Did you miss the first round? Test your knowledge with 2023 AAHA Con trivia. 

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1. Who am I?

• I show American Quarter Horses with my family.  
• I have worked at the Lincoln Memorial University masters program.  
• As the “Think Anesthesia Content Coordinator” at Jurox, I helped build a global virtual veterinary CE platform.  
• My companion-animal anesthesia reference book, Small Animal Anesthesia Techniques, recently came out in a second edition and is available in three languages.  
• I am a credentialed veterinary technician and a veterinary technician specialist in anesthesia and analgesia.  
• I am an avid gardener.  
   

3 Things you will learn in my AAHA Con sessions . . .  

• Understand the importance of critical thinking and observational monitoring to make clinical decisions and communicate about patient care. 
• Understand the relationship between monitoring devices and the information they provide in a clinical setting to tailor response and treatment decisions. 
• Review the importance of checklists and the impact on anesthetic-related mistakes. 

Do you know who I am?  

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2. Who am I?

• In 2015, I received an honorary doctor’s degree from the University of Helsinki, Finland, where one of my fellow recipients on the program was the president of Finland. 
• I am one of seven charter founding diplomates of the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia.  
• I am a co-founder of the International Veterinary Academy of Pain Management.  
• I have presented more than 750 lectures on anesthesiology and pain management throughout the world.  
• I wrote the textbook Animal Pain.  
• My research has included preclinical and clinical studies for ketamine, alpha two sedative / analgesics, and propofol anesthesia.  
• I was born in a little mountain farm home in Tennessee in 1934. 
• I’ve had a 65-year career that began when I enrolled at Baylor University Medical College to study anesthesiology. 
• I use music to help manage arthritic pain and have found it requires less pain medication as a result.  
• As an 89-year-old emeritus professor I get great pleasure from seeing the sincere efforts of younger veterinarians dedicated to the relief of pain and suffering in animals.  

3 Things you will learn in my AAHA Con sessions . . .  

• Explore how music—a nonpharmaceutical—can blend with medications to relieve different levels of mild to severe pain. 
• Learn about the use of music to relieve anxiety in chronic conditions such as osteoarthritis, surgical corrections, and follow-up rehabilitation. 
• Learn how adding music reduces anxiety, stress, and suffering when combined with analgesics in cancer treatment. 

Do you know who I am?  

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3. Who am I?

• A little dog named Poppy with advanced pancreatic cancer led me to a passion for cancer genomics.  
• I am a board-certified specialist in medical oncology.  
• I graduated from The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. 
• I completed additional training at Florida Veterinary Specialists and Cornell University.  
• I have worked as an oncologist in the US and Australia. 
• In 2019, I co-founded PetDx to bring noninvasive cancer detection to veterinary medicine. 
• My team and I developed the OncoK9 liquid biopsy test and published multiple peer-reviewed articles on noninvasive cancer detection in dogs.  

3 Things you will learn in my AAHA Con sessions . . .  

• Discuss technologies for assessing the genome, including Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS).  
• Evaluate the benefits and limitations of liquid biopsy testing as a novel screening tool for dogs. 
• Review the fundamentals of next-generation sequencing-based liquid biopsy testing for multi-cancer detection in dogs. 

Do you know who I am? 

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4. Who am I?

• I was part of the founding faculty at Midwestern University College of Veterinary Medicine and remained on faculty for four years.  
• I completed a one-year companion-animal internship and a three-year small-animal surgery residency at LSU where I also received my master’s degree in veterinary clinical science.  
• I am an associate professor and service chief of small-animal surgery at Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine.  
• I am a 1991 graduate of the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine.  
• I practiced for 17 years in specialty surgical practice in Michigan and Arizona.  
• I became a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2002, and a certified canine rehabilitation practitioner in 2017. 

3 Things you will learn in my AAHA Con sessions . . .  

• Learn the basic principles of urinary tract surgery. 
• Learn the most common disorders of the perineal and perianal region of dogs and cats. 
• Learn pre-op and post-op care principles for patients undergoing surgery of the GI tract.  

Do you know who I am? 

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5. Who am I?

• My special interest is clinical hematology.  
• I was selected to participate in the 1996 Molecular Biology of Cancer workshop sponsored by the American Association for Cancer Research.  
• I've authored or co-authored 23 refereed publications, eight research abstracts, and a few book chapters.  
• I grew up in Punjab, a northern province of India, and earned my DVM in 1992 through an Educational Commission for Foreign Veterinary Graduates (ECFVG) program at Iowa State University. 
• I completed a residency and MS program in smallanimal clinical oncology at the University of Illinois. 
• I became board-certified in oncology in 1998, and board-certified in canine and feline practice in 2002. 
• As a practicing oncologist, I have part-owned and managed two emergency specialty hospitals. 
• My other research interests include drug resistance in canine lymphoma, improving clinical outcomes in patients, and oral cancer.  

3 Things you will learn in my AAHA Con sessions . . .  

• Outline common chronic clinical conditions of older dogs and cats.  
• Review methods of obtaining a diagnostic cytology sample. 
• Get a good overview of how to write a cytology report for medical records. 

Do you know who I am? 

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