Dear Colleagues:

• ACVSMR Annual Educational Meeting! We hope to see you at the ACVSMR meeting to be held in conjunction with the ACVS Surgical Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada in October. The ACVSMR meeting will be held on Friday, October 18, 2019 and will include a Keynote Lecture by President-Elect Mike Davis entitled From Deserts to Mountaintops: Exercise in Extreme Environments. This will be followed by a morning of outstanding scientific talks. The ACVSMR Business Meeting will be held at lunchtime. All ACVSMR diplomates and residents are welcome to attend; attendees will visit the exhibit hall for a complimentary box lunch and return for the business meeting. The afternoon session will consist of canine- and equine-specific lecture tracks. Come and join us!

• What you will see. The website will look more professional and will be much easier to navigate.
   
• What you won't see. The website that you see is only a part of the new system being developed. There are also a number of behind-the-scenes functions that are designed to smooth credentialing, residency and membership activities. So, for example, there will be a new membership database that will allow you to easily search for colleagues and renew your annual membership online. You will also be able to submit information for the website and newsletter, such as residency listings and job postings, online.
   
• In process. We are also working on digital solutions that will allow trainees to submit their annual reports and credentialing materials for the annual exam online, and will allow diplomates to submit their re-credentialing information online. We expect these functions to be operational by the end of 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

Chris Zink, DVM, PhD

ACVSMR Annual Educational Meeting, hosted in conjunction with the ACVS Surgical Summit
Friday, October 23, 2020
Washington, D.C.

ACVSMR is dedicated to fostering research in sports medicine and rehabilitation topics by once again providing you an opportunity to present the results of your work at our special session at the annual ACVS Symposium. At least one author must be prepared to register for the conference and be available to present at their assigned time. Each prospective presenting author may submit a maximum of three abstracts for consideration.

Three canine and 3 equine abstracts will be selected for presentation based on the two-step process. An honorarium and single day registration will be provided to each of the winners which may be graduated based on their final rank.

Please download the abstract submission guidelines for complete details. Please direct questions to Dr. Jennifer Brown, CE Committee Chair, at [email protected].

Submission Deadline: Midnight Pacific Standard Time, USA, January 31, 2020

 

ACVSMR Business Meeting and Lunch

The ACVSMR Business Meeting will be held Friday, October 18, 2019, in Las Vegas, Nevada, in conjunction with the ACVS Surgery Summit.

All ACVSMR diplomates and residents are welcome to attend. The ACVSMR education sessions will break for lunch at 12:30 pm, and attendees are encouraged to visit the exhibit hall for a complimentary box lunch (voucher required) and return for the business meeting.

ACVSMR Lecture Track  

We are pleased to announce that we have started our Instagram account under the name VSMR.official. Load the application Instagram on your smart phone, and then like our publications.

More over, we need your stories and pictures. Since Instagram is made to have a more visual content, you can send a small video clip or a couple of pictures with 2 to 5 lines of text to explain your case, announce a meeting, or also share some fun pics of your everyday practice.

We welcome your ideas and posts about sports medicine and rehabilitation, and we ask that you also direct your clients to this account for additional information.

Please send your photos, stories and ideas for posting to Philippe Benoit at [email protected] as Instagram Coordinator for ACVSMR.

To encourage members to provide material for our Facebook page and Instagram account, the rules for publishing on these sites have been changed. Now we allow authorship notice on these media, the name of the publisher and his or hers affiliations can be mentioned.

 

This is a great way to publish a little case report or add some photos of a rehab process with a short explanation while gaining acknowledge in the community for this work! You can then add the post from the ACVSMR site to your social media to show you are an established member of ACVSMR.

 

We are pleased to have more than 3,900 followers on Facebook. If you have not done so already, please like the page and link to your business page.  

 

Posts can be send to Rob van Wessum at [email protected] for Facebook and Philippe Benoit at [email protected] for Instagram. 

 

Email is our main way of reaching the membership, and we want to make sure we can contact you about membership and other issues directly affecting you, as well as news from the College. We do not give your email out to third parties.

Please help us out by taking a moment to log in to the Diplomate Area of our website to make sure your preferred email address is listed in our system and your contact information is up to date. Thank you!

The public relations committee of ACVSMR is hoping to develop sports medicine and rehabilitation student clubs in veterinary schools. We are conducting a survey of all U.S. veterinary schools and are planning to establish contact with advisors of existing clubs. In addition, we will be reaching out to faculty at the remaining schools offering assistance in developing student clubs.

 

For our organization to be most beneficial to these student clubs, we are now requesting that ACVSMR diplomates help us to create a library of resource materials. These can include case reports (canine and equine), webinars, and videotapes of clinical conditions with diagnosis, etc. We will make these resources available to student club advisors for use in club meetings, crediting those who have supplied the resources.

 

We expect interest to be high and are hoping that you will support us in this effort by helping to build our library. Please contact Dr. Linda Blythe, [email protected]. Thank you!

 

Thank you to the ACVSMR members who have volunteered for our speaker registry. We invite all interested members to register so that we are able to recommend canine and equine speakers for upcoming meetings.

If you are interested in joining the speaker registry, please send an email to Dr. Jennifer Brown, chair of the Continuing Education Committee, at [email protected] with your contact information and topics of interest. 

 

Diplomate Presentations in the Next 90 Days  

 

Diplomates: Please send details of any upcoming lectures and workshops that you will present to our newsletter editor Dr. Kenneth Bruecker at [email protected]. These lectures qualify as continuing education for diplomates pursuing recertification.

Healing Oasis Wellness Center course in Sturtevant, Wisconsin
August 22-25 - Lectures/labs: Pedro Rivera
Topic: Veterinary Massage & Rehabilitation Therapy (Module 1 of 4)

VetPD course in Ocala, Florida

September 6-7 - Lectures/labs: Erica McKenzie

Topic: Equine Muscle Conditions - Diagnostics, Therapeutic Strategies & Performance Enhancement

VetPD course in Snohomish, Washington

September 6-7 - Lectures/labs: Andris Kaneps

Topic: Sports Horse Medicine & Orthopedics

Canine Rehabilitation Institute course in Wheat Ridge, Colorado
September 6-10 - Lectures/labs: Janet Van Dyke, Kristen Kirkby Shaw
Topic: Introduction to Canine Rehabilitation

Canine Rehabilitation Institute course in Wheat Ridge, Colorado
September 12-14 - Lectures/labs: Chris Zink
Topic: Canine Sports Medicine

VOSM course in Largo, Florida

September 20 - Lectures/labs: Sherman Canapp, Debra Canapp

Topic: Advanced Treatments in Canine Forelimb Conditions

VetPD course in Ashland, Virginia

October 4-5: Lectures/labs: Elizabeth Davidson

Topic: Back, Sacroiliac & Pelvic Problems of the Horse

Healing Oasis Wellness Center course in Sturtevant, Wisconsin

October 9-13 - Lectures/labs: Rosemary LoGiudice, Pedro Rivera

Topic: Veterinary Spinal Manipulative Therapy Certification Program (Module 3 of 5)

Canine Rehabilitation Institute course in Westminster, Colorado
October 11-13: Lectures/labs: Felix Duerr, Leilani Alvarez
Topic: Orthotics and Prosthetics in Canine Rehabilitation

ACVS Surgery Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada

October 16 - Workshop/dry lab: Kenneth Bruecker, Steven Petersen

Topic: Limb Alignment Osteotomies to Manage Patella Luxation

Companion Regenerative University in Annapolis Junction, Maryland

October 25 - Lectures/labs: Sherman Canapp

Topic: Sports Medicine Workshop

Healing Oasis Wellness Center 2019 Convention in Lombard, Illinois

November 1-3 - Lectures/labs: Leilani Alvarez, Hilary Clayton, Rosemary LoGiudice, Sarah Love, Roland Thaler

Topics: How to Prevent Common Sports Injuries; Novel Therapies That Promote Recovery; Nutrition and Supplements for the Sporting Dog; General Principles of Using Exercise for Conditioning and Rehabilitation; Proprioceptive-Based Techniques; A Link For Integrating Diagnostics To Recovery: Understanding Musculoskeletal Ultrasound I and II; Exercise and the Immune System; Conditioning in Canine Athletes; Longevity: Mobility in Geriatrics; Introduction and Review of Equine Regenerative Medicine; Selection and Application of Regenerative Medicine Modalities; Regenerative Medicine Case Presentation with Discussion

Diplomates: Please send us details of any job opportunities, residencies, or internships at your facility. Please limit all postings to 100 words or less and submit them to our newsletter editor Dr. Kenneth Bruecker at [email protected].

Note: All postings will be listed for 3 months and then removed unless we are notified that a posting should be repeated. Please notify us if a position is filled.


No residencies or internships are currently posted. Additional internships and residencies in sports medicine and rehabilitation may be listed at www.virmp.org.

Available Jobs

 

Sports Medicine / Rehabilitation Specialist, Commerce, Michigan - MedVet is seeking sports medicine/rehabilitation specialist to join our Commerce, MI hospital. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast paced environment and is dedicated to practicing the highest quality care. MedVet is one of the largest employee owned and veterinarian led multispecialty and emergency practices in the country and offers the opportunity to become a shareholder. Dedication to our mission, strategy and core values of Teamwork, Leadership and Compassion are the priorities of our organization and allow us to deliver true collaborative care. Visit www.medvet.com/employment or send a confidential CV to: Dr. Barbara Lightner, [email protected], 614.506.6288.

 

Sports Medicine Specialist / Experienced CCRT Clinician, Syracuse, New York - We are looking for a Sports Medicine specialist (or experienced CCRT clinician) to direct our CARE (Complementary and Animal Rehab Essentials) center, expand upon our current pain management therapies, and bring new modalities of care to upstate, NY. The CARE center is privately owned and was built in 2013 alongside the Veterinary Medical Center of CNY, a 24hr ER/specialty practice in Syracuse, NY. Current services provided include acupuncture, spinal manipulation, laser therapy, trigger point release, water treadmill therapy, therapy pool, PT work, pain management. Please visit http://www.vmccny.com/care-pet-therapy or contact Maureen Luschini ([email protected]) to learn more about us. Residents welcome to apply!

 

DACVSMR or Board-Eligible Rehabilitation Veterinarian, Shoreline, Washington - SOUND Veterinary Rehabilitation Center is growing! SOUND is partners with Animal Surgical and Orthopedic Center and proudly locally owned and operated. Together we are the premier orthopedic, sports medicine and rehabilitation center in the Pacific Northwest. Join a staff of 4 rehab DVMs, including 2 DACVSMR, 7 DACVS (two are double boarded), one PT, 2 certified rehab techs and 6 rehab assistants. Equipment includes CT, diagnostic ultrasound, needle and traditional arthroscopy, 3 different PRP systems, ESWT and a full rehab gym with 2 UWTM. Our team culture is outstanding and there is no place more beautiful to live. Compensation is competitive and includes full health benefits, generous CE and vacation time, and more. For more information please email [email protected].

 

Department Chair, Department of Clinical Sciences, Ithaca, New York - Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine seeks an exceptional leader to serve as the next Chair of the Department of Clinical Sciences. The successful candidate will be a board-certified veterinarian (DVM or equivalent); recognized for research, clinical, and teaching excellence; leadership; scholarship; have a sound vision for the future of the department; and the skill to lead and advance a clinical and research-oriented department. Application review will begin on July 15, 2019, and will continue until the position is filled. For full position details and to apply, visit: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/13734

 

Credentialed Technician with CCRP/CCRA Certification, Stamford, Connecticut - Cornell University Veterinary Specialists (Stamford, CT) seeks a credentialed technician with CCRP/CCRA certification (or desire to work towards it). We are a dynamic SMR Service fully integrated into a VECCS Level I Specialty facility. The SMR caseload includes in-hospital ICU/ER cases, orthopedic surgical post-ops, Neurologic cases, all specialty in-house referrals and busy outpatient appointments. We service pets, athletes, and working animals! UWTM, all modalities, CT/advanced diagnostics, and acupuncture service. This candidate will focus on client/patient relationships, directly provide care under the direction of our board-certified SMR Specialist, collaboratively coordinate schedules, and provide rehabilitation plan instructions to clients. Please email [email protected].

 

Medical Director (DVM, ACVSMR) *Signing Bonus*, Northern Virginia - Veterinary Surgical Centers Rehabilitation (VSCR), a full-service physical rehabilitation and pain management practice in Northern Virginia, seeks an experienced full-time Medical Director. Requirements: DVM with 5 years + experience, Diplomate ACVSMR preferred and CCRT or CCRP certification, with a minimum of 3 years of experience if not ACVSMR diplomate. This position based in Vienna, VA with additional coverage in Leesburg and Winchester. Competitive salary, paid CE, generous benefits package that includes health/vision/dental, 401(k); paid vacation; ** signing bonus of $5,000! ** Apply online here: https://jobapply.page.link/ihwf

 

 

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