Date:  Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Time:  6:30-8:00 pm

Topic : "Updates In Emergency Medicine"

Dr. Marilyn Brink will be speaking to us about emergency medicine. This course covers a review of recent journals and consensus statements of changes to standard of care in emergency practice over the last several years. This will cover topics such as pain relief, fluid therapy, treatment of toxicities, management of feline urinary tract obstruction, novel drug therapy for pancreatitis,  & empirical antibiotic therapy for diarrhea.This event is generously sponsored by Animal Emergency Hospital of Grand Rapids & Animal Emergency & Specialty Hospital of Byron Center. 

Here are the quick details:

• This meeting is open to member veterinarians first and then technicians if space allows.
  
• This meeting is RACE approved for 1 hour of CE (you must have your CORRECT license number at the time of registration). 
• Location: John Ball Zoo, Treehouse. Map or directions are available at https://goo.gl/maps/G8R9q3V8AcXhc5pk9
• 6:30pm social time and open bar, 7pm dinner
  

About our speaker:

 Dr. Brink began working at the Animal Emergency Hospital as an assistant during veterinary school. She had always pictured being a family veterinarian, but after spending her first summer with AEH, she had found her calling. Dr. Brink returned to AEH after graduating from Michigan State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine in 2008. She has always had interest in leadership, and finds great fulfillment in her role as Medical Director. She enjoys giving back to the profession though mentorship of veterinary students and new graduate veterinarians. Dr. Brink enjoys collecting and restoring vintage My Little Ponies, running, scrapbooking, drawing, traveling, and spending time with her family. Dr. Brink and her husband have two children, Emmalyn and Bennett, and a wirehaired terrier dog, Mike.