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Vetnews | Oktober 2022 49 Medicine & Endocrinology 3 & 4 Aug | Hazendal, Cape Town 10- 11 August | The Gateway Hotel, Durban 12 &13 |Midrand Premier Hotel, Johannesburg NVCG EVENTS 2022 Professor David Church BVSc PhD MACVSc FHEA MRCVS DeputyPrincipal,ProfessorofSmallAnimalStudies, The Royal Veterinary College DavidiscurrentlyProfessorofSmallAnimal StudiesattheRoyalVeterinaryCollege.He has spent over 30 years in small animal specialistpracticesandistheauthorofover180peer-reviewedpubli- cationsoncompanionanimalendocrinologyandsmallanimalmedicine. Hehasbeenalongstandingadvocateofthebenefitsofveterinarians developingalogicalapproachtoclinicalreasoningtocomplementtheir patternrecognitionskills.Asaco-founderofVetCompass,heisalso passionateaboutdevelopingmechanismstodefineandunderstandthe disordersencounteredingeneralpracticeandhowtooptimisetheir management. Register/more info on https://bit.ly/NVCG_PRECOGRESS 24 OCTOBER 2022 08:00 Registration 08:30 Welcome & Opening 08:40 Amputations – tips on screening and surgery 09:30 Update on osteosarcoma 10:20 TEA 10:50 Lymph node dissection – tips on mapping and resecting common LN 11:40 Surgical oncology principles and multidisciplinary team approach 12:30 Sponsor session; Hill’s 13:00 LUNCH 13:30 Session sponsor: MSD 14:15 Case discussion: common tumors in difficult places 15:00 Beginner guide to maxillofacial surgery 15:45 TEA 16:00 Anal sac tumor tips on surgery 16:45 Summary and discussion REGISTRATION FEES Both HYBRID and In-Person NVCG Member : R1750.00 Non Member : R2350.00 Sign up for NVCG At R395 p/a - to apply: https://bit.ly/NVCG-Membership-application Info: conferences@vetlink.co.za BRANDONWUSTEFELD Brandan graduated from the University of Pretoria in 2007. Following this he worked in a private small animal hospital in Johannesburg for 2 years and completed a post-graduate degree from the University of Pretoria with focus in small an- imal surgery in 2009. Brandan moved to the UK in 2010 and completed a general rotating internship and surgery residen- cy, including a year as a research assistant in Prof. John Innes’s lab, at the University of Liverpool in 2015. After his residency he joined the soft tissue surgery team at Liverpool as a lectur- er. In 2016, Brandan moved to Colorado State University and completed an ACVS accredited surgical oncology fellowship at the world-renowned Flint Animal Cancer Center. In 2017, he joined Texas A&M University as a surgical oncologist. He was recruited back to Colorado State University in 2020 where he is currently an Assistant Professor of Surgical On- cology. Brandan also holds appointments as an Extraordinary Lecturer in the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the Univer- sity of Pretoria where he supports post-graduate surgery teaching and is a clinical member of the University of Colo- rado Cancer Center. Brandan is a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Surgeons, a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Specialist in Surgical Oncology, holder of a certifi- cate in Genetics and Genomics from Stanford University, and a researcher in the Colorado State University’s Laboratory of Musculoskeletal Oncology and Traumatology. His research interests are epigenetic drivers in soft tissue sarcoma, devel- opment of the canine as a research model of sarcoma, and molecular oncology. Brandan remains a fanatic supporter of the world champion Springboks and is married to an Afri- kaans lady who keeps him and their two kids in line. Colorado State University | CSU Department of Clinical Sciences BSc (Agric) BVSc (Hons) CertAVP DipECVS MRCVS NVCG PRE-CONGRESS 2022 WITH BRANDON WUSTEFELD 24 October 2022 Johannesburg, Emperors Palace HYBRID EVENT