Esfm Feline Symposium Pre-Bsava Congress

09.00	Registration and coffee
09.30	What's your diagnosis?
	Case presentations in feline dermatology
	to be confirmed
10.30	Neurological examination of the cat
	Laurent Garosi, UK
11.30	Coffee
12.00	Feline abdominal ultrasonography
	Taka Miyabayashi, Japan
13.00	Lunch
14.30	Chronic diarrhoea in the cat
	Mike Willard, USA
15.30	Tea
16.00	Feline critical care
	What you can achieve in practice
	Lesley King, USA
17.00	End

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ESFM day in Glasgow a great success

The ESFM day held on September 3, 2005, during the annual European Society of Veterinary Internal Medicine congress, Glasgow was again a huge success. A good programme was attended by a large number of delegates from all over Europe. The talks covered the latest on renal disease, diabetes mellitus, gingivitis, inflammatory bowel disease and infectious diseases. Speakers included Kenny Simpson (USA), Alice Wolf (USA), Tim Gruffydd-Jones (UK), Claudia Reusch (Switzerland) and Richard Goldstein (USA). Abstracts were presented from several research centres throughout Europe.

The Hill's/ESFM award for outstanding contributions in the field of feline medicine went to Professor Tim Gruffydd-Jones from Bristol University (UK). Tim has played a crucial role in the development of both the ESFM and FAB and also in the set-up of the feline centre at Bristol University. During the ESFM day he gave an outstanding lecture on the new developments in the diagnostics of feline infectious diseases and was presented with the award by Jaques Debraekeleer from Hill's Europe (see picture).

As always during the congress there was an excellent social programme, which gave everybody the opportunity to relax and meet like-minded colleagues.

Myra Forester-van Hijfte