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16th Annual ABVP Symposium

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Speaker Bios

Bios

Paul Bloom

Dr. Paul Bloom is a graduate of Michigan State University School of Veterinary Medicine and is a Diplomate of ABVP (C/F) and the American College of Veterinary Dermatology. He has authored articles and book chapters on dermatology and presented over 150 lectures at local, state, national and international meetings. He is a peer reviewer for Veterinary Dermatology and The Veterinary Journal and has served as an advisory board member of The Veterinary Journal January 2008-present.

Kathleen Bonvicini

Dr. Bonvicini is the chief executive officer at the Institute for Healthcare Communication. She delivers communication workshops and provides train-the-trainer programs throughout the United States, Canada and in Europe. In addition, she is the project director for the Institute’s Veterinary Communication Training Project. She designs and leads the faculty training program that has been successfully implemented in every school of veterinary medicine in the United States and Canada and has recently been introduced into Australia. She has written and presented extensively on the importance of communication training in both human and veterinary medicine. She has also provided clinical consultation to several veterinary practices and hospitals throughout the United States.

Vittorio Capello

Dr. Vittorio Capello graduated in 1989 from the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Milano, Italy. He has practiced exotic animal medicine exclusively since 1996, and provides professional services for two veterinary clinics in Milano. Dr. Capello’s focus has been the medicine and surgery of exotic companion mammals. Dr. Capello has lectured, published and taught exotic animal courses and practical laboratories throughout Italy, other parts of Europe and US, and has been a guest lecturer for four years at the International Conference on Exotics, where he was voted most appreciated speaker in 2003 and 2004 and received the Exotic DVM Paper of the Year Award in 2005. He has been also speaker at the North American Veterinary Conference, the British Small Animal Veterinary Conference, the Conference of the Association of Exotic Mammal Verinarinarians, the Southern European Veterinary Conference, and the European Congress of Veterinary Dentistry. He has been adjunct professor at the School of Veterinary Medicine of Milano, Italy. He is author of the Rabbit and Rodent Dentistry Handbook and the Clinical Radiology of Exotic Companion Mammals, and has both written and served as guest editor for numerous publications, including the Exotic DVM Magazine and the Journal of Exotic Pet Medicine. He is a member of the advisory board of Exotic DVM magazine and President Elect of the Association of Exotic Mammal Veterinarians (AEMV). Dr. Capello is a founding Diplomate of the European College of Zoological Medicine (Small Mammal), and Diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (Exotic Companion Mammals). He has been the recipient of the Oxbow award in 2010.

Ryan De Voe

Dr. Ryan De Voe graduated from Oregon State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1999, followed by a year in private small animal practice before completing an internship in zoological medicine at the University of Georgia and a residency in zoological medicine at NC State/North Carolina Zoo. He worked at the Dallas Zoo prior to returning to a staff position at the North Carolina Zoological Park. Life-long reptile enthusiast; keeps and breeds multiple taxa of boid snakes, focusing on Indo-Australian pythons. Species Survival Plan veterinarian for the Puerto Rican Crested toad; Lizard Taxon Advisory Group Veterinary advisor.

Thomas Divers

Dr. Thomas Divers is a graduate of Virginia Tech and is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. He is interested in all aspects of equine medicine; especially, infections, diseases and critical care.

Michael Dutton

Dr. Michael Dutton is a founder of the Association of Exotic Veterinarians and currently serves as Regent for the Exotic Companion Mammal Practice Group of the ABVP. He owns a dog/cat practice, an exotics practice and is medical director for a 24/7 ER/referral practice in New Hampshire. He lectures at a local veterinary technician college and has published articles on veterinary care.

Mark Epstein

Dr. Mark Epstein is a graduate of the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine, and is a Diplomate of ABVP (C/F). He earned certification from the American Academy of Pain Management, and in 2010 became recognized as a Certified Veterinary Pain Practitioner by the International Veterinary Academy of Pain Management. He is Senior Partner and Medical Director of TotalBond Veterinary Hospitals, a small group of AAHA-accredited practices in the Gastonia and Charlotte, NC areas, as well as Carolinas Animal Pain Management which operates out of his TBVH Forestbrook facility. He was president of ABVP 2008-2009, and is currently president of IVAPM 2009-2011.

Marjorie S. Gill

Dr. Marjorie S. Gill is a graduate of Iowa State University and is a Diplomate of ABVP (Food Animal Practice). Her major responsibilities and interests include teaching and hospital service. She has developed several courses and electives in the curriculum at LSU including an Advanced Small Ruminant Medicine and Surgery course. Her goal is to promote student interest in small ruminants.

Thomas Graves

Dr. Thomas Graves is the Chief of Small Animal Internal Medicine at the University of Illinois. He has published more than 60 refereed journal articles, over 30 book chapters, and more than 200 proceedings and abstracts. Dr. Graves has lectured throughout North America, South America, Asia and Europe. His research focus is on geriatric medicine and endocrinology, funded by the AAFP, the AAHA, the Feline Winn Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

Jill J. Heatley

Dr. Jill Heatley practiced privately for three years as a small and exotic animal and emergency veterinarian before an internship and residency in zoological medicine at LSU. Her master’s thesis was based on antipredator conditioning of Mississippi Sandhill Cranes for reintroduction. She served as clinical assistant professor of zoological medicine and attending veterinarian of the Southeastern Raptor Center at Auburn University from 2002-2006. Dr. Heatley is a Diplomate of ABVP (Avian Practice) and ACZM. She is President-Elect of the Horned Lizard Conservation Society and staff veterinarian for Projecto Guacamayo based in the Tambopata Research Center, Peru.

W. Mark Hilton

Dr. Mark Hilton is a graduate of Purdue University and Diplomate of ABVP (Beef Cattle Practice). He was a private practice associate and owner from 1983-1998 in an 80% food animal practice in DeWitt, Iowa. He teaches beef production medicine at Purdue where he has been an Assistant/Associate professor since 1998 and takes 4th year DVM and 2nd year RVT students on food animal ambulatory calls.

Matthew Johnston

Dr. Matthew Johnston earned his VMD from Penn in 1999 and a small animal internship from UGA in 2000. He was in private emergency/exotics practice from 2000-2001 and then did a Special Species residency at Penn from 2001-2003. He was board certified by ABVP in 2003 in Avian Practice. Dr. Johnston is a consultant for VIN in avian and small/exotic mammals and serves on the AAV Board of Directors.

Joerg Mayer

Dr. Joerg Mayer lectures regularly at large national and international conferences on all aspects of exotic animal medicine. Dr. Mayer was in the first class of Exotic Companion Mammal Diplomates with the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners. He currently serves as the President of the Association of Exotic Mammal Veterinarians. Since working at Tufts, Dr. Mayer published many scientific articles, book chapters and co-edited an animal behavior book (Exotic Pet Behavior, Elsevier, 2009), which has been translated into French and Portuguese.

Jody Nugent-Deal

Jody Nugent-Deal is a registered veterinary technician at the UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital and works as an anesthesia technician in the Small Animal Anesthesia Department. Ms. Nugent-Deal graduated from the Yuba College Veterinary Technology Program in 1998 where she teaches three classes including radiology, wildlife and exotic animal medicine and a special projects class. Ms. Nugent-Deal was featured on the front cover of the Veterinary Technician Journal in 2004.

Larry Oxenham

Larry Oxenham is one of America’s top asset protection experts, having helped thousands of doctors achieve financial peace of mind by teaching them how to properly structure their assets for lawsuit protection and tax reduction. He has authored and co-authored several articles and books on the subject including The Asset Protection Bible. His career has been credited with helping thousands of people save millions of dollars. Larry Oxenham is a nationally recognized speaker who has trained thousands of professionals at hundreds of conventions, conferences and seminars across the country.

Robert Pleasant

Robert Pleasant is an Associate Professor at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. He is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and currently serves as the director of the Teaching Hospital’s Equine Podiatry Service.

Julia K. Veir

Dr. Julie K. Veir received her DVM from the University of Illinois. She completed a residency in small animal internal medicine and a PhD at Colorado State University. She is on faculty in the Department of Clinical Sciences at Colorado State University with a research interest in respiratory and infectious diseases of cats and the appropriat use of diagnostics in veterinary medicine.

Robert Washabau

Dr. Washabau received his veterinary (VMD) and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He performed his internship at the University of Pennsylvania, residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California-Davis, and he was certified in Internal Medicine by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. Dr. Washabau held the appointments of Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (1989-2004) before being recruited to the University of Minnesota. Dr. Washabau is currently Professor of Medicine and Department Chair of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine where he teaches, practices, and performs research in gastroenterology and gastrointestinal physiology. Dr. Washabau is a past President of the ACVIM Internal Medicine Specialty and the Comparative Gastroenterology Society. He is the recipient of the Norden Distinguished Teaching Award (1990, 1995), the Ivy League’s Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award (1995), and the WSAVA International Scientific Achievement Award (2009). Dr. Washabau currently chairs the International Gastrointestinal Standardization Group which aims to create standards for the clinical and histopathological diagnosis and treatment of G.I. disease.

Brad White

Dr. Brad White received his D.V.M. from the University of Missouri-Columbia and worked for six years in a mixed animal practice in southeast Missouri. His focus is beef production medicine and management. Dr. White is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Kansas Veterinary Medical Association, American Association of Bovine Practicioners, and Academy of Veterinary Consultants.

Vicki Wilke

Dr. Vicki Wilke received her DVM from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her PhD from Iowa State University in 2006. She is also the recipient of the 2006 Research Excellence Award from Iowa State University. Dr. Wilke is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons, and a member of AVMA, the Veterinary Orthopedic Society and the Veterinary Cancer Society. Currently, Dr. Wilke is the Assistant Clinical Specialist and Director of Experimental Surgery for the Department of Veterinary Clinical Science at the University of Minnesota.

Michael H. Ziccardi

Dr. Ziccardi received his DVM, MPVM, and PhD in epidemiology from UC Davis, emphasizing wildlife health and the effects of petroleum exposure in wildlife. He has been an oil spill response veterinarian and coordinator since 1996, responding to more than 20 spills in the US and abroad. He has acted as a contract veterinarian for California Department of Fish and Game, as well as program coordinator, Assistant Director, and senior wildlife veterinarian for California’s Oiled Wildlife Care Network at the Wildlife Health Center, UC Davis. His current position is Director of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network and Associate Professor of Clinical Wildlife Health at UC Davis.