BrAVO Spring meeting 11th-April 2012 Birmingham ICC 
We are pleased to welcome two excellent speakers to our Spring BrAVO meeting: Vladimír Jekl MVDr PhD DipECZM(Small Mammal): "Rabbit & Small rodent Ophthalmology"
Vladimír Jekl is a 2002 graduate
of the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Czech
Republic, where he now serves as an assistant professor at the avian and exotic
animal clinic. He has practised exclusively exotic animal medicine since 2002
and is a European Recognised Specialist in Zoological Medicine (Small Mammal).
He has lectured extensively throughout Europe and has published numerous
articles dealing with exotic animal medicine in regional and international
journals. His current focus involves dental disease, internal medicine,
diagnostic imaging and surgery in small mammals.Simon Petersen-Jones DVetMed PhD DVOphthal. DipECVO MRCVS: "Posterior segment and inherited disease"
Simon
Petersen-Jones is a professor of comparative ophthalmology and the Myers-Dunlap
Endowed Chair in Canine Health at Michigan State University. His veterinary
degree and residency training in ophthalmology were completed at the Royal
Veterinary College. Following a faculty position at Edinburgh and a Wellcome
Trust Veterinary Career Development Fellowship at Cambridge he moved to Michigan
State University. His research interests include hereditary ocular disease with
an emphasis on characterisation and therapies for retinal dystrophies. He was
co-editor of the first two editions of the BSAVA Manual of Small Animal
Ophthalmology and is a past recipient of the BSAVA’s Simon Award.
Watch this space for booking information - coming soon.
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ECVO Conference 2012: Trieste, Italy. May 24-27

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