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Vet med students host international meeting

By Dot Sparer
dsparer@vet.uga.edu

About 2,000 veterinary students from all parts of the United States, Canada and the rest of the world will converge on Athens for

Symposium organizers (clockwise from left) Meggan Ballowe, Desiree Seibt and Tracy Walker are veterinary medicine students in the class of 2004. (Photo by Paul Efland)

the 2003 SAVMA Symposium, hosted this year by the students in UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine. The event is scheduled for March 20-22 at the Classic Center in downtown Athens.
SAVMA is the student chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association. The annual symposium offers lectures and demonstrations as well as social events.
Attendees will have a tough time choosing from the array of activities. A lecture on gastrointestinal parasites in dogs? A casino dinner? A north Georgia trout fishing expedition?
The students have planned a full menu of fun and games and an impressive schedule of lectures and wet laboratories.
“They will show off our expertise in areas such as equine colic, dentistry, infectious diseases and endoscopy,” says Tracy Walker, one of the symposium organizers.
“I think the alumni can be proud of the college and the students,” says Meggan Ballowe, business manager of the symposium. “It helps put a worldwide spotlight on the college and brings attention to our academic programs and research.”
The symposium was funded in part by gifts from alumni: $10,000 from the veterinary college’s Alumni Association and $10,000 from the President’s Venture Fund through the Partners program.
Vet med faculty members will be presenting about 20 percent of the lectures and laboratories. Topics will cover all areas of veterinary medicine, including business management, nutrition, behavior and alternative medicine, according to Desiree Seibt, another of the student organizers.
“It’s a learning thing, but we try to make it as much fun as possible,” Seibt says.
Along with events like a flag football tournament and a trip to the Yerkes Primate Center, there will be a host of academic competitions: freshman anatomy, microbiology/parasitology and the SAVMA challenge, as well as a research competition.
UGA President Michael F. Adams is scheduled to speak at the symposium, which will also attract officers from the American Veterinary Medical Association.

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