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Join us for AAFP ROUNDS on VIN
Please review the FIP
diagnostic rounds by Dr. Melissa Kennedy and bring your PCR testing
questions to the
October rounds. A nice clinical review of FIP can be found in
Veterinary
Medicine magazine here:
http://www.vetmedpub.com/vetmed/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=433712&sk=&date=&%0A%09%09%09&pageID=3
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Sunday, November 18,
8pm ET:
Tips to Improve Client Compliance for Feline Weight Loss
(Sarah
Abood, DVM, PhD)
All members are invited to attend our LIVE AAFP rounds discussions.
If you still need a VIN username and
password for complimentary access, please email Dr. Sherri Williams (wileydvm@aol.com),
with the words
"AAFP Rounds" in the subject heading.
Transcripts to all past
rounds discussions are available in the library:
http://www.vin.com/Members/CE/C164/Library.htm
CE OPPORTUNITIES
AAFP/AAHA
PAIN MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES AVAILABLE
FREE
WEBINAR November 7, 2007
1pm Eastern, 12pm Central
Time, 11am Mountain, 10am Pacific
Please join your fellow AAFP members for a live webcast about the new Pain
Management Guidelines
jointly created by the AAFP and the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA).
Sign
up today!
https://secure.aahanet.org/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?site=aahastore&webcode=
EventDetail&evt_key=165a9d56-cdc6-4ecc-b39a-b77f58b8162f&etc_code=Webinar
AAFP members who are NOT
AAHA members can create an account and password to allow registration:
https://secure.aahanet.org/eweb/dynamicpage.aspx?site=aahastore&webcode=createaccount)
Offer your clients
state-of-the-art pain management services by learning the latest
information and
reviewing the
Pain Management Guidelines:
http://www.aafponline.org/resources/practice_guidelines.htm
Psst.... A nice handout
is available to improve your client's ability to detect signs of pain in
the new Trends
online issue:
http://trends.aahanet.org/eweb/images/Trends/PDFs/CatHandout.pdf
REGISTER
TODAY for the AAFP FALL CONFERENCE!
http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=134293
November 11 - 13, 2007
Austin, Texas
Hyatt Regency Austin
Theme: Feline Dentistry and Diseases of the Head and Neck
http://www.aafponline.org/2007Fall/index.htm
Although the conference
officially starts on Sunday, Nov 11th, please plan to join us
Saturday night,
November 10, 2007
from 6:00 - 8:00pm for a memorial reception to honor Dr. Jim Richards. No
registration or additional fee is required to attend this memorial
reception, compliments of Pfizer Animal
Health. Please plan to sign a memory book that will be available at the
conference to be presented to the
Richards family.
And on
Monday, November 12th,
we have a fun, off-site party planned! Come on over to "The Salt Lick"
for a BBQ party Texas style, an evening of dinner, dance and fun,
compliments of Fort Dodge Animal Health!
More conference event details are available on the AAFP website.
Upcoming
AWARENESS Events
National Veterinary
Technician Week
will be celebrated
October 14 through October 20.
We know our veterinary technicians accomplishments deserve celebration
every day of the year, but be
sure to say a special THANK YOU!!
National Pet Obesity
Awareness Day
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
The Association for Pet Obesity Prevention asks for your help on
Wednesday, October 17, 2007!
They request you record simple information (weight, length, girth, age,
sex and breed) for each pet that you perform a
routine examination on that day. More information can be
requested here (look to right column of webpage):
http://petobesityprevention.com/awareness_day.htm
Speaking of obesity....
p. 606 of the Sept 2007 Veterinary Medicine magazine has a protocol table
for initiating glargine therapy in
non-ketotic diabetic cats:
http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/advanstar/vm0907/
AAFP COMMITTEE NEWS
AAFP Recent Graduate
Nominations Requested for the AVMA Veterinary Leadership Conference
The 2008 Veterinary
Leadership Conference/House of Delegates Winter Session will be held
January 11-13 at the
Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center, Schaumburg, Illinois. If
you are a recent graduate (6 years
or less since graduation), you are eligible to be nominated to attend the
conference and have your attendance
expenses covered. It is an excellent way to see your veterinary
association leadership at work and attend workshops
on current leadership topics.
For more information,
please contact either Dr. Vicki Thayer, AAFP's AVMA delegate at:
thayv@aol.com
or Gwen Stanton, AAFP Administrator at:
gstanton@association-partners.com
2008 is just around the corner and the AAFP would like to encourage your
participation and assistance in
the coming year for some of the following committees...
PR SUBCOMMITTEE VOLUNTEER
The Guidelines PR subcommittee is in need of several more members.
Members of this subcommittee may be veterinarians, technicians or
students.
Guidelines PR promotes awareness of the AAFP guidelines with both
veterinarians and cat owners.
People with good writing skills who might have experience with the
publication process or with PR in any
professional association or community service are encouraged to respond.
Please contact Eliza
Sundahl at
tsundown@everestkc.net if you would be interested in helping take the
AAFP guidelines out into the world.
AAFP ROUNDS and E-MEWS
VOLUNTEER
please contact Dr. Sherri Williams at:
wileydvm@aol.com
STUDENT CHAPTERS
VOLUNTEER
Please contact Dr. Gerryll Hall at:
gerryll.hall@spcorp.com
AAFP MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
The AAFP would like to
thank and congratulate
Dr. Patricia Shea
who will be serving as the AAFP Newsletter
Editor starting in 2008.
Dr. Kathleen Cavanagh
deserves a standing ovation for her incredible work on the Newsletter
these past few years.
THANK YOU KATHLEEN!
Dr. Julie Levy
was recently elected to the WINN panel of veterinary consultants. Congrats
Julie!
http://www.vin.com/Members/BoardsMain/Boards.plx?Read=2&B=CE&Id=169*2020*54468
Soon to be Doctor,
Ms. Maria Ciaravella at Auburn University
College of Veterinary Medicine (Class of 2010)
has offered to share her thought-provoking (and WONDERFUL) paper called,
"Feline Aggression: Does Declawing Make a Difference?"
Please check it out on the AAFP Rounds message board here:
http://www.vin.com/Members/BoardsMain/Boards.plx?Read=2&B=CE&Id=169*2074*54482
Dr. Wendy Dearixon,
Vickery Place Animal Hospital in Dallas, is mentioned in a feature helping
to educate
the public about obesity prevention:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-al.mutts30sep30,0,6458344.story
Do you know an AAFP
Member in the News? Are YOU an AAFP Member in the News?
We encourage everyone to share website links, photos, articles,
interesting case reports and other interesting
news tidbits to Sherri Williams (wileydvm@aol.com).
CatVets.com WEBSITE UPDATE
Development of the new
Feline Practitioners website continues. Member volunteers are still needed
to coordinate
content for the new Cat Health Topics area of the site. If you would like
to help with this project, please contact
Dr. Kari Mundschenk
kari.mundschenk@sbcglobal.net for details. Anyone who would like a
sneak preview of our
work in progress can contact Dr. Deb Givin
catdoc@prexar.com for a link to the beta site.
AAFP/WINN SPONSORED
CLINICAL TRIAL NEEDS YOUR HELP
Evidence of
Effective Drug Delivery using Transdermal Gel Delivery Systems in Cats.
The Clinical Pharmacology Laboratory at Auburn University would
like to announce the opening of a two-year study
funded by the AAFP and the WINN Foundation entitled "Evidence of Effective
Drug Delivery using Transdermal Gel
Delivery Systems in Cats." Blood samples will be requested from feline
patients receiving any of 7 drugs (amitryptylline,
buprenorphine, enrofloxacin, methimazole, metronidazole, prednisolone, and
prednisone) in either a transdermal or
oral form. Study details are available here:
http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/index.pl/transdermal_gel_study_-_clinical_pharmacology
JOURNAL
ABSTRACTS OF INTEREST
Efficacy of tinidazole
for treatment of cats experimentally infected with Tritrichomonas foetus.
Relevance-Although
tinidazole decreased the detection of T foetus and treated cats were
resistant to later efforts to
incite the infection, inability of tinidazole to eradicate infection in
many cats poses a serious impediment to the drug's
effectiveness in practice.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17916015&ordinalpos=
9&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
Environmental tobacco
smoke and risk of malignant lymphoma in pet cats.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=12142262&ordinalpos=
1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus
Environmental and
lifestyle risk factors for oral squamous cell carcinoma in domestic cats.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=12892308&ordinalpos=
1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus
AVMA NEWS
The AVMA launched a new
monthly email service October 4, 2007 called
AVMA@Work.
The monthly e-newsletter will provide updates about the goings-on at AVMA
headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois and
in Washington, D.C. All AVMA members are encouraged to sign up
for future issues here:
www.avma.org/atwork
WEBSITES
OF INTEREST
Feline Anemia Algorithm
http://www.idexx.com/animalhealth/education/diagnosticedge/fhmprotocol.htm
How to Tell if Your
Cat is in Pain
http://trends.aahanet.org/eweb/images/Trends/PDFs/CatHandout.pdf
CatSense
The BC SPCA's Cat Welfare Enhancement Program
http://www.spca.bc.ca/specialprograms/EmotionalLifeCats.asp
A guide for putting in
place a system for ensuring good welfare of cats in a shelter environment.
There are sections on housing, cat behaviour, ways to improve welfare,
checklists for monitoring cat stress, and
templates for both short- and long-term planning of welfare practices that
are evidence based.
Make Your Pets Home
Poison Safe
(Animal Poison Control Center)
http://www.aspca.org/ideum/petsafe.html
IN THE NEWS
BSE-like disease detected
in German zoo's cheetah
http://www.live-pr.com/en/bse-like-disease-detected-in-german-zoo-s-r1048136284.htm
10 Finalists Selected for
the 2007 Animal Planet Cat Hero Award
Among them are 96 year
old Gertrude Maxwell and our veterinary colleague Dr. Mark Kittleson.
http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/hero_of_the_year/poll/cat-poll.html
Watch Heroes on Animal
Planet on November 1, 2007 at 10 p.m. to find out who will be the winner
of the Animal Planet 2007 Fresh Step® Litter Cat Hero Award.
Asthma Linked to Cat
Allergies
http://www.livescience.com/health/070928_allergies_asthma.html
Secondhand smoke is a
health threat to pets
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070831123420.htm
Related link:
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/156/3/268
PLAYTIME
Inspirational Cerebellar
Hypoplasia Cat Video to Share
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJQG6V1MOVY
Halloween Cat Bowling
http://www.bravozulu.com/content/includes/cat.swf
(Disclaimer: No cats were harmed during this game!)
Pete's Pond, Botswana,
Africa Webcam
http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/wildcamafrica/
Cute Cat Photo
from the Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad
http://network.bestfriends.org/oregon/news/15218.html
AAFP WEBSITE ACCESS
In times of crisis,
organizations provide information to their members as a means to protect
the public. Being able to gather information and disseminate it to you is
one of our top priorities when incidents arise.
PLEASE
review your member profile within the Member Login section and verify your
email address is correct:
http://www.aafponline.org/members/index.php
Members of the AVMA are
encouraged to do the same at:
www.avma.org/myavma
"Member
Login" information for the AAFP Online website
(www.aafponline.org)
requires a username (your Last name) and a password (your AAFP member ID
#). If you have any difficulty or questions about the Member log-in,
please email
info@aafponline.org or call (800) 874-0498.
Access to the AAFP Rounds
website requires a VIN username and password (www.vin.com/AAFPRounds).
Complimentary registration for a VIN username and password is available to
our AAFP membership upon request.
Are you making the most
of your complimentary AAFP Rounds membership benefit?
A new HOW
TO VIN VIDEO (http://www.vin.com/Movies/howto/howto.htm?whichHowTo=boards)
is available to help you learn how to use and post to the message boards.
Did you know AAFP members
are eligible to receive a 10% discount off full VIN membership? The
discount is available upon request to the VIN office by email (vingram@vin.com)
or by phone (800-700-4636).
If you don't already have
our email address,
info@aafponline.org, added to your address book please make sure to do
so. That way your spam filter will know our emails are legitimate.
Help us continue your membership benefits by making sure we can stay in
touch with you!
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Sherri Williams, MA, DVM
AAFP Communications Chair
Springfield, IL
wileydvm@aol.com
Rick J. Alampi
AAFP Executive Director
203 Towne Centre Dr.
Hillsborough, NJ
info@aafponline.org
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