Keeping up with our Kansas City keynote speakers

Our Fetch conference heads back to Kansas City, Missouri, for another action-packed weekend of continuing education lectures, networking, and fun programs. The conference, taking place August 23-25, 2024, will feature 3 keynote presentations from Michael Bailey, DVM, DACVR, AAAS Fellow; Lisa Radosta, DVM, DACVB; and Monica Dixon Perry, CVPM.

The 2023 keynote speaker, Bob Murtaugh, DVM, MS, DACVIM, DACVECC, told dvm360, “As always, I enjoy the rekindling of old relationships and the development of new relationships in the profession when I attend conferences. Meeting people and sharing old stories and building some new stories is what excites me about what lies ahead in Kansas City. Fetch conferences bring a level of excitement and energy that is unique in the conference realm. I’m looking forward to soaking that up.”

Learn more about the Fetch Kansas City keynote speakers below:

Michael Bailey, DVM, DACVR, AAAS Fellow

Michael Bailey, DVM, DACVR, AAAS Fellow

Bailey is originally from Hopewell, New Jersey, and he received his undergraduate degree at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He received his DVM from Tuskegee University in Alabama and then completed a small animal rotating internship and radiology residency at Michigan State University in East Lansing. He opened the first veterinary diagnostic imaging center in Columbus, Ohio, and then in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Bailey now is the medical director of IDEXX, having worked for the company since 2016. He is on the American Veterinary Medical Association’s board of directors, and he is an American Association for the Advancement of Science congressional fellow.

When not working, he likes traveling with his wife, rebuilding cars and motorcycles, and photography.

Lisa Radosta, DVM, DACVB

Lisa Radosta, DVM, DACVB

Radosta graduated from the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine in Gainesville and then completed an internship in small animal medicine and surgery at Coral Springs Animal Hospital. She worked as a primary care veterinarian for 2 1⁄2 years before her 3-year residency in behavioral medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. During her residency, she was awarded the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists Resident research award 2 years in a row.

In 2005, Radosta went to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to volunteer in the efforts to help animals stranded by Hurricane Katrina. Radosta is the owner of Florida Veterinary Behavior Service, one of the few veterinary behavioral medicine hospital centers in the US that provides expert, compassionate care while enhancing the human-animal bond.

Radosta loves spending time with her husband, Scott, and daughter, Isabella, as well as Maverick, her Labrador retriever, and Chewie, her black cat. Radosta is one of 90 veterinary behaviorists in the world. She is also a world-class lecturer, author, and teacher.

Monica Dixon Perry, CVPM

Monica Dixon Perry, CVPM

Monica Dixon Perry, CVPM, is director of veterinary consulting services at Burzenski & Company. She has more than 35 years of experience in the veterinary medicine profession and has been a certified veterinary practice manager (CVPM) for more than 20 years. Before her consultant work, Dixon Perry managed a successful full-service, small animal Eastern and Western medicine veterinary practice in Raleigh, North Carolina. As the hospital administrator at Bowman Animal Hospital and Cat Clinic in Raleigh for more than a decade, she directed every aspect of the hospital’s operations.

Dixon Perry has lectured at national veterinary conferences and veterinary schools throughout the United States. She also was a part-time university lecturer at North Carolina State University in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics where she taught veterinary practice management on the undergraduate level.

Dixon Perry lives in Raleigh with her husband and daughter.

Do not miss out on this opportunity to see these keynote speakers in Kansas City, so register now!