International Conference on Equine Infectious Diseases IX

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The 9th International Conference on Equine Infectious Diseases (EID IX) will be October 21-26, 2012, in Lexington, Kentucky. The conference is hosted by the University of Kentucky's Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center, a UK Ag Equine Program. 

The five-day conference will feature morning plenary sessions covering infectious and parasitic diseases of the respiratory, gastrointestinal, reproductive, and nervous systems. There will also be workshops on specific disease agents, immunology, and diagnostics and special sessions focusing on emerging and re-emerging diseases, disease surveillance and outbreak managements, drug resistance, and genomic studies of equine pathogens.   

The conference will also feature a Practitioner's Day on October 21, 2012 targeted toward local equine veterinarians and featuring some of the most significant findings to be presented at the conference.

The Practitioners’ Day on Sunday, Oct. 21 has been approved for 7 hours of continuing education credit by the Kentucky Board of Veterinary Examiners. The full conference (Oct. 22-26) has been approved for 26.5 hours of continuing education credit by the Kentucky Board of Veterinary Examiners.



Local Organizing Committee
David Horohov (Chair)
Udeni Balasuriya
Jenny (Blandford) Evans

Craig Carter
Frank Cook
Thomas Chambers

Chuck Issel
Julianne Kalmar
Martin Nielsen
Steve Reed
Nathan Slovis
Ed Squires
Peter Timoney
Neil Williams

International Organizing Committee
Maria Barrandeguy (Arg)
Ann Cullinane (Ire)
James Gilkerson (Aus)
Alan Guthrie (S. Afr)
David Horohov (USA)
Don Knowles (USA)
Julia Kydd (UK)
Ken Lam (HK)
Paul Lunn (USA)
Tomio Matsumura (Jpn)
Richard Newton (UK)
Martin Nielsen (USA)
Klaus Osterrieder (Ger)
Sandrine Petry (FR)
John Prescott (Can)
Nicola Pusterla (USA)
Etienne Thiry (Bel)
John Timoney (USA)
Peter Timoney (USA)
Andrew Waller (UK)
Ulli Wernery (UAE)
Neil Williams (USA)

Questions? Contact us at eidc.2012@uky.edu






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