Keynote Speakers
Meet our Keynote Speakers for 2022.
(Australia)
Stream: Business
AVA/VBG Veterinary Business Professional of the year 2020.
Sue is acknowledged as a leadership trainer and consultant across Australasia in the areas of practice and organisational development, strategic planning, communication excellence & staff development and management. Sue has a Bachelor of Business, majoring in Human Resources and Marketing, as well as her Diploma in Company Directorship (GAICD) and a Masters in NLP.
Sue invests time working as Business Manager and consultant for Provet AIRC/CCG whilst maintaining a governance connection with a quality veterinary practice in Brisbane.
Sue has a practical hands-on approach and brings with her a wealth of both corporate and small business skills, having been the founder of the much respected AIRC and CCG.
Sessions include:
* Cultivating client communication, compliance and courtesy.
* Leadership growth and development: Practical tips to build your teams careers, development and growth.
* Understanding your worth as a Veterinary Professional
* State of the Human Resources panel
* VBG Hub
(Australia)
Stream: Equine and Dentistry
Olivia James is a member of ANZCVS in equine dentistry (2010), a Diplomate of ICEVO (2015) expects to become a Diplomate of AVDC in early 2022.
Dr. James consults on head and oral surgery of horses in Oceania and Asia with Australian Veterinary Equine Dentistry, performing referral dental surgeries and teaching veterinarians. She lectures internationally and is the Director of The Veterinary Dental Company (online equine dentistry education) and the Equine Practice Company’s Business Mastermind.
* EOTRH Management
* Improving practice profitability with equine dentistry
* Radiology of the equine head with a focus on dentition and paranasal sinuses
* Sedation techniques for standing equine dental procedures
* Sinus flaps and trephination to the equine head
(United Kingdom)
Stream: Business and Recent Graduate
Alison qualified as a vet from Liverpool University in 1989. She worked in practice for several years before pursuing a career with Hills Pet Nutrition and MARS, discovering the customer experience passion that led her to establish Onswitch in 2001. Alison is Honorary Associate Professor at Nottingham University's School of Veterinary Medicine and Science and was given the AVA's Veterinary Business Thought Leader award in 2019 and the RCVS Impact award in 2021.
Sessions include:
* Building good memories in the consult room benefits pets, clients and you!
* How diversity and inclusiveness can provide dividends for your business
* Fewer words, better said – ten top tips for communication clarity
* Insights and Innovation: Taking a new approach to consult room communication
* State of the Market panel
* VBG Hub
(Australia)
Stream: Dental
Loic Legendre is a member of both the American and the European Veterinary Dental Colleges. He also hold a Zoo and Wildlife Dentistry Certificate from the AVDC. Loic now works in Vancouver, BC, in a Veterinary Dental Referral Centre. He shares the work with two other boarded dentists and two residents. The centre looks after conditions involving the face, the oral cavity and the nose but looks at nothing below the neck. Loic fields of interests are orthodontics, maxillofacial reconstruction, and exotics from hamsters to elephants.
Sessions include:
* Mandibular fracture repair without pins, plates and screws
* Oronasal fistula repair - the scourge of oral surgeries
* Tips when tackling oral tumours
* Treatments for linguoversed canine teeth
(Australia)
Stream: Equine
* Castration: update and how to minimise problems
* Colic - not so scary when diagnostic steps are taken one clever step at a time
* Reproductive surgeries- when is surgery helpful in achieving and maintaining pregnancy
* Working up a lameness in the field, including how to get useful information using your portable x-ray and ultrasound machines
* Wounds triage and assessment
Tias graduated in 1988 and has spent most of his career in Equine practice. Initially he worked in private practice jobs both as an employed vet and practice owner. Tias then worked a season for the Scone Vet Hospital before heading to the University of Melbourne Veterinary Hospital. Here he consolidated his skills and qualified by examination as a specialist in Equine Surgery. He continued at the University of Melbourne Veterinary Hospital as the Head the Equine Centre. Following this he spent a year at the University of Queensland as specialist surgeon. In 2013, left University life and started back in private practice based in Warwick, founding WEV soon after.
Sessions include:
* Castration: update and how to minimise problems
* Colic - not so scary when diagnostic steps are taken one clever step at a time
* Reproductive surgeries - when is surgery helpful in achieving and maintaining pregnancy
* Wounds triage and assessment
* Working up a lameness in the field, including how to get useful information using your portable x-ray and ultrasound machines
(USA)
Stream: Behaviour
Chris Pachel is a board-certified veterinary behaviorist and is the owner and lead clinician at the Animal Behavior Clinic in Portland, Oregon. Chris lectures extensively both domestically and internationally, teaches courses at multiple veterinary schools in the United States, and has authored numerous articles and book chapters for veterinarians and pet owners.
He is a sought-after expert witness for legal cases and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for dvm360. He is also a Vice-president of Veterinary Behaviour for Instinct Dog Behaviour and Training, as well as co-owner of Instinct Portland, which opened in the fall of 2020.
Sessions include:
* Canine teenagers: adolescent behaviour development and support strategies
* Chill out – incorporating conditioned relaxation into behavioural therapy
* Don’t bite the hand that feeds you: Canine resource guarding
* Feline Idiopathic Cystitis – a behaviorist’s perspective
* Medication use for canine aggression cases – applications and considerations
* More than good recommendations – the impact of client communication on clinical outcomes
* Neurobiology of canine reactivity
* Risk assessment of canine aggression cases
* Separation anxiety “basics
* Separation anxiety “beyond the basics”