Date: 15th August 2017 - 16th August 2017
Time: from 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Venue: The Address Hotel- Dubai Marina
Audience: Vets & Nurses
Price: AED 990
About the speaker: Dr. Neil A Forbes BVetMed DipECZM (avian) FRCVS, RCVS and European Recognised Specialist Avian Medicine.
Dr. Neil qualified from RVC in 1983, he is a Diplomate of the European College of Zoological Medicine, specialist in Avian Medicine and an FRCVS.
He was responsible for teaching avian medicine at Bristol Vet School from 2001 – 2011. Dr. Neil has lectured internationally for many years, has contributed >50 peer review papers and to >35 books. He received multiple national and international awards.
Past President of the European College of Zoological Medicine and the European Board of Specialisation.
Dr. Neil heads the avian and exotic department at Great Western Exotic Vets (part of the Vets Now group) in Swindon, where he runs the only ECZM approved avian residency in the UK.
Topics include:
1. Making the differential diagnosis
2. Avian Anaesthesia
3. Imaging (Radiology)
4. Fracture Management in Exotics
Tuesday Seminar topics:
1. Making the differential diagnosis
2. Avian Anesthesia
3. Imaging (Radiology)
4. Fracture Management in Exotics (orthopaedic techniques, including developmental abnormalities and their correction in raptors and psittacine birds)
Wednesday Orthopaedic Workshop / Wetlab details:
All delegates will be provided with a cadaver and will each undertake a range of standard orthopaedic techniques under the direct guidance of Dr. Neil Forbes
Tibiotarsus
Proximal humerus ! Distal femur
Tarso metatarsus ! Metacarpus
