CVC welcomes more than 2,000 practitioners

KANSAS CITY - 8/31/05 - A crowd of more than 6,700 attendees flooded the Central Veterinary Conference (CVC) Aug. 27-30. Veterinarians, technicians, students and property managers absorbed four days of continuing education, wet labs, working lunches and professional tours.

More than 500 clinical, practice management and team-oriented educational sessions and 16 hands-on wet labs were offered at the event. Veterinarians could get certified for up to 49 hours by their respective state boards, and technicians were eligible for up to 27 CE hours.

"The feedback we've gotten from attendees and exhibitors has been overwhelmingly positive," says Show Director Peggy Shandy Lane of Advanstar Veterinary Healthcare Communications. "From an attendee point of view, we've had very positive evaluations so far, and a lot of people have said they have been coming for years and this one has been the best one, so they are planning on attending again."

About 300 exhibitors brought 2,140 attendees from the vending community. Anecdotes suggest veterinarians came ready to buy.

"The exhibitors we've talked to have had extremely strong buys," Shandy Lane says. "It's been an extremely strong buying show for them, and they have generated an incredible number of leads."

See DVM Newsmagazine's October issue for more on CVC, including a look at the Veterinary Economics Hospital Design Conference, Progress in Practice and Firstline Live.

Editor's note: CVC parent Advanstar Veterinary Healthcare Communications publishes DVM Newsmagazine.