WNYVMA Hybrid CE Event: Tools for Equine Care - SAA Testing, Vitamin E Myopathies, and Tick-Borne Diseases
Buffalo Marriott
1340 Millersport HighwayAmherst, NY 14221-2902
United States
Event Details
Presented by: Holly Helbig, DVM AND Toby Winn-Pincock, DVM, DACVIM
Practical Diagnostics for the Equine Practitioner: Tips for diagnostic selection, interpretation and case examples. During this session Dr. Pinn-Woodcock will review essential types of specimen collection containers and transport media to stock in your truck or clinic, best practices for sample handling and the recommended diagnostic approach to common equine workups, including infectious respiratory, neurologic, and gastrointestinal disease and more. Equine case examples will be used throughout the session to highlight important learning points.
Learning objectives:
- Attendees will learn the correct use of different types of blood collection tubes and bacterial transport media, and be able to apply this information to clinical cases.
- Attendees will be reminded of appropriate sample selection and diagnostic test choice for equine infectious respiratory disease, colitis and neurologic disease work-ups, and be able to apply this to future clinical cases.
- Attendees will become acquainted with online resources available to them when presented with challenging diagnostic cases in the field.
What’s bugging our horses? Updates on Equine Tickborne Diseases: Dr. Pinn-Woodcock will review three tickborne diseases infecting horses, including Anaplasmosis and Lyme Disease which are endemic in the United States, and the foreign animal disease Piroplasmosis. This session will focus on the approach to diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of these diseases, and provide updates from recently published literature.
Learning Objectives:
- Attendees will learn the clinical signs in horses associated with Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma,
phagocytophilum, and Piroplasmosis and be able to develop a diagnostic plan for suspect cases. - Attendees will learn the diagnostic and treatment challenges associated with Borrelia burgdorferi in horses and will be able to develop a treatment plan for cases of equine Anaplasmosis
- Attendees will learn about the populations of horses at-risk for Piroplasmosis in the United States and how these cases are diagnosed and managed from a regulatory perspective.
Equine neuromuscular disorders associated with Vitamin E deficiency: Clinical Signs, Diagnosis and Management: During this session Dr. Pinn-Woodcock will cover equine vitamin E nutritional requirements and then discuss 3 disorders associated with vitamin E deficiency, including Equine Motor Neuron Disease (EMND), Equine Degenerative Myeloencephalopathy (EDM) and Equine Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (eNAD), and Vitamin E-Responsive Myopathy (VEM). Clinical signs, diagnostic strategy and management of each disorder will be reviewed, along with recently published supporting literature.
Learning Objectives:
- Attendees will learn how to develop a maintenance Vitamin E supplementation plan for backyard and performance horses.
- Attendees will learn the risk factors, history and clinical signs that distinguish EDM/NAD, EMND and VEM.
- Attendees will be able to develop a diagnostic and management plan for these cases based on published supporting literature.
For More Information:
Dr. Holly Helbig is a graduate of The Ohio State University, College of Veterinary Medicine. She is a member of The American Veterinary Medical Association, Ohio Veterinary Medical Association and American Association of Equine Practitioners. She has a special interest in equine lameness and was awarded the Large Animal Student Proficiency Award from the American College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2013.
Dr. Helbig is originally from Akron, Ohio and grew up competing hunter/jumpers. She has an undergraduate degree from Ohio University with a B.S. in Business and Communications. Prior to vet school she worked for Merck & Co as a pharmaceutical representative and part time as a horse trainer on the “A” circuit in Chagrin Falls, OH. Her love of horses and strong interest in medicine lead her to obtain a degree in veterinary medicine.
Currently, Dr. Helbig practices veterinary medicine and operates Hawthorne Hill, a hunter/jumper training facility in Dublin, Ohio. She has multiple riders competing at a national level and serves as regional coordinator for the World Champion Hunter Rider organization. Combining her skills as an equine professional and veterinarian, Holly provides a well-rounded service to her clients and patients.
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Dr. Toby Pinn-Woodcock is a member of the Veterinary Support Services team at the Cornell Animal Health Diagnostic Center (AHDC) and a clinician in Large Animal Internal Medicine Service at the Cornell Equine and Nemo Farm Animal Hospital. Dr. Pinn-Woodcock received her doctorate in veterinary medicine from the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine in 2008, after which she completed a residency in large animal internal medicine at Cornell. Dr. Pinn-Woodcock spent six years in private practice, which included equine ambulatory and referral practice, companion animal and large animal production medicine. She returned to Cornell in 2018 in her current role at the AHDC and the College of Veterinary Medicine. Her areas of interest and research include large animal infectious disease and equine endocrinology.