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Program

Wednesday, June 14th
  8:00 Registration, Continental Breakfast
  8:30 Welcome
Overview and teaching of EBVM
  8:45
Introduction to EBVM
Mark A. Holmes, PhD, MA, VetMB, MRCVS, Senior lecturer University of Cambridge and co-author of the Handbook of Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine
  9:45
Why EBVM?  An approach to understanding why from the human cognition perspective
Dr. John M. Gay, DVM, PhD, Dept. of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Washington State University, author of WWWeb Epidemiology & Evidence-based Medicine Sources for Veterinarians

Break

  10:50 Teaching EBM
Dr. Holmes
  11:40 Critically-appraised topics (CAT's), clinical audit, and practice-based research
Dr. Holmes

Lunch

  1:30
Update of the 3rd International Conference of Evidence-based Health Care Teachers and Developers
Donna L. Shettko, DVM, Large Animal Surgery, Western University
Current and practical uses of evidence-based practice in veterinary medicine
  1:45
Therapeutic dogmas and EBVM - experience in a senior elective
Cory Langston, DVM, PhD, Dept. Clinical Sciences, Mississippi State University
  2:15
The Veterinary Antimicrobial Decision Support (VADS) System: What we actually know about extra-label antimicrobial drug use in food animals
Mike Apley, DVM, PhD, Dept. Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Kansas State University
  2:45
USP evidence-based pharmacotherapy
Amy S. Neal, DVM, US Pharmacopeia Veterinary Consultant

Break

  3:30
Clinical nutrition update: What is the evidence?
Phillip Roudebush, DVM, Veterinary Fellow, Hill's Scince and Technology Center
  4:00
The sharing of data and its role in EBVM
Allen W. Hahn, DVM, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Dept. Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, University of Missouri
  4:30
Using crticially appraised topics to teach EBVM to veterinary students
Stanley R. Robertson, DVM, MPH, Dept. Veterinary Pathobiology and Population Medicine, Mississippi State University

Social/Poster Session

Thursday, June 15th
  8:00 Continental Breakfast

Systematic Reviews

  8:30
What are systematic reviews and how are they different from what we are doing now?
Jan M. Sargent, DVM, PhD, Dept. Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, author of A guide to conducting systematic reviews in agri-food public health
  9:15 The process of systematic review  
Dr. Sargent

Break

  10:30 Examples 
Dr. Sargent
  11:30 Writing systematic review reports
Dr. Sargent

Lunch

An EBVM Association Organizational Meeting

  1:15
Introduction and initial efforts
Roy Montgomery, DVM, PhD, Dept. Veterinary Pathobiology and Population Medicine, Mississippi State University
   
Steering Committee activities
Robert Larson, DVM, PhD, Dept. Clinical Sciences, Kansas State University
   
Formalizing an association
Dr. Montgomery

- Adoption of constitution/bylaws
- Election of officers

   
Future efforts and direction
Dr. Lawson
  Adjourn