CE & Events

Animal Surgical & Orthopedic Center (ASOC) provides continuing education to veterinarians and veterinary staff on a variety of informative topics. We view this as part of our service to the local professional community, in addition to the informal conversations that we have with our referring veterinarians every day regarding their complicated or unusual cases.

For more information, email us at CEevents@animalsurgical.com.

2020 CE & Events

Case Reviews – A virtual CE presented by ASOC
Presented by: Mike Thoesen, DVM, DACVS, and Alexander Z. Aguila, DVM, DACVS
Wednesday, July 15th at 12 pm PT
The First-Ever Virtual CE Event By Animal Surgical & Orthopedic Center, sponsored by Elanco.

Join Dr. Mike Thoesen and Dr. Alexander Aguila for our first-ever virtual CE event on July 15th at 12 pm, and receive an Amazon gift card as a thank you for attending! (Limited to the first 50 attendees, must attend live to be eligible.)

We’ll be reviewing tricky, unusual, or unique cases that have presented to Animal Surgical over the past years.

Click here to register.

Want your case reviewed by us live? Send an email to CEevents@animalsurgical.com with the case details, radiographs, and other relevant information, and we’ll take a look.

One Hour Credit of Continuing Education provided as approved by the Washington Veterinary Board of Governors.

Important Note: In the past, continuing education credits in Washington State were limited to 10 hours of virtual CE time – but due to COVID-19 that limit has been removed entirely. If you’ve already gone over 10 hours of CE credits, you can still earn credit for this event.

2019 CE & Events

October 13th, 2019: OctoberVets; Annual Appreciation and CE Event at The Woodland Park Zoo Presented by ASOC and SOUND Veterinary Rehab.

Topics:

Kristin Kirkby Shaw, DVM, MS, PhD, CCRT, DACVS, DACVSMR

Intra-articular Therapies

Nic R. Cabano, DVM, MS, DACVS, DACVSMR

Common Working Dog Musculoskeletal Presentations: Elite Athlete Injuries and Their Management

Darin Collins, DVM

Animal Health Program Director – Woodland Park Zoo

What’s New at the Zoo?

Jacqueline C. Neilson, DVM, DACVB

COAST: Canine OsteoArthritis Staging Tool

Jeff Mitchell, DVM, DACVS

Orthopedics for the Referring Veterinarian: Common, And The Not So Common Orthopedic Conditions; Referral Tactics and Treatment Options

Alex Aguila, DVM, DACVS with Sari Lieberman, LVT

Best Views in the House: Tips on Taking Rad Orthopedic Rads

Laura Black, DVM, DACVP

Make a Good Impression: Preparations for Synovial, Joint, and Other Body Fluids

Jennifer Ward, DVM, DACVP

Approaching Affinity Together: Vet Techs and Lab Techs Working Together to Achieve the “Impossible Goal of Perfection”

Allen Johnson, DVM, DACVS with Sarah Johnson, LVT

Practical Ideas for Controlling Pain in your Practice
CRI’s Made Easy

Speaker Notes from OctoberVets 2019 Event

Allen Johnson, DVM, DACVS and Sarah Johnson, LVT – CRI’s Made Easy

September 27th through September 29th: Pacific Northwest Veterinary Conference

Integrative Medicine and Food Therapy

Cynthia Knapp, DVM, CCRT, SAMP, CVA – Rehabilitation Therapist
SOUND Veterinary Rehabilitation

Session 1: An introduction to the different branches of Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine that can help animals live a more balanced life. How acupuncture, food therapy, herbal therapy and massage can benefit our animals.
Session 2: Learn how the energetics of food can optimize the health of our animals. By understanding some basic properties of food, diets can be created to help nourish the body as well as help heal the body to achieve internal balance.
Session 3:Using the body’s energy to help restore health. Learn how acupuncture can stimulate the body’s own energy to help an animal develop balance and harmony on the inside. When they are healthy on the inside, the body should not exhibit any abnormal symptoms, such as pain and inflammation, on the outside.
Session 4: Learn helpful acupuncture points that can be stimulated through acupressure to help our animals in general practice and in emergency situations, including points to stimulate appetite, decrease nausea, calm an anxious animal and much more.

Small Animal Gait and Lameness Lab (Pre-registration required)

Nicholas Cabano, DVM, DACVS, DACVSMR
Leslie Edie, DVM, DACSMR Resident
SOUND Veterinary Rehabilitation Center
Mike Thoesen, DVM, DACVS
ASOC

Part 1: Understand the composition of the targeted and combined (orthopedic, neurologic, and gait) physical examination for canine athletes as well as typical disease processes commonly identified in these patients.
Part 2: Case Based Analysis – This will be a presentation using videos to help localize and characterize common gait changes in dogs.