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The 19th Annual Feline Conference
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About the Course.......
Join us for one of the SVM’s most popular continuing education conferences... The 19th Annual Feline Conference. This day-long conference will concentrate on feline nutrition. At the completion of this program, the participant should develop a clear understanding of the importance of nutrition management and key nutrients of concern for common feline disorders ( i.e. adverse food reactions, calcium oxa-late urolithiasis, diabetes mellitus, obesity and hepatic lipidosis).
The participant should be able to select appropriate commercial diets, calculate caloric needs, and defi ne nutritional risk factors for these select disorders. In addi-tion, a review of critical care nutrition will include the importance of early manage-ment of hypermetabolism and the indications for use of various feeding tubes and critical care diets.
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Course Faculty......
Special Guest Speaker:
Dr. Claudia Kirk
 Dr. Kirk received her DVM from the University of California at Davis in 1986. She completed an internship at the Animal Medical Center in New York, an internal medical residency and PhD in Nutrition at UC Davis.
Dr. Kirk was a senior scientist for 9 years at Hill’s Science and Tech-nology Center and serves as teaching faculty for the Mark Morris Institute. She is currently Associate Professor of Medicine and Nutri-tion at the University Of Tennessee College Of Veterinary Medicine.
Dr. Kirk is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Nutrition and American Col-lege of Veterinary Internal Medicine. Her areas of research interest are feline calcium oxalate urolithiasis, obesity and feline diabetes.
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