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

One of the most important tools for a veterinary practice of any size is an efficient workflow. Technologies to facilitate and enable efficient workflow allow veterinarians to spend more time on patient care, which in turn is maximized through use of an effective electronic medical record. An EMR provides data which can be analyzed for epidemiology within an institution, and across institutions. This data facilitates the analyses and publications that become the core of evidence-based medicine. Underlying all of this is the S-word, standards. The focus this year will be on characterizing and exploring these strata of information management, demonstrating that, in fact, informatics is a foundational part of veterinary medicine now and into the future.

The Talbot Symposium takes place at the AVMA Annual Convention in Seattle, Washington, on Sunday July 12, 2009.  The Convention runs in Seattle from July 11-14, 2009.  The regular Informatics Program continues on Monday, July 13 and Tuesday, July 14, 2009. [NOTE: This schedule is NOT FIRM yet.] The Sunday session consists of eight 50-minute presentations.  Monday and Tuesday's programs consist of 50 or 100-minute sessions.

Talks should ideally fit one of the following topic areas:

• Digital workflow in the practice or university
• Electronic medical and health records
• Evidence-based medicine and epidemiology
• Standards

The Executive Board and Educational Committee of the Association of Veterinary Informatics (AVI) requests submissions of presentation proposals that fit into our stated description for the 2009 Talbot Informatics Symposium.  Talks can be 45 or 90 minutes long (depending on the day of the talk).  Any computer or informatics related topic will be considered; however, preference will be given to topics relevant to the target topics.

IMPORTANT

The official AVMA Call for Speakers is already closed. We MUST have our titles submitted soon or we may not have space allocated in what is a very small convention center. Therefore:

**** The deadline for submission is Friday, August 15, 2008   ******

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

OTHER INFORMATION

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

The Education Committee of AVI will review all proposals. Selected speakers will be notified by September 1, 2008.  Details about payment may be found at http://avmaconvention.org/content/Speaker_gen_info.pdf .

Speaker notes will be requested after selected speakers are notified. Please submit your abstract for review electronically to Dr. Robert Featherston: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT SPEAKER'S NOTES AT THIS TIME

After your presentation has been accepted by the AVI, notes (electronic and paper copies) should be submitted to the AVMA (not AVI) next Spring (2009). A packet of informational material will be distributed that details the process for submission of proceedings and compensation.

Suitable presentations may be sponsored by the AVI for publication in JAVMA or the Journal of Veterinary Medical Education.  Please use the proposal submission form below and e-mail all completed proposals to Dr. Robert Featherston: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

IPLEASE SUBMIT ONE FORM PER PRESENTATION; COPY THE FORM BELOW INTO YOUR EMAIL MESSAGE.

TOPIC AREA: (Please indicate the topic area of your presentation according to the outline of suggested topics listed above)

Digital workflow in the practice or university _____

Electronic medical and health records _____

Evidence-based medicine and epidemiology ____

Standards ____

TITLE (Please be sure your title reflects your content and is ATTRACTIVE to attendees)

Length of presentation: (Check one):  

Sunday session:  50 min.  ____

Monday or Tuesday:  100 min. ____      50 min:______

Abstract: 300 words - Use second page if necessary.

Name:

Address: 

Phone:   

Fax:

E-mail:

A-V / Computer needs for presentation (call or email for list of supplied hardware):

Other comments / needs:

Deadline for submission is August 15, 2008.