Date: 14th August 2017
Time: from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Venue: The Address Hotel- Dubai Marina
Audience: Vets & Nurses
Price: AED 100
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:
Introduction to Avian Medicine
Avian Anaesthesia
Welfare and Behavioural needs of pet birds ó Clinical approach to feather plucking
Getting the diet right
