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Australian Small Animal Veterinary Association (ASAVA)

Unit 40, 6 Herbert Street
St. Leonards
NSW 2065
Australia

Tel: +612 9431 5090
Fax: +612 9437 9068
Website: www.asava.com.au
E-mail: asava@ava.com.au

President: Dr David Neck

WSAVA Representative
Roger Clarke
PO Box 234 Bundoora, VIC 3083
AUSTRALIA
ph +61-3-9467 2255
Fax +61-3-9467 7369
roger.bunvet@gmail.com

Members: 1575 ( 2011)
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AUSTRALIAN SMALL ANIMAL VETERINARY ASSOCIATION
2010 Report

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
President - Dr David Neck
Honorary Secretary - Dr. David Mason
Honorary Treasurer - Dr. Graham Swinney
Northern Representative - Dr Debbie Osborne
Southern Representative - Dr Adrian Choi
Eastern Representative - Dr. Mark Kelman
Western Representative - Dr David Marshall
Nominee to AVA Board - Dr Michele Cotton

Membership: 1575 Members

The Australian Small Animal Veterinary Association is the largest Special Interest Group of The Australian Veterinary Association Ltd.

Our 2010 Australian Small Animal Veterinary Association (ASAVA) Annual Conference, held in Hobart, was a perfect mix of science and socialising. The focus of the program was infectious and immune-mediated diseases, and our two international speakers, Professors Michael Day and Tim Gruffydd-Jones, each presented great sessions, before joining forces for the second Roger Clarke State of the Art Lecture on immunological and clinical aspects of inflammatory bowel disease. On the final afternoon we ran a forum on vaccination, which included a lecture from Professor Day on the World Small Animal Veterinary Association’s Vaccination Guidelines Group recommendations, as well as an interactive members’ forum.

I would like to thank all of our sponsors and the companies involved in the trade exhibition for supporting our conference and for their ongoing support throughout the year. Special mention to our 2010 major sponsors – Gold sponsor, Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Silver sponsor, Provet, and Bronze sponsor, IDEXX Laboratories, as well as dinner sponsor, Cenvet, and breakfast session sponsors, Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Pfizer, Virbac and Novartis.

At the Pan Pacific Conference in May we helped to manage the small animal stream and once again held our annual New and Recent Graduates Dinner.

The PennHIP training workshop, run by Gail Smith and Tom Gregor, from the University of Pennsylvania on the last day of the conference, received a very good response with almost 80 attendees.

In October we ran our first Relax and Reinvigorate (R&R) Conference at Salt Beach, Northern NSW. Approximately 40 delegates attended to see sessions by Anna Deykin on ophthalmology, Paul Canfield on cytology and clinical pathology and Phil Brain on nasal disease. We plan to hold two R&R conferences each year to provide delegates with a short continuing education program run in a relaxing resort environment.

Our 38th Annual Conference in 2011 conference will be held on the Gold Coast of Queensland at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition centre from Sunday 7th to Friday 12th of August, 2011. Speakers Fiona Campbell. Lynelle Johnson and Catriona MacPhail will present a programme covering all aspects of Thoracic medicine and surgery.

The Australia Veterinary Practitioner (AVP) continues to be an excellent resource and member benefit, and I would like to acknowledge the herculean efforts of Rick Atwell, who after more than 25 years, is stepping down as Editor. We welcome Giselle Hosgood as new AVP Editor in 2011.

Thanks to our Executive Officer, David Imrie, The Companion, underwent a major facelift this year, and has never looked better. Members of our committee have continued to represent us on the AVA Board, Australian Companion Animal Council, Nursing Industry Advisory Group, Therapeutics Advisory Committee, Committee for Companion Animals in the Community, Policy Advisory Council and the Hospital Accreditation Scheme.

We have also maintained our role on the AVA Conference Program Committee and David Neck is our new ASAVA representative. Matthew Retchford stepped down from the role this year, and our thanks go to him for his many years of service

Finally, I would like to thank the ASAVA staff, Executive Officer, David Imrie, Events and Administration Officer, Ria Tamone and Cristina Sacco, who resigned this year. Thank you also to our committee, including Debbie Osborne, Adrian Choi, David Neck, David Mason, Rodney Sundra and Mark Kelman. Mark is our newest committee member, filling the vacancy left by Phil Brain, who retired after 18 years of service. His dedication and hard work will be missed.

Graham Swinney
President