Join our featured speaker Margie Scherk, DVM, Dip ABVP (Feline Practice) and learn the essentials you'll need to diagnose and treat the most common challenging conditions facing your feline patients.
What will be covered during this weekend lecture?
- • Triaditis: a troublesome threesome
- • Recurrent diarrhea in the cat
- • Constipation and megacolon - the hard facts
- • Optimizing care for feline patients with liver disease
- • Bronchopulmonary disease in cats: Is it asthma?
- • Lower urinary tract diseases: Metabolism and Stress
• Snots and snuffles:
•chronic upper respiratory disease - • Update on hyperthyroidism in cats: What you should know
- • Hyperaldosteronism and acromegaly recently recognized feline endocrinopathies
- • Managing diabetes: to curve or not to curve…
- • Comorbidities - managing the unmanageable: How I approach a cat with CKD, diabetes, arthritis, hyperthyroidism, and hypertension
About Dr. Margie Scherk, DVM, DABVP
Dr. Margie Scherk graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College in 1982. In 1986 she opened Cats Only Veterinary Clinic in Vancouver, practicing there until 2008. Dr. Scherk became board certified in Feline practice by the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners in 1995, recertifying in 2004 and 2014.
She founded the Feline Medicine folder on VIN in 1994. After many years of serving on the Board of the American Association of Feline Practitioners she was honoured to be its President in 2007. An active international speaker, Dr. Scherk has authored numerous book chapters and scientific papers and is the North American editor for the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery.