Sunday, 26th July 64th International Conference of the Wildlife Disease Association 2015

7:00AM - 8:30AM
Sunday, 26th July
Main entrance Foyer
8:00AM - 12:00PM
Sunday, 26th July
Mudjimba Room 3
8:00AM - 12:00PM
Sunday, 26th July
Mudjimba Room 2
8:30AM - 5:00PM
Sunday, 26th July
Fire Lily Room
8:15AM - 5:00PM
Sunday, 26th July

This workshop is located at Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital.

A return bus will transport delegates from Novotel Twin Waters to Australia Zoo and back.

The bus will depart Novotel Twin Waters at 8:15am and return approximately 5:30pm. 

Please ensure you are at the front of the Novotel by 8.10 am 

 

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

  8.15 am – Bus departs the Novotel Twin Waters Maroochydore for Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital

  9.00 am – Welcome and housekeeping

  9.10 am – Robyn Stenner - Triage, complete physical exam and diagnostics 

  9.50 am – Amber Gillett - Cytology and pathology

10.30 am – Rebecca Millers - Anaesthesia, analgesia and other drugs used in koalas

11.10 am – Claude Lacasse - hospitalisation and rehabilitation

 

12.00 pm – Lunch

 

1.15 pm – Peter Timms - Chlamydial disease : Potential control through a vaccine

1.55 pm – Iona Maher - Immune effects of KoRV and newly discovered KoRV variants

2.30 pm – Caroline Marschner - The link between a specialist diet and immune function

 

3.05 pm – Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital tour

 

3.35 pm – Damien Higgins - The Koala Health Hub

4.10 pm – Merran Govendir –  Pharmacokinetics of drugs commonly used in koalas (Final title TBA)

4.45 pm – Concluding remarks

 

5.00 pm – Workshop close and buses back to Novotel

 

8:30AM - 5:00PM
Sunday, 26th July
Mudjimba Room 1
1:00PM - 5:00PM
Sunday, 26th July
Mudjimba Room 2
1:00PM - 5:00PM
Sunday, 26th July
Mudjimba Room 3
6:30PM - 7:30PM
Sunday, 26th July
The Terrace