IVMA
Communiqué 
"Serving veterinarians for the benefit of animal and human health"
April 17, 2018
In This Issue
Dates to Remember
April 19
IVMA Executive Board Meeting

April 27
IVMA Spring Practice Management Seminar

September 12
IVMA Sports & Field Day

September 19
IVMA Executive Board Meeting

September 20-21
IVMA Annual Meeting

 
For more information on any of these events visit www.iowavma.org.

   
IVMA Photo Contest!  Send in Your Best Veterinary Pics!
Dr. Ryan Shuey welcomes a new calf to the world. 
We want YOU to be the star! 
The IVMA would love to see YOU and your clinic featured in upcoming issues of IVMA publications. Take out that cell phone (we know it's in your pocket!) and snap away! Send us photos of you and your staff doing what you do best - caring for animals! We need photos of both member veterinarians and staff caring for all sorts of animals - large and small. Please include the names of the people in the photos with your entry. 

You may enter as many photos as you wish! The IVMA reserves the right to use the photos in future publications.

Entries will be judged by the IVMA staff and the IVMA Administrative Committee.

PRIZES for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Places!

Entries due by May 15. Send entries to ivma@iowavma.org

2018 IDALS Newsletter Available
The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship has released the 2018 Animal Industry News.  

Highlights include:
  • Column from new Iowa Sectreatry of Agriculture, Mike Naig 
  • Updates on Scrapies, TB, Trichomoniasis, Johne's Disease and Rabies
  • VFD information
  • Exhibition regulations and tips for the 2018 fair season

IVMA Spring Practice Management Session 
There is still time to Register!

The April 27 IVMA Spring Practice Management Session will help you lead confident conversations with your clients about patient care.

Topics include:
  • Get Clients to Accept Diagnostic Tests
  • How to Increase Preventive Care Visits
  • Lead Clients' Decisions with Yes-or-Yes Choices
  • What Millennial Clients Want from Your Clinic
  • How to use Social Media to Promote Preventive Care

Our speaker will be Wendy S. Myers of Communication Solutions for Veterinarians. 

This session has been approved for 5 Hours of CE.
   
 Remember - If you are an I-Vet PAC Sustaining Member, your registration to the Spring Practice Management seminar is FREE!

Registration is open on www.iowavma.org or call the IVMA office at 800-369-9564. 
 Update for Veterinarians Offered by Iowa Beef Center
The annual  U pdate for Veterinarians program, presented by Iowa Beef Center, features  a full day of education and information   focused  on beef cattle. All practitioners who work with cattle are invited to attend.

Tuesday, May 15
Iowa State McNay Research Farm, Chariton
9:00 am- 4:00 pm
6 hours of CE (pending approval)


Preregister by May 14 for $65, includes lunch. Onsite registration is $85.

The brochure with a fillable registration form is available on the IBC website. For more information, contact Joe Sellers by phone at 641-203-1270 or by email at sellers@iastate.edu.

   
Oncology Lecture at Iowa State CVM
Speaker: George J. Weiner, MD, Director of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Iowa

Dr. Weiner will talk about Cancer Immunotherapy and provide an overview of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center. 

In addition to serving as the director of the cancer center, Dr. Weiner also serves as C.E. Block Chair of Cancer Research, Professor of Internal Medicine,  and a faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology at the University of Iowa. He is the Director of the University of Iowa/Mayo Clinic Specialized Program of Research (SPORE) in Lymphoma, President of the Association of American Cancer Institutes and President of the Iowa Cancer Consortium. 

Dr. Weiner obtained his undergraduate education from Johns Hopkins University, his medical degree at The Ohio State University, his Internal Medicine Training at the Medical College of Ohio and his Oncology and Hematology training at the University of  Michigan where he also trained in tumor immunology. He has been a faculty member at the University of Iowa since 1989. Dr. Weiner is board certified in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology. 
   
Discount Registration Avaialble for June World Pork Expo 
The World Pork Expo is celebrating it's 30th year this June.  The world's largest pork industry -specific trade show brings together pork producers and industry professionals from around the world for three days of education, innovation and networking.

The event will be held June 6-8 at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines.

Save on registration!
Now through May 31, attendees can save 50 percent off the price of admission. For more information and to buy your advance registration, visit wordpork.org
   
Registration for 2018 Iowa Swine Day Open
Now in its seventh year of providing top-notch speakers addressing important issues relevant to today's pork producers, the event is set for Thursday, June 28 on the Iowa State University campus in Ames. 

The morning plenary session features speakers with personal experience in developing businesses, understanding the global food industry and teaching communication skills. Attendees will choose from 16 afternoon concurrent sessions and all are invited to a barbecue following the day's program. Cost is $50 before midnight June 15, $75 after that time.

 
Foreign Animal Disease Training Offered
Presented by:

The Minnesota Veterinary Medical Reserve Corps and Minnesota Board of Animal Health

Foreign Animal Disease Training
Wednesday, May 23, 2018 from 9:00 am - 2:00 pm

Riverland Community College Room 140
965 Alexander Dr. SW
Owatonna, MN 55060

Please join us for an informative conference on how veterinary, agriculture and emergency professionals can be an asset in these responses.
Topics include:
  • Incident Command System review
  • Foreign Animal Disease Response Overview
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • 4 hours of continuing education

Lunch will be provided. There is no cost to attend this course.
Please preregister-contact coordinator.mnvmrc@gmail.com
   
New Animal Disease Emergency Online Course
The Center for Food Security and Public Health (CFSPH) at Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine is now offering a web-based course, Animal Disease Emergencies: Understanding the Response

The course will present information about understanding the impact of an animal disease outbreak, the terminology used and the actions required for a rapid response.

This web-based, awareness level course is designed for anyone who may be involved in an animal disease response - veterinary and animal health responders, livestock or poultry producers and industry groups, wildlife managers and officers. 

The cost for the course is $100. To find out more and to register, visit http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/ADE-Course/ .

   
Scam Alert: Beware of Callers Impersonating the DEA
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has shared that registrants have been receiving fraudulent telephone calls and emails from con artists claiming to represent the DEA or other law enforcement agencies. The callers have masked their telephone number on caller ID by showing the DEA Registration Support 800 number.

According to a  press release issued by the agency , "The impersonators inform their victims that purchasing drugs over the internet or by telephone is illegal, and that enforcement action will be taken against them unless they pay a fine... If victims refuse to send money, the impersonators often threaten to arrest them or search their property."

These phone calls are not coming from the DEA.

The DEA asks that, if you receive a telephone call from someone impersonating a DEA agent or other law enforcement official seeking money, you not act on their demands and report the threat using the agency's  Extortion Scam Online Reporting form .

Souce: AVMA@work
Spring Clean-up at Living History Farms
Spend a few hours on the farm on Wednesday, April 25 joining IVMA officers and members to help clean up the Heck Veterinary Infirmary at the 1875 Town of Walnut Hill at Living History Farms in Urbandale. Volunteers will spend 2-3 hours sprucing up the interior and exterior of the historic veterinary clinic. Lunch will be provided. To register, call the IVMA office at 800-369-9564 or email at ivma@iowavma.org .
  The IVMA Communiqué is published bi-monthly by the Iowa Veterinary Medical Association.
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