Spring Meeting 2001
12-13th May
2001 Bristol Zoo Gardens
Zoo & Wildlife Care in the 21st Century
Autumn Meeting 2001
10th-11th November 2001
Royal Veterinary College, Potters Bar
Zoo & Exotic Diagnostics
Spring Meeting 2002
11th-12th May, 2002
Chester Zoo
Standards, Welfare and Conservation in Zoo and Exotic Practice
Autumn Meeting 2002
9th and 10th November, 2002
Edinburgh Zoo
Advances in Avian Medicine and Surgery
Spring Meeting 2003
10th and 11th May, 2003
Dublin University
Non-infectious Diseases of Mammals
Autumn Meeting 2003
8th and 9th November, 2003
Edinburgh Zoo
Infectious Diseases of Exotics
Spring Meeting 2004
8th and 9th May, 2004
Marwell Zoo
Nutrition: from rabbits to rhinos
Causes, diagnosis and therapy in an easily digestible form
Autumn Meeting 2004
Joint BVZS/WAWV/ZSL/RVC Conference
12-14 November, 2004
Zoological Society of London
Advances in Exotic, Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine
Spring Meeting 2005
14th and 15th May, 2005
Queen’s Hotel, Chester
Aquatic Animal Medicine and Surgery
Autumn Meeting 2005
11th, 12th and 13th November, 2005
Royal Veterinary College, Potters Bar
Advances in Surgery and Anaesthesia
Spring Meeting 2006
13th and 14th May, 2006
Holiday Inn Luton and Whipsnade Wild Animal Park
Diagnostics
Autumn meeting 2006
11th and 12th November, 2006
Bristol Zoo
Rabbiting on. Rabbits, Zoo, Wildlife and Exotic Medicine
Joint meeting with the Rabbit Welfare Fund
Satellite Day at 50th Anniversary BSAVA Congress April 2007
Recently affiliated to BSAVA, BVZS held a very successful Satellite Meeting on Wednesday 11th April 2007 in Hall 7b, ICC, Birmingham. More details will be posted soon in the members area of this website along with PPT presentations by the various speakers. Please note that these PPT presentations may take some time to download....so be patient! Proceedings will soon be posted to BVZS members. For ppt presentations given at the meeting visit BSAVA page in the members area.
Session One: Zoo work in practice: providing a good service and meeting your responsibilities under the Zoo Licensing Act
Session Two: Back to Basics - Camelid Medicine
Session Three: Back to Basics: Ratite Medicine
Session Four: Back to Basics: Ferret Medicine
Session Five: Back to Basics: Wildlife Casualties
BVZS Satellite Day April 2nd 2008 at BSAVA Congress The second very succesful BVZS Satellite day was held at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham. For programme details click here
Theme: "How to cope with more odd species: Fish, Primates, Macropods, Wildlife Case Studies and Wildlife Capture and Anaesthesia" Further details will be posted as per 2007 details below.
Details of the 2007 Satellite day can be found in the members area of this website along with presentations given by several of the speakers.
BVZS Autumn meeting November 10/11th 2007
“Recent advances in Comparative Medicine” Programme details can be found here.
The Conference was held at the new Veterinary School near Nottingham. About the School - School of Veterinary Medicine and Science - The University of Nottingham There was a visit to and tour of Twycross Zoo. on friday November 9th.
BVZS Spring meeting 2008 May 17/18th at Woburn Safari Park
Theme: - "Artichokes to zebra; all you need to know about herbivores"
Programme
Details of the 2008 BVA Congress at which 2 BVZS members are speaking can be found at this link BVA Congress - British Veterinary Association
BVZS Autumn meeting November 8/9th 2008
"Reptiles and Lower Vertebrates"
Held at The Park Royal Hotel, Stretton, Warrington. The programme
Frances Baines has kindly agreed to allow her presentations on our website. Click here for How much UVB does my reptile need, Photokeratoconjunctivitis and Reptile lighting.
Some pictures of the Conference click here and here
BVZS Satellite Day at BSAVA April 1st 2009 Theme:Avian Medicine. Talks by Michael Stanford, Victoria Roberts and Edmund Flach.
Venue was the International Convention Centre, Birmingham (The ICC, Birmingham - Conferences, meeting and events at the UK's premier conference centre )
Spring meeting 2009 April 24/25th Venue: Jersey at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (formerly Jersey Zoo) Theme: Conservation Medicine Latest programme
Click here for interactive map of Jersey.
BVZS Autumn meeting November 7/8th 2009
Theme: " SEX – ASPECTS AFFECTING EXOTICS AND WILDLIFE "
The theme was based on reproductive and urogenital problems in all species from mice through parrots and lizards to Giraffe and Elephants. See this link for more information.
The main hotel was the Park Inn Hotel ( www.york.parkinn.co.uk )
The programme as of October 19th 2009 can be found downloaded here
BVZS Satellite Day meeting was on April 7th 2010 at the ICC, Birmingham on Wednesday 7th April. The theme was Exotics for GP Vets, covering birds, reptiles, rabbits, rodents, ferrets degus and sugar gliders.
BVZS Spring meeting 2010. Theme "Preventative Medicine" Programe click here There was a visit during the day to Paignton Zoo (Welcome to Paignton Zoo Environmental Park, Paignton, Devon, UK. ) on the Friday and one to Living Coasts on the Friday evening
