15th World Equine Veterinary Association Congress

Programme

Time	Topic	Speaker	Sponsor
Stream: Equine Industry Theme: Welfare Chair David Hodgson
13:30	Welfare - why should we care?	Natalie Warren
13:50	Good Welfare - good business	Roly Owers
14:10	Why the horse comes first - the FEI perspective	Göran Akerström
14:30	Challenges to Horse Welfare in China	Xu Bai
14:50	Nutrition: Managing key issues and the consequences of getting them wrong	Peter Huntington
15:10	COFFEE BREAK
Stream: Equine Industry Theme: Welfare Chair Ravi Redi
Time	Topic	Speaker	Sponsor
15:30	Chronic foot problems - chronic pain	Chris Pollitt
15:50	What to do with the horse once it's too old to compete	Roly Owers
16:10	Getting there safely: dangers of long-distance transport of horses and how to minimize the risks	Dave Hodgson
16:30	Rehabilitation of the equine athlete	JM Denoix
16:50	Preventing spread of disease when moving horses	Josh Slater

Time	Topic	Speaker	Sponsor
Stream: Equine Practice Theme: The Equine Foot and Digit Chair Michael Schramme
13:30	Foot balance and imbalance	Simon Curtis
13:50	Clinical examination of the hoof	Ellen Singer
14:10	Common Diseases of the foot	Peter Clegg
14:30	Laminitis - how to recognize and early intervention	Chris Pollitt
14:50	Management of palmar heel pain?	Werner Jahn
15:10	COFFEE BREAK
Stream: Equine Practice Theme: The Horse's Abdomen Chair Anthony Blikslager
Time	Topic	Speaker	Sponsor
15:30	Examination of a horse with colic and decision making	Christoph Koch
15:50	Fundamentals of successful colic surgery	David Freeman
16:10	Medical treatments for colic when options are limited	Francesca Compostella
16:30	Castration methods and complications	Christoph Koch
16:50	Equine parasites and colic	Gil Riley

Time	Topic	Speaker	Sponsor
Stream: Advanced Veterinary Medicine Theme: Management of Infectious Diseases Chair Kirsten Neil
13:30	Equine influenza - Using epidemiology to contain an outbreak	Dirk Pfeiffer
13:50	Use of antimicrobials in respiratory disease	Dave Hodgson
14:10	Environmental management of respiratory diseases	Emmanuelle Van Erck
14:30	Infectious causes of acute diarrhoea	Andy Durham
14:50	Management of colitis	Kevin Corley
15:10	COFFEE BREAK
Stream: Advanced Veterinary Medicine Theme: Management of Infectious Diseasess Chair Kate Savage
Time	Topic	Speaker	Sponsor
15:30	Pleuropneumonia: Risk factors and management	Kate Savage
15:50	Equine influenza - Current best protection	Vince Gerber
16:10	Herpes virus - clinical syndromes	Lingshuang Sun
16:30	Emerging respiratory disease in South East Asia	Xiaojun Wang
16:50	Therapeutics for equine asthma – evidence in IAD and RAO	Vince Gerber