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Bitesize CPD for busy practitioners
SAC Consulting: Veterinary Services are offering a
programme of evening CPD meetings. The following
programme of talks will run throughout the winter of
2017/18 in Dumfries, Kelso and Perth.

                   Programme
      Talk 1: Stop! Ewe should think Biosecurity
              (G King)

      Talk 2: Mycoplasma infections in cattle,
              what’s new? (C Mason)

   Talk 3 (i): Making farm animal practice
               work without critically important
               antimicrobials. Prescriptions for change
               (D Tisdall)

  Talk 3 (ii): Transition cow feeding and
               management (W Tulley)

 APHA will participate in the event(s) with a short
 communication on Avian Influenza in backyard flocks

 Dumfries – Holiday Inn - 7.30pm
 Wednesday 11 October 2017           Talk 1/APHA talk
 Tuesday 5 December 2017                    Talk 2
 Wednesday 7 February 2018               Talk 3 (ii)

 Perth - Huntingtower Hotel - 7.30pm
 Wednesday 25 October 2017           Talk 1/APHA talk
 Wednesday 29 November 2017                 Talk 2
 Wednesday 21 February 2018              Talk 3 (i)

 Kelso - Cross Keys Hotel - 7.30pm
 Wednesday 1 November 2017           Talk 1/APHA talk
 Thursday 30 November 2017                  Talk 2
 Thursday 22 February 2018               Talk 3 (i)

About the Speakers
George King Cert VC BVMS MRCVS
George graduated in 1994 from Glasgow. He has worked in mixed practice,
small animal practice and in the Government Veterinary Services before
returning to Glasgow Veterinary School in 2014 as a Veterinary Clinician
(small ruminants). He has run a small sheep flock since 2001. George is
passionate about improving the welfare, economics and sustainability of
sheep farming in the UK

Colin Mason BVM&S BSc Cert CHP MRCVS
Colin Mason works for SAC Consulting: Veterinary Services based in
Dumfries. As well as working as part of the team at the Dumfries Disease
Surveillance Centre carrying out disease investigation and surveillance
activities. He is also involved with dairy research and herd health work at
the Dairy Research and Innovation Centre based at Crichton Royal Farm in
Dumfries. His main interests are young stock health and lameness in dairy
cows.

Will Tulley BVM&S CertCHP MRCVS MANZCVS
After 11 years in farm practice in the UK Will moved to New Zealand to take
up the position of Senior lecturer in Dairy Cattle Health and Production at
Massey University, where he continues to hold an adjunct lecturers position
in Ruminant Nutrition. He returned to the UK in 2014 and joined the
Evidence Group where he now leads the farm consultancy service. Will has
particular interests in the nutrition of dairy cattle and the integration of feed
production and supply with farm systems and farm profitability. He holds
the RCVS certificate in Cattle Health and Production and Membership of
the Australia and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in Ruminant
Nutrition and regularly provides knowledge exchange to farmers, vets and
the wider industry.

David Tisdall BVSc (Hons) CertCHP FHEA MRCVS
David graduated from University Bristol in 2006 and has 10-years’
experience of farm animal practice. As clinical lead of Langford Farm Animal
Practice and Teaching Fellow in Farm Animal Science at the University
of Bristol, he led transformational change towards more responsible
antimicrobial use on farms, achieving more than a 90% reduction in the use
of critically important antimicrobials, alongside improving herd health. He
has particular interests in the management and prevention of production
diseases in dairy cattle and motivating change towards more responsible
and sustainable use of medicines in farm animals. David has recently taken
up the post of Senior Teaching Fellow in Production Animal Medicine at the
University Of Surrey School Of Veterinary Medicine.

APHA’s speakers:
APHA Area Veterinary Leads will participate in the event(s): Michael Park
BVMS PhD MRCVS, Graeme Cochrane BVM&S MRCVS and Susana Ramos
LicVM MVPH MRCVS.

Booking Form
The cost of attending an individual meeting is £33 alternatively
attend all 3 meetings and pay £80 (offer restricted to one
person attending all three meetings).

Where it is not possible to use the online booking (http://
www.sruc.ac.uk/cpdforvets) please send your payment
with your completed registration form.

 Session            Name(s)                            Venue
 Talk 1

 Talk 2

 Talk 3

Venue Key
D - Holiday Inn, Bankend Road, Dumfries. DG1 4ZZ
K - Cross Keys Hotel, The Square, Kelso. TD5 7HL
P - Huntingtower Hotel, Crieff Road, Perth. PH1 3JT

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CPD for Vets
SAC Consulting: Veterinary Services
Allan Watt Building
Bush Estate
Penicuik
EH26 0QE

Email: cpdforvets@sac.co.uk

Tel: 0131 535 3130

Fax: 0131 535 3131

https://www.sruc.ac.uk/cpdforvets

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SAC Consulting is a division of SRUC. SRUC is a charity registered in Scotland, No. SC003712

                     These meetings are kindly
                     supported by Zoetis