{"id":2151,"date":"2017-05-08T10:35:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T00:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2017-05-24T11:08:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T01:08:43","slug":"maggs-to-speak-as-fasava-congress-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/?p=2151","title":{"rendered":"Maggs to speak as FASAVA Congress 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Picture1\"<\/a>Eminent veterinary ophthalmologist and award-winning teacher David Maggs returns to Australia to speak at this year\u2019s FASAVA Congress on the Gold Coast.\r\n\r\nMaggs grew up in Lilydale, north-east of Melbourne, and graduated with honours from the University of Melbourne in 1998. He spent two years working in mixed practice back in Lilydale, before locuming throughout the United Kingdom for a further three years.\r\n\r\nHe then moved to the United States, where he completed a small animal internship and then an equine internship at Colorado State University, and a research fellowship and comparative ophthalmology residency at the University of Missouri.\r\n\r\nMaggs is now Professor of Comparative Ophthalmology at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California-Davis, and will give six lectures at the FASAVA Congress 2017.\r\n\r\n\u201cI\u2019ve been a veterinarian for 30 years now and I hate sitting through a lecture and, at the end, thinking, \u2018well that\u2019s never going to be of any use to me\u2019. So I try to highlight in my lectures the things that I know will really help general practitioners,\u201d he said. I have a series of things I call TIWIKIPs (i.e. Things I Wish I Knew In Practice) because I did use to be a real vet!\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cThat\u2019s where the practicality of my lectures comes from. I try to remember the things that caused me a problem in practice or why I find things easier now that I\u2019m in specialty practice, and I try to crystallise those issues into topics for my lectures.\u201d\r\n\r\nFASAVA lectures include:\r\n\u2022 Pearls of the ophthalmologic exam\r\n\u2022 The seven colours of corneal pathology\r\n\u2022 My approach to non-healing ulcers\r\n\u2022 The patient\u2019s eye is red. What now?\r\n\u2022 Glaucoma in dogs\r\n\u2022 Ophthalmic emergencies\r\n\r\nDavid Maggs will speak on Sunday 13 and Monday 14 August. Registration is now open<\/a>.<\/em>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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