Program

Social Events

 

Welcome and Exhibition Opening Night

 

Monday 7 August 2023 

5.30pm - 7.30pm 

Exhibition Area, Gold Coast and Southport Rooms 

Please join us for a relaxing evening of collegiality and catching up with new and old friends. Also make the most of this opportunity to meet and mingle with companies from across Australia, keep up to date with the latest products and services whilst starting your passport competition to win some amazing prizes!

 

Happy Hour in Exhibition 


Tuesday 8 August 2023 

5.30pm - 6.30pm 

Exhibition Area, Gold Coast and Southport Rooms

Kindly sponsored by Vetoquinol  

 

'Eat Street' Dinner 


Tuesday 8 August 2023 

6.30pm -9.30pm 

The Lawn, Casino Level, The Star Gold Coast

Enjoy a range of food and a beverage on arrival on the garden events lawn, while you catch up with friends, meet some new peers and kick up your heels after a full day of conferencing.

ASAV Recent Graduate Dinner 

 

Tuesday 8 August 2023 

7.00pm - 10.30pm 

Cucina Vivo Restaurant, Lobby Level, The Star Gold Coast - Kindly sponsored by Hill's Pet Nutrition and BOQ Specialist 

We invite all ASAV members who graduated in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 to this very special evening. Share stories of your first years in practice in a relaxed and confidential environment.

ASAV Awards Gala Dinner 'Blame It on the Boogie'      

 

Wednesday 9 August  

7.00pm - late 

Surfers Paradise Rooms  

Slide on those platforms, slip into those bell bottoms and get your groove on as we honour the highest achievers of the small animal profession and celebrate the success of the Conference. Includes 3 course sit down dinner, drinks and entertainment. An evening not to be missed.
Be one of the ASAV Dancing with the Stars “Blame it on the Boogie” dancers and win prizes.  

Here is the dance to learn.
Theme/dress: Disco Fever. 

 

Farewell Drinks     

 

Thursday 10 August 2023 

5:30pm - 6:30pm 

Poolside, The Star Gold Coast  

Workshops

 

ASAV Abdominal Ultrasound Workshop

Kindly sponsored by Radincon

Friday 11 August 2023

9.00am – 5.00pm

VetPartners Training Centre Ormeau

Unit 1/28 Burnside Rd, Ormeau QLD 4208

Breakfast Sessions

 

Vetoquinol Breakfast

 

Monday 7 August 2023

6.45am for 7.00am-7.50am 

Coolangatta Rooms  

“What I’ve learned the hard way – feline infectious respiratory disease” with Rachel Korman.

BVSc MANZCVS (Int Med) FANZCVS (Fel Med), Managing Director, Cat Specialist Services
Cats are the masters of disguise and can go from "not quite right" to if "I move I might die" from their respiratory disease very suddenly. Come and learn about diagnostic and management techniques and pick up tips and tricks that will make your life easier in dealing with these difficult cases.  

Hill’s Pet Nutrition Breakfast 

 

Tuesday 8 August 2023 

6.45am for 7.00am-7.50am 

Coolangatta Rooms  

“Biome banter: the latest scoop on poop” with Dr Lisa Singer VMD, DACVIM, Small Animal Specialist.

There are many things coming "down the pipeline" about prebiotics, probiotics, synbiotics, and faecal microbial transplants. These treatments, along with dietary manipulation, for acute and chronic diarrhea are the future of novel treatments for animal gut health and may serve as an alternative or adjunctive to medications.  The explosion of microbiome research in human and animal medicine has revealed that gastrointestinal microbes are associated with many different diseases including immune mediated, allergic disease, and kidney disease. Come and learn about new ways of modifying the intestinal microbiome  in dogs and cats. 

 

Royal Canin Breakfast 

 

Wednesday 9 August 

6.45am for 7.00am-7.50am 

Coolangatta Rooms  

“Chronic Enteropathies: An internists dream, a surgeons' nightmare” with Luke Johnston.

Some of the most frustrating patients (or an internist dream!) are the patients presenting with chronic gastro-intestinal signs. In this lecture we will discuss how to simply approach these patients and manage them in a practical setting. From Addison's to gall bladder mucoceles to IBD - let's dive deep into the work of GIT disease. 

Virbac Breakfast 

 

Thursday 10 August 

6.45am for 7.00am-7.50am 

Coolangatta Rooms 

“Oh No! Not a skin case! How to do dermatology when you don't do dermatology” with John H C Hutt BVSc(Hons) BA(Hons) MA(CW) CertVD MANZCVS DipACVD.

John is a Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Dermatology, Registered Specialist - Veterinary Dermatology and Adjunct Associate Professor - The University of Queensland
Does the thought of an impending skin case make you want to tear your hair out? Fear not! Dermatology is easy, and in this session, we'll show you some strategies that will take the pain out of the initial management of skin disease. You'll learn what to do, what not to do, and how to get the patient and client on track to managing their pet's skin disease for the long term; and without messing things up for whoever sees the case next - who knows, it might even be you!

 

Programs

 

Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge and pay respects to the people of the Yugambeh language region of the Gold Coast and all their descendants both past and present. We also acknowledge the many Aboriginal people from other regions as well as Torres Strait and South Sea Islander people who now live in the local area and have made an important contribution to the community.