Western College of VeterinaryMedicine, University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Abbott is a past presidentof the ACVIM Specialty of Cardiology and serves as member of theJournal of Cardiology Editorial Board. He has published in diversesubject areas within the topic of veterinary cardiology.INVITED VETERINARY TECHNICIAN SPEAKERMegan BrashearBS, RVT, VTS (ECC)PURDUE UNIVERSITYWEST LAFAYETTE, INMegan Brashear graduated in 2000 with a BSin Veterinary Technology and obtained herVeterinary Technician Specialty in Emergency/Critical Care in 2004. She has enjoyed working in emergency andcritical care since 2000 and is the Small Animal Veterinary NursingManager at the Purdue University Veterinary Hospital in WestLafayette, Indiana. Megan truly enjoys the opportunity to work withtechnician supervisors as well as teach and train technicians andstudents on the hospital floor. She loves to travel and lecture sharingher knowledge with veterinary technicians and nurses around theworld.Thank you!TO ALL OF OUR SPEAKERS