The 35th Annual Association of Avian Veterinarians Takes Place in New Orleans, LA August 2-6, 2015
Aesculight will be there and we’d love to connect with you! We’re sponsoring a great lab experience led by Dr. Douglas Mader, MS, DVM, Diplomate, ABVP (CA)
Would you like to have a “hands-on” Experience working with the latest in high tech veterinary lasers? The Dates will be forthcoming but here are a few details:
- The lab will run four hours total and will include a one hour lecture leading into three hours of hands on experience with both specimens and recently deceased pigeons and/or chickens
- The presentation will be repeated during the day if enough students enroll
- The preferred Class size(s) will be around 16 students
- Each student needs to bring their own scrubs and a small surgical pack
- Aesculight will provide the lasers for this lab
Dr. Mader received his Master’s degree in Animal Behavior in 1982 and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the University of California, Davis in 1986. After graduation, Dr. Mader completed a residency in Primate and Zoo animal medicine. During his veterinary and residency training Dr. Mader’s areas of special interest were in the pharmacology of antibiotics in exotic pets. While living in Southern California, he owned a small animal/exotic practice for 9 years. Dr. Mader is the consulting veterinarian for the Key West Aquarium, the Marathon Sea Turtle Hospital, The Key West Butterfly Conservancy, the Theater of the Sea and the Monroe County (Sheriff’s Animal Farm) Zoo.
Dr. Mader is an internationally acclaimed expert in Exotic Animal Medicine and travels over 50,000 miles every year teaching at Veterinary Conferences, Veterinary Schools and Specialty courses. Dr. Mader is also on the review/advisory boards for several scientific journals. He has published hundreds of articles in scientific and veterinary journals, national magazines, newspapers, book chapters and is the author/editor of the Saunder’s publication Reptile Medicine and Surgery. Dr. Mader is a Fellow in the Royal Society of Medicine. Currently, Dr. Mader is the Immediate Past-President of the prestigious North American Veterinary Conference, the world’s largest veterinary continuing education conference.
Stay tuned for the date and times and we look forward to seeing you there!
Visit http://www.aav.org/ to learn more about the conference.
