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Lyme Disease - Clinical Signs, Diagnosis, Differential Diagnoses, Treatments & Prevention
Species

Equine

Contact Hours

3 Hours

Language

English

Discipline

Internal Medicine – Endocrinology, Haematology, Infectious Diseases, Parasitology & Oncology

Orthopaedics

Pathology - Clinical & Gross

Toxicology & Pharmacology

Veterinary Partner

Equine

Recorded on: 27th July 2021
                                                  

Panelists:

Amy Johnson  DVM, DACVIM (LAIM & Neurology) - University of Pennsylvania, United States
Eric Swinebroad   DVM, DACVIM - Newmarket/Indialantic Equine Sports Horse Practice, United States
Lutz Goehring   DACVIM  - University of Munich, Germany

Moderator:

Thomas Divers  DVM, DACVIM, DACVECC  - Cornell University, United States

 

CONTENT DESCRIPTION

An international panel of world-renowned equine specialists from different disciplines will discuss the incidence, clinical signs, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme disease in horses. The clinical signs discussion will focus on both documented and suspected disease and the debate on vaccination of horses will include indications, vaccine efficacy and the duration of protection. The exchange will conclude with a brief discussion on “Lyme-like” organisms that could infect horses. Questions and contributions from attendees are welcome and can be sent in beforehand or during the panel discussion.

One of only five veterinarians in the world to be board-certified in both large animal internal medicine and neurology, and one of only two veterinarians practicing large animal neurology in the United States, Dr. Johnson has been a clinician at New Bolton Center since 2007 and was appointed to the faculty as assistant professor of large animal internal medicine and neurology in 2011. 

As a neurologist, Dr. Johnson focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases affecting the nervous system such as cervical vertebral (neck ) problems, also known as Wobbler syndrome, equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM), and neurologic Lyme disease (neuroborreliosis). 

Dr. Johnson received her veterinary degree from Cornell University, where she also completed a residency and became board-certified in large animal internal medicine in 2007.  After joining New Bolton Center as a lecturer in 2007, she completed a second residency in neurology at the University of Pennsylvania, becoming board-certified in neurology in 2011.

Eric Lockwood Swinebroad, DVM, Dipl.ACVIM, operates Newmarket/Indialantic Equine, a sport horse practice based in New Hampshire and serving clients throughout New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida.

He is a co-author of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine consensus statement “Borrelia burgdorferi Infection and Lyme Disease in North American Horses.

Lutz Goehring is Head of Equine Medicine and Reproduction at Ludwig-Maximilian University, in Munich, Germany. Prof Goehring is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and has a distinguished research career focussed on the pathogenesis of equine herpes myeloencephalopathy.

Dr. Thomas J. Divers earned his DVM from the University of Georgia in 1975 and completed an internship in large animal medicine at the University of California at Davis. Dr. Divers returned to the University of Georgia for a residency in large animal internal medicine and ambulatory practice followed by 2 years as an assistant professor in the large animal medicine and ambulatory practice at the College. Dr. Divers then moved to the University of Pennsylvania for 10 years where he was an associate professor of large animal medicine and served as chief of the section of medicine at the New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania. In 1990 Dr. Divers  moved to Cornell University where he is the Rudolph J. and Katharine L. Steffen Professor of Medicine in the Section of Large Animal Medicine. He is a diplomat of both the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care.  Dr. Divers retired recently but still consults on cases, conducts research projects and provides lectures to veterinarians and students. He has been the recipient of teaching awards at four universities and has received the Educator of the Year Award from both the AAEP and ACVECC. 

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