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March 4 - 7, 2006
Westin Crown Center
Kansas City, Missouri
United States of America
Pre-conference Seminars
Swine Welfare Assurance Program (SWAP) Educator Training
The Swine Welfare Assurance Program (SWAP) continues to be the industry standard in assessing welfare. Veterinarians will be important to the delivery of the program – sitting down with clients to discuss the SWAP Care and Well-being Principles – assessing the welfare of the animals – and working with the clients to do a walk-through assessment. To be part of that process, veterinarians need to understand the Care and Well-being Principles and be trained in conducting the assessment before being named a Certified SWAP Educator (CSE). In 2006 SWAP will be revised to ensure that it satisfies the welfare expectations of the pork chain.
Seminar #1: Applied Pharmacology and Antimicrobial Issues
This timely session will provide an excellent review of antimicrobial resistance with an emphasis on appropriate antibiotic selection.
* Antimicrobial resistance and applied pharmacology - Mike Apley
* Antimicrobial resistance in foodborne pathogens - Wondwossen Gebreyes
* The Danish experience in Salmonella control and antibiotics - Scott Hurd
* Population pharmacokinetics and modeling - Tomas Martin-Jimenez
Seminar #2: Grow Finish Records: Taking a look at real time monitoring
Participants will hear new and innovative ways that producers and veterinarians are using real time grow finish records to impact day to day performance decisions.
* Communicating real time data to influence production and health - Jim Lowe
* Out of feed and water events and their influence on GF production - Mike Brumm
* Dealing with swine variation at marketing - Brad Knippelmeir
* Marketing decisions based on real time information - Matt Ackerman
* Utilizing nursery/grow finish records to make day-to-day production/feeding decisions - Jim Moody
* Using real time information for tactical animal management - Robert Baarsch
Seminar #3: Case Studies: Take your thinking cap out of the box
The aim of this session is to focus on the critical thinking involved in dealing with problems beyond normal, everyday disease.
* Trials and tribulations with mulberry heart disease - Max Rodibaugh
* Cost/benefit analysis of autosort facilities - Chris Rademacher
* Strange but true biosecurity stories - Scanlon Daniels
* How likely is APP area spread? - Doug Powers
* High mortality H. parasuis - Curt Teggatz
* Stray voltage effects on sow mortality and performance - Cameron Schmitt
* Double stocking wean-to-finish barns: A barn efficiency dream but health nightmare - Tara Donovan
Seminar #4: Gilt Development
The focus of this seminar is on the techniques used to properly prepare replacement gilts for entry into the breeding herd.
* Research, techniques, and economics of gilt development - George Foxcroft
* Heat induction and boar exposure techniques - Joaquin Sporke
* Danish "surprise party" - Gitte Drejer
* Introduction of Isowean replacement gilts - Martin Bonneau
* Replacement gilt nutrition - Steve Dritz
* Gilt selection - John Deen
* Health assurance and acclimatization: One system's approach - Joel Nerem
Seminar #5: Boar Stud Issues
This session features leading experts of PRRSV transmission, prevention, and diagnostic monitoring presenting current research, explaining the basic science of diagnostic tests, revealing the similarities and potential differences between laboratories, and reviewing the technique of blood swab sampling and associated clinical case reports.
* Prevention of PRRSV transmission to boar studs - Scott Dee
* PRRSV diagnostics for boar studs and methodology of SDSU PRRSV PCR - Jane Christopher-Hennings
* Basic science of diagnostic PCR and methodology of UMN PRRSV PCR - Kurt Rossow
* Methodology of ISU PRRSV PCR - Kyoung-Jin Yoon
* Blood swab techniques for PRRSV: Research and clinical case reviews - Darwin Reicks
* Panel discussion: PRRSV transmission, diagnostics, and practice - All speakers
* Product quality monitoring and assessment of semen by veterinary laboratories - Gary Althouse
* Discussion section: research updates and clinical cases - Chris Kuster, moderator
Special seminar - Swine Health Management board certification: Getting started and seeing it through
This seminar is designed to walk you through the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (ABVP) Swine Health Management board certification process from beginning to end - including case report examples, mentoring, fees, and timelines - as well as answering questions.
SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2006
Pre-conference Seminars
Seminar #6: Foreign Animal Disease
Co-sponsored by the USDA
This seminar will provide a review of foreign animal diseases (FAD) for the veterinarian. This session will provide an overview of the bioterrorist/agroterrorist threat, explaining the interwoven characteristics of bioterrorism and agroterrorism.
* Influenza: Interspecies transmission and pandemic potential - Chris Olsen
* The agroterrorism threat - Jerry Jaax
* The veterinarian's role in a FAD outbreak - Joe Annelli
* Foreign animal disease review - Jim Roth
* Foreign animal disease educational opportunities - Jim Roth
Seminar #7: Sow Productivity/Reproduction
The aim of this session is to provide practitioners with tools to improve their clients' sow productivity.
* Hidden implications associated with inadequate uterine capacity - John Harding
* Benchmarking sow productivity - Non-system - Tom Gillespie
* 90% Farrowing rate - Tools for improvement - Gordon Spronk & Gustavo Pizarro
* Benchmarking sow productivity - Large system - Mark Schwartz
* Productivity and economic impacts of wean age - World perspectives - Malachy Young
Seminar #8: The Business of Veterinary Medicine for the Soon-to-be Veterinarian
This session will be interactive throughout the program so come ready to participate and contribute.
* Taking one for the team - Larry Firkins
* Personal budgeting for the veterinary student - David Reeves
* Budgeting and prioritizing revenue disbursement after graduation - Robert Morrison
* Budgeting and prioritizing revenue disbursement after graduation (cont.) - Robert Morrison
* Was Humpty Dumpty's mom a great big chicken? - Mark Mayfield
Seminar #9: Nutrition Update
Ongoing improvements in seedstock genetics have necessitated a re-evaluation of the nutrient requirements for pigs.
* Grow finish update - Take-home recommendations - Mike Tokach & Bob Goodband
* Low crude protein diets with high crystalline lysine levels for finishing pigs: What are the limits and benefits? - James Usry
* From corn to DDGS to pigs - Harold Tilstra
* Nutrition, nutrient excretion and odor: Current and future opportunities - Brian Richert
Seminar #10: AASV Foundation Financial Planning
Co-sponsored by the AASV Foundation
Are you concerned about your retirement? Do you have a business succession plan? Is your estate plan up-to-date? Don DeWaay of DeWaay Capital Management, Inc., in Des Moines, Iowa will bring his unique insight and strategies to the podium as a featured guest speaker.
Seminar #11: Parity Segregation
The parity segregation seminar will be a continuation of last year's pre-conference seminar with additional data, applications, and experience. The AASV 2006 speakers bring a wide range of varying expertise and sophisticated know-how.
* A large system parity segregation experience - Luc Dufresne
* Segregated parity management to improve progeny and sow herd performance: A nutritionist perspective - Dean Boyd
* Applications of parity segregation for small producers - Jim Kober
* Parity segregation: A producer's tool for disease elimination - Bill Hollis
* Large system disease management and elimination through parity segregation - Lisa Becton
Seminar #12: PCV2/PMWS: Understanding factors that impact disease expression and control
The overall goal of this seminar is to increase participants' understanding of the factors (infectious, non-infectious and management) that impact the expression of clinical PMWS on their clients' farms and to provide them with a set of working tools they can "take home" for immediate use in their practice.
* PMWS case definition and clinical pathology - Joaquim Segales
* Using diagnostic tools: IHC, PCR and ELISA tests - Tanja Opriessnig
* Update on prevalence, severity and distribution of PMWS cases in Europe and the USA - Joaquim Segales and Jerry Torrison
* The building blocks of PMWS: Co-factors, host susceptibility, strain characterization and viral immunogencity - Pat Halbur
* Risk factors associated with clinical outbreaks of PMWS - Mark Engle
* Economic losses associated with PMWS - Joe Connor
* Practical management of PMWS: The Canadian experience - Francois Cardinal
* Practical management of PMWS: The American experience - Pat Halbur
AASV Annual Meeting
Session #1: Student Seminar
* The effect of stringent cleaning and subtherapeutic chlortetracycline on the prevalence of Salmonella in commercial swine farms - Andrew Mack, The Ohio State University
* Does weaning age influence immediate and long-term gastrointestinal health in the pig? - Adam Moeser, North Carolina State University
* The influence of using intrauterine insemination with a reduced number of spermatozoa in sows with synchronized ovulation - Christine Pelland, University of Guelph
* Analyzing growth curves as a predictive indicator for hemorrhagic bowel syndrome in swine - Ryan Schaefer, Iowa State University
* Urine abnormalities in lactating sows - Lindsay Simpson, North Carolina State University
* A survey of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae assays offered by veterinary diagnostic labs in the United States - J. Joel Sullivan , Iowa State University
* Clinical signs of stress in finisher pigs transported to market in the summer - Janet Sunstrum, University of Guelph
* Managing a PRRSV outbreak in one naïve gilt herd in a multi-herd production system - Krista Toner, University of Prince Edward Island
* Comparison of an ELISA versus a radioimmunoassay for measuring serum progesterone levels in swine - Amber Borcherding, Iowa State University
* An evaluation of isolate pathogenicity on PRRSV concentration in aerosol shedding and transmission - Jenny Cho-MacSwain, University of Minnesota
* Duration of viability of dessicated PRRSV in a PRRS MLV vaccine - Angie Delks, Purdue University
* The effects of farrowing induction on suckling pig performance - Rayna Gunvaldsen, University of Saskatchewan
* Impact of injectable and oral iron treatments on performance and hematological values of suckling and nursery piglets - Heather James, University of Saskatchewan
* The effect of downtimes on swine transport trailer contamination when high heat/high power dryers are used post-disinfection - Sarah Jensen, Colorado State University
* Periparturient risk factors for sow mortality - Maya Kuratomi, University of Minnesota
Session #2: Industrial Partners
* Public policy issues impacting the swine industry - Michael Dykes / Monsanto Choice Genetics
* Safety in the swine industry - Mark Eisenhart / Monsanto Choice Genetics
* Advancements in swine genomics - Mark Eisenhart / Monsanto Choice Genetics
* Impact of weaning age on reproductive and growing pig performance of PIC products - Noel Williams / Sygen/PIC
* Crossbred breeding values: selecting for commercial performance - Dave McLaren / Sygen/PIC
* Application of genomics of health in animal breeding: impacting full value pigs sold - Montse Torremorell / Sygen/PIC
* Establishment of large gilt PRRS-negative positive production - Lisa Becton / Genetiporc
* Assessments and actions following a boar stud biosecurity breach - Matt Anderson / Genetiporc
* Evaluating profitability of wean:finish operations - John Sonderman / Danbred North American Association of Swine Veterinarians
* Weaning more pigs/pounds per crate - Darwin Kohler / Babcock Genetics
* The Auto Mate[TM] system for boar semen collection - Mark Wilson / Minitube of America
* Cloning, a tool for genetic transfer - Mark Wilson / Minitube of America
* Efficacy of PG 600/Matrix in meeting gilt mating targets - George Foxcroft / Intervet
* Using Matrix[TM] and PG 600® in a commercial swine operation: impact on gilt pool size - Matt Ackerman / Intervet
* DuPont's new biosecurity systems - Annamaria Castiglia / DuPont Animal Health Solutions
Session #3: Industrial Partners
* A new method for tracking pig flow through complex, large-scale pork production system - Tom Stein / Metafarms
* A new model for projecting pig flow through complex, large-scale pork production systems - Tom Stein / Metafarms
* Reporting and analyzing management process efficiency in sow farms - Tom Stein / Metafarms
* Behavioral responses in finishing pigs fed Paylean - Madonna Benjamin / Elanco Animal Health
* The impact of Pulmotil feeding in the nursery on finishing performance of at-risk pigs - Jeff Harker / Elanco Animal Health
* Healthy pigs, safe food - Scott Hurd / Elanco Animal Health
* Use of Nuflor and Banamine for individual treatment of PMWS and PCV-2 associated pneumonia - Francois Cardinal / Schering Plough Animal Health Canada
* Use of statistical process control analysis to evaluate the effects of spray-dried plasma in gestation and lactation feed on sow productivity in a PRRS-unstable farm - Joy Campbell / APC
* Therapeutic lung exposure to feed-administered chlortetracycline is premix brand dependent - Teddi Wolff / Alpharma Animal Health
* Pasteurella multocida as a component of porcine respiratory disease complex (PRDC) - Dianna Jordan / Alpharma Animal Health
* Efficacy of Aureomycin® chlortetracycline (CTC) granulated premix in decreasing the potentiation of PRRSV pneumonia by Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae - Eileen Thacker / Alpharma Animal Health
* Elimination of Lawsonia intracellularis from pigs medicated with carbadox (Mecadox) - Keith Kinsley / Phibro Animal Health
* AvailaCu improves nursery pig performance - Tim Fakler / Zinpro Corporation
* PigCHAMP Care for diagnostic research - Lois Fransen / PigCHAMP
* Prima Tech presents LectraVet - Kim Quinn / Prima Tech USA
* Utility of the IDEXX ELISA SIV H1N1: An investigation of serologic response following vaccination for SIV - Robyn Fleck / Schering-Plough Animal Health
* Cross protection of a Haemophilus parasuis serotype 12 vaccine (Parapac®) against serotype 4 - Huchappa Jayappa / Schering-Plough Animal Health
Session #4: Industrial Partners
* Efficacy of lincomycin in-feed (Lincomix®) and/or a porcine proliferative enteropathy (ileitis) vaccine (Enterisol® Ileitis; Boehringer Ingelheim) administered to pigs artificially challenged with Lawsonia intracellularis - Jim Bradford / Pfizer Animal Health
* RFID technology to measure individual pig response to treatment with Excede for Swine® - Michael Kuhn / Pfizer Animal Health
* Efficacy and safety of FarrowSure Gold B - Jeff Kula / Pfizer Animal Health
* Efficacy of Enterisol Ileitis against recent field isolates of Lawsonia intracellularis - Jeremy Kroll / Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica
* Comparison of two commercial Salmonella vaccines in swine - Jeff Husa / Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica
* Considerations with simultaneous use of oral bacterial vaccines - Don Walter / Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica
* Control of porcine enteritis association with Clostridium perfringens type A: Is alpha toxoid the solution? - Brad Bosworth / Novartis Animal Health
* Reactivity profile of two parvovirus-erysipelas-leptospira (PEL) vaccines - a safety study - Mark Hammer / Novartis Animal Health
* Comparison of five adjuvants in inducing systemic immune responses against H1N1 and H3N2 swine influenza A viruses in young pigs vaccinated with inactivated swine influenza vaccines - Boh Chang Lin / MVP Laboratories
* Myco Silencer® ONCE, new two dose approval: Challenge efficacy and serological response studies - Rich Schlueter / Intervet
* U.S. status of circovirus (PCV2)/post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) according to recently surveyed swine practitioners - Tom Gillespie / Merial
* Update on circovirus (PCV2)/post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) vaccination strategies - John Ellis / Merial
* Efficacy and safety of needle-free transdermal delivery of a novel Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae bacterin - Gregory Royer / Merial
* Comparison of the BioRad MyiQ Real Time system and the Cepheid Smart Cycler using Tetracore's U.S. PRRS virus detection kit - Scanlon Daniels / Newport Laboratories
* Potentiation of PCV2-associated PMWS by vaccinations with certain Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae killed adjuvanted bacterins - Steven Krakowka / Fort Dodge Animal Health (USA) & Wyeth Animal Health (Canada)
* Detection of PRRS seroconversion and persisting antibody titers in swine following controlled infection during a long-term study - Ricardo Munoz / IDEXX
* A multicenter efficacy trial of different vaccination strategies against Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae in Europe - Mark Mombarg / Fort Dodge Animal Health (USA) & Wyeth Animal Health (Canada)
Special seminar
Qualified Accredited Veterinarian (QAV) training: Trichinae certification (limit 10)
The Trichinae Certification Program is a developing USDA pre-harvest pork safety program that will provide documentation of swine management practices which minimize risk of exposure of swine to the zoonotic parasite Trichinella spiralis.
MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2006
General Session: Beyond the Basics
* Beyond the basics: What will the future bring and how will we get ready? - Gregg BeVier
* Challenges and changes in the swine industry: A practitioner's perspective - Jim Lowe
* Challenges and changes in the swine industry: A producer's perspective - Steven Pollmann
* Challenges and changes in the swine industry: A packer's perspective - Gary Louis
* Success and failure in the swine veterinary profession: What have we learned? - Roy Schultz
Concurrent Session #1: Professional Development
* Role of mentors and peer groups in professional development - Randy Jones
* Field trial design and implementation - Locke Karriker
* Critical thinking, technical writing, and grant proposal writing - Bob Morrison
* Grant writing - practitioner's perspective - Where is the money, what gets funded, and how do practitioners apply? - Paul Yeske
* Advanced degrees and board certification - A practitioner's perspective - Warren Wilson
* Communication and presentation skills - Rowena Crosbie, Tero International
* Ethics and the swine practitioner - Max Rodibaugh
Concurrent Session #2: Swine Welfare
* The Swine Welfare Assurance Program (SWAP): Progress and opportunities - Paul Sundberg
* Auditing animal welfare - Angela Baysinger
* Welfare decision making - John Deen
* Space requirements for pigs - Mike Brumm
* Measuring pain and pain control - Leena Anil
Concurrent Session #3: Diagnostics: Management of Diagnostic Data
* Basic interpretation of diagnostic data - Peter Davies
* Management of diagnostic data within a veterinary clinic - Steve Dudley
* Application of system necropsy examinations - Luc Dufresne
* Using diagnostics to justify intervention strategies - Mike Mohr
* Diagnostic information flow and analysis in a large production system - Howard Hill and Julie Mulford
Concurrent Session #4: Emerging diseases
* An evolutionary view of disease emergence: Why and how organisms become pathogens, and implications for emerging disease - Tony Goldberg
* Swine influenza virus in the United States and its emergence as a zoonotic pathogen - Richard Webby
* Emergence of antibiotic resistance across bacterial and animal populations - Randy Singer
* PMWS in Quebec : Is it an emerging disease? - Laura Batista
* Collecting the right information and samples on a farm with strange clinical signs - Jim Collins
* Emergence of PMWS in Quebec : Lessons learned and the role of the practitioner in managing outbreaks of disease - Francois Cardinal
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2006
Concurrent Session #1: Regional Eradication
* Regional eradication: An option today or for the future? - Carlos Pijoan
* Update of PRRSV biosecurity research - Scott Dee
* Industry experience with PRRS elimination: Thwarting reintroduction - Butch Baker
* Experiences with regional control of PRRS in Minnesota - Bob Morrison
* PRRSV eradication in Chile : A country-wide approach - Juan Carlos Pinilla and Marta Rojas
* Eradication of Mycoplasma hyopneumonia in Switzerland - Katharina Stärk
* The potential spread of foot-and-mouth disease in US swine: Case studies in California and Iowa - Tim Carpenter
Concurrent Session #2: Research Topics
* Sow shoulder lesions: risk factors and treatment effects on an Ontario farm - Kathy Zurbrigg
* A study investigating whether performance in the nursery is a predictor of performance in the grower-finisher barn in all-in-all-out swine systems in Canada - Tiffany Cottrell
* Salmonella in the finishing pig - does size matter? - Thomas Rosendal
* Prevalence of Salmonella enterica and S. enterica serotype typhimurium in swine at slaughter - Marcos Rostagno
* Prevalence of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae in piglets at weaning as a predictor of the severity of the disease in growing pigs - Eduardo Fano
* Comparison of the transmission ratio from Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae of vaccinated and non-vaccinated nursery piglets - Tom Meyns
* Effect of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae vaccination in swine experimentally co-infected with M. hyopneumoniae and porcine circovirus type 2 - Pat Halbur
* Comparison of the pathogenicity of U.S. PCV2 field isolates in an experimental pig model - Tanja Opriessnig
* Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) infection decreases the efficacy of a modified live porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRSV) vaccine - Tanja Opriessnig
* Use of an experimental model to test the efficacy of planned exposure to live PRRSV - Tanja Opriessnig
* Experimental quantification of effect of PRRS vaccination on PRRSV transmission - Enrique Mondaca-Fernandez
* Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus modulates the main innate immunity function of porcine plasmacytoid dendritic cells - Federico Zuckermann
* Reassortant human/swine H1N1 and H1N2 influenza virus infections in U.S. swine - Marie Gramer
* Improved serology testing for swine influenza virus - Kyoung-Jin Yoon
* Evaluation of North American hemagglutinin subtype 1 swine influenza isolates - Amy Vincent