Dodging Distress in the ER
Novel Ways to Apply Your Arsenal in the Emergency & ICU Patients
May 22-23, 2010

Schedule of Speakers

8:00 AM
Registration & Breakfast

9:00 AM
"Rattlesnake and Spider Envenomations in California"
Dr. Kate Hopper

10:00 AM
"Cost-effective anesthesia for the healthy patient: "Making the most out of what you've got"
Dr. Linda Barter

11:10 AM
"Venous Blood Gas Analysis"
Dr. Kate Hopper

12:10 PM
"Perioperative Analgesia: More Expensive does not mean more effective"
Dr. Linda Barter


1:00 PM  Lunch

2:00 PM
"Interpretation of Coagulation Tests"
Dr. Kate Hopper

3:00 PM
"Urine Output: Enough is Enough"
Dr. Karl Jandrey

4:10 PM
Panel Discussion - Questions & Cases
Dr. Linda Barter, Dr. Kate Hopper, Dr. Karl Jandrey, Dr. Matt Mellema

6:00 PM
Wine & Cheese Reception

Sunday, May 23

8:00 AM
Registration & Breakfast

9:00 AM
"The Challenging Asthmatic"
Dr. Matt Mellema

10:00 AM
"Are Synthetic Colloids Worth the Expense?"
Dr. Karl Jandrey

11:10 AM
"Dyspnea: New Uses for Old Drugs"
Dr. Matt Mellema

12:00 PM  Lunch

1:00 PM
"Indications for Plasma and Albumin Therapy"
Dr. Karl Jandrey

2:00 PM
"Penetrating Abdominal Injuries"
Dr. Matt Mellema

3:10 PM
Case-based Panel Disucssion
Dr. Linda Barter, Dr. Kate Hopper, Dr. Karl Jandrey, Dr. Matt Mellema

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2010 SVECCS Symposium Speakers

Karl Jandrey, DVM, MAS, DACVECC

Karl is a board-certified specialist in small animal emergency and critical care. He recently completed a Masters of Advanced Studies in Clinical Research (under Dr. Fern Tablin¹s mentorship) through the Mentored Clinical Research Training Program, supported by the National Institutes of Health, to train clinician scientists. This collaborative, multi-specialty program of veterinarians, physicians, and post-doctoral researchers was sponsored by the University of California-Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center and the School of Medicine. He continues to build on his Masters work through the study of the underlying mechanisms of thromboembolism in cats with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Most of his time he teaches veterinary students in the Emergency Room or the Intensive Care Unit of the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. He holds a seminar yearly for undergraduate freshmen in small animal toxicology as well as teaches third year veterinary students in Small Animal Toxicology and Emergency and Critical Care elective courses. He shares his life with one Pug, 3 Burmese cats, a saltwater reef, a seahorse tank and another veterinarian whom also has more letters after his name than in it.

Matthew Mellema, DVM

Dr. Matt Mellema is a native of northern California (Los Gatos) and did his undergraduate training at UC Berkeley. He received his DVM degree from UC Davis in 1994. Following graduation, he completed a focused internship in Small Animal Emergency Medicine at Tufts University and remained at Tufts as a clinical instructor for an additional year. He then went to work for Cardiopet, Inc. (now part of IDEXX), as a consultant in cardiothoracic medicine. After he got bored with that, UC Davis was kind enough to call and offer him a residency in Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care. During his 3 years of residency Dr. Mellema kept himself busy by assigning himself the task of "Americanizing" his Australian resident-mate, Dr. Kate Hopper. Upon completion of his residency in 2000, Dr. Mellema went off to Boston to get his PhD in respiratory physiology at Harvard University. His primary research interests include feline asthma, mechanical ventilation, dyspnea, and nitric oxide biology. He joined the faculty at UC Davis in 2007 as an assistant professor of Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care. His wife (Linda Mellema, a classmate in the UCD class of 1994) is a veterinary radiologist and together they are raising two young sons. Thus, at present, his leisure time is consumed by LEGOs, Chuck E. Cheese, and watching his kids play something that is sort of like soccer, but more chaotic.

Linda Barter, MVSc, PhD, DACVA

Dr Linda Barter was born, raised and vet schooled in Sydney, Australia. After a stint in mixed practice in Tasmania, where all the snakes are venomous, Dr Barter returned to Sydney to Small Animal Emergency practice. Dr Barter's itchy feet then took her to Massey University in New Zealand, where there are no snakes at all, to undertake a Masters degree and work in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital. At that time her long-term goal was to obtain a residency in emergency and critical care. Whilst at Massey, she accidentally became an anesthesia resident. It was then that Dr Barter saw the light and decided that anesthesia was her true path (although emergency and critical care still resides deep inside). Dr Barter then crossed the pacific for a residency in Anesthesia & Critical Patient Care at UC Davis (someone once told her you could never do too many residencies). Dr Barter was board certified by the American College of Veterinary Anesthesiologists in 2004 and then moved across campus to get her PhD in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology at UC Davis for investigating the neural mechanisms of anesthetic action. Dr Barter is interested in all aspects of anesthesia and analgesia and is still amazed that we really don't understand how anesthetics work. Dr Barter joined the faculty at UC Davis in 2007 as an assistant professor of Veterinary Anesthesiology and particularly enjoys anesthetizing many different species. Dr Barter has a fiesty-torti named Sydney and a bossy clown fish named Darwin and in her spare time likes to play with kilns, blow torches and silver metal.

Kate Hopper, BVSc, PhD, DACVECC

Kate, another member of the More-letters-after-her-name-than-in-it Club, graduated from The University of Melbourne, Australia in 1991, after which she spent 4 years in small animal general practice. She then returned to Melbourne University (which should not be confused with The University of Melbourne) to complete a residency in emergency and critical care and a Masters in Veterinary Science. Kate finally left home, and all the toxic HUGE spiders that live there, to do another residency in emergency and critical care at the University of California, Davis. She did much better during the second one and became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care in 2002. Kate has remained at Davis where she completed her PhD and is now on Faculty. She cherishes every day in Davis since she gets to work with such great, charismatic, funny, and occasionally serious colleagues. Her research interests include acid base balance, lactate metabolism and mechanical ventilation. When not at work or studying for her next degree, she likes to spend time running from HUGE toxic spiders.