Speaking to editor James Westgate, Wellvet co-founder Liz Barton delves into the often tricky topic of menopause and discusses what can be done to support veterinary professionals impacted by perimenopausal symptoms.

Liz also introduces Wellvet’s free expert menopause resources for veterinary teams, designed to help reduce the impact of physical and psychological symptoms in the clinic and beyond....

For access to these resources, visit https://www.wellvet.co.uk/resources/menopause-resources-for-veterinary-teams/

In this Vet Times Extra podcast, we discuss innovations in testing and diagnostics with Mars Science and Diagnostics’ chief medical officer Jimmy Barr – including what Antech has planned in the future.

𝗝𝗜𝗠𝗠𝗬 𝗕𝗔𝗥𝗥 𝗗𝗩𝗠, 𝗗𝗔𝗖𝗩𝗘𝗖𝗖

As chief medical officer (CMO) for Mars Petcare’s Science and Diagnostics division, James (Jimmy) Barr, DVM, DACVECC, oversees the quality organisation and leads delivery of medical care for the global Antech veterinary diagnostics business.

Additionally, Jimmy serves a key role in connecting science and diagnostics with the Mars Petcare ecosystem and the veterinary profession.

Most recently, Jimmy was Blue Pearl’s CMO, a position he held since 2018, growing the clinical affairs team and taking it to new levels of medical leadership and excellence.

While serving as CMO of BluePearl, Jimmy helped establish the Board of Chief Veterinary Medical Officers, which is an important collective of more than 60 top veterinary medical leaders from across the profession representing various industry segments. Jimmy currently chairs the Board of Chief Veterinary Medical Officers.

Jimmy holds undergraduate and veterinary degrees from Louisiana State University and completed his residency in emergency and critical care at Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston. Jimmy worked clinically at BluePearl starting in 2007 and served on the faculty at Texas A&M University before serving in BluePearl leadership.

Find out more about Antech at stand G10 at London Vet Show or at https://antechdiagnostics.co.uk

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Experience one of the world’s largest reference laboratory networks, comprehensive in-house analysers and solutions, the most trusted diagnostic imaging equipment, advanced telemedicine and AI-powered solutions, and the flexibility to practice medicine your way.

Antech. Smarter Diagnostics. Better Care.

In this Vet Times Extra podcast, George Giles and Becca Cavill join us to discuss innovations, AI and how technology and management tools are helping vets and farmers work together for livestock health, welfare and productivity.

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𝗕𝗘𝗖𝗖𝗔 𝗖𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗕𝗩𝗲𝘁𝗠𝗲𝗱, 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗔𝗩𝗣(𝗖𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲), 𝗠𝗥𝗖𝗩𝗦

Becca graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2003 and spent 18 years in clinical farm practice before becoming ruminant veterinary advisor for the south of the UK at Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health in 2021.

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𝗚𝗘𝗢𝗥𝗚𝗘 𝗚𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗦 𝗕𝗩𝗠, 𝗕𝗩𝗦, 𝗗𝗕𝗥, 𝗠𝗥𝗖𝗩𝗦

George is a director of Giles and Parsons Farm Vets, a dairy-focused vet practice in Cornwall. His main areas of interest are change management and communication strategies to improve herd health and production.

Working with a variety of dairy systems from extensive block calving herds to high yielding indoor systems, he actively seeks to challenge and motivate dairy farmers into making the most of their chosen system.

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Optimax is an adaptable framework based on lean management principles to support farm vets in helping clients streamline processes, reduce waste while optimising calf health, and improve job satisfaction and farm productivity.

Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health is working with vets to introduce the process with practical on-farm meetings.

One of the main items on the agenda at BCVA Congress 2024 in Newport was the bluetongue outbreak that many vets and farmers have faced up to over the past couple of months.

Joining Vet Times’ chief reporter Allister Webb to discuss the situation and what we may be able to learn from it is Fiona Lovatt, who is a member of the Ruminant Health and Welfare bluetongue working group.

𝗙𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗔𝗧𝗧 𝗕𝗩𝗦𝗰, 𝗗𝗦𝗛𝗣, 𝗣𝗵𝗗, 𝗗𝗶𝗽𝗘𝗖𝗦𝗥𝗛𝗠, 𝗙𝗛𝗘𝗔, 𝗙𝗥𝗖𝗩𝗦

Fiona is a European and RCVS-recognised specialist in sheep health and production. She runs the sheep veterinary consultancy company Flock Health, and is a clinical associate professor at Nottingham Vet School.

Osteoarthritis (OA) impacts cats and dogs, but considerations need to be tailored for each animal at every stage.

To discuss the different approaches, Sophie Platt and Sarah Cooper join this episode of the Vet Times Podcast.

They have jointly authored the article “OA: the impact on pets’ lives” for Vet Times (Volume 54, Issue 32, Pages 5-10), which can be found online at https://www.vettimes.co.uk/article/oa-the-impact-on-pets-lives/

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𝗦𝗢𝗣𝗛𝗜𝗘 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗧 𝗕𝗩𝗦𝗰, 𝗠𝗥𝗖𝗩𝗦

Sophie graduated from the University of Bristol in 2012, after first completing a BSc in Animal Science from the University of Nottingham.

She spent a short time in mixed practice before settling into small animal first opinion work. On the pursuit of diversification, she gained a medical writing qualification and now splits her time between clinical work and running her veterinary writing business, enjoying the variety this brings.

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𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗛 𝗖𝗢𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗥 𝗕𝗩𝗲𝘁𝗠𝗲𝗱(𝗛𝗼𝗻𝘀), 𝗠𝗥𝗖𝗩𝗦

Sarah graduated from the RVC in 2003. Since graduation she has worked in small animal practice both as a general practitioner and at referral level.

She is the clinical director at a Highcliff Veterinary Practice in Suffolk, as well as a freelance writer for Canine Arthritis Management and other organisations. She has special interests in small animal medicine, pain medicine and quality improvement.

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Control osteoarthritis pain and inflammation for seven days with just one dose.

 

Daxocox is the only once-weekly, first-line NSAID for all stages of OA.

 

Want to learn more about Daxocox – and how it can help to improve client adherence? For further details, or to book a meeting with an Animalcare territory manager, visit https://www.animalcare.co.uk/daxocox_meeting/

Recorded live at BEVA Congress 2024 in Liverpool, Vet Times’ chief reporter Allister Webb talked to incoming president Bruce Bladon about his forthcoming year in office and the future of equine sport.

Recorded live at BEVA Congress 2024 in Liverpool, Vet Times’ chief reporter Allister Webb talks to one of the most successful British sportswomen of all time.

As an athlete, Sally Gunnell won Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth titles. She opened the 2024 congress, spoke in the sessions looking at the social license of sporting competition, but still found the time to speak to Vet Times about former glories and where her ambition, hard work and tenacity have led her in the proceeding years.

A rapidly evolving discipline, oncology medicine has made significant strides in the past decade, and will continue that development in the coming years.

To share some of the latest knowledge on diagnosis, staging and treatment, Nick Bacon joins this Vet Times Podcast.

His article, “Oncology: update on diagnosis, staging and treatment options”, was in Vet Times (Volume 54, Issue 30, Pages 6-9) and is available at https://www.vettimes.co.uk/article/oncology-update-on-diagnosis-staging-and-treatment-options/

𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗞 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗔, 𝗩𝗲𝘁𝗠𝗕, 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗩𝗥, 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗦𝗔𝗦, 𝗗𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗘𝗖𝗩𝗦, 𝗗𝗔𝗖𝗩𝗦, 𝗙𝗥𝗖𝗩𝗦

Nick was the BSAVA PetSavers resident in soft tissue surgery and oncology at the University of Cambridge, and completed a fellowship in surgical oncology at the Animal Cancer Center, Colorado State University.

He was part of the surgical oncology faculty at the University of Florida from 2006-2014. Nick then moved back to the UK and was appointed professor of surgical oncology at the University of Surrey’s School of Veterinary Medicine.

He co-founded Aura Veterinary, a referral hospital in Guildford, seeing patients from across the UK for consultations in medical, surgical and interventional oncology, internal medicine and soft tissue surgery.

Nick is also a diplomate of the European and American colleges of veterinary surgeons (ACVS), a past-president of the Veterinary Society of Surgical Oncology and an ACVS founding fellow of surgical oncology.

With more than a third of cats now largely living their lives indoors, ensuring preventive health needs are met for the whole feline population has grown in significance.

Vet Ellen Marcinkiewicz, of International Cat Care (iCatCare), covers more on this subject in this Vet Times Podcast.

She has written an article to accompany this podcast for Vet Times (Volume 54, Issue 23, Pages 5-10) with Laura Watson, RVN at iCatCare, called “Preventive health care advice for indoor cats”. It is online at https://www.vettimes.co.uk/article/preventive-health-care-advice-for-indoor-cats/

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𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗡 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗞𝗜𝗘𝗪𝗜𝗖𝗭 𝗕𝗩𝗦𝗰, 𝗠𝗥𝗖𝗩𝗦

Ellen is communications manager at iCatCare. She is also a qualified veterinarian with more than eight years of experience in small animal practice, working in her home country of Australia and at the Massey University Veterinary Teaching Hospital in New Zealand.

Ellen then moved to the UK, where she worked as a locum vet before making the transition into veterinary communications.

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Resources for further information, some covered in the podcast, include:

www.icatcare.org – for owner advice

https://www.catcare4life.org/ – for veterinary professionals

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1098612X13477537 – ISFM and AAFP Environmental Needs Guidelines

https://www.abcdcatsvets.org/ – ABCD guidelines

ESCCAP Guidelines: https://www.esccapuk.org.uk/

WSAVA Vaccination Guidelines: https://wsava.org/global-guidelines/vaccination-guidelines/

When it comes to ongoing, sustained management of OA, collaboration between the veterinary team and owners is vitally important.

To talk more about this fascinating area, Ross Allan joins the Vet Times Podcast.

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𝗥𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗩𝗠𝗦, 𝗣𝗚𝗖𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗦𝗔𝗦, 𝗠𝗥𝗖𝗩𝗦

Ross graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2001, gaining his BSAVA Certificate in Small Animal Surgery in 2014 and RCVS Advanced Practitioner status in 2015.

He is clinical director of referrals at Pets’n’Vets, Glasgow, where he leads Roundhouse Referrals, treating many lame dogs with orthopaedic injuries, as well as developing the team management of many osteoarthritic patients.

His article, “Sustained management of OA”, was in Vet Times (Volume 54, Issue 29, Pages 6-11) and is available to read in full at https://bit.ly/3WPRwOs