Focus on Exotics 2025
Discover the latest in focus on exotics with this 3-day webinar series!
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- June 3-5, 2025
- 19:30 AEST
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June 3, 2025
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June 4, 2025
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June 5, 2025
19:30 AEST
Foraging Enrichment
Speaker: Dr Yvonne Van Zeeland
Time: 19:30 AEST [Sydney] | 21:30 NZST [Auckland]
Time: 05:30 EDT
Palliation and Chronic Pain Management
Speaker: Dr Jade Kingsley
Lecture Description:
This presentation explores key principles of palliative care and chronic pain management in exotic animals, including birds, reptiles, and small mammals. It covers recognizing subtle signs of discomfort, using multimodal pain control, and supporting patients through environmental and nutritional strategies—such as assisted feeding and targeted supplementation. The talk also emphasizes effective client communication, compassionate decision-making, and practical tools to improve quality of life through proactive pain management.
Time: 19:30 AEST [Sydney] | 21:30 NZST [Auckland]
Time: 05:30 EDT
Endotracheal Intubation of Avian and Exotic Patients
Speaker: Iffy GlendinningLecture Description:
Veterinary nurses and technicians are at the forefront of anaesthetic care in avian and exotic species, often responsible for induction, intubation, and monitoring throughout procedures. As the ownership of birds, reptiles, and small mammals continues to rise, so does the expectation for high-quality veterinary care – not just from specialists, but from general practitioners and their support teams. This session explores the crucial role of intubation in exotic and avian anaesthesia, especially during procedures requiring prolonged respiratory support. Participants will gain insight into the challenges posed by species-specific anatomy, limitations in available equipment, and how to overcome these to achieve safe and effective airway management. Emphasis will be placed on when and why intubation should become the routine standard of care – and how to make it practical in a busy clinical setting.
Whether you’re new to exotic anaesthesia or looking to refine your technique, this lecture will provide the knowledge and confidence to improve patient outcomes and uphold best practices across species.
Date: Thursday, 5 June 2025
Time: 19:30 AEST [Sydney] | 21:30 NZST [Auckland]
Date: Thursday, 5 June 2025
Time: 05:30 EDT
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Speakers
Dr Yvonne van Zeeland
DVM, MVR, PhD, DipECZM (Avian, Small Mammal), CPBC
Yvonne van Zeeland graduated with merit from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (Utrecht, The Netherlands) in 2004. Having worked briefly in private practice, she returned to academia to successfully complete an internship in Companion Animal Medicine, residency in Avian Medicine and PhD on feather damaging behaviour in Grey parrots. Yvonne currently works as an Associate Professor at the Division of Zoological Medicine, and actively contributes to the (inter)national development and advancement of avian and exotic animal medicine through lecturing, publishing and membership of various professional organizations and committees, including having served as President for the Association of Avian Veterinarians. For these ongoing and outstanding contributions to the field, she received the T.J. Lafeber Avian Practitioner of the Year Award in 2021.
Dr Jade Kingsley
BA/BSc, BVSc, PgDip (animal physiology), MANZCVS (Avian Health)
Jade Kingsley is an exotics and wildlife veterinarian and consults as primary accession and referral exotic animal medicine. During her veterinary studies she interned in various zoos and wildlife hospitals around the world. After graduating from The University of Sydney in 2012, she worked in both emergency and wildlife hospitals across Australia. In 2018, Jade completed her membership exams in Avian Health (MANZCVS – Avian Health). Since, she has worked exclusively in exotics hospitals, which includes Sydney Exotics and Rabbit Vets. She is passionate about pediatric care, nutrition, and continues to work with various wildlife organizations both in Australia and internationally in her spare time.
Iffy Glendinning
RVT, DipVNZS APVN (Avian), BVT (Hons I), BSc (Zoology & Marine Biology)
Iffy’s love of avian and exotic patients began with a Bachelor of Science majoring in Zoology and Marine Biology from James Cook University, and continued to grow with a Bachelor of Veterinary Technology from the University of Queensland. Iffy has completed an internship in emergency and critical care, a clinical honours in avian and exotics, a diploma in advanced avian nursing, and is currently the avian and exotics veterinary technologist at UQ Vets Small Animal Hospital where she's had the pleasure of working for the past 5 years.
Over the years, Iffy has published a thesis and several peer reviewed journal articles. She teaches into the Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Bachelor of Veterinary Technology degrees at UQ, contributing towards future generations of vets and techs being able to confidently and competently treat avian, exotic and wildlife patients. Iffy has been the humble recipient of the 2022 VNCA Best Case Report and the 2024 Exotics Vet Nurse Excellence Award, and her areas of interest are avian and exotics anaesthesia, wildlife rehabilitation and palliative care.
Iffy is also founder and director of a registered non-profit guinea pig rescue specialising in palliative care, and shares her home with guinea pigs, parrots, pigeons, fish, a snake, a two dogs.
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