CAVEPM Conference 2008

CVER hosted the Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Association of Veterinary Epidemiolgoy and Preventative Medicine (CAVEPM) at UPEI at the end of May. Over 60 participants from across North America and as far away as Switzerland, Finland and the United Kingdom were in attendance. Dr. John VanLeeuwen (President- CAVEPM) was primarily responsible for the meeting with the logistics being looked after by CVER's Tracey Gairns-Brioux. The meeting was one of the largest scientific meetings of CAVEPM with 31 oral presentations- many in the theme areas for the meeting (systematic reviews and disease modelling)-along with a dozen poster presentations. Next year's meeting will be held in Guelph, Ontario and co-hosted by the Public Health Agency of Canada and the University of Guelph.