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Advances in the Diagnosis of Pancreatitis in Dogs and Cats
Date : Monday 24th February 2025
Venue : Webinar
Time : 8:00pm~9:00pm(Lecture); 9:00pm~9:20pm(Q&A)
Speaker : Dr. Joerg Steiner
Cost :- FREE TO ATTEND
- Members : $0
- Non-Members : $0
- CPD Hours : 1.25
FREE TO ATTEND
The diagnosis of pancreatitis remains challenging in dogs and cats. Traditionally, measurement of lipase activity has been used as a biomarker for pancreatitis, but all lipase activity assays available thus far measure a variety of different lipases and thus are neither specific nor sensitive. Measuring serum lipase immunoractivity (PLI as measured by Spec cPL or Spec fPL), while sensitive and specific for pancreatitis, had an extended turn-around time.
In this webinar, Dr. Steiner will share the update of the new catalyst PL assay utilizes DGGR technology and is the first lipase activity assay that specifically measures pancreatic lipase. It can be measured in house and thus is ideal for patients that present with acute clinical signs. The assay has been standardized to provide equal numbers to the Spec PL assays and thus can be used interchangeably with those assays.
Registration ends at 11:30pm of 21 February 2025.
Please note that after registration, the HKVA will pass your name and email address to AVM. AVM will email a link to the webinar to you in a separate email. If you do not receive this email by 23 February, please check your junk mailbox, and email cpd@avmhk.com.
Speaker Biography
Dr. Joerg Steiner
Med.Vet., Dr.Med.Vet., Ph.D., DACVIM, DECVIM-CA, AGAF
Dr. Joerg Steiner received his veterinary degree from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany in 1992. He did an internship in small animal medicine and surgery at the University of Pennsylvania from 1992 to 1993, and a residency in small animal internal medicine at Purdue University from 1993 to 1996. He received his Dr.med.vet. degree from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany in 1995 in recognition of research on feline trypsin and feline trypsin-like immunoreactivity. In 1996, he achieved board certification with the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. In 2000, Dr. Steiner received a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University for his work on canine digestive lipases and their use for the diagnosis of gastrointestinal disorders in the dog. In 2012, was recognized as a Fellow of the American Gastroenterology Association.
He is currently a Regents Professor and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery and the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology at Texas A&M University. In 2016, Dr. Steiner was named the Dr. Mark Morris Chair in Small Animal Gastroenterology and Nutrition. He also serves as Director of the Gastrointestinal Laboratory at Texas A&M University and is involved in a wide variety of research in small animal gastroenterology. He has authored or co-authored more than 400 peer-reviewed articles, 100 book chapters, and 500 research abstracts.
In addition to his work at the School of Veterinary Medicine, he also serves on the Executive Committee of Distinguished Professors and as the Faculty Liaison of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University. He also currently serves as the President of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine.
Hope to see you there.
Howie Wong
HKVA CPD Coordinators
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