AVI is pleased to bring together speakers with a wide range of professional experience each year, including clinical practice, academic research, industry, and diagnostics. 

We look forward to seeing many attendees in-person at this year's Talbot Veterinary Informatics Symposium at the Virginia-Maryland School of Veterinary Medicine. The event will also be live streamed online.

Saturday & Sunday, September 14-15, 2024

Blacksburg, VA, USA & online

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Breakfast and snacks will be served both days.

Lunch will be served on Saturday, courtesy of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine Dean's Office.

Attendees may register to earn RACE-approved medical CE credits.

SAT, SEPTEMBER 14

7:30am Registration & Breakfast

8:00am - 8:15am | 12pm GMT | 1pm London | 10pm Melbourne, AUS

Opening remarks

Julie Green, DVM & VMCVM Dean M. Daniel Givens, DVM

8:15am - 8:50am | 12:15pm GMT | 1:15pm London | 10:15pm Melbourne, AUS

Communicating informatics to non-informaticists   General 

Amanda Moore & Michael Martin, DVM, MPH

9:00am - 9:50am  | 1pm GMT | 2pm London | 11pm Melbourne, AUS

High-resolution analysis of pet health risks from pet insurance population health data   Insurance 

Nathan Bollig, DVM, MS & Stacey Neff, MS

10 - 10:30am Break

10:30am - 11:20am | 2:30pm GMT | 3:30pm London | Sun 12:30am Melbourne, AUS 

Monitoring and predicting Lyme disease trends among pet dogs to inform public health   One Health 

Janice O'Brien, MPH, PhD Student

11:30am - 12:00pm | 3:30pm GMT | 4:30pm London | Sun 1:30am Melbourne, AUS

AVI Board Q&A   General 

Nathan Bollig, President; Brian Hur, President-Elect; Anne Kimmerlein, Immediate Past President; Dennis Ballance, Treasurer; Pamela Okerholm, Secretary; Sonnya Dennis, Talbot Education Committee Chair; Jonathan Lustgarten, Outreach Committee Chair; Wayde Shipman, Interoperability Chair; Julie Green, Al Hahn Award Committee Chair

12 - 1pm Lunch graciously provided by the VAMDCVM Dean's Office

1:00pm - SAVSNET European One Health lectures   One Health    AI    Abx 

| 5pm GMT | 6pm London | Sun 3am Melbourne, AUS

Leveraging AI in veterinary informatics – the Liverpool experience with applications to disease surveillance, antimicrobial resistance, pharmacovigilance, and veterinary education. 

Peter-John Noble, BVM&S, PhD

Unravelling HPCIA prescription trends in veterinary healthcare: An LLM approach towards antimicrobial stewardship surveillance in the UK 

Sean Farrell, PhD Student

2:00pm - 2:50pm | 6pm GMT | 7pm London | Sun 4am Melbourne, AUS| 6pm GMT | 7pm London | Sun 4am Melbourne, AUS

Data-driven and Precision-based Medicine Powered by AI-based Smart Farming   Large Animal    AI 

Shumin Li, DVM, MS

3:00 - 3:30pm Break

3:30pm - 4:20pm | 7:30pm GMT | 8:30pm London | Sun 5:30am Melbourne, AUS

Introducing an Open Source Diagnostic Lab Integration Solution  Data/IT 

Dennis Ballance, DVM, CSPO & Eli Larson, DVM, MS

4:30pm - 5:00pm | 8:30pm GMT | 9:30pm London | Sun 6:30am Melbourne, AUS

Allen W Hahn Lifetime Achievement Award in Veterinary Informatics Presentation   General 

Julie Green, DVM, Committee Chair

Evening social event details TBA

SUN, SEPTEMBER 15

7:30am Registration & Breakfast

8:00am - 8:50am - Morning Short Talks

A never-ending story: trials and tribulations of veterinary database construction   Data/IT 

Katie Krothapalli

Identifying risk factors for parasites and disease from bioinformatics analysis of animal health data   One Health   

Casey Hansen

Clinical validation of automated encoding of medical concepts related to antimicrobial resistance  Abx 

Nadia Saklou

9:00am - 9:50am - The Future of Veterinary Research: Navigating Literature and Writing with AI and Digital Tools   Research   AI  

Candice Chu

10 - 10:30am Break

10:30am - 11:20am - Harnessing Big Data in the Animal Welfare Industry  Welfare 

Clinton Mauck; Jyothi Robertson

11:30am - 12:20pm Expanding the workforce in veterinary informatics: a multidisciplinary approach   General 

Nadia Saklou

Nathan Bollig, DVM, AVI President

Ticket Type	Deadline	Member Price	Non-Member Price
Early Bird   In-person	May 15	$50	$100
Regular  In-person	Aug 31	$100	$150
Full Price  In-person	Sep 15	$150	$200
Students  In-person + virtual	Sep 15	Free	Please sign up for a free AVI student membership to access this discount
Virtual-only	Sep 15	$25	$50
RACE-CE add-on	Sep 15	Free	$50

Please note: canceling a paid registration will automatically generate a credit on your member account. Please contact Dr. Dennis Ballance at treasurer@avinformatics.org if you would like a refund to your original form of payment.

Event Location:

Richard Talbot Educational Resource Center

Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine

205 Duck Pond Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

https://www.vt.edu/maps.html

https://www.vt.edu/maps/directions.html

Accommodations:

Please visit Virginia Tech's Admissions website for a list of area hotels:

https://www.vt.edu/admissions/undergraduate/visit/resources.html

Travel to the venue:

Parking passes are not required for weekend visitors.

To be announced

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