Winners of best award presentations from the event included: Best Avian / Exotics Presentation Dr. Mary Thurber - «Detection of Avian Boravirus in Captive Thick - billed Parrots (Rhynchopsitta Pachyrhyncha) by RT - PCR and ELISA» Best Large
Animal Presentation Dr. Lisa Gamsjaeger - «Sodium Iodide as a Preventative Strategy for Respiratory Disease in Preweaned Dairy Calves» Best Small
Animal Presentation # 1 Dr. Catherine Belanger - «High - Pressure Balloon Valvuloplasty for Severe Pulmonic Stenosis: A Prospective Observational Study in 25 Dogs» Best Small
Animal Presentation # 2 Dr. Chai - Fei Li - «Exosome - Associated Integrins as Liquid Biopsy Biomarkers for Canine Glioma» Chris Smith Award Dr. Fauna Smith - «Eosinophilic Peritonitis in 8 Horses (1995 - 2015)» Gerald Ling Award Dr. Kate Farrell - «Evaluation of Pulse Oximetry as a Surrogate for Pao2 in Awake Dogs
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Anesthetized Dogs on Mechanical Ventilation» UC Davis, with the largest resident training program of any veterinary hospital in the country, is able to offer unique research and publishing opportunities not available elsewhere to veterinarians pursuing advanced training at teaching hospitals.