Proposals could focus on:
• Individual Animal Medicine – to enable practitioners to further his/her knowledge and skills in basic animal medicine, including diagnosis, treatment, surgery, case management, pain management or patient welfare.
• Production Medicine – for veterinarians seeking to developing or implement herd protocols that enhance health and profitability, including records analysis, disease prevention, production enhancement, benchmarking, biosecurity, or food safety.
The recipients were Dr. Amber Itle, Dairy Continuing Education Award winner, and Dr. Eric Behlke, Beef Continuing Education Award. Itle works with dairy cattle at the Kulshan Veterinary Hospital, a mixed practice in Lynden, Washington. Behlke works for Feedlot Health Management Services primarily in animal health and feedlot production in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
—From AgriLabs news release
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Dr. Eric Behlke
