AgriLabs' Vice President of Marketing, Jim Glassford, will present the winners of the AgriLabs Dr. Bruce Wren Continuing Education Awards at the 44th annual meeting of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners. These annual awards honor Dr. Bruce Wren, a long-time AgriLabs Technical Services veterinarian, in recognition of his lifelong commitment to practical and formal continuing education for veterinarians. The selection process was managed by a committee headed by Dr. Gatz Riddell, AABP. The grants seek to encourage veterinarians working with beef or dairy cattle who have expressed a desire to expand their skills and knowledge to further develop within their field of expertise in veterinary practice. Each $5,000 grant will be used by the winners – who have earned their veterinary degree within the past 10 years – to make possible the professional continuing education proposals they submitted.

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. PD

—From AgriLabs news release

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Dr. Amber Itle