The BeTER LeTTER

March, 2023

Volume 19, Issue 02

Director's Letter

Greetings ,


The next BioTherapy Live! broadcast will air Tuesday, March 21 at 9:00 am PST (12:00 pm New York time). The program, will feature Dr. Sílvia González Monteiro, who will discuss larval biotherapy in animals, and Dr. Janaína Brand Dillmann, who will share her experience treating injured horses, and her research with resistant bacteria.


Professor Silvia Gonzalez Monteiro graduated with a degree in Veterinary Medicine at the Pontifical Catholic University (PUCRS) of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil in 1992. She received her Master's degree and PhD in Veterinary Parasitology from the Federal Rural University (UFRRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Dr. Monteiro has been a Professor of Veterinary Parasitology at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil since 2002. She is currently a professor of the postgraduate program in Veterinary Medicine at UFSM, where she supervises and teaches masters and doctoral courses.


Dr. Monteiro is also a coordinator and founder the LAPAVET, a Veterinary Parasitology Laboratory located at UFSM, where she guides undergraduate and graduate students in carrying out tests

and parasitological evaluations.


Dr. Monteiro has already published two editions of the book “Parasitologia na Medicina Veterinária” by GEN. She has been actively involved with veterinary biotherapy since 2017 and has created a laboratory that specifically breeds and supplies Calliphorid (blowfly) larvae.


Dr. Janaína Brand Dillmann graduated in Veterinary Medicine at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil in 1992. She worked with horses during her undergraduate studies. She has a Master's degree (2016-2018) and a PhD (2018-2020) in Animal Health and

Reproduction at UFSM. She began her biotherapy studies in 2018, using blow flies clinically to treat horse injuries. Subsequently, she extended her studies into the laboratory, where she tested the safety and efficacy of using a lesser studied blow fly, Lucilia cuprina.


The Zoom link, for watching live, is below. If you can not participate in the live program, watch the recording on our Facebook page or our YouTube channel afterwards.


To join the meeting on Zoom, go to:

https://uci.zoom.us/j/93862239768?pwd=cXl0K3FtMnJKT1htZ1Q4ZDZEa295dz09


Meeting ID: 938 6223 9768

Passcode: 504239


To join by phone, find your local number at:

https://uci.zoom.us/u/amFtlUUFl


I hope you can join us as we continue our series of visits with maggot therapists from around the world.



Advancing healthcare through education and research in biotherapy,

R Sherman (signature)

Human-Animal Interaction


The next HAI webinar will be:

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Equine Assisted Therapy with Children and Families: Exploring Connection and Attachment


Thu, Mar 30, 2023 MDT

9:00 am - 10:30 am


1.5 CEU credits


Presented by:

Kate Nicoll, LCSW


Description

The integration of therapy animals into clinical work often allows families to work on the development of empathic connections in an environment that feels non-judgmental and more natural. This webinar will focus on ways that equine assisted/animal assisted psychotherapy can benefit children and their families by impacting affect regulation, attachment, attunement and affirmation. It will include specific interactive activities that youth and families, together with a psychologist, can do to promote attachment and connection.

 


To sign up, register at this site.



Animal Assisted Interventions Webinar Series


Thu, Apr 6, 2023 MDT

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm



Description

Monthly AAI webinar series; upcoming topic to be announced.

 

To sign up, register at this site.


Biotherapy Live! (and recorded!)

The next broadcast of Biotherapy Live! will be:


  • March 21, 2023: BioTherapy Live! with Dr. Sílvia González Monteiro and Dr. Janaína Brand Dillmann of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Topic/Title: Maggot Debridement Therapy in Animals


To join the meeting on Zoom, go to:

https://uci.zoom.us/j/93862239768?pwd=cXl0K3FtMnJKT1htZ1Q4ZDZEa295dz09


Meeting ID: 938 6223 9768

Passcode: 504239


To join by phone, find your local number at:

https://uci.zoom.us/u/amFtlUUFl


Want to suggest a topic or speaker? let us know!



Do you have something to share? A favorite therapist or researcher that you would like us to feature? let us know!



"Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter . . . he's just got to know."

Will Rogers


Publication Credits

THE BeTER LeTTER is published by: 
BioTherapeutics, Education & Research (BTER) Foundation
36 Urey Court, Irvine, CA 92617
Phone: 949-246-1156 / Fax: 949-679-3001 

Editor:
Ronald A. Sherman

Assistant Editors:
Albert Nguyen

Contributing Writers:
Dr. Sagiv Ben-Yakir, Dr. Jose Contreras-Ruiz, Sheri Rosen,
Dr. Pascal Steenvoorde, Dr. Tarek Tantawi,
Your name could be here! 

Foundation Consultants:
Eve Iversen, Dr. Alana Jolley, Amy Mendez, Joanne Preston,
Dr. Aletha Tippett

Foundation Board:
Ronald A Sherman (Chair); Sagiv Ben-Yakir;
Chris Kleronomos; Samuel G Kohn (Treasurer); Sheri Cameron.

Past Board Members:
Donna Beales; Sharon Mendez; Pamela Mitchell; Randall Sullivan

Administrative Assistant: 
Albert Nguyen
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