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We would love to invite you for our next Furry Vets event!
It’s been over 5 years since we last met in Warsaw during Rabbit Medicine and Guinea Pig Medicine Conferences and Workshops in 2017. Back in 2020 we were forced to move online with our II Rabbit Medicine Conference due to COVID-19 pandemics. We wish this time we could gather again during a true small mammal festival.
This time we are extremely honoured and excited that two unique specialists accepted our invitation to lecture for us during the Small Mammal Conference. Straight from Hong Kong a person that needs no presentation – dr Zoltan Szabo DVM, DACZM, DABVP(ECM), DABVP(Avian), GpCert(ExAP), MRCVS known to many of us as @dr.zoltan – one of the most active exotic pet veterinarians in the world, sharing his passion for education and clinical excellence and our first Polish radiology diplomate Ewa Stańczyk DVM, PhD, DECVDI, MRCVS. We are more than happy that they will finally meet in person, as we know that they already collaborate in the field of advanced exotic pet teleradiology.
The conference will take place 25-26 March 2023 in the Airport Hotel in Warsaw.
We also planned (27 March) a post-congress wet lab in small mammal small tissue surgery workshops with Dr Zoltan Szabo and Péter Pazár DVM, an owner of the Exo-Pet Clinic in Budapest.
Feel welcome to join us on Saturday (25 March) night during a cocktail party.
SPEAKERS
Zoltan Szabo
DVM, DACZM, DABVP(ECM), DABVP(Avian), GpCert(ExAP), MRCVS
Dr Zoltan is the Director of Exotic Services at Concordia Pet Care, the largest exotic animal referral centre in Asia, and he is an Adjunct Professor at the City University of Hong Kong.
He is an international speaker and a co-author of several books about exotic animal surgery and avian diseases. He has published over twenty articles in peer-reviewed veterinary journals and presented dozens of lectures at veterinary conferences. Dr Zoltan has special interest in microsurgery and promotes exotic pet medicine via social media. His motto is “No patient is too small to help.”
Dr Zoltan has six postgraduate degrees in exotic animal medicine from three countries. In the USA, apart from being a diplomate of the American College of Zoological Medicine, he is also a double-boarded diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners, specialising in Avian Practice and Exotic Companion Mammal Practice. In the United Kingdom, he is a Specialist of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in Zoo & Wildlife Medicine, and he received the General Practitioners Certificate in Exotic Animal Practice and the Certificate in Exotic Animal Medicine in Hungary.
Dr Zoltan had the opportunity to do research and work as a wildlife veterinarian in nine countries on four continents. Apart from Hong Kong, UK and Hungary, he worked at the Wildlife Institute of India; later, in South Africa, he had a project on African buffalo anaesthesia, and then he worked at the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia. He was the field veterinarian of the Tambopata Macaw Project in Peru. Later he worked on an avian malaria project on the Galapagos Islands and was also a veterinarian and lecturer at the Belize Wildlife & Referral Clinic.
Ewa Stańczyk
DVM PhD, MRCVS, Dip. ECVDI
Ewa gained her veterinary degree at Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences (Poland), where she spent another three years working on her PhD. After receiving the PhD and spending a short time in a small animal practice, she was accepted for a residency position in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging at Vetsuisse-Fakultät – Universität Zürich.
Ewa completed her residency training in 2018, and in February the following year, she passed the board exams and became European Diplomate in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging.
Since then, she has been working as a radiologist in a major teleradiology company.
She is also involved in creating educational content for other radiologists and teaching veterinary students. She consults for local veterinary hospitals and provides CPD in diagnostic imaging.
Ewa is passionate about teaching. She is also a proud owner of two cats.
PROGRAM
DAY 01
Saturday 25 March
8:00 – 9:00 – Registration
9:00 – 9:30 – Conference opening
9:30 – 10:30 – Diagnosis and treatment of thymoma in rabbits (Z. Szabo)
10:30 – 11:30 – Evidence based advances in rodent and rabbit medicine (Z. Szabo)
11:30 – 12:00 – Coffee break
12:00 – 13:30 – Diagnostic imaging of rabbits head. Is the CT a new gold standard? (E. Stańczyk)
13:30 – 14:00 – Q&A Session
14:00 – 15:00 – Lunch break
15:30 – 16:30 – Chinchilla medicine & surgery I (Z. Szabo)
16:30 – 17:30 – Chinchilla medicine & surgery II (Z. Szabo)
17:30 – 18:00 – Q&A Session
DAY 02
Sunday 26 March
9:30 – 10:30 – Rabbit and rodent radiology I (Z. Szabo)
10:30 – 11:30 – Rabbit and rodent radiology II (Z. Szabo)
11:30 – 12:00 – Coffee break
12:00 – 13:30 – Small mammal abdominal and thoracic CT and why is it worth it? (E. Stańczyk)
13:30 – 14:30 – Lunch break
14:30 – 15:30 – Exotic microsurgery (Z. Szabo)
15:30 – 16:30 – Challenging cases in small mammals (Z. Szabo)
16:30 – 17:00 – Q&A Session
17:00 – 17:15 – Conference closure