Speakers
March 19-22, 2026
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Kaua'i, HI
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18 CE Hours
Dr. Andrew Burton graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2007. He completed a rotating internship at Queensland Veterinary Specialists and Pet Emergency in 2008 and worked as an intern and staff veterinarian in Emergency and Critical Care at the University of California, Davis between 2009-2011. Passionate about the connection between medicine and diagnostics, he continued to work in the emergency room whilst completing his residency in clinical pathology, also at UC Davis, and he became board certified as a clinical pathologist in 2014. Andrew has a passion for hematology and cytology and has published numerous research papers and book chapters in these fields. He is also the author of the textbook Clinical Atlas of Small Animal Cytology and Hematology, the second edition of which was published this year.
Dr. Tom Edwards is currently an associate professor at Texas A&M’s College of Veterinary Medicine as well as a department head at the US Army’s Institute of Surgical Research – the Department of Defense’s leader in Combat Casualty Care Research. He received his DVM degree from the University of Georgia and subsequently undertook a rotating internship at the Department of Defense Military Working Dog Center. He returned to the University of Georgia to pursue a combined master’s degree and an Emergency & Critical Care Residency. He is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. His research interests include trauma, coagulation, emergency surgery and
transfusion medicine.
Dr. Julie Menard graduated from the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire D’Alfort (Paris, France) in 2006. After completion of a rotating internship in small animal medicine at the Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire de l’Université de Montreal in Quebec, Canada 2006-2007, she moved to Ithaca, NY, USA to complete an ECC internship, followed by a residency from 2008 till 2011. Dr. Menard became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care in 2011. Dr. Menard has held faculty positions at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, Cornell University and is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Calgary. Her research interests are in antibiotic stewardship and antimicrobial resistance, the gastrointestinal microbiome and student education.