Take-Homes From the 2017 Equine Ophthalmology Symposium

More than 80 attendees and guests attended the IEOC’s annual symposium held June 1-3 in Saratoga Springs, New York.
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More than 80 attendees and 20 guests attended the International Equine Ophthalmology Consortium’s (IEOC) annual Equine Ophthalmology Symposium, held June 1-3, 2017, in Saratoga Springs, New York. The meeting was international in scope, with attendees from more than 20 countries, including Australia, South America, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Two keynote speakers—Chris Sanchez, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, associate professor of Large Animal Internal Medicine at the University of Florida, and Lauren Schnabel, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVS, director of the Clinical Mesenchymal Stem Cell Culture Service at North Carolina State University—each gave two-hour long presentations on the following topics:

1. Ocular Manifestations of Systemic Disease

Sanchez’s two presentations on this topic included case studies illustrating how neonatal sepsis and infectious diseases such as Rhodococcus equi, Salmonellosis, Lyme disease, tetanus, leptospirosis, strangles, equine herpesvirus, and equine protozoal manifest with problems in the eye

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Ann Dwyer, DVM, is a practitioner at the Genesee Valley Equine Clinic in Scottsville, N.Y.

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