Head to tail feline CPD for practitioners: Course 3 - The Abdomen

The course will open at 9 am; six hours of lectures starting at 9.10 and finishing at 17.00. (Running order to be finalised)

1. Imaging the abdomen: are radiographs ever useful or is it all about US? (Carolina Urraca)
2. Oncology 1: Mammary tumours in cats: updated guidelines and practical considerations (Kasia Purzycka)
3. Medicine 1: GI therapeutics: omeprazole, ondansetron, metronidazole yes or no? (Sam Taylor)
4. Infectious disease: Infectious diarrhoea: what’s worth testing for and how do I interpret it? (Sarah Caney)
5. Oncology 2: More than lymphoma: other GI tumours (Kasia Purzycka)
6. Nutrition in a nutshell: Feeding cats with conflicting comorbidities (Cecilia Villaverde)

Sarah Caney BVSc PhD DSAM(Feline) MRCVS, RCVS Recognised Specialist in Feline Medicine
Sarah Caney is an internationally recognised specialist in feline medicine who has worked as a feline-only vet for more than thirty years. She trained as a specialist at the University of Bristol and is one of fifteen recognised specialists in feline medicine working within the UK. Sarah has written or co-written four books published by her business Vet Professionals including ‘Caring for cat with chronic kidney disease’. Sarah conducts online owner surveys and has published much of her research results in the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery. As a clinician, Sarah sees first opinion and referral feline cases in a large hospital in Cheshire.

Samantha Taylor BVetMed(Hons) CertSAM DipECVIM-CA MANZCVS PgCert FHEA FRCVS, RCVS Recognised Specialist in Feline Medicine, EBVS Specialist in Internal Medicine
Sam completed a Feline Advisory Bureau Residency at Bristol University and was awarded the European Diploma in Veterinary Internal Medicine in 2009.  In 2011 she became an RCVS Recognised Specialist in Feline Medicine and in 2019 was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for outstanding contributions to the profession. She is also a Member of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists (Medicine of Cats).  Sam is a consultant for the International Cat Care Veterinary Society and works as an Internal Medicine Specialist at Lumbry Park Veterinary Specialists in Hampshire. Sam is an Honorary Lecturer in Internal Medicine at Surrey University Veterinary School, a tutor on the Sydney CVE feline medicine course and coordinates the iCatCare International Guidelines. Sam is also a consultant for the Veterinary Information Network (VIN), Associate Editor at JSAP and on the RCVS Fellowship Credentials Panel. Sam co-authored guidelines on hypertension, diabetes mellitus, NSAIDs, acute pain, inappetence, blood transfusion, urinary tract disease and others. She has written books, book chapters and papers on internal medicine topics and enjoys a mix of clinical work, writing and lecturing and is currently completing a PhD in feline health and welfare. She has a particular interest in clinical research to answer those important questions to practically improve feline health and wellbeing and has been closely involved in the worldwide launch of legal drugs to treat FIP.

Kasia Purzycka DVM MVetMed DipACVIM (Oncology) MRCVS, American, European and RCVS Recognised Specialist in Veterinary Oncology
Kasia obtained her veterinary degree in 2014 in Warsaw, Poland after spending four years at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, one year at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a final year at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria. Following a rotating internship in small animals at the University hospital in Munich, Germany, Kasia moved to the United Kingdom where she completed a specialised oncology internship at the Animal Health Trust referral hospital in Newmarket. Kasia completed her residency in medical oncology at the Royal Veterinary College in October 2019, and successfully passed the certifying examination of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) Oncology in the same year, becoming an American Veterinary Specialist in Oncology. She also completed a master’s degree with the final research project on canine T cell lymphoma. In addition to her busy clinical activities and providing care to cancer patients in a busy referral hospital, Kasia enjoys teaching interns, residents, general practitioners and veterinary nurses on all aspects of veterinary oncology. Kasia has presented her research work at multiple conferences in Europe and US. She has lectured for veterinarians across the world, including Poland, US, UK, Austria and Hong Kong.

Cecilia Villaverde Haro, BVSc, PhD, Diplomate (Nutrition) of the ACVIM (Board-Certified Veterinary Nutritionist®), Diplomate ECVCN (EBVS® European Specialist in Veterinary and Comparative Nutrition)
She obtained her veterinary degree in 2000 and her PhD in animal nutrition in 2005 by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain. She completed a residency in small animal clinical nutrition at the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital at UC Davis, California and is board certified in veterinary nutrition by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Nutrition) and by the European College of Veterinary and Comparative Nutrition (ECVCN) since 2010. After working as the chief of service of the veterinary teaching hospital nutrition service in UAB for 6 years, she is now a consultant in clinical nutrition for Expert Pet Nutrition (