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Continuing Education
Registration: click here to register online today!
Registration fees:
$125 Non-students (2 days; 12.5 CE hours)
$90 Students (2 days; 12.5 CE hours)
$10 Saturday pizza party and description writing for residents (1.5 CE hours)
$60 Saturday only (without pizza dinner; 1 day; 8.5 CE hours)
$70 Saturday only with pizza dinner (1 day; 10 CE hours)
Course fees include continental breakfasts (Saturday and Sunday), breaks, lunch (Saturday), and access to online materials.
The full, two-day course provides 12.5 CE hours of credit without the pizza dinner & descriptive writing portion; or 14 CE hours of credit if you attend the pizza dinner & description writing. Saturday-only attendance provides 8.5 CE hours of credit, or 10 CE hours including the pizza dinner & description writing. Full attendance at your registered session(s) is required to receive total CE credits.
Course Cancellation Policy
Full refunds are available for cancellations made by 5 p.m. ET, April 6, 2012. No refunds will be issued thereafter. If a course is cancelled for any reason, the College of Veterinary Medicine will not be responsible for any charges related to travel.
Summary
The goals of this rigorous course are to provide veterinary pathology residents and pathologists with information needed to understand basic ultrastructural techniques and to identify tissues, interpret changes in tissues, and identify organisms at the ultrastructural level. In addition, veterinary pathology residents will learn how to describe electron micrographs. Although designed for veterinary pathologists and pathology residents, this course also is appropriate for graduate students and researchers in other disciplines wishing to incorporate electron microscopy into their research.
The course will begin with an overview of transmission and scanning electron microscopic techniques, including special techniques such as negative staining and immunoelectron microscopy. This will be followed by sessions on basic ultrastructure, normal ultrastructure and pathologic changes in individual organ systems, agent identification, and written description of electron micrographs. Saturday evening will be devoted to residents and practice with description writing.
Conference attendees will receive conference presentations and images on a CD.
Hosts and Speakers
Faculty and Pathology Residents and Graduate Students
Department of Pathology and Electron Microscopy Laboratory
The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine
Mary Ard HT(ASCP), BS
Coordinator of the Electron Microscopy Laboratory
Dr. Cathy Brown DVM, PhD, DACVP
Professor
Dr. M. Camus DVM, DACVP
Clinical Instructor
Dr. Angela Ellis DVM, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dr. Nicole Gottdenker DVM, PhD, DACVP
Assistant Professor
Dr. Elizabeth Howerth DVM, PhD, DACVP
Professor
Dr. Susan Knowles DVM, DACVP
Graduate student
Dr. Bala Manickam DVM, PhD
Resident
Dr. Rita McManamon DVM
Director Zoo and Exotic Pathology Service
Dr. Kaori Sakamoto DVM, PhD, DACVP
Assistant Professor
Dr. Leo Susta DVM, PhD, DACVP
Post-doc, USDA
Dr. Elizabeth Uhl DVM, PhD, DACVP
Associate Professor
Dr. Susan Williams DVM, PhD, DACPV
Associate Professor
Location
All sessions are held at the College of Veterinary Medicine. Please use the ramp entrance to the main Vet Med building. Follow the directions here or contact Melissa Kilpatrick at melissak@uga.edu.
Hotel Accommodations
Georgia Center for Continuing Education
1197 South Lumpkin St.
800.884.1381
Block Code: Pathology
Nightly Rate: $89
Make your reservation on the Georgia Center website.
This hotel is located one block from the Veterinary College.
Holiday Inn Express
513 W. Broad St., Athens, GA 30601
706.546.8122
Block Code: UVP
Nightly Rate: $89
Tentative Schedule
April 21, 2012
7:30-8 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
8-8:10 Introduction
8:10-9:15 Overview of techniques
9:15-10:15 Basic Ultrastructure
10:15-10:45 Refreshment Break
10:45-11:25 Renal ultrastructure
11:30-12:10 p.m. Ultrastructure of Respiratory system
12:10-1:10 Lunch
1:10-2:10 Hematopoietic ultrastructure
2:10-2:50 Ultrastructure of the gastrointestinal system
2:50-3:20 Ultrastructure of the liver
3:20-3:40 Refreshment Break
3:40-4:20 Ultrastructure of the skin
4:20-5 Ultrastructure of the CNS
5-5:30 Description writing
6:30-9 p.m. Pizza dinner with residents and description writing
April 22, 2012
7:45-8 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8-8:45 Ultrastructure of the cardiovascular system and muscle
8:45-9:15 Ultrastructure of the Eye
9:15-10 Ultrastructure of bone and cartilage
10-10:15 Refreshment Break
10:15-10:50 Ultrastructure of the endocrine system
10:50-11:20 Ultrastructure of the reproductive system
11:20-12 Identification of agents
12 p.m. Closing remarks
Additional Information
Please review our calendar page for travel and parking information, as well as details about our conference policies.
Contacts
For further information about this and other continuing education opportunities, contact Melissa Kilpatrick, Continuing Education: 706.542.1451 or melissak@uga.edu
This page was last updated on February 7, 2012.
