WVC to offer new programs

LAS VEGAS — The Western Veterinary Conference (WVC) says it anticipates attendance to top 8,500 at its annual meeting here Feb. 19-23.

The conference program boasts of hundreds of hours of continuing education (CE) for feline, canine, avian, equine, bovine, small ruminants and exotics as well as technician and practice management programming. Conference organizers say the meeting will also include a special appearance by comedian Jay Leno, sponsored by Hill's Pet Nutrition. Country superstar Clint Black will perform courtesy of Bayer Animal Health.

WVC is planning a shelter medicine program for those working with, or in, animal shelter environments. Practice tips and hands-on laboratories will also be featured throughout the conference.

According to Dr. Stephen Crane, executive director of WVC, the conference will debut television coverage of selected materials for live broadcast in hotel rooms located in Mandalay Bay, THEhotel, Luxor and Excalibur. In addition, the same materials will re-broadcast night and day.

An exclusive feature of the WVC-TV, called the News Hour, will be a daily synopsis of "clinical gems" gathered by colleagues from the Veterinary News Network reporting team. The daily news hour will air every evening during the event.

"Our objective is to provide a special, succinct synopsis of sessions in which one may have had interest but missed for other reasons, and this obviously leverages your CE experience in Las Vegas," Crane explains.

For more information, go to www.westernveterinary.org; e-mail: info@westernveterinary.org, or call (702) 739-6698.