| FWRA 2008 SYMPOSIUM | ||
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, September 24 | ||
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Welcome from your president | |
| 9:15 - 10:15 | On the Wild Side 2009: Wildlife Advocacy in Florida | Jen Hobgood - HSUS |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Education or Condemnation | Wendy Fox - Pelican Harbor Seabird Station | Emu oil: Snake oil? or miracle cure? | Beth Hirschfeld, DVM, CVA, VMO - Hirschfeld Veterinary Consulting |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | TBA | Nestling and Fledgling Songbird Identification | Leslie Straub - Florida Wildlife Care |
| 2:45 - 3:45 | Time to Eat: Weaning Baby Raccoons and Opossum | Cat Turner - C.R.O.W. | Raptor Electrocution | Samantha Stock - Audubon Bird of Prey Center |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | Life in the Rain Forest | Reinier Munguia, Munguia Photography & Advertising | Newsletters - who, what, why | Wendy Fox - Pelican Harbor Seabird Sanctuary |
| Friday, September 25th | ||
| 8:30 - 10:00 | Wildlife CSI | Hector Cruz-Lopez - FFWCC |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | The Florida Panther | Mark Cunningham, DVM - FFWCC |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Surveillance of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Wild Birds | Dan Wolf, DVM - FFWCC |
| 10:15 - 11:45 | Treating fractures in birds of prey | Dave Scott, DVM - Carolina Raptor Center |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 - 2:30 | Short-tailed Hawks, Snail Kites and Swallow-tailed Kites | Ken Meyer - Avian Research and Conservation Institute |
| 1:00 - 2:00 | The Significance of Wildlife Diseases to Populations | Sonia M. Hernandez, DVM, DACZM, PhD - SCWDS Michael Yabsley, Ph.D. SCWDS |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Baylis ascaris | Michael Yabsley, Ph.D. - SCWDS Salmonellosis Outbreak in Songbirds in 2009 Sonia M. Hernandez, DVM, DACZM, PhD - SCWDS |
| 2:45 - 4:15 | Basic Wild Reptile Trauma Management: Assessment, treatment and prognosis | Sathya Chinnadurai, DVM - NC State University | Common Raptor Diseases and Problems | Dave Scott, DVM - Carolina Raptor Center |
| 4:30 - 5:30 | Hematology | Dave Scott, DVM - Carolina Raptor Center | Basic Radiology | Sathya Chinnadurai, DVM - NC State University |
| Saturday, September 26th | ||
| 8:30 - 10:00 | Wildlife Triage and Emergency Medicine | Sonia M. Hernandez, DVM, DACZM, PhD - SCWDS | Fear and Loathing | David Sadkin, Ph.D. - Wildlife Education and Rehab, Inc. |
| 10:10 - 11:10 | The Life of Birds | Steffanie Munguia - Munguia Photography & Advertising |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Understanding Feathers | Dianna Flynt - Audubon Center for Birds of Prey Lynne Garner - Audubon Center for Birds of Prey |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | White-nose Syndrome in Bats | Sonia M. Hernandez, DVM, DACZM, PhD - SCWDS |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Anesthesia and Pain Management | Sathya Chinnadurai, DVM - NC State University |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 - 3:00 | Comparative Anatomy | Sonia M. Hernandez, DVM, DACZM, PhD Michael Yabsley, Ph.D. SCWDS | Wildlife Enrichment and You | Debbie Helsel - Back to Nature Wildlife Refuge |
| 3:30 - 5:00 | Workshops | |