Kansas City Veterinary Medical Association

by Davinne Glenn, DVM

July/August 2010

Hello fellow KCVMA members! I hope this July/August issue of news and notes finds you doing well and enjoying the long hot days of summer! Life has been good in Liberty. We have had the chance to see some really interesting cases. You will find a case study on page three from our clinic (Veterinary Center of Liberty). Take a look at the radiograph at the bottom of this page and see if you can identify the disease process before reading the case study!

We encourage you to attend our 2010 KCVMA family social, set for Sunday, September 26. This year we’ll visit the Shatto Dairy in Osborn, Missouri, which is about 35 miles north of Kansas City. It would be a small road trip, but we think it will be great fun for the entire family. The event begins at 10:30 a.m., before it gets too hot. And being September, it should be a very pretty drive! Shatto Dairy is usually closed on Sundays, but they have agreed to accommodate us because they know Sunday is often a day we do not spend entirely at our clinics.

The dairy owners will provide a four-part tour especially for our group. The morning will consist of:

1. Tour the milking barn 2. Visit and pet the calves, milk a cow 3. Learn how Shatto milk is processed 4. Taste test the 5 flavors of Shatto milk

My goal is to have 100 people attend the social! The more the merrier. There is no limit to the number of people a KCVMA member can bring! So bring your family, bring your technicians and their families, and bring your support staff and their families! We want to make the 2010 social a success and we need your help! The dairy would like a rough head count so we are asking for RSVPs. Please email: wgeis@kcvma.com.

May and June featured two wonderful CE meetings! During May’s meeting, Dr. Byron Blagburn from Auburn University educated us on Vector Borne Diseases. It was a very well attended meeting! In June Dr. Fred Wininger from MU spoke about neurology in general practice.

We have disappointing news for those of you waiting for CE certificates and hours from March’s meeting with Dr. Michael Dryden. In planning for this event, getting CE credit approval slipped through the cracks. We tried to obtain credit after the fact but we were denied. Therefore, we are unable to provide certificates or credit hours for the March CE event. We are truly sorry for the inconvenience this mistake has caused. We have scheduled an additional CE event for August 19th to give you an opportunity to make up the hours. Dr. James Marshall will be joining us to discuss Heartworm Disease. Please check the newsletter insert for details, and watch for updates via fax and e-mail.

A few dates to remember: August 1: Veterinary Accreditation deadline August 12-22: Missouri State Fair in Sedalia August 19: KCVMA Continuing Education Event August 28-31: CVC in Kansas City September 10-19: Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson

Until the next newsletter! Enjoy your summer!

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