Application & Interpretation of Clinical Pathology Testing for Equine Practitioners
Species
Equine
Contact Hours
3 Hours - RACE Approved
Language
English
Discipline
Emergency & Critical Care
Internal Medicine – Endocrinology, Haematology, Infectious Diseases, Parasitology & Oncology
Pathology - Clinical & Gross
Veterinary Partner
Equine




























Recorded on: 5th October 2021
Panelists:
Sally DeNotta DVM, PhD, DACVIM - University of Florida, USA
Bettina Dunkel DVM, PhD, DACVIM, DECEIM, DACVECC, FHEA, MRCVS - RVC, UK
Richard Hepburn BVSc, MS, CertEM(IntMed), DACVIM, FRCVS - B&W Equine Hospital, UK
Moderator:
Thomas Divers DVM, DACVIM, DACVECC - Consultant, Vet. Clinics of North America, USA
CONTENT DESCRIPTION
The international panel of world-renowned equine internists and criticalists will use short case-based and review presentations to discuss the importance of clinical pathology testing in Equine Practice. Recently introduced tests such as serum amyloid A, symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA) and thymidine kinase will be included in the exchange. Panelists will discuss when they select and how they interpret key clinical pathology tests in their practice. Questions and contributions from the audience are strongly encouraged.
Sally DeNotta is board-certified by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and is a member of the clinical faculty at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine. Originally from the rural Oregon coast, she spent time in private practice in Oregon and Colorado before completing an internal medicine residency and PhD at Cornell University.
She joined the UF faculty in 2018, where her clinical interests include equine infectious disease and clinical neurology. When not in the hospital, she is the UF equine veterinary extension specialist, acting as the liaison between the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Florida horse industry.
She also currently serves as the Chair of the AAEP Infectious Disease Committee.
More InfoDr. Thomas J. Divers earned his DVM from the University of Georgia in 1975 and completed an internship in large animal medicine at the University of California at Davis. Dr. Divers returned to the University of Georgia for a residency in large animal internal medicine and ambulatory practice followed by 2 years as an assistant professor in the large animal medicine and ambulatory practice at the College. Dr. Divers then moved to the University of Pennsylvania for 10 years where he was an associate professor of large animal medicine and served as chief of the section of medicine at the New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania. In 1990 Dr. Divers moved to Cornell University where he is the Rudolph J. and Katharine L. Steffen Professor of Medicine in the Section of Large Animal Medicine. He is a diplomat of both the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. Dr. Divers retired recently but still consults on cases, conducts research projects and provides lectures to veterinarians and students. He has been the recipient of teaching awards at four universities and has received the Educator of the Year Award from both the AAEP and ACVECC.
More InfoBettina graduated from The Free University of Berlin in 2001. Following a Dorothy Havemeyer fellowship at Tufts University, Bettina completed a rotating equine internship at the Marion duPont Equine Medical Center in Leesburg, VA and a large animal internal medicine and emergency and critical care residency (alternate track) at the University of Pennsylvania and has been a member of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care since 2005. After moving to the UK, Bettina attained her PhD, focusing on equine platelet and neutrophil function, from the University of London in 2008. Bettina has been employed at the Royal Veterinary College since 2008 and is now an Associate Professor in Equine medicine.
More InfoAfter graduating form Liverpool Vet School in 1997 Dicky worked in equine hospitals in the UK and New Zealand for 4 years doing a combination of sport horse and racehorse work. He then completed a 3 year combined internal medicine residency and Masters program at The Marion duPont Equine Medical Center in Virginia, USA. Dicky was the first diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine to go into private equine practice in the UK and is recognised by the RCVS as a specialist in equine internal medicine.
Since 2004 he has worked at the B&W Equine Hospital, a 40 vet equine practice in southwest England, which has been part of the CVS Group since 2017. Dicky is a member of the ECEIM EGUS consensus committee, has been chair of the ACIVM specialty exam committee, advanced continuing education committee and a member of the ACVIM Board of Regents. He is also a contributing author to the textbook of Equine Neurology and the textbook of Equine Back and Neck Pathology.
Dicky has been a FEI treating vet at 5* Badminton Horse Trials for over 10 years and at the London International Horse Show, Olympia, Royal Windsor Horse Show, and was an onsite medicine specialist at the 2012 London Olympic Games. In 2018 he was awarded Fellowship of the RCVS for meritorious contribution to clinical practice.
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