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During this no-lecture, all-hands-on simulation lab, attendees will focus on identifying and treating the four common shock phenotypes. You will actively participate in a variety of exercises including managing patients in shock using high-fidelity simulators, hands-on procedural training using medium fidelity simulators, and rounds-style discussions. Pre-lab preparatory materials will be provided to allow participants to prepare for the course ahead of time. In addition to using high-fidelity simulation to manage real patient scenarios, participants will practice life-saving procedures including thoracocentesis, chest tube placement, and advanced vascular access techniques on medium-fidelity training models.
The Details:
Dates: December 11th 8:00 AM – 5:15 PM | December 12th 8:00 AM – 12:45 PM
Location: VECCS Office – San Antonio, TX
Instructors: Dr. Armi Pigott & Dr. Tori Miller
Cost: $650
CE Credits: Participants Receive 12.5 Medical CE Credits
Space limited to 16 VECCS Members!
About Your Instructors:
Dr. Armi Pigott is originally from South Texas. He completed his veterinary degree at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, CA; rotating internship at Pet Emergency Clinics in Ventura, CA; and Emergency and Critical Care residency at Animal Emergency Center in Glendale, WI. Professional interests include emergency resuscitation, trauma, and wound management. He is passionate about teaching emergency medicine and critical care medicine with a particular interest in using hands-on labs and high-fidelity simulation to train veterinary teams and improve patient outcomes. He enjoys the great outdoors with his wife, three noisy beagles, and a Labrador retriever in his spare time.
Dr. Tori Miller graduated from Oregon State University, completed her rotating internship at Kansas State University, worked in general practice and emergency medicine in Seattle, and finished her ECC residency at Lakeshore Veterinary Specialists in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is a Major in the Army Reserve as a veterinarian, having served in austere environments. She works as a clinical assistant professor at Iowa State University. She enjoys teaching veterinarians, including interns and residents, to succeed in life and emergency and critical care. Her clinical areas of interest are emergency stabilization, trauma, and extracorporeal therapy for the intoxicated patient. She spends time with her family, camping, or reading a good book in her spare time.
Join neurologists Dr. Heidi Barnes Heller and Dr. Sam Long for a continuing education course designed to sharpen your neurology skills in a small class learning atmosphere. You won’t want to miss this opportunity! This 2-day course is designed for veterinarians and veterinary students seeking to enhance their neurological skills. This course offers a unique blend of lectures, live demonstrations, and interactive case discussions in a small class setting. The curriculum covers a comprehensive range of topics, including neurological examination techniques, lesion localization, vestibular and cranial nerve disorders, seizure management, spinal cord pathologies, and neuromuscular diseases. The course aims to empower veterinarians to confidently identify and treat neurological conditions in dogs and cats. This course is a great opportunity for veterinarians to advance their neurology expertise.
The Details:
Dates: February 19th, 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM | February 20th, 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Location: VECCS Office – San Antonio, TX
Instructors: Dr. Heidi Barnes Heller & Dr. Sam Long
Cost: $650
CE Credits: 11 Medical CE Credits
Space limited to 16 VECCS Members!
About Your Instructors:
Dr. Barnes Heller (Dr. Barnes) was born and raised in Michigan. She attended Michigan State University (go Spartans!) for undergraduate and Veterinary School. Upon graduation, Dr. Barnes pursued a veterinary internship at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana followed by a residency at the University of Florida in neurology and neurosurgery. She returned to the Midwest and joined a specialty clinic in a Chicago suburb until 2010. The call to academic life subsequently drew her to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Barnes pioneered research in novel therapeutic seizure treatments for cats and dogs including transdermal and modified oral therapeutics.
In 2019, Dr. Barnes left the University of Wisconsin to start Barnes Veterinary Specialty Services (BVSS). Opening BVSS has allowed her to return to practicing neurology on a more personal level, and to provide low-stress peace of mind to clients not wishing, or unable, to pursue treatment at referral facilities and to aid veterinarians caring for pets with neurologic disease. Dr. Barnes enjoys living in Wisconsin with her husband and three kids. When she isn’t working, odds are you’ll find her biking, hiking, and playing with her kids or enjoying time on her farmette.
Sam Long graduated from Melbourne University and then completed a residency in neurology together with a PhD at the University of Glasgow vet school, before becoming a boarded neurologist in 2002. In 2005 he moved to the US to join the team at the University of Pennsylvania’s Matthew J. Ryan teaching hospital. He then returned to Melbourne in 2008 to start a neurology service at the University of Melbourne where he lectured and established a residency programme as well as training residents.
In 2017 he then made the leap to private practice, working initially at the Centre of Animal Referral and Emergency before joining the Veterinary Referral Hospital in 2020 where he works alongside one other boarded neurologist, two neurology registrars, and two residents in training. He has established research links with researchers at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, and at RMIT, and continues to have a research interest in epilepsy and the diagnosis and treatment of canine brain tumours.