Keynote Lectures
| Scientific Area | Keynote Speaker | Keynote Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|
| Reproduction | Stephen LeBlanc | Integration of metabolic and reproductive health in dairy cows |
| Geert Opsomer | Interaction of metabolic challenges and successful fertility in high yielding dairy cows | |
| Parasitology | Mike Taylor | Practical guidelines promoting sustainable control of helminth parasites in sheep and cattle - the UK experience |
| Internal medicine | Klaus Doll | Neonatal bovine pancytopenia - an emerging disease in European calves |
| Peter Constable | Use of hypertonic saline in cows and calves | |
| Surgery and lameness | Rodrigo Bicalho | Advances in the understanding of the pathophysiology of infectious and non-infectious disorders associated with lameness |
| Adrian Steiner | Current and future developments in bovine surgery | |
| Epidemiology and animal health economics | Christine Fourichon | Control of endemic transmissible diseases: complementary insights from observational and modelling studies |
| Henk Hogeveen | Costs of production diseases | |
| Udder health | Peter Edmonson | Opportunities for veterinary surgeons in mastitis control |
| Ynte Schukken | Contagious or Environmental? Or both? | |
| Immunology | Etienne Thiry | Age and immune response: tailoring of vaccination schedule |
| Carlos Hermosilla | Current understanding of the complex host immune response in cattle coccidiosis | |
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Herd health and quality risk management |
Emile Bouchard | Herd health: reproduction and beyond |
| Jos Nordhuizen | Veterinary advisory practice and sustainable dairy production | |
| Bovine welfare and cattle comfort | Marina von Keyserlingk | Seeing the freestall from the Cow's perspective |
| Daniel M. Weary | Informing and engaging producers and the public on the welfare of dairy cattle | |
| Diagnostic imaging | Sonja Franz | The use of endoscopic techniques in ruminants - "pros and cons" |
| E-learning/continuing education | Michael Doherty | 21st century education in bovine health management: addressing the challenges |
| Small ruminants | Phil Scott | The value of auscultation in the diagnosis of lung and heart diseases |
| George Fthenakis | Health management of ewes during pregnancy | |
| Camelids, alpaca, llama, vicuna | David Anderson | Reproductive disorders of female llamas and alpacas: failure to breed and early embryonic loss |
| Public Health/food safety | Frans Smulders | Balancing Food Safety and Animal Welfare risks in primary animal production |
| Youngstock | Arcangelo Gentile | Inherited diseases of cattle |
| Phil Garnsworthy | The contribution of youngstock to production efficiency and environmental impact of dairy systems | |
| Pharmacology | Ivo Schmerold | Reflections about the use of antimicrobial substances in food producing animals: prudent strategies against inherent problems |
| Organic farmic and environmental issues | Kathryn Ellis | The environmental impact of dairy farming: how can the white stuff be greener? |
| Infectious diseases - bacteriology and virology | François Schelcher | Respiratory diseases of cattle: from immunology to vaccination |
| Jean François Valarcher | Vaccines and vaccination against viral diseases in ruminants | |
| Nutrition and metabolic diseases | Jurgen Rehage | What do we know about insulin resistance in dairy cows |
| Finbar Mulligan | A herd health approach to dairy cow nutrition and production diseases of the transition cow | |
| Tropical animal diseases | Lygia Passos | Tick-borne diseases: practical approaches for control and prevention in tropical areas |
