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Thach Winslow

DVM

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Saturday, September 24

  • Internal Parasites Update & The R word – juggling anthelmintics –

  • “Stocker Trends – How did we get here?” Can less be more?

Dr. Thach Winslow currently serves on Elanco’s team of beef outside cattle technical consultants focusing on stocker / backgrounder and cow/calf operations in the southeast where he owned and operated large animal practice for the first 17 years of his veterinary career.

Thach spent another 11 years in regulatory medicine in both Virginia and most recently Wyoming as their livestock epidemiologist in charge of field operations with a focus on foreign, domestic, and emerging disease mitigation, surveillance, control, and eradication. As assistant state veterinarian for Wyoming he was involved nationally in livestock disease, traceability, and emergency response
programs.

Thach has extensive experience working directly with producers in most all pre-feedlot sectors. He has provided animal health and consulting services to both stocker and backgrounder operations, as well as seedstock and commercial cow/calf producers, buying stations, and livestock markets.

While familiar and supportive of traditional systems, Thach continually seeks innovative solutions to improve and add value to what was done last year, last week, and yesterday. His practice was the first PVP age source provider in Virginia. He is a strong believer in good records as an analysis tool, as well as looking beyond the computer screen for answers and solutions. It is rare that you will hear Thach making blanket recommendations as he feels that protocols and practices should vary by operation, season, source, facilities, environment, production objectives, and other significant factors.

“One thing is for sure”, says Thach,“all the answers are NOT in the bottle.”

T. Robin Falkner

DVM

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Saturday, September 24

  • Managing Beef Cattle for Wellness instead of Absence of Disease Cattle – Pt 1

  • Managing Beef Cattle for Wellness instead of Absence of Disease Cattle – Pt 2

Dr. Falkner grew up on a family farm in North Mississippi with beef cattle, commercial hay, and row-crop production. He received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (with honors) in 1989 from Mississippi State University. He spent the first 8 years of his veterinary career in private practice, as a clinic owner professionally focused on beef stocker cattle, cow /calf operations, and livestock markets/orderbuyers. Dr. Falkner served two years as an Extension Veterinarian at Kansas State University, doing post-graduate work in ruminant nutrition and immunology, along with research in feeder cattle health, nutrition, and management. Since 1999, Dr. Falkner has worked with veterinarians and beef cattle operations across the Country as both a private consultant and industry technical services veterinarian, and is recognized for his leadership and innovative approaches to improving health, production, and management. His CattleFlow™ multi-dimensional management philosophy– representing a systemic approach where disease biocontainment is prioritized within models that also optimize resource utilization, opportunity capture, people outcomes, sustainability and legacy—is reflected in many operations that will successfully transfer to the next generation. His professional passion is for bovine practitioners to develop a broader and more comprehensive Systems Practice paradigm that rejects the current notion of measuring success narrowly as the dichotomous absence of production, partial-budget economic, or disease failures. Instead, Systems Practitioners develop a shared vision with clients and manage diverse long term success outcomes as continuous variables instead of for the dichotomous absence of temporal failure outcomes such as disease, reproductive failure, (-profit), or employee turnover. He imagines a profession that one day will envision, enable, and witness “outbreaks” of success and wellness in animals and the people who care for them. Dr. Falkner makes his home just south of Nashville, TN with his wife, Sterling, and daughters Bebe and AlliMichel.

Anthony J. Pescatore

DVM

Saturday, September 24

  • An online course on Poultry Health

  • Troubleshooting the small flock

Dr. Anthony Pescatore is the associate chair and an extension professor in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences at the University of Kentucky. Tony has been with the University of Kentucky for 36 years. He provides program support in the areas of management, biosecurity, environmental issues, and animal welfare. His research interests are in environmental nutrition, poultry management and alternative production systems. He has co-authored over 100 scientific articles, extension publications and conference proceedings. During his tenure at the University of Kentucky, the Kentucky poultry industry increased from $25 million industry to a $1.2 billion industry. Dr. Pescatore was named to the Kentucky Poultry Hall of Fame. He received the 2014 M.D. Whiteker Award for Excellence in Extension Programming from the University of Kentucky. He is a past president of the Poultry Science Association and twice served as President of the Federation of Animal Science Societies. He is a Fellow of the Poultry Science Association. He received both the Pfizer Extension Award (1993) and the Phibro Extension Award (2015) from the Poultry Science Association. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the PSA Foundation and the Board of Directors of the World Poultry Science Association- USA branch.

Alex Hagan

DVM

Sunday, September 25

  • Urban Goat Medicine 101: The Basics for City Goat Farmers

  • Deworming vs. Parasite Control: What’s the Difference? Small Ruminant

Dr. Alex Hagan has been a mixed animal practitioner for 11 years with a primary focus in food animal medicine. For the year of 2021, Alex was the Deputy State Veterinarian for the Kentucky Department of Agriculture. He returned to practice in February of 2022 at Shelby Veterinary Clinic in Shelbyville, KY. A 2003 graduate of Oldham County High School, Dr. Hagan studied animal science and biology at Morehead State University where he also ran Cross Country and Track for the Eagles. He received his doctorate of veterinary medicine from Auburn University in 2011. Dr. Hagan claims to be the smartest food animal veterinarian in his house, but gives the titles of smartest overall veterinarian and best looking to his wife Jessie (AUCVM Class of 2010). He enjoys “Daddy Adventure Weekends” with his two daughters, running with his dog Boz and farming beef cattle with his brother-in-law.

Nathan Helgert

DVM

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Sunday, September 25

  • Deadstock, Now What? A Review of Ruminant Necropsy Protocal & Sampling

  • What am I Looking At?; Common Diseases & Gross Lesions of Ruminants

Nathan Helgert is a diagnostic pathologist and assistant professor at Murray State University’s Breathitt Veterinary Center. Dr. Helgert graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in 2012. After practicing for 4 years in mixed animal practice in Northwestern Pennsylvania, he completed a residency in anatomic pathology at the University of Tennessee in 2019. Dr. Helgert is a certified anatomic pathologist by the American College of Veterinary Pathologists. Dr. Helgert’s professional interests include cytology, dermatopathology, and poultry pathology. A militant cat person, Dr. Helgert lives in Hopkinsville with his wife, four cats, and a grumpy blue-fronted Amazon parrot.

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