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9th Annual Practitioner's Symposium

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Dr. Philip Bergman, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVIM

Dr. Bergman received his DVM at Colorado State in 1990 and interned at Kansas State from 1990-1991. He participated in one residency, his MS and ACVIM boards from 1991-1994. Dr. Bergman achieved his PhD at MJ Anderson Cancer Center in Houston from 1994-1999. He is currently the Head of Donaldson-Atwood Cancer Clinic (since 1999) and he is the President of the Veterinary Cancer Society.

Dr. Jill McClure Blackmer, DVM, Dipl. ABVP

Dr. Blackmer received her DVM from the University of Minnesota in 1972 and then her MS in Surgery and Radiology from the University of Minnesota as well. She then became a Professor of Equine Internal Medicine at Louisiana State University . In 1981, she became a Diplomate of ABVP (Equine) and ACVIM (Internal Medicine, Large Animal).

Dr. Carole Bolin, DVM, PhD

Dr. Bolin received her DVM from Purdue University in 1982 and her PhD in Veterinary Pathology in 1986 from Iowa State University . She has done research on leptospirosis in cattle for 18 years; first at the USDA, National Animal Disease Center and now at Michigan State University.

Dr. Jack Easley, DVM

Jack Easley graduated with a DVM from Tuskegee University in 1976. After completing a Large Animal Medicine and Surgery Internship at Oklahoma State University , he served as an Associate Professor of Surgery at Kansas State University from 1978-1980 where he also completed a Masters in Surgery. He was an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine from 1980-1982. In 1982, he was certified as a Diplomate for the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (Equine), re-certified in 1992 and 2001.

Dr. Easley is currently in private equine practice emphasizing dentistry, reproduction and surgery in Shelbyville , Kentucky . He is a member and Board Member of the American Association of Equine Practitioners and a member of the American Veterinary Dental Society. With over twenty years of specialized interest and experience in equine dentistry, he lectures extensively in the US , Canada , Europe , Australia and England in cooperation with the British Equine Veterinary Association. He has written numerous articles for publication in professional as well as lay equine journals, textbooks and periodicals. He is the co-editor and major contributor to the textbook, Equine Dentistry, published in 1999 by Elsevier Health Sciences and printed in Spanish and German in 2002.

Dr. Cheryl Greenacre, DVM, DABVP

Dr. Cheryl Greenacre graduated from UGA in 1991 and taught Avian/Zoological Medicine at UGA for 10 years before moving to the University of Tennessee in July, 2001 to do the same. Besides helping clients with their pets and teaching veterinary students, interns and residents, Cheryl has co-developed a "high-sensitivity" total T4 test for use in birds and snakes and is currently studying the use of synthetic TSH in birds.

Dr. Mark Holmes, MA VetMB, Phd. MRCVS

Mark Holmes is a senior lecturer in preventive medicine at the Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine at the University of Cambridge in the UK . After graduating from Cambridge he worked in small animal practice before returning to undertake a PhD in canine immunology. He has subsequently enjoyed a varied career including research in equine immunology, clinical epidemiology, development of computer assisted learning, and work for the state veterinary service during the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak in the UK. He spent 2002 working at the University of Wisconsin , Madison on sabbatical gaining a North American perspective and stayed in touch with his practitioner roots by serving as an officer on the board of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association. Over many years of teaching clinical epidemiology he has expounded the concept of Evidence Based Veterinary Medicine (Blackwells, Oxford , UK , 2003).

Dr. Michael Jones, DVM, DABVP

Dr. Jones received his DVM in 1992 at the University of Missouri-Columbia and went on to an internship in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery at the University of Tennessee , College of Veterinary Medicine in 1993. From 1993 to1996, Dr. Jones held a residency at the University of Tennessee , College of Veterinary Medicine in Avian and Zoological Medicine. Since 1996, he has been an Assistant Professor in Avian and Zoological Medicine at the University of Tennessee , College of Veterinary Medicine . He is a Diplomate with the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (Avian).

Dr. Jones clinical and research interests are Raptor Medicine and Surgery and Pharmacology of therapeutics in avian species. He is also a Master Falconer with 15 years experience.

Dr. Stephen L. Marks, BS, BVSc, MS, DACVIM

Dr. Marks completed his veterinary education at the University of Liverpool , Faculty of Veterinary Science, Liverpool , England in 1989. He then completed a rotating internship in small animal medicine and surgery at Tuskegee University , School of Veterinary Medicine. In 1993 he completed a combined MS degree and residency in internal medicine at Washington State University . He remained on faculty at Washington State University as a clinical instructor for an additional year. The following year was spent consulting for Cardiopet, Inc. until moving to Colorado State University in 1995. Dr. Marks worked in the Small Animal Critical Care Unit at Colorado State until accepting a position at Louisiana State University in 1996. From 1996 until 2001, Dr. Marks was an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Head of the Small Animal ICU at LSU. Currently, Dr. Marks is an Associate Professor and Head of Small Animal Medicine at the University of Illinois.

Dr, Marks has received the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Distinguished Research Award for residents, the Merck Creativity in Teaching Award, numerous LSU Teaching Awards and was the 1999 Norden Distinguished Teaching Award recipient from LSU.

He is married to Dr. Dianne Dunning who is a board certified small animal surgeon on faculty at the University of Illinois . The Marks family also includes a son George Henry, a daughter Sydney, a Golden Retriever Murphy and a cat Pluto.

Dr. Paul Pion, DVM, DACVIM

Board Certification

• ACVIM - Cardiology (1988)

Education

• DVM - 1983, Cornell University
• Internship - 1983-84, The Animal Medical Center
• Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Pharmacology - Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons - 1984-84
• Cardiology Residency - 1985-87, UC Davis
• Almost PhD (all but writing the thesis - UC Davis - Physiology and Pharmacology

Current Professional Activities

• President and co-founder Veterinary Information Network
• Cardiology Referral Practice

Past Professional Activities

• See previous education section
• Staff Cardiologist - West Los Angeles Veterinary Medical Group
• Staff Cardiologist - Veterinary Cardiology Services, Sacramento , CA
• Staff Cardiologist - UC Davis
• Instructor in Cardiology and Physiology - UC Davis
• NIH Physician Scientist Award
• Veterinary Advisor, Feline Winn Foundation
• Purina Small Animal Research Award
• AAHA Special Recognition Award
• Co-author, Cats For Dummies
• Medical Consultant, Dogs For Dummies
• TAURINE and DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY

Dr. Ricardo Rosenbusch, DVM, MS, PhD

Dr. Rosenbusch completed his DVM in 1964 at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He received his MS in Veterinary Microbiology in 1966 from Iowa State and his PhD in Veterinary Microbiology in 1969 from Iowa State . He became an ACVM diplomate in 1978.

Dr. Rosenbusch is currently a Professor in Veterinary Microbiology, and chair in the Immunobiology Graduate Program at Iowa State University.

His interests are research on pathogenesis and epidemiology of Mycoplasma bovis infection.

Dr. Robert Streeter, DVM, MS DACVIM

Dr. Streeter was raised on a beef cattle ranch in southwestern South Dakota and received his DVM from Oklahoma State University in 1987. He engaged in a private mixed animal practice in southwestern Missouri from 1987 to 1989 and performed a residency in food animal medicine and surgery at Ohio State University from 1989 to 1992. Dr. Streeter received a Master's degree in Veterinary Clinical Sciences working on paratuberculosis transmission from Ohio State University in 1992. He is presently a clinician of Food Animal Medicine and Surgery at Oklahoma State University , and a Diplomate of the American College of Internal Medicine Large Animal Specialty.

Dr. Stephen White, DVM, Dipl ACVD

Dr. White is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Dermatology. He held faculty positions at the veterinary schools at Tufts University , Massachusetts and at Colorado State University before joining the School of Veterinary Medicine , University of California , Davis as a full Professor in 1998. He has also been staff dermatologist at Angell Memorial Animal Hospital in Boston ; a sabbatical professor at the National Veterinary School in Nantes , France ; a Clinical Teaching Locum at the Atlantic Veterinary College on Prince Edward Island , Canada ; and sees private practice in Wyoming as a consultant. He is the author of over 60 refereed journal articles. Major interests include food allergy, cutaneous manifestations of systemic disease, retinoid therapy, non-steroidal therapy of auto-immune disease, congenital skin disease, and equine dermatology.