Sustainability and climate change are on the menu at AVMA Convention in Denver this year (July 14-18, 2023).
This will all start out with leadership as the AVMA House of Delegates will have an open discussion on “What are you doing in your veterinary workplace—clinical practice or otherwise—to support sustainability?” Comments were solicited from AVMA members in each state and this question will be part of the AVMA HOD’s Veterinary Information Forum on July 13th.
In addition, check out some of the great talks on sustainability this year! Below are a few talks that caught our eyes…
- Infusing health and community into veterinary practices with environmentally sustainable initiatives(Jacquie Hilterman, Drs. Danielle Scott, Will Sander, Colleen Duncan, and Terry Ryan Kane)
- A hazard analysis approach to climate-driven changes in food safety (Dr. Michelle Pfannenstiel)
- Cows as canaries and birds as bellwethers (Dr. Sheryl Magzamen)
- Sustainability and Veterinarians: Is education an important first step? (Drs. Colleen Duncan and Will Sander)
- Anesthetics and Ozone Depletion: How do we reduce our effects as a profession? (Dr. Nicole Trenholme)
- Advances in sustainability: the pork perspective (Dr. Heather Fowler)
- Veterinarians, climate change, and the food supply chain (Dr. Michelle Pfannenstiel)
- Veterinarians and Pharmaceuticals: Part of the problem and part of the solution (Dr. Will Sander)
- What is biodiversity, and how does it impact disease outbreaks? (Dr. Susan VandeWoude)
- Assessing animal welfare within a sustainability framework – a new approach (Drs. Lily Edwards-Callaway and Sara Place)
- Future insights: One Health, biodiversity, and infectious disease (Dr. John Gittleman)
- Cyanobacterial toxins: blue-green algae in the water and in the news (Dr. Karyn Bischoff)
- Tale of two hunters: understanding the role of wildlife hunting in biodiversity (Drs. Peregrine Wolff and Marissa Milstein)
- The role of the veterinary profession in national and global food sustainability (Dr. Mo Salman)
