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AAVLD / USAHA Annual Meeting

October 17-23, 2013

Town & Country,  San diego, CA

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    WEDNESDAY –  October 16, 2013  
JOINT 3:00 PM-6:00 PM Registration Golden Pacific Foyer
    THURSDAY –  October 17, 2013  
JOINT 7:00 AM-6:00 PM Registration Golden Pacific Foyer
AAVLD 8:00 AM-12:00 PM Basic Bioinformatics for Developing and Monitoring PCR Assays Royal Palm Salon 1-2
NAHLN 8:00 AM-5:00 PM AAVLD/NAHLN IT meeting Royal Palm Salon 5-6
AAVLD 8:00 AM-12:00 PM Staying Alive – Strategies for Laboratory Survival Pacific Salon 1
AAVLD 1:00 PM-5:00 PM Anaerobe Workshop Pacific Salon 3
AAVLD 1:00 PM-5:00 PM VetLIRN Workshop Pacific Salon 4,5
CLOSED SESSION 1:00 PM-5:00 PM AAVLD Accreditation Committee – 
COMMITTEE ONLY 		 Pacific Salon 6,7
    FRIDAY – October 18, 2013  
JOINT 7:00 AM-6:00 PM Registration Golden Pacific Foyer
CLOSED
SESSION		 7:00 AM-8:00 AM AAVLD Financial Advisory Committee
COMMITTEE ONLY		 Trellis Restaurant
AAVLD 8:00 AM-10:00 AM AAVLD Publications Committee  Devonshire
AAVLD 8:00 AM-12:00 PM "Actinomycetes, Nocardia and Other Agents of Pyogranulomatous Lesions" mini-Bacti Symposium   Pacific Salon 3
AAVLD 8:00 AM-12:00 PM Laboratory Emergency Management Committee  Pacific Salon 1
CLOSED
SESSION		 8:00 AM-12:00 PM AAVLD Accreditation Committee
COMMITTEE ONLY		 Towne
AAVLD 8:00 AM-12:00 PM  AAVLD Parasitology Committee Sunset
AAVLD 8:00 AM-5:00 PM AAVLD Informatics Committee Pacific Salon 2
AAVLD 8:00 AM-5:30 PM  C.L. Davis: The Veterinary Pathologist and Forensics Sunrise
AAVLD 10:00 AM-12:00 PM AAVLD Epidemiology Committee Royal Palm Salon 1
AAVLD 11:00 AM-12:00 PM AAVLD Subcommittee on Bacteriology and Mycology  Pacific Salon 3
AAVLD 11:00 AM-1:00 PM LCEM User Group Royal Palm Salon 6
USAHA 12:00 PM-5:00 PM USAHA Executive Committee Lunch with Dr. Clifford Devonshire
AAVLD 1:00 PM-2:00 PM AAVLD Subcommittee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Business Meeting Pacific Salon 3
AAVLD 1:00 PM-2:00 PM ABVT Annual Meeting Royal Palm Salon 2
AAVLD 1:00 PM-4:00 PM AAVLD Virology Committee Royal Palm Salon 4,5
AAVLD 1:00 PM-5:00 PM AAVLD Quality Assurance Committee Pacific Salon 1
AAVLD 1:00 PM-5:00 PM AAVLD Executive Board Towne
USAHA 1:00 PM-6:00 PM National Assembly of State Animal
Health Officials Meeting		 San Diego
AAVLD 2:00 PM-3:00 PM AAVLD Bacteriology Steering Committee Meeting  Pacific Salon 3
AAVLD 2:00 PM- 6:00 PM AAVLD/AAVCT Business Meeting and Case Presentations  Royal Palm Salon 1
AAVLD 3:00 PM-5:30 PM AAVLD Enteric Diseases Committee Pacific Salon 3
AAVLD 3:00 PM-6:00 PM Poster Session - setup posters Golden Ballroom
AAVLD 4:00 PM-6:00 PM AAVLD Editorial Board of Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation (JVDI) Esquire
AAVLD 4:00 PM-6:00 PM AAVLD Laboratory Technology Royal Palm Salon 4,5
AAVLD 4:30 PM-5:15 PM AAAVLD Membership Committee Pacific Salon 7
AAVLD 5:00 PM-6:00 PM AAVLD Constitution, Bylaws  and Resolutions Committee Terrace Salon 1
AAVLD 5:15 PM-6:00 PM AAVLD New Member Orientation Pacific Salon 1
AAVLD 6:00 PM-9:00 PM AAVLD Reception and Foundation Auction Towne & Country
    SATURDAY – October 19, 2013  
JOINT 7:00 AM-5:00 PM Registration Golden Pacific Foyer
AAVLD 9:00 AM-06:00 PM
Presenters 3:00-4:00		 AAVLD Poster Session Golden Ballroom
AAVLD 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
11:30 AM-1:00 PM
3:00 PM-6:00 PM 		 AAVLD Exhibits Golden Ballroom
AAVLD 7:00 AM-8:00 AM AAVLD Foundation Committee Terrace Salon 1
USAHA 7:00 AM-6:00 PM Mycobacterial Diseases of Animals Multi-State Initiative Sunset
AAVLD 7:45 AM-11:30 AM
9:20-10:05 break		 AAVLD – Plenary  Session  
Getting Ahead of the Ball: Diagnostic Adaptation in a Global Health Community		 Pacific Salon 1,2,3
JOINT 8:00 AM-1:00 PM USAHA/AAVLD Committee on Animal Emergency Management Golden West Room
USAHA 8:00 AM-3:00 PM USAHA EHV-1 Workshop  Royal Palm Salon 1-2
AAVLD 11:30 AM-12:00 PM AAVLD House of Delegates and
General Membership   		 Pacific Salon 2
AAVLD 1130 AM-12:30 PM LCEM User Group Terrace Salon 1
USAHA 12:00 PM-1:30 PM Student Luncheon Royal Palm Salon 2
AAVLD 1:00 PM-3:00 PM AAVLD - Scientific Session Bacteriology 1 Pacific Salon 3
AAVLD 1:00 PM-3:15 PM  AAVLD - Scientific Session
Pathology 1		 Pacific Salon 1
AAVLD 1:00 PM-2:45 PM AAVLD – Scientific Session
Toxicology 1		 Pacific Salon 2
AAVLD 1:00 PM-3:00 PM  AAVLD – Scientific Session
Virology 1		 Pacific Salon 4,5
AAVLD 1:00 PM-3:00 PM AAVLD – Scientific Session
Epidemiology 1		 Pacific Salon 6,7
AAVLD 1:00 PM-5:00 PM AAVLD Administrative Management Personnel Committee Towne
JOINT 1:00 PM-5:00 PM USAHA/AAVLD Committee on Diagnostic Laboratory and Veterinary Workforce Development  Sunrise
USAHA 12:00 PM-3:00 PM (closed)
3:00 PM-7:00 PM (open)		 National Assembly of State Animal
Health Officials Meeting & Luncheon 		 San Diego
USAHA 3:00 PM-6:00 PM Applied Animal Health, Public Health Research and Extension Veterinarians Symposium Royal Palm Salon 3,4
AAVLD 3:30 PM-5:30 PM AAVLD - Government Relations Committee  Royal Palm Salon 5
AAVLD 3:30 PM-5:30 PM  AAVLD Diagnostic Bacteriology case reports Pacific Salon 3
AAVLD 3:30 PM-5:45 PM AAVLD Diagnostic Pathology Slide Seminar Pacific Salon 1
JOINT 3:30 PM-6:30 PM  AAVLD Veterinary Analytical Toxicology & Mycotoxins and USAHA Committee
on Environment and Toxicology		 Royal Palm Salon 1,2
AAVLD 3:30 PM-7:30 PM AAVLD Laboratory Safety Committee  Pacific Salon 6,7
AAVLD 5:30 PM-7:30 PM  AAVLD and NAHLN Laboratory Directors Committee Sunrise
AAVLD 6:00 PM-6:15 PM The Role of Oral Fluids in Swine Herd Management - IDEXX Pacific Salon 2
AAVLD 6:15 PM-6:30 PM PrioCHECK® Salmonella Antibody Tests:  New Tools to Screen Bovine Serum, Plasma and Milk Samples - PRIONICS Pacific Salon 3
AAVLD 6:30 PM-6:45 PM An empirical approach to confidence intervals of Positive and Negative Predictive Values extrapolated from case control studies - ZOETIS Pacific Salon 3
AAVLD 6:30 PM-7:00 PM What's new at QIAGEN Pacific Salon 2
USAHA 6:00 PM-8:30 PM USAHA Program Committee Towne
AAVLD 6:00 PM-9:00 PM Gross Pathology Mock Examination   Pacific Salon 1
USAHA 6:00 PM-10:00 PM Board of Directors of the American
Association of Food Hygiene Veterinarians		 Terrace Salon 1
USAHA 6:00 PM-10:00 PM Extension Veterinarians Dinner & Business Meeting  Royal Palm Salon 3,4
AAVLD 7:00 PM-8:30 PM USA LIMS User Group - Craig Carter Royal Palm Salon 5
    SUNDAY – October 20, 2013  
JOINT 7:00 AM-5:00 PM Registration Golden Pacific Foyer
USAHA 6:30 AM-8:00 AM Prayer Breakfast Tiki Pavilion
USAHA 7:00 AM-8:30 AM USAHA District Breakfast (NE, S, W, NC, Allied) San Diego
AAVLD 7:00 AM-10:30 PM AAVLD Poster Session Golden Ballroom
USAHA 8:00 AM-12:00 PM Food Safety Symposium Sponsored by American Association of Food Hygiene Veterinarians And National Associational of State Meat & Food Inspection Directors Sunrise
AAVLD 8:00 AM-11:45 AM AAVLD – Scientific Session
Pathology 2		 Pacific Salon 1
AAVLD 8:00 AM-10:00 AM AAVLD – Scientific Session
Epidemiology 3		 Pacific Salon 6,7
AAVLD 8:00 AM-11:45 AM AAVLD – Scientific Session
Virology 2		 Pacific Salon 4,5
AAVLD 8:00 AM-11:15 AM AAVLD - Scientific Session
Epidemiology 2		 Pacific Salon 2
AAVLD 8:00 AM-12:00 PM AAVLD – Scientific Session
Bacteriology 2		 Pacific Salon 3
AAVLD 8:00 AM-12:00 PM AAVLD Administrative Management
Personnel Committee		 Esquire
USAHA 9:00 AM-11:30 AM Northeast District Meeting Royal Palm Salon 1,2
USAHA 9:00 AM-11:30 AM North Central District Meeting Royal Palm Salon 3,4
USAHA 9:00 AM-11:30 AM Southern District Meeting Sunset
USAHA 9:00 AM-11:30 AM Western District Meeting Royal Palm Salon 5,6
AAVLD 9:15 AM-10:30 AM  AAVLD Exhibits Golden Ballroom
USAHA 9:30 AM-12:00 PM Spouses Brunch Tiki Pavilion
USAHA 12:00 PM-1:00 PM USAHA Audit Committee Devonshire
AAVLD 12:00 PM-2:00 PM AAVLD Pathology Committee  Pacific Salon 1
JOINT 12:00 PM-3:00 PM USAHA/AAVLD Committee on NAHLN Pacific Salon 2
JOINT 12:30 PM-5:30 PM USAHA/AAVLD Committee on Aquaculture  Royal Palm Salon 5,6
USAHA 12:30 PM-5:30 PM USAHA Committee on Import-Export  Pacific Salon 3
USAHA 12:30 PM-5:30 PM USAHA Committee on Infectious Diseases of Cattle, Bison and Camelids  Sunset
USAHA 12:30 PM-5:30 PM USAHA Johne's Disease Committee Pacific Salon 4,5
USAHA 12:30 PM-5:00 PM USAHA Committee on Wildlife Diseases Sunrise
USAHA 12:30 PM-5:30 PM USAHA Scientific Advisory Subcommittee on Brucellosis Towne
USAHA 12:30 PM-5:30 PM USAHA Subcommittee on Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area Towne
USAHA 12:30 PM-5:30 PM Feral Swine Subcommittee on Brucellosis and Pseudorabies  Towne
USAHA 1:00 PM-5:30 PM APHIS VS2015    Golden West
JOINT 1:30 PM-5:30 PM USAHA Committee on Food and Feed Safety and AAVLD Food Safety Committee Pacific Salon 6,7
AAVLD 3:00 PM-5:00 PM AAVLD-NSVL Proficiency Testing Committee Royal Palm Salon 1,2
AAVLD 3:00 PM-6:00 PM AAVLD – Strategic Planning Committee Esquire
JOINT 3:00 PM-6:00 PM USAHA/AAVLD Committee on Animal Health Surveillance and Information System Pacific Salon 1
USAHA 4:00 PM-5:30 PM USAHA District at Large Meeting (Allied, Industry, and Regional)  Terrace Salon 1
USAHA 5:00 PM-6:00 PM USAHA New Member Orientation  Pacific Salon 2
JOINT 5:30 PM Presidents' Reception Atlas Foyer
JOINT 6:30 PM-9:00 PM USAHA/AAVLD President's Dinner & General Meeting Towne & Country
    MONDAY – October 21, 2013  
JOINT 7:30 AM-5:00 PM Registration Golden Pacific Foyer
AAVLD 7:00 AM-8:00 AM AAVLD Past Presidents Breakfast  Tiki Pavilion
  7:00 AM Coffee Break Golden Pacific Foyer 
JOINT 7:30 AM-12:00 PM USAHA/AAVLD - Joint Plenary Scientific Session - Vaccines: 100 Years of Virus Serum Toxin Act and Beyond  Towne & Country
USAHA 11:00 AM-8:00 PM Directors of State Meat Inspection Pacific Salon 4,5
USAHA 12:00PM 12:30 PM USAHA Membership Luncheon & Meeting San Diego & Golden West
AAVLD 12:00 PM-12:45 PM AAVLD House of Delegates    Pacific Salon 6,7
USAHA 1:00 PM-5:00 PM USDA-ARS National Animal Health Research Review Pacific Salon 3
USAHA 1:00 PM-6:00 PM USAHA Committee on Bluetongue and Related Orbiviruses Sunsest
USAHA 1:00 PM-6:00 PM USAHA  Committee on Brucellosis  San Diego
USAHA 1:00 PM-6:00 PM USAHA Infectious Diseases of Horses Sunrise
USAHA 1:00 PM-6:00 PM USAHA International Standards Committee Royal Palm Salon 1,2
USAHA 1:00 PM-6:00 PM USAHA Committee on Transmissible  Diseases of Poultry and Other Avian Species (Monday & Tuesday) Pacific Salon I,2
USAHA 1:00 PM-6:00 PM USAHA Committee on Transmissible Diseases of Swine  Royal Palm Salon 3,4
USAHA 1:00 PM-6:00 PM USAHA Committee on Tuberculosis Scientific Advisory Subcommittee Royal Palm Salon 5,6
AAVLD 1:30 PM-3:30 PM AAVLD Committee Chairs and Program Committee Towne
USAHA 3:30 PM-5:00 PM USAHA and AAVLD Executive Committees Towne
USAHA 5:00 PM-6:30 PM State Animal disease Traceability Discussion Pacific Salon 6,7
USAHA 5:30 PM-8:00 PM National Association of Federal
Veterinarians		 Pacific Salon 3
USAHA 6:00 PM-7:00 PM USAHA Board of Directors
Committee Meeting (Mon-Tues-Wed)		 Golden Ballroom
    TUESDAY – October 22, 2013  
JOINT 7:30 AM-5:00 PM Registration Golden Pacific Foyer
USAHA 7:30 AM-9:30 AM USAHA Past President Breakfast Devonshire
USAHA 8:00 AM-9:00 AM National Scrapie Oversight Board  Royal Palm Salon 3,4
USAHA 8:00 AM-12:00 PM USAHA Committee on Captive Wildlife and Alternative Livestock Pacific Salon 3
USAHA 8:00 AM-12:00 PM USAHA Committee on Livestock Identification San Diego
USAHA 8:00 AM-12:00 PM USAHA Committee on Pharmaceuticals Pacific Salon 6,7
USAHA 8:00 AM-12:00 PM USAHA Committee on Salmonella Royal Palm Salon 1,2
USAHA 8:00 AM-5:30 PM USAHA Committee on Foreign and Emerging Diseases Golden West
USAHA 8:00 AM-5:30 PM Directors of State Meat Inspection Pacific Salon 4,5
USAHA 9:00 AM-12:00 PM USAHA Committee on Scrapie  Royal Palm Salon 3,4
USAHA 10:00 AM-12:00 PM American Association of Avian Pathologist Liaison with AVMA Royal Palm Salon 6
USAHA 1:00 PM-5:30 PM USAHA Public Health and Rabies Committee Pacific Salon 3
USAHA 1:00 PM-5:30 PM USAHA Committee on Sheep and Goats Royal Palm Salon 3,4
USAHA 1:00 PM-5:30 PM USAHA Committee on Transmissible  Diseases of Poultry and Other Avian Species  Pacific Salon 1,2
USAHA 1:00 PM-5:30 PM USAHA Committee on Tuberculosis San Diego
USAHA 6:00 PM-7:00 PM USAHA Board of Directors Committee Meeting  Golden Ballroom
USAHA 7:00 PM-10:00 PM USAHA Committee on Biologics and Biotechnology Sunset
    WEDNESDAY – October 23, 2013  
JOINT 7:30 AM-10:00 AM Registration Golden Pacific Foyer
USAHA 8:00 AM-12:00 PM USAHA Committee on Animal Welfare   Pacific Salon 2,3
USAHA 8:00 AM-12:00 PM USAHA Committee on Parasitic Diseases Pacific Salon 6,7
USAHA 2:00 PM-3:30 PM USAHA Business Session - Membership Meeting Pacific Salon 2,3
USAHA 3:30 PM-4:30 PM USAHA Board of Directors Committee Meeting  Golden Ballroom
USAHA 6:00 PM USAHA Executive Committee Meeting and Dinner Devonshire
       
       

 

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