In 2019, we will have a Behavioural Medicine stream at NVC that has already become traditional.

It is important for veterinary doctors to differentiate physiological and behavioural problems. Moreover, they must treat/correct them, respectively.  At our sessions, we will teach you to understand patients and their body language even better, to recognize signals of discomfort and pain, fear and aggression.

The sessions will be interesting for doctors specializing in behavioural problems, doctors willing to understand their patients better, as well as breeders and dog handlers.

In 2019, we will discuss non-standard small animal behaviour problems and methods of their correction.

The speeches will be delivered in English (with simultaneous interpretation) and Russian.

Our keynote speaker will be cheerful and charming Lisa Radosta. Dr. Radosta is owner of Florida Veterinary Behaviour Service. She completed a residency in behavioral medicine at the University of Pennsylvania where she received the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists Resident Research Award two years in a row.

Dr. Radosta will tell us how to properly choose medication for behaviour problems, which antianxiety drugs are more effective and in which cases, will speak about dubious habits of pets, such as coprophagy and excessive barking.  She will also share challenging clinical cases.

Come and join us, if you want to understand the animal language.

This year, the Cat Diseases stream sessions will focus on gastrointestinal problems in cats. We will discuss the causes of severe and chronic vomiting in cats, acute and chronic diarrhea, causes of diarrhea in cats of different ages and treatment. 

Sergei Konyaev will speak about parasitary aspects of diarrhea and treatment methods.
Maria Lopatina will speak about the use of ultrasound for diagnosis of disorders of the stomach and intestines in cats, how to recognize the IBD and feline alimentary lymphoma with the use of ultrasound, which changes in the intestine we see in cats with these diseases, their differences and similarities. 
Lidia Grishina will speak about feline alimentary lymphoma treatment and chemotherapy protocols and will share clinical cases. 

We will discuss the IBD diagnosis and treatment.

We will also discuss what’s new in feline infectious diseases based on materials of the recent ISFM / ICatcare 2019 conference.

The invited speaker Margie Sherk (Canada) will speak about approaches of foreign doctors to diarrheas and constipation in the cat. She will also discuss optimizing care for feline patients with liver diseases. Another lecture will cover new thoughts on understanding feline kidney diseases. She will also tell us why blood pressure is a critical factor and how to manage cats with various comorbidities.

As usual, the materials of our stream will be exciting, clearly presented and suitable for immediate use.

Looking forward to seeing you at NVC 2019.

Olga Sjatkovskaja, the organizer and speaker of the Cat Diseases stream

Routine practice of a veterinary doctor includes a lot of activities and manipulations. However, the cornerstone of medical activity is helping the patient through proper diagnosis.

NVC 2019 Clinical Diagnostics sessions are targeted at development of practical clinical skills and training in key diagnostic algorithms. We will discuss the most common conditions and will tell you how we determine the final diagnosis. The lectures will be useful not only for early career doctors, but also for experienced professionals. The material will help you to understand simple algorithms allowing to solve complicated clinical tasks, to determine the problem level and to help patients efficiently.

This stream is intended for administrators of veterinary clinics, call center operators, heads of customer service.

Our 2018 experience showed that there is a high demand for information in the sphere of communications. We had one day of lectures and received a lot of positive feedback and requests to continue the review of client relations. This year, the stream will work for two days, and we have taken into account the wishes of our 2018 audience in the program. Our program will cover:

Diseases and their causes - this subject will be touched upon by veterinary doctors.

Your voice - your main tool - we will teach you to manage it.

Communicating with confidence - we will study techniques helping to overcome communication fear and anxiety.

Conflict situations - we will review in detail the most common situations and find a solution for each.

Emotional tones and their role in communication - we will discuss them and their influence on communication, including conflict resolution.

Ethics and logic - we will consider these corner stones of any process, helping to quickly work out the most appropriate decision!

Functions of administrators and operators - we will break them down into separate products and show how to achieve the result!

Be sure to grab your seat at our sessions!

The program is tentative and may be amended.

Dear colleagues,

This year, we will have extremely interesting Veterinary Dentistry sessions - our lead speaker will be a well known oral and maxillofacial surgeon Cristopher Snyder, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Snyder’s academic interests include maxillofacial trauma and reconstruction and oral surgery.

His speeches will be interesting both for dentists and for surgeons. Our sessions will be held for two days, during which the leading Russian veterinary dentists will deliver their speeches, arranged in the order from the basic level to the advanced level. This will help you to study the materials methodically and step-by-step.

Of course, we have thought about practice managers, too.

The program includes topics concerning management in veterinary dentistry, setting up a dentistry division, important consideration in choice of equipment, and many other things.

We are looking forward to seeing you at our sessions!

This year we have invited two highly qualified globally recognized veterinary professionals to speak at the Diagnostic Imaging stream.

Eberhard Ludewig is a famous veterinary radiologist, professor and head of the Diagnostic Imaging division, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (Austria). He will come to Russia to share professional insights and experience. He will tell us about examination of the forelimbs and hind limbs. At the osteoarthritis sessions, we will learn about the radiography of the Musculoskelatal System.

Giliola Spattini is a highly qualified veterinary professional specialising in ultrasound and radiography. It is not the first visit of Giliola to Russia, but it will be her first time at our conference. We know her as an excellent speaker and expert in her sphere. She presents complicated materials in a very comprehensible and clear way. For a whole day, Giliola will be speaking about examination of the neck, chest and abdomen. And, there will be more than this. Giliola will hold two master classes within the scope of the conference. The first one will concern examination of the abdominal vessels. The second one will deal with use of radiography and ultrasound for examination of the musculoskeletal system.

We are looking forward to seeing you all at NVC!

Dear colleagues!

This year, the gastroenterology sessions will focus on gastrointestinal diseases.

We will speak about acute and chronic inflammatory conditions, pathogenesis and diagnostic challenges, cyclicality, how acute pathologies turn into chronic with improper treatment.

A lot of time will be given to review of the large intestine: chronic colitis and neoplasms.

How to differentiate between a chronic microbial process and food allergy or steroid-dependent enteropathy. How not to harm the patient. The key theme of this year will be gastrointestinal dysmotility.

Gastric atony, functional intestinal obstruction, etc. How to initiate peristalsis and identify the underlying cause timely?

Kathrin Busch, Diplomate ECVIM-CA Internal Medicine, will cover these and many other topics in her speeches.

The intensive care sessions at NVC 2019 will be focused on cardiorespiratory physiology and hemodynamics. For three days, we will be reviewing in detail such sophisticated issues as blood circulation, heart and lungs performance, oxygen delivery and utilization.

Our expert, Doctor Bernard (Berny) Hansen is one of the founders of the contemporary veterinary intensive care. He has been involved in practical and research work for 40 years and has trained a large number of residents and interns. He is Associate Professor and Director, ICU, Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care at NC State University, one of the major veterinary medicine research centers globally. Dr. Hansen is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care and a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. He is one of the key teachers of Cardiorespiratory Bootcamp – the annual cardiorespiratory physiology advanced course for ACVECC residents in the USA.

This year, we plan to present the draft concerted recommendations of the Colleague of Veterinary Specialists and the Society of Veterinary Anesthesia “The Institute for Development of Veterinary Intensive Care, Anesthesiology and Critical Care – VITAR” based on analysis of all available information on two subjects – planned infusion therapy and use of glucocorticoids in emergency and intensive care. We invite all veterinary specialists who have experience in reading and analysis of primary sources to work on the recommendations. Artem Pavlyuchenko is the coordinator for the infusion therapy part, Anna Maltseva is the coordinator for the steroid part.

We will have three thematic management streams instead of one general stream this year. 

The marketing day

• How to fill a clinic with patients
• What kind of service will make them happy 
• How to achieve a commercial result without breach of medical ethics 

- for owners of veterinary clinics; 
- for commercial directors and managers; 
- for marketing and sales professionals of veterinary clinics. .

The HR day 

• How to overcome the personnel crisis
• How to involve rather than force to work well
• How to manage medical knowledge
• How to help doctors communicate with patients

- for directors and managers of veterinary clinics; 
- for heads of departments and chief doctors; 
- for doctors engaged in mentoring and training. 

The day of business processes and technologies 

• How to build the business processes of a veterinary clinic efficiently
• How to automate them
• What are the management functions and why they are so important
• Technologies without which a contemporary clinic cannot operate 

- for owners of veterinary clinics;
- for directors and managers;
- for chief doctors;
- for professionals responsible for the IT infrastructure of veterinary clinics 

3 х 8 hours of speeches by experts in the field of veterinary and human medicine, marketing, IT and management consulting.

The Oncology stream at NVC2019 will be cover two areas at the same time - surgical oncology and medical oncology.

To provide as much information as possible on these areas and to illustrate their interrelation, we have invited two leading international specialists:

• Dr. Craig Clifford DVM, MS, DACVIM is a recognized medical oncology specialist.
  As Director of Clinical Studies and co-owner of Hope Veterinary Specialists, he participates in development of advanced technologies and innovations in cancer treatment.
  He is a frequent lecturer at major veterinary meetings in the USA and abroad and participates in activities of various veterinary associations.
  He has authored/co-authored over 60 papers and book chapters.
• His colleague Dr. Bernard Seguin, DVM, MS, Diplomate ACVS, ACVS Founding Fellow - Surgical Oncology is an Associate Professor of Surgical Oncology at the Flint Animal Cancer Center, Colorado State University. His research activities cover various areas of surgical oncology. He primarily specializes in sarcomas in general and osteosarcomas in particular, as well as organ preservation surgery.

Oncology is a rapidly developing field, challenging specialists again and again. At our sessions, we will discuss new developments and approaches of leading international specialists to oncological problems.