Purdue Veterinary Medicine Speakers Bureau
Welcome! We understand that selecting the perfect speaker for your event is essential. The Purdue Veterinary Medicine Speakers Bureau was designed to make it easy for event organizers to connect with Purdue Veterinary Medicine faculty and staff to make speaking arrangements. Search by topic and then contact the speaker directly to make arrangements or get additional information.
Continuing Education (CE) Credits: The event organizer is responsible for providing CE credits for the event. Purdue University will not provide CE credits for the presentations below unless the event is delivered by the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine's Office of Lifelong Learning.
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Carrie Fulkerson, DVM, MS, DACVR
Past Presentations
- Going beyond the standard views: Tips and tricks to get more information out of your radiographic studies
- The good, the bad, and the ugly: Breaking down radiographic intestinal patterns.

Laurent Couetil, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVIM-LAIM
Couetil specializes in sports medicine and asthma in horses.
Past Presentations
- How to diagnose and treat equine asthma


Nickie Baird, DVM, MS, DACVS
Past Presentations
- Food Animal Surgery
- Small Ruminant Surgery
- Camelid Surgery

Grant N. Burcham, DVM, PhD, Dipl ACVP
Grant specializes in diagnosing diseases of livestock and poultry.
Past Presentations
- Diseases of Pastured Cattle
- Diagnostic Pathology of Reproductive Diseases in Swine
- Common Fatal Diseases of Cattle in Indiana:A Retrospective of Bovine Autopsies from the ADDL
- What Makes Chickens Sick?

Abigail Cox, DVM, PhD, DACVP
Abby specializes in characterization and validation of animal models of disease.
Past Presentations
- Introduction to Veterinary Pathology
- Interesting Veterinary Pathology Cases
- Animal Models of Laryngeal Diseases

Larry Adams, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (Small Animal Internal Medicine)
Past Presentations
- Updates in management of Chronic Kidney Disease in dogs and cats
- Diagnosis and management of recurrent UTI
- Management of refractory urinary incontinence
- Diagnosis and management of acute kidney injury

Aimee Brooks, DVM, MS, DACVECC
Past Presentations
- CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation)
- Common toxicities I and II
- DKA and HHS
- Oxygenation/Ventilation
- Triage: Approach to the trauma patient

Michael Childress, DVM, MS, DACVIM (Oncology)
Past Presentations
- Managing canine lymphomas: Getting the right diagnosis and choosing the right treatment
- Controlled Poisoning: Mastering the Death-Defying Art of Cancer Chemotherapy in Small Animals
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Cancer Patients: What you and Your Clients Should Know
- Coming Down from the Ivory Tower: Practicing Real-World Oncology on a Shoestring Budget
- The Top 5 Mistakes in Managing Small Animal Cancer Patients

Christopher Fulkerson, DVM, MS, DACVIM (Oncology)
Past Presentations
- Improving Bladder Cancer Management in Dogs
- Managing Chemotherapy Related Side Effects

Paulo Gomes, DVM, DACVD
Past Presentations
- Pemphigus: An Autoimmune Complex
- Management of the Atopic Patient. Where to begin with obvious signs of poor management and chronic changes?

Paula Johnson, BS, DVM
Past Presentations
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
- Fluid Therapy in the Small Animal Patient
- Shock: Pathophysiology and Treatment
- Transfusion Medicine
- Mechanical Ventilation

Mark Rochat, DVM, MS, DACVS
Rochat specializes in total joint replacement, arthroscopy, and trauma management.
Past Presentations
- Fracture Management
- Wound Management
- External skeletal fixation
- Total joint replacement
- Developmental orthopedic diseases

J. Catharine Scott-Moncrieff, VET MB, MA, MS
Scott-Moncrieff specializes in endocrine disorders of dogs and cats.
Past Presentations
- Insulin Therapy in Canine and Feline Diabetes Mellitus: An Update
- What’s New in Feline Hyperthyroidism?
- Canine Hypoadrenocorticism: Diagnosing and Treating the Difficult Cases
- Treatment of Canine Hyperadrenocorticism: Mitotane or Trilostane?
- Management of Difficult Diabetes Cases: A Case Based Approach

Sarah Steinbach,DVM, Diplomate, ACVIM-SAIM, Diplomate ECVIM-CA
Past Presentations
- Diagnosis and Management of Acute Kidney Injury
- Overview of Hemodialysis
- Chronic Kidney Disease:Diagnosis, Staging and Management accordingto the International Renal Interest Society (IRIS)
- Diagnosis and managementof Protein-losing Nephropathy

Elizabeth Thomovsky, DVM, MS, DACVECC
Past Presentations
- Acute respiratory distress in the dog and cat: what to do?
- Approach to acute seizures in dogs and cats
- Emergency ECG interpretation
- Neonatal diseases, dystocia
- Toxicities and common cat ERs


Brittany Laflen, RVT, VTS (Neurology)
Past Presentations
- Nursing Care for Vestibular Patients
- Neuromuscular Disease for Veterinary Technicians
- Seizure Management for Veterinary Technicians
- Nursing the Critical Neurologic Patient
- Spinal Injury and Mobility

Courtney Waxman, MS, CVT, RVT, VTS (ECC)
Courtney specializes in emergency and critical care.
Past Presentations
- Any/all ECC topics for veterinary technicians/nurses
- RECOVER BLS & ALS Rescuer Certification
- Tools for Success: The Path to VTS
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