Dr. Justine Lee is a board certified emergency critical care veterinary specialist, and is currently on faculty as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Lee graduated from Virginia Tech with a BS in Animal Sciences, and then obtained her veterinary degree at Cornell University. She pursued her internship at Angell Memorial Animal Hospital, which is affiliated with the MSPCA. In addition, she has also completed an emergency fellowship and residency at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lee has been published in numerous veterinary journals, including JAVMA, JVECC, and JVIM. She has also published several veterinary book chapters, and has been aired on radio and television to promote preventative medicine, animal health, and the overall well-being of pets. Dr. Lee has written a book entitled It's a Dog's Life… but It's Your Carpet: Everything you ever wanted to know about your four-legged friend which was released by Random House April 2008. It's a Cat's World… You Just Live in It: Everything you ever wanted to know about your furry feline will be released December 2008.

Dr Phil Padrid is a former professor of Pulmonary medicine at the University of Chicago. He is the author of more than 40 peer reviewed scientific journal articles and over 20 textbook chapters in the field, including CVT, Handbook of Small Animal Practice, the 5-minute vet consult and Saunders manual of small animal practice among others. His research and teaching introduced the use of inhaled medications that has revolutionized our treatment of asthma and bronchitis in dogs and cats. He continues to be a much sought after speaker at ACVIM, ECVIM, ACECC, North American Conference, the Atlantic City Conference, and the World Veterinary Congresses. His popularity as a speaker is in part due to his practical style and innovative teaching methods that get "the whole crowd into it" Watch out, he may make you demonstrate wheezing for the audience!!  

• Fluid Therapy:
  • SHOCK: How to recognize it by taking your own pulse first…– Shock Recognition and How to Treat it!
  • IV fluids – does it matter what bag I grab? – Fluid Choices
  • Basics of transfusion medicine-components, typing and administration

• Monitoring

  • The underrated physical exam – your # 1 tool!

  • Expensive toys in the ICU: just what exactly do they do?
  • Monitoring of the Critically Ill Patient
  • Common Arrhythmias in the ER

• Emergencies
  • The Dyspneic Patient
  • Updates in Trauma
  • Approach to the Diabetic ketoacidotic patient: Diabetes Kills Animals
  • Addison’s disease - When to suspect this problem
  • Emergency Approach & treatment of the Acute Abdomen
  • The ABCs of CPR
  • Spiders and Snakes – Recognizing and treating envenomations
  • Immune-Mediated Hemolytic Anemia

Continental breakfast   7.15am - 8.00am daily