Association for Veterinary Informatics

Please forward to all interested practitioners, colleagues, faculty, and students!



The Talbot Symposium takes place at the AVMA Annual Convention in Chicago, Illinois, on Sunday, July 21, and the regular Informatics Program takes place on Monday, July 22, 2013.

The Convention runs July 20-23, 2013. The Talbot Symposium and the regular Informatics program consist of eight 50-minute presentations on Sunday and Monday.

Talks should ideally fit one of the following topic areas:

The Backbone of Informatics Standards Interoperability

Informatics in Practice Evidence-based veterinary medicine Practice workflow Electronic health records     Adding appropriate pick lists Data transmission Data mining Websites Epidemiology Statistics

Veterinary Educational Technology Information technology in education     Universities     Hospitals     Clients

The official AVMA Call for Speakers has a deadline of April 1, 2012. Submissions can be submitted electronically at www.avmaconvention.org. Once accessing it, click open the For Speakers folder. On the left sidebar you’ll see the link to the 2013 Call for Programs.  AVI will work with AVMA throughout the spring to review submissions and select presentations, notifying all who submitted abstracts.

We know this is really short, but we appreciate your efforts to accommodate our timeline.



Submissions are invited from both inside and outside the veterinary profession wherever information technologies have been shown effective in solving real problems for veterinarians.  Presentations will be chosen competitively with preferences to those aligned with the symposium's theme and/or with information a practitioner might take back to practice.

The Education Committee of AVI will review all proposals. Speakers who speak a minimum of four Speaking Hours qualify for travel, housing, and per diem reimbursement plus $275 per speaking hour. Speakers who speak less than four hours do not qualify for any travel, housing or per diem reimbursement. Instead, they are paid a “flat rate” of $625 per speaking hour for regular programming sessions.

To receive these quoted rates, speakers must submit all necessary information by the posted deadlines. For more information contact the committee members below:

Allen Hahn, DVM, PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 (email – This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

James Young, DVM, Atlantic Street Veterinary Hosp, Roseville, CA  95678, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Shari Kearl, Director, Information Tech., Cornell Univ. College of Vet. Med., Ithaca, NY, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Robert Malinowski, Director, Information Technology Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Suzanne Santamaria, DVM, MS – consultant to the Committee, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it


After your presentation has been accepted by the AVI, notes (electronic and paper copies) must be submitted to the AVMA (not AVI) in the spring of 2013 in time for publication of AVMA Convention material. A packet of informational material will be distributed that details the process for submission of proceedings and compensation.