June 4-6, 2027, in Bingen and Waldalgesheim, Germany
In cooperation with Pferdeklinik Equitales
Jessica Kidd and Derek Knottenbelt will improve the quality of your work with their knowledge and experience by teaching about the cellular basis of cancer and its etiopathogenesis, along with the actual principles of diagnosis, treatment and management of cancer cases. The diagnostic skills will be challenged with real cases and their treatment and management options be discussed. 16 participants only.
Accreditation by the German Academy for Continuous Veterinary Education (ATF) has been requested.
Program
Friday, June 4, lectures in hotel NH Bingen
- 10:00 – Welcome
- 10:15 – Basic principles of clinical oncology
- 11:15 – Coffee break
- 11:45 – The equine sarcoid – diagnosis and treatment
- 13:00 – Lunch
- 14:00 – Melanoma surgery – is it justified and what can we achieve?
- 15:30 – Coffee break
- 16:00 – Carcinoma conditions – surgical options
- 17:00 – Lymphoma and other rare tumor types including Mast cell tumors GIST, lipoma, GCT, and hemangiosarcoma.
- 1800 – SMART surgery- what it is and how to do it.
- 18:30 – End
Saturday, June 5, hands-on in Pferdeklinik Equitales
- 9:00 – Wet labs: Participants will rotate betweenA) Sampling suspicious and tumorous material.
B) Visual and palpatory examination of suspicious and tumorous tissues.
- 10:30 – Coffee break
- 11:00 – Wet labs: Participants will rotate betweenA) how to do SMART surgery and
B) how to dointralesional chemotherapy injections - 12:30 – Lunch
- 13:30 – Discussion of findings and methodology
- 15:00 – Wet labs: Participants will examine horses, and protocol the findings to come up with a diagnosis
- 16:30 – Coffee break
- 17:00 – Wet labs: Participants will examine horses, and protocol the findings to come up with a diagnosis
- 18:00 – End
- 18:30 – Convivial evening
Sunday, June 6, case discussions in hotel NH Bingen
- 9:00 – Discussion of the examination protocols, findings and diagnoses of yesterday
- 10:30 – Coffee break
- 11:00 – Case presentations of participants and instructors
- 12:30 – Finger food
- 13:30 – End
Speakers
Jessica Kidd
attended veterinary school at Purdue University in the United States of America followed by two years in mixed practice in New England, USA. After this she completed an internship at a referral racehorse hospital in Ocala, Florida, USA, and then returned to the UK to complete an equine surgery residency at the University of Bristol. This was followed by time as a surgery lecturer at the University of Glasgow’s veterinary school in Scotland followed by holding the position of the University Equine Surgeon at the University of Cambridge, England. She then spent seven years in private practice as the surgeon at the Valley Equine Hospital in Lambourn, Berkshire, England, which had a hospital population of racehorses, performance horses and pleasure horses and is currently an external surgical consultant to multiple practices.
She holds the RCVS certificate in Equine Surgery (Orthopedics), is a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Surgeons, and is an RCVS and European recognized specialist in Equine Surgery. Her areas of interest are both soft tissue and orthopedic surgery, diagnostic imaging and investigation of lameness cases as well as neonatology and care of the pregnant mare.
She is a keen motorcyclist and one of the original members of the Horsepower CPD team which has already raised over £980,000 for charities to provide ongoing funding for both working equids and disabled children.
Derek Knottenbelt
is a Diplomate of the European College of Equine Internal Medicine and of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and held a personal chair at the University of Liverpool, England, until his „retirement“ in 2010. He was then a consultant professor at the University of Glasgow and currently runs Equine Medical Solutions (www.sarcoid.co.uk). Equine Medical Solutions Ltd. was founded in 2016, taking over the sarcoid referral service previously run through Leahurst at Liverpool Vet School. Equine Medical Solutions continue to provide support and advice to veterinarians on equine cancer cases, in particular sarcoids.
Derek has published a plethora of journal articles and something crazy like 12 textbooks. He received the Animal Health Trust Scientific Award in 2003, the BEVA Blue Cross Welfare Award in 2004, and received an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honors of 2005 for his services to Equine Medicine.
Derek founded Vets with Horsepower in 2009 and the first trip took place in 2010.
His topics of interest include a wide range of equine medicine topics, with a special interest in dermatology and wounds, oncology, ophthalmology and neurology including headshakers but the list certainly is not limited to this!
What you need to know...
Dates & Locations
June 4 and 6 | NH Bingen – see address below
June 5 | Pferdeklinik Equitales
Zum Bergwerk 1
55425 Waldalgesheim
Außerhalb 5
55411 Bingen am Rhein, Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 800 94 24 11 0
https://pferdeklinik-equitales.de/
Accommodation
NH Bingen (instructors are accommodated here)
Am Rhein Nahe Eck
55411 Bingen
Phone +49 (0) 6721 79 60
https://www.nh-hotels.de/hotel/nh-bingen
A room contingent has been reserved in this hotel until April 5, 2027. To reserve accommodation in the hotel please use the link Will be added soon!
Other hotels through: http://www.bingen.de/
Further information
Arbeitsgruppe Pferd – Task Force Horse
Arno Lindner
Heinrich-Röttgen-Str. 20, 52428 Jülich, Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 2461 340-430; contact@agpferd.de; www.agpferd.com
- Nearest airports: Frankfurt am Main (FRA); However, Cologne/Bonn (CGN) and Düsseldorf (DUS) are good choices too because from there as well as from FRA it is rather easy to get to Bingen by train and the hotel is within 10 minutes walking distance from the railway station Bingen-Hauptbahnhof (not Bingen-Stadt!!!).
- More equine professionals’ education: Please check under events in agpferd.com