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Upcoming Events

Third Annual Marine Mammal Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI. November 7 - 8, 2009. (Brochure)

American College of Veterinary Pathologists 2009 Annual Meeting, Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, California. December 5-9, 2009 (Website)

Shark Reef Aquarium's Annual Aquatic Medicine Seminar, Las Vegas, NV. February 19-21, 2010. (Website)

38th Symposium of the European Association of Aquatic Mammals, Lisbon Zoo, Portugal. March 12-15, 2010 (Website)

41st Annual IAAAM Meeting and Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada.  May 8 - 12, 2010 (Vancouver Aquarium Web Site)

The 35th Anniversary of the Eastern Fish Health Workshop, Shepherdstown, WV. May 25 - 29, 2010

IUCN XI^th International Otter Colloquium, Pavia, Italy.  September 1 - 5,  2010 (http://www.otterspecialistgroup.org/)

6th International Symposium on Aquatic Animal Health, Tampa, Florida, USA.  September 5 - 9, 2010 (more information)

Current IAAAM News

AQUAVET I & II

The University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University are pleased to announce the 2010 AQUAVETÆ I & II Programs. They are aquatic veterinary medicine education programs that currently consist of two courses that will be presented this year at Stony Brook Southampton in Long Island, NY in May and June 2010.

AQUAVET I: An Introduction to Aquatic Veterinary Medicine is a 4-week course (31 May - 25 June 2010) intended primarily for veterinary students.

AQUAVET II: Comparative Pathology of Aquatic Animals is a 2-week course (31 May - 11 June 2010) that is oriented toward the pathology of diseases of aquatic invertebrates and fish that are used in biomedical research, encountered in display aquaria and are of importance in commercial aquaculture.

Veterinary students can receive credits for the course and graduate veterinarians can receive CE credits.

Applications for admission will be due by January 30, 2010 and may be obtained by accessing the program website from which the application form may be downloaded for completion and submission by mail.

Additional information may be found at http://www.aquavet.info.

Full-Time Veterinarian Position Available

The Shedd Aquarium in Chicago is looking for a full-time verterinarian. For more details see the job announcement.

Call for Abstract - IAAAM Annual Meeting and Conference May 2010

This is call for abstracts for the 41st Annual Conference of the IAAAM to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, in Canada, on May 8 - 12, 2010, hosted by Dr. Martin Haulena at Vancouver Aquarium. While our host is setting up everything for all of us, from Hotel Reservations, the Workshop and Sessions' venues to the fun staff to do while in Vancouver, it is time that those of you who are planning to present abstracts at the upcoming conference start working on them as the deadline for abstract submission is 2 weeks earlier than usual, on February 12, 2010.

The abstracts will highlight your work in the area of Marine Mammals, fishes, aquatic birds, aquatic amphibians and reptiles, aquatic invertebrates. To avoid a lot of changes at the last minute, a suitable format for your abstracts has been included in the submission form and I trust everybody to take note and follow the suggested formatting of your abstracts. [Abstract Submission Form] [Sample Abstract]

Pain and Distress in Fish - ILAR Journal

The most recent issue of the ILAR Journal, “Pain and Distress in Fish” (vol. 50, no. 4),addresses practical, ethical, biochemical, and morphologic aspects of pain and distress in fish. For more information, please visit http://dels.nas.edu/ilar_n/ilarjournal/journal.shtml.

Fish Drug Analysis-Phish-Pharm 2008

The searchable fish pharmacokinetics database “Fish Drug Analysis-Phish-Pharm 2008” has been updated and posted on-line at: http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/ScienceResearch/ToolsResources/Phish-Pharm/default.htm .

Phish-Pharm was first released in 2005, accompanying an article in the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Journal: Fish Drug Analysis-Phish-Pharm: A Searchable Database of Pharmacokinetics Data in Fish, by R. Reimschuessel, L. Stewart, E. Squibb, K. Hirokawa, T. Brady, D. Brooks, B. Shaikh, C. Hodsdon, AAPS Journal. 2005;07(02): E288-E327, article 30, http://www.aapsj.org/view.asp?art=aapsj070230.

The database can be freely downloaded in the form of a Microsoft Office Access file in which multiple parameters can be easily searched, a stand alone Access Application or an Excel spreadsheet. In addition a 508 compliant searchable version for key words is also now available at http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/fcn/fcnNavigation.cfm?rpt=phishPharmListing.

This information in the database was gathered from over 400 articles, including data from 124 species (95 genera). Data fields include genus, species, water temperatures, the average animal weight, sample types analyzed, drug (or chemical) name, dosage, route of administration, metabolites identified, method of analysis, protein binding, clearance, volume of distribution in a central compartment (Vc) or volume of distribution at steady-state (Vd), and drug half-lives (t½). Additional fields list the citation, authors, title, and Internet links.

The document will be periodically updated, and users are invited to submit additional data. Additional updates will be announced as they are available. This database is a valuable resource to investigators of drug metabolism in aquatic species as well as government and private organizations involved in the drug approval process for aquatic species.