Assessment & Treatment
of Animal Pain
(ATOP) and Distress 2009
ATOP VI

BEYOND BUPRENORPHINE:
21st Century Pain Medicine for
Laboratory Animal Veterinarians

Join us for the 6th annual conference in
the acclaimed AWEN ATOP series.

February 9-10, 2009
Mission Palms Hotel & Resort, Tempe, AZ

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Designed specifically for laboratory animal veterinarians, this comprehensive course in pain medicine will provide a solid set of tools for preventing and treating pain in animal subjects.

ATOP VI features:

• Meet with your veterinary peers in laboratory animal medicine.
• Learn the newest in companion-animal pain medicine and discuss how to apply it to species from mice to monkeys.
• Learn pain diagnostic strategies based on an understanding of comparative animal behavior and function.
• Find information on mechanisms, causes and treatment of pain based on current scientific and clinical expertise.
• Together we will identify gaps in the literature and where we might hope to find answers.
• The interactive, retreat-style of this conference will allow you to feel well-grounded and to forge support networks to guide your practices.

With sufficiently detailed foundation material from the ATOP VI conference, followed by practical applications of analgesia in rodent and non-rodent species, you will find the commonly held beliefs that you struggle with every day can be successfully challenged and methods will begin to change.

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CONFERENCE FACULTY:

Larry Carbone DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACLAM
Senior Clinical Veterinarian, (Acting) Associate Director,
Laboratory Animal Resource Center
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Dr. Carbone has worked in laboratory animal care for 25 years as a caregiver, a veterinary technician, and a veterinarian. He was a founding (student) member of Cornell University’s IACUC, where he took his veterinary and PhD degrees, and where he taught laboratory animal medicine to veterinary students. He relocated to San Francisco and established the UCSF Animal Welfare Assurance Program, and is now Senior Clinical Veterinarian and an IACUC member. He balances his clinical work with his research and writing on veterinary ethics. His book, What Animals Want: Expertise and Advocacy in Laboratory Animal Welfare Policy (2004, Oxford University Press) includes an examination of the role of lab animal veterinarians as advocates for animal welfare and animal pain management. He has also contributed chapters on laboratory animal ethics for The IACUC Handbook (2006, 2nd ed) and Anesthesia and Analgesia in Laboratory Animals (2008).

Alicia Z. Karas MS, DVM, Dipl. ACVA
Assistant Professor of Clinical Sciences
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University
North Grafton, MA

Dr. Karas teaches anesthesiology and pain medicine to technicians and veterinary students/graduates. She has organized or taught in numerous continuing education courses on pain and anesthesia over the past decade. Besides oversight of clinical anesthesia cases at the teaching hospital, she conducts acute pain and outpatient pain consultations. An IACUC member for over 10 years and an advisor to various laboratory animal organizations, her scholarly work has largely centered on refinement techniques for research animals. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Veterinary Academy of Pain Management, and is a co-editor and contributing author of the 2008 ACLAM Series text Anesthesia and Analgesia in Laboratory Animals. She also recently served on the ILAR Committee to revise the Recognition and Alleviation of Pain in Laboratory Animals guidelines, which are due to be published in 2008.

Lisa Krugner-Higby
Laboratory Animal Clinical Veterinarian
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Madison, WI

Dr. Krugner-Higby graduated from the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1986. She trained in laboratory animal medicine at Wake Forest University from 1986 to 1991 and received her PhD in Molecular and Cellular Pathobiology in 1992. Her dissertation work was in anti-HIV drug development. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Wisconsin National Primate Center in the laboratory of Drs. Thaddeus Golos and Kevin Schultz from 1992-1994 working on maternal-fetal transmission of SIV. A 1993 diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, she has been a laboratory animal clinical veterinarian for the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1995. Her research achievements also include significant contributions in the field of opioid analgesic drug development and refinement methods for laboratory animals, and she recently co-authored a chapter, entitled “Novel Delivery Systems for Analgesic Drugs in Laboratory Animals,” in the 2008 ACLAM Series textbook Anesthesia and Analgesia in Laboratory Animals.

Heidi L. Shafford DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVA
Owner, Veterinary Anesthesia Specialists, LLC
Portland, OR

Dr. Shafford discovered her passion for alleviating pain in animals as a vet student at Colorado State University. Following residency and graduate training in anesthesiology and pain management at the University of Missouri, she completed a fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Pain Research. Over the past decade, Dr. Shafford has been involved in studying the physiologic and behavioral effects of pain and analgesics in a variety of laboratory animal models. During this time she gained experience working with IACUCs to establish protocols for preventing and treating pain. Recently she assisted the ILAR Committee that revised guidelines for the Recognition and Alleviation of Pain in Laboratory Animals. She owns and operates an anesthesia consulting practice that provides training, consultation and animal care for research facilities and veterinary teams.

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