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Quebec City, Canada, hosts 28th
AASP Annual Meeting
Quebec City was the site of the largest-ever AASP Annual Meeting March
1-4, 1997 with:
- 592 veterinarian registrants,
- 32 students,
- 16 officers & board members,
- 135 speakers,
- 11 press,
- nine special guests,
- 108 participants who staffed technical service tables.
President-Elect Dr. Larry Rueff chaired the program committee for this
year's meeting, and his opening remarks emphasized the great cooperation
he received in organizing all the continuing education and other activities.
Dr. Rueff also highlighted his welcome with, "It offers a truly unique
opportunity to visit our colleagues in Canada and enjoy the hospitality."
The record attendance and enthusiasm of all the attendees confirmed that
Quebec City was the "right place" in 1997 for the AASP. This year's
theme was "Back to the Basics." The program focused more on disease
than it had been in recent years. President Rueff cautioned that pig production
is a result of environment, genetics, and management; specifically, this
meeting was focused on the aspect that health plays in keeping production
online.
Preconvention seminars
The success of preconvention seminars from past years continued with
11 half-day workshop sessions held March 1 and 2. A nutrition workshop featured
"Water Management and Growth Modeling." "Offsite Diagnostic
Pathology (Wet Lab)" and "Ventilation Evaluation" workshops
and offered participants the opportunity to examine fresh necropsies and
nursery environments, respectively.
Participants enjoyed two workshop sessions on "Alternative Finishing
Concepts and the Practical Economics of Pork Production" and "Cost
Control," lead by Dr. Dennis DiPietre. Dr. Bob Morrison coordinated
a workshop on "Biotechnology in Swine Production" as it is being
applied in the swine industry and what may be on the horizon.
The Sunday morning workshop sessions opened with "Applied Serology
and Vaccinology" which dealt with interpretation, selection, and case
studies. Another workshop, focused on "Improving Communications and
Teamwork," was coordinated by Dr. Morgan Morrow. The final three workshops
addressed "PigCHAMP® ProblemSolving," "Swine
Reproduction," and "Equipment Decisions."
French veterinarians meet
The preconvention activities included the annual meeting of the Association
Francaise de Medecine Veterinaire Porcine (AFMVP) in Quebec City. Over 70
French swine veterinarians came to Quebec, according to AFMVP VicePresident,
Dr. Sylvain Blaisot, to share knowledge and open communications. Some mutual
concerns including health and drug regulations, animal welfare, and manure
management were addressed at the general session on international issues
on Tuesday afternoon.
Student presentations and industrial partners
Four simultaneous sessions (one student and three industrial) were held
on Sunday afternoon. Students from eight universities made 15 presentations.
They represented the University of Illinois, Iowa State University, University
of Pennsylvania, University of Guelph, Kansas State University, North Carolina
State University, University of Minnesota, and University of Wisconsin.
Each student received a $500 honorarium and leather portfolio from Hoffmann-La
Roche Animal Nutrition and Health.
The three industrial partner sessions covered 45 presentations which
detailed efficacies, applications, procedures, and evaluations of numerous
vaccines, drugs, and feed additives. The AASP program committee thanked
the many companies for their support by saying, "The contributions
of money, time, and resources help the AASP maintain the highest-quality
programming at a reasonable cost for our members."
Howard Dunne Memorial Lecture
Dr. Barbara Straw of Michigan State University gave the Howard Dunne
Memorial Lecture, entitled "Veterinary Practice: Art, Science, and
Politics." As Dr. Straw opened her remarks, she said, "Producers
are not an easy sell." She continued, "The art of veterinary medicine
requires good communication skills, both talking and listening, the ability
to read the client, and knowing what will motivate him."
Addressing the science of practice, Dr. Straw used cross-fostering of
pigs as it relates to age, growth rates, and mortality for her primary example.
She pointed out her difficulties in explaining the "science" to
the client when highly uniform piglets were weaned even though continuous
cross-fostering depressed growth rate of piglets by 20%-25%.
Regarding the politics of practice, Dr. Straw stressed that some research
activity in the past has been for the sake of publication. She observed,
"Now the pendulum is shifting back to a closer relationship between
academia and industry." One of her conclusions was, "An organized
network of practitioners, diagnostic laboratories, and state and federal
regulatory veterinarians that monitor disease trends would help the industry
to focus on emerging challenges." She added that it requires a coordinated
effort at diagnosis in which investigators share resources and information,
within and among institutions. |
Dr. Barbara Straw, 1997 Howard Dunne Memorial Lecturer |
General session speakers
The Annual Meeting theme -- "Back to the Basics" -- was exemplified
by ten speakers on Monday as they discussed enteric and respiratory diseases,
the related immunology, pathology, and pharmacology, and concluded with
economics and the veterinary feed directive.
Dr. Daniel Hurnik spoke on epidemiology of enteric and respiratory diseases,
saying that once a population is without disease it becomes susceptible
because herd immunity is either not present or declines because births or
replacements grow up without exposure. Discussing regional immunity, he
pointed out that all farms in a region can be considered a population and
therefore the dynamics of transmission apply equally to a geographic region.
In addressing pharmacology, Dr. Scott Brown believes that the pharmaceutical
industry will bring more new compounds out for swine in the coming decade
than in the previous 25 years. He also believes there will be more water
medications, fewer feed medications, more sustainedrelease injectable antibiotics,
and other novel methods of administering therapeutic agents.
A practical explanation of native defense mechanisms in the respiratory
system as compared to acquired immune defense mechanisms was presented by
Dr. James A. Roth. The phagocytic cells, such as neutrophils and alveolar
macrophages play a very important role in both native and acquired immunity,
according to Dr. Roth, and their function must be present for respiratory
defenses.
Dr. Robert DesRosiers chose several common respiratory diseases to review
for diagnosis and control. He recommends the following five strategies to
prevent respiratory diseases in general:
- carefully select the location of a future farm,
- know what you buy,
- use a strict (complete) all-in-all-out system,
- whenever possible, strictly limit the number of animal sources, and
- raise pigs in comfortable environmental conditions.
Awards
Dr. Tom Neuzil, who is resigning as Executive Secretary of the AASP,
was presented with a special award for his service to the AASP by President
Howard Hill at the Le Capitole Theater Reception and Banquet. Dr. Gary Dial
(Clinton, North Carolina) received the Howard Dunne Memorial Award. He was
recognized for his leadership in the AASP, as a Dunne Lecturer, for his
many professional presentations, and especially for development of PigCHAMP®.
The 1997 Swine PractitioneroftheYear Award recipient was Dr. Neil Shantz,
Warman, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was honored for his great service to clients
plus his people skills in practicing for swine producers. Dr. David Shoneweis,
Manhattan, Kansas, was presented the Meritorious Service Award for his lifetime
of work for the AASP. Dr. Shoneweis was specially complimented for his work
with students as professor of food animal medicine at Kansas State and Oklahoma
State Universities.
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Above, Dr. Tom Neuzil
Left, Drs. Dial, Schank, and Schoneweis |
Officers
Dr. Larry Rueff, Greensburg, Indiana, was installed as incoming President
by Dr. Howard THill at the business luncheon on Tuesday. Dr. Roderick Tubbs,
Bowling Green, Kentucky assumed the position of PresidentElect and Dr. Alan
B. Scheidt, Raleigh, North Carolina, was installed as the newly elected
VicePresident of the AASP.
The 1998 AASP annual meeting will be held in Des Moines, Iowa on March
7-10.
-- report prepared by Leonard F. Seda, DVM
Victoria, Iowa |
AASP Officers Drs. Howard Hill, Larry Rueff, Roderick Tubbs,
and Alan B. Scheidt |
Dr. James Bailey honored in South Dakota
February 15 was proclaimed "Dr. James Bailey Day" by Governor
Janklow of South Dakota. Dr. Bailey, a noted swine veterinarian who is now
retired, was recognized and presented with awards for his outstanding contributions
to veterinary medicine and the swine industry.
The first Dr. James Bailey Lecture was delivered by Avoca, Iowa veterinarian,
Dr. Roy Schultz, to veterinarians at South Dakota State on Saturday, February
15, on "The Changing Global Swine Industry."
Dr. Bailey was born and grew up in Atlantic, Iowa. His distinguished
career started upon graduation from the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM)at
Iowa State College of Science and Technology in 1946. He conducted a general
veterinary practice with his father from
1946-1956 in Atlantic, Iowa. From 1956-1958, he was an ambulatory clinician
in the CVM of Iowa State University (ISU). In 1958, he joined Walnut Grove
Feeds as a field veterinarian. He served as a resource for 450 sales people
in eight states until 1968.
Dr. Bailey joined the South Dakota State University (SDSU) faculty in
1968 as an extension veterinarian, and retired from SDSU in 1985. He was
granted the status of Extension Veterinarian Emeritus. He served as the
South Dakota Veterinary Medical Association (SDVMA) Secretary/Treasurer
from 1972-1985 and was the Executive Director of the SDVMA from 1985-1996.
In 1969, Dr. Bailey was one of the original Extension personnel to compile
the fact sheets that became the present Pork Industry Handbook. He contributed
information on respiratory diseases and arthritis in swine. He was honored
by the American Association of Extension Veterinarians as the Veterinarian
of the Year and SDVMA Veterinarian of the Year.
Dr. Bailey served on the South Dakota Hog Cholera and Pseudorabies Eradication
committees. He was a member of the South Dakota Livestock Foundation from
1970-1996. He served on the Livestock Conservation Institute's Parasite
Committee from 1979-1981. Dr. Bailey received the South Dakota Pork Producers
Council (SDPPC) Distinguished Service Award in 1976 and was named an Honorary
Pork Producer.
Dr. Bailey served as a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association's
House of Delegates through the 1970s and on the Council on Biologics and
Therapeutic Agents during the 1980s. Iowa State University CVM presented
Dr. Bailey with the prestigious Stange Memorial Award for distinguished
alumni in 1984.
Dr. Bailey was a charter member of the AASP in 1969. He served as the
organization's first Secretary in 1972 and as the President in 1980-1981.
He was granted the distinguished Howard Dunne Memorial Award for extraordinary
service to veterinary medicine and the swine industry in 1986.
--Roy Schultz, DVM
Avoca, Iowa
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