Veterinary Radiology Review - Topic: Abdominal Imaging vs. Endoscopy
Event Details
Presented by: Assaf Lerer, BSc, DVM, MSc, DACVR & Nicole Gagnon, DVM
This program will be an interactive, case reading session. Radiographic images will be provided by the presenters. The radiologists will demonstrate how they evaluate radiographs regarding technique, interpretation and case synthesis. Ample opportunity will be provided for discussion and questions.
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Dr. Assaf Lerer obtained his bachelor’s degree with honors (2003) and Master of Science degree (2005) from the Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the Hebrew University in Israel in 2010. Following that, he moved to Canada and completed one year rotating small animal internship at the Ontario Veterinary College, in Guelph.
Following his internship, he practiced for a year and a half as a small animal emergency veterinarian in Ontario and Saskatchewan, Canada. He also worked as a clinical associate in the radiology department of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, Saskatchewan and as a lecturer at the Atlantic Veterinary College in Prince Edward Island, Canada before moving to Ithaca, New-York for his Imaging residency at Cornell University. He became a board-certified Radiologist in 2019 and completed his residency in 2020. Following his residency, he started a joint position in Cornell University and AIS.
Currently he lives in Trumansburg NY, with his wife, son, daughter, their three dogs and many farm animals.
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Dr. Nicole Gagnon is originally from Florida, but moved up to North Carolina for an undergraduate degree in physics at Duke University. After working as an electrical designer for an engineering company, she was interested in a career change. she started in a research lab with germ-free and gnotobiotic mice, spay/neuter clinics, and veterinary hospitals until she attended North Carolina State University for her DVM. After falling in love with radiology during her first imaging course at NCSU, she pursued a small animal rotating internship at Colorado State University last year. Fortunately, she was matched with Cornell University for a diagnostic imaging residency where she is half-way through her first year of training. When she's not studying, Dr. Gagnon is spending time with her fiancé and pets, exploring Ithaca, reading, watching hockey, hiking and herping, and playing Dungeons & Dragons.