Virginia Academy of Small Animal Medicine

Virginia Academy of Small Animal Medicine

What We Are About

The easiest and most economical way to receive your continuing education requirements is to join the Virginia Academy of Small Animal Medicine ... offering seventy (70) hours of quality continuing education for only $275 ($335 after May 4, 2012). Technicians/support staff with a membership fee of $150 ($175 after May 4, 2012) with multi-member, pro-rated same practice discounts. This entitles you to attend any or all of the five one day meetings without paying an additional registration fee, and the weekend conferences for a low registration fee of $100. Non-member veterinarians can attend the one day sessions for $100 per session, technicians/support staff for $50 per session. The academy’s one day meetings will convene on the first Thursday of March, May, September, October and November (offering six hours of continuing education each day), Shenandoah Valley Veterinary Conference and concluding with the Colonial Veterinary Conference.

 

2012 Membership Application Form

 

NOTE - VASAM Members have the opportunity to attend the 1st Flight Veterinary Conference in Kitty Hawk North Carolina May 17 - 20, 2012 at half price.

 

2012 Virginia Academy of Small Animal Medicine Meetings

One Day Schedules for VASAM
Date	Speaker Name	Topic	Location
March 8, 2012 9am-4pm	Kristen Welch, DVM	-Surviving Septic Peritonitis -Transfusion Medicine for the Practicing Veterinarian -Critical Care Nutrition -CPCR - More Than Just Chest Compression -Respiratory Emergencies and Emergent Diagnostic Techniques	New Location Hyatt Place 5040 Valley View Blvd NW Roanoke, VA  24012 540-366-4700
May 3, 2012 9am-4pm	Dan McNeff, DVM   Sponsored by: Legally Mine	Understanding Veterinary Legal Tools and Strategies: The Key to Lawsuit Prevention and Tax Reduction. Click to read the course description	Wyndham Richmond Airport 4700 S Laburnum Avenue Richmond, VA  23231 804-226-4300
September 6, 2012 9am-4pm	Jason King, DVM	-Type I Intervertebral Disc Disease Diagnosis & Management -Seizures & Seizure Management -Atlanto-axial Instablility -Myasthenia Gravis -Caudal Occipital Malformation Syndrome (Chiari Syndrome) -Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors	Holiday Inn Golf & Conference Center 152 Fairway Lane Staunton, VA  24402 540-248-6020
October 4, 2012 9am-4pm	Jennifer Wardlaw, DVM Sponsored by: Nutramax Labs	- Canine Developmental Orthopedic Diseases - Nutraceuticals and options for hip dysplasia in puppies and adult dogs - Cruciate repair techniques: an evidence based approach to choosing methods - Patella Luxation Repair Techniques - Cats and Osteoarthritis - Physical Rehabilitation for General Practice	New Location Hyatt Place 5040 Valley View Blvd NW Roanoke, VA  24012 540-366-4700
November 8, 2012 9am-4pm	Adam Eatroff, DVM	Kidney Disease	Wyndham Richmond Airport 4700 S Laburnum Avenue Richmond, VA  23231 804-226-4300
Weekend Conferences for VASAM
		Shenandoah Valley Veterinary Conference March 29 - April 1, 2012 "In the heart of the Shenandoah Valley at the Holiday Inn, Staunton, Virgina"
		Colonial Veterinary  Conference November 28 - December 2, 2012 "In Historic Williamsburg, Virginia during the Grand Illumination"

 

Speaker Bios

Kristen Welch, DVM

An avid lover of small animals and horses, Kristin Welch always wanted to be a veterinarian. “Working in veterinary medicine is a perfect combination of people, pets and science.  I love what I do because no two days are the same,” says Dr. Welch, who completed her undergraduate studies in biology in 2001 at Framingham State College in Massachusetts.

In 2003 Dr. Welch received her Bachelor of Science in Veterinary Medicine from Michigan State University and went on to receive her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine with Honors in 2005, also from MSU.  Dr. Welch completed a Small Animal Medicine and Surgery Internship at the University of Pennsylvania in 2006.

“My first rotation in vet school was in emergency and critical care and I have never looked back,” explains Dr. Welch, who completed a Residency in Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care at Tufts University from 2006 to 2010.  Dr. Welch’s clinical interests include cardiovascular disease, hypercoagulability, acute kidney injury and trauma.

Dr. Welch's extensive training, credentials and experience in emergency and critical care will allow her to create one of the few true critical care centers in the Southeast at CVRC.  She is the only residency trained,  Board Certified Critical Care Specialist in South Carolina.  Her expertise provides CVRC with the capability to treat the most complicated and difficult medical and surgical cases along with the best chance for successful outcomes.  With the addition of Dr. Welch, we are committed to becoming the hospital of choice in the area for emergency and critical care.

Dr. Welch is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association and the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society.  She received the 2005 Small Animal Clinical Proficiency Award from Michigan State University, the 2005 Wade O. Brinker Orthopedic Surgery Award, and was awarded membership to Phi Zeta Veterinary Honor Society in 2004.

Dr. Welch and her husband, CVRC Emergency Veterinarian Dr. Arnaldo Torres, have two children, Micheala and Brendan.  Dr. Welch enjoys running, gardening, home improvement projects, and spending time with her family—which includes Sophie, the Chihuahua and a Lab/Shepherd mix named Boston.

From Charleston Veterinary Referral Center

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Jason King, DVM

Veterinary Neurologist and Neurosurgeon

Dr. Jason King was not one of those people who knew from an early age that he wanted to be a veterinarian.  Born in Camden, South Carolina, King attended Kershaw County Public Schools and graduated from the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Math in Hartsville.  He went on to attend USC (Columbia campus) where he received his Bachelors degree in Marine Science and Biology in 1997.

While working as a veterinary technician at the Greater Charleston Emergency Veterinary Clinic, King fell in love with veterinary science.  He applied to veterinary school at the University of Georgia where he would go on to complete his Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) Magna Cum Laude in 2006.

“I started with an interest in critical care during vet school,” explains Dr. King, “but it was during my first neurology class that I found exactly what I wanted to do—I became hooked on the intricacies of neurology.” Dr. King completed a Small Animal Medicine and Surgery Internship at Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine in 2007.  In 2010, Dr. King completed a Neurology/Neurosurgery Residency at the University of California and also became board certified by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Neurology).

Dr. King will serve as the Staff Neurologist and Neurosurgeon when Charleston Veterinary Referral Center opens its hospital in March of 2011. The addition of onsite MRI at CVRC will enable Dr. King to better diagnose a variety of neurological disorders as well as perform intricate neurosurgical procedures—something that previously has not been available in the area.

Dr. King moved back to Charleston in the summer of 2010 with his wife Rachel and their three adopted “Carolina” dogs: Duke, Sheba and Scout. Dr. King enjoys volunteering with the South Carolina Aquarium and Marine Mammal Stranding Network. .

From Charleston Veterinary Referral Center

 

 

Current Course Descriptions

Legally Mine

Through this course attendees will truly understand exactly how, why and where legal entities should be used for both lawsuit prevention and income tax reduction.  The course is given in plain English and when done most attendees understand the proper use of legal tools for the first time in their lives.

This course will teach legal tools you will be able to use to own and control your assets in such a way that only you have access to them.  These tools will lock out the trial attorney and in the process eliminate the threat of lawsuits.

These same tools can be used to reduce your income taxes and in some cases help you to eliminate or reduce both estate and capital gains taxes.