Small Animal Veterinary Branch Hellenic Veterinary Medical Society (HVMS)
P.O. BOX 3546, Central Post Office,
10210 Athens, Greece
Tel: +30-210-8645744
Fax: +30-210-8645744
Website: www.hvms.gr
E-mail: hvms@hol.gr President: Prof. Spiros C. Kyriakis Dipl. ECPHM, Dipl. ECAR
E-mail: kyriakis@bioacademy.gr
WSAVA Representative:Dr. Alexander F. Koutinas Membership: 402 (as of May 2009)
________________________________ ANNUAL REPORT (JUNE 2010-JUNE 2011)
FROM THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE HELLENIC VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY (HVMS)
In the context of the Continuing Education Programme for the greek companion animal practitioners the following seminars have been completed: November 2010: Principles of antibiotic therapy in Companion Animals
January 2011: Current concepts on vaccines – Vaccinations in dogs and cats
Common medical problems of pet psittacines The next CE seminar is planned for October 2011 and will focus on tick-borne diseases and common medical problems in pet reptiles.
In November 2010 the meeting of the FECAVA representatives took place in Athens, during the CE seminar listed above.
In May 2011 the HVMS supported the meeting of the Greek IVSA (International Veterinary Students Association) branch and participated in the social events organized worldwide to celebrate the 250 years of Veterinary Education. During the same month the HVMS supported financially the visit of EAEVE experts in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and assigned members of its executive board to communicate with the visiting experts.
The Journal of the HVMS has been considerably improved and is now published almost exclusively in English. The journal is scheduled to receive an Impact Factor in 2013.
Further activities planned for the following year include the organization of the 12th Congress of the HVMS in April 2012, during which there will be a special pre-congress day dedicated exclusively to feline medicine. The main topics of this pre-congress event will be feline endocrinology, dermatology, cardiology and behaviour.
Alexander F. Koutinas
DVM, PhD, DipECVD
WSAVA representative for HVMS
_________________________________ 2009 REPORT of the HVMS Representative To WSAVA (posted May 2009)
This report covers the period between the WSAVA Dublin Congress ( August 2008) and
the WSAVA Sao Paolo Congress (July 2009).
The HVMS is an umbrella veterinary organization with three branches ( Companion Animal,Food Animal, Food Hygiene and Technology). The 11th Hellenic Veterinary Congress was held in Athens 19-22 March 2009, at the Hilton Hotel, in which all three branches participated.
It was a succesfull Congress and more than 1400 veterinary surgeons and veterinary tudents attended it. No other scientific activity during the above period concerning the companion
animals was done. Dr Ben Albalas
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