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Dr. Kerl is pleased to welcome Dr. Danny Joffe, Vice President of Medical Operations for VCA Canada. Listen in as Dr. Joffe shares his journey in veterinary medicine, from deciding to become a veterinarian in second grade to opening his own practice. He discusses the importance of internships in shaping a veterinarian's career and the value of continuing education and certification. Dr. Joffe also highlights the initiatives and programs implemented in VCA Canada, such as the feline declaw ban and the support program for veterinarians experiencing patient safety events or board actions. He also emphasizes the importance of veterinary technicians and their vital role in providing high-quality care.Dr. Joffe graduated from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (with Great Distinction) in 1985. He completed a small animal medicine and surgery internship at Cornell University in 1985-86, and then entered private practice, eventually starting his own small animal practice, Landing Animal Clinic, in Calgary Alberta in 1989, practicing there until 2020. He was a founding partner in a multi-specialist referral and emergency clinic (Calgary Animal Referral and Emergency Centre—C.A.R.E. Centre) in 2006 and was the Medical Director for this 30-doctor facility until the fall of 2020. In the fall of 2012 Danny became the National Medical Director for VCA Canada, Canada's largest group veterinary practice, and in 2018 he became VCA Canada's Vice-President of Medical Operations. He completed his board certification by the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (Canine/Feline Specialty) in 1992, becoming the first practicing veterinary specialist in Alberta. He has re-certified this specialty via examination in 2000 and 2010. In 2020 Danny was granted Emeritus status by this specialty group. Danny is a Past President of both the Alberta Veterinary Medical Association and the Canadian Academy of Veterinary Dermatology. Dr. Joffe is also a Clinical Instructor at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.Visit our website: vcavoice.comAll episodes produced by dādy creative

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Clair Windeyer, Associate Professor at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. This podcast is brought to you by the ad hoc AABP Cattle Youngstock Committee. If you are interested in joining an AABP committee, please go to the committee page on the AABP website to find a committee of interest and on each committee page is a contact button to let us know you would like to join. We start our podcast by explaining the differences between colostrum recommendation for dairy vs. beef calves. Windeyer reports that research shows that up to 33% of beef calves demonstrate failure of passive transfer (FPT) and it can be challenging to identify calves that need assistance before the window of opportunity closes to ensure calves receive adequate colostrum. Calves that have FPT have an 8x higher odds of treatment for any disease and an 18x higher risk of all-cause mortality. If calves have greater than 24 g/L of IgG, they have a 10x lower risk of dying preweaning and about 0.2 pounds increased average dairy gain. From a financial perspective, each case of FPT costs on average $80.Windeyer discusses how to identify calves that are at risk so that we do not interrupt maternal bonding. This can include calves born to heifers, twins, assisted pulls, and those with lack of suckle reflex. We also discuss how to properly train producers to tube feed calves colostrum if they will not drink from the bottle as well as what type of colostrum to feed the calf. Veterinarians have tremendous opportunity to work with cow-calf producers to ensure calves receive adequate colostrum and develop programs to train producers how to assist and monitoring the success of those programs. LINKS:Beef Cattle Research Council YouTube video link on how to properly use an esophageal tube feeder.Beef Calf Vigor Assessment Podcast with Dr Elizabeth HomeroskyPublications mentioned in the podcast by Gamsjäger, Lisa, et al.:Impact of volume, immunoglobulin G concentration, and feeding method of colostrum product on neonatal nursing behavior and transfer of passive immunity in beef calves https://doi.org/10.1016/j.animal.2021.100345Total and pathogen-specific serum Immunoglobulin G concentrations in neonatal beef calves, Part 2: Associations with health and growth https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2023.105993Total and pathogen-specific serum Immunoglobulin G concentrations in neonatal beef calves, Part 1: Risk factor https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2023.106026Assessment of Brix refractometry to estimate immunoglobulin G concentration in beef cow colostrum https://doi.org/10.1111/jvim.15805Evaluation of 3 refractometers to determine transfer of passive immunity in neonatal beef calves. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvim.16016 

In this episode of The Ampersand: Unplugged we sit down with the esteemed Dean of the University of Calgary Faculty of Law, Ian Holloway. In addition to being a long time friend of the firm and Adam's boss in Adam's capacity as a sessional instructor at U of C, Ian is a great story teller and scholar. Our discussion is wide ranging and talks about university campuses and free speech, the Rule of Law, psychological safety and why, at Zellers, the lowest price is the law.Want to stay connected with us? Follow us on social media! LinkedIn & Instagram!

On this episode of The Ampersand: Unplugged, we sit down with Chad Aboud, former General Counsel and Law Firm lawyer who now focuses his immense energy and passion into helping other lawyers uncover their natural traits and skills so that they are more successful and feel happier in their careers. A gifted and articulate speaker, Chad's passion for helping others comes through in all his work. When he sits down with one of our own ‘recovering lawyers' (Adam) and Ampersand Unplugged co-host, Kiara, the ideas flow and the energy is contagious. Adam teaches a course at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law on many of the topics and issues Chad deals with daily, so it was difficult at times for Kiara to get a word in! But she kept us on track and on topic throughout this most enjoyable conversation about life as young professional, navigating the ecosystem of the profession, and the secrets to contentment in ones work.Want to stay connected with us? Follow us on social media! LinkedIn & Instagram!

Erin O'Rourke is a solo practitioner who started her own firm in the midst of the pandemic, and Piper Riley Thompson recently retired her license to practice law and is currently working as a senior career advisor at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law. They're here to share their expertise with us from going in-house, niching down, and transitioning to diversity and wellness.   Erin and Piper offer their top tips and advice for anyone who is wondering what it means to go off the tracks and what might be required of you if you feel called to stray from traditional styles of practice.    Get full show notes and more information here: https://thejoyfulpractice.com/103

From fall 2021 to early 2022, three members of the Young Advocates Standing Committee's Future of the Profession working group, Brendan McArthur-Stevens, Sara McGregor, and Zac Thiffault, conducted a survey of young advocates asking what they hoped for and expected from their workplaces as people started to return to the office. The survey – The future of advocacy and work arrangements ‘post'-pandemic: Perspectives of young advocates – provides insight into what young advocates are looking for in respect of remote and on-site work, mental health, and mentorship. In this episode, Brendan, Sara, and Zac discuss the results of this survey.The results of their survey can also be found here: https://www.advocates.ca/Upload/Files/PDF/Community_Events/YASC/The-Future-of-Advocacy-Post-Pandemic-Perspectives-of-Young-Advocates.pdfBrendan Mcarthur-Stevens is an associate at Blakes in Calgary. He specializes in complex commercial disputes and advising clients in the areas of constitutional and administrative law. Brendan also teaches administration law at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law.Sara McGregor is a senior associate at Borden Ladner Gervais. She lives and works in Toronto but began her career in Calgary. Sara is currently on maternity leave but she maintains a broad disputes practice with a focus on complex commercial and civil litigation matters involving private and public companies, as well as individuals. Zac Thiffault is an in-house legal advisor with the Métis Nation of Ontario, a role which focuses on Indigenous governance and Aboriginal rights. Before working with the MNO, Zac practised at a small full-service firm in Midland, Ontario, primarily practicing in the areas of civil litigation and estate planning.The interviewer, Karen Bernofsky, is an associate at Stockwoods LLP in Toronto. Karen's practice encompasses a range of complex corporate commercial civil litigation, administrative law, and criminal law with a focus on complex civil fraud claims. Karen is currently a member of the Young Advocates Standing Committee.Land AcknowledgementThe Advocates' Society acknowledges that our offices, located in Toronto, are on the customary and traditional lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinabek, the Huron-Wendat and now home to many First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples.  We acknowledge current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit and honour their long history of welcoming many nations to this territory.While The Advocates' Society is based in Toronto, we are a national organization with Directors and members located across Canada in the treaty and traditional territories of many Indigenous Peoples. We encourage our members to reflect upon their relationships with the Indigenous Peoples in these territories, and the history of the land on which they live and work.We acknowledge the devastating impacts of colonization, including the history of residential schools, for many Indigenous peoples, families, and communities and commit to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusiveness in an informed legal profession in Canada and within The Advocates' Society.

On today's episode, I chat with Wendy Keefover, Senior Strategist of Native Carnivore Protection with the Wildlife Protection Department at the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). This episode was a chance for all of us to pause and spend some time listening to each other to better understand different, sometimes opposing, perspectives. It was an opportunity for us to use this platform as a table for discussion and not head-butting argument. The HSUS recently submitted a petition to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) to close the black bear hunt in California and calling on the CDFW to enhance the science around black bear abundance in the state and update their black bear management plan. Hunters mobilized leading up to the California Fish and Game Commission meeting that heard the petition on February 17 to advocate for the continuation of the hunt. At the same time, some hunters recognize the need for better science on black bears and up to date population estimates. What does it mean for hunters and the HSUS to agree on the need for better science? What happens if we get that science, and it inevitably supports one perspective and not the other? Wendy and I chat about the idea of collaboration, dialogue, how we navigate temporary convergence in goals between groups, and try to disentangle social understandings of “trophy hunting.” In the conservation segment, I review a new expert panel report that finds our current approach to global conservation will not be enough to avoid continued biodiversity decline (53:00); cover a proposed regulation change in British Columbia that will drastically reduce moose and caribou hunting opportunities (1:02:23); and give a couple quick reading recommendations relevant to hunter-conservationists (1:07:25). In this episode, we discuss: Article: “Editorial: Are California's bears in peril? Suspend hunting season until we know”: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-02-05/lets-not-hunt-more-bears-until-we-know-how-many-are-there Paper: Estes et al. “Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth”: https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.1205106 Paper: “Population reduction by hunting helps control human–wildlife conflicts for a species that is a conservation success story”: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237274 Paper: “Sustainability of the Grizzly Bear Hunt in British Columbia, Canada”: https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jwmg.21189 Paper: “The Polar Bear Management Agreement for the Southern Beaufort Sea: An Evaluation of the First Ten Years of a Unique Conservation Agreement”: https://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic55-4-362.pdf Article: “Global conservation goals are insufficient to avoid mass extinction event, report finds”: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-countries-must-broaden-scope-to-meet-conservation-goals-report-says/ Report: “Expert Input to the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework”: https://www.cbd.int/doc/c/16b6/e126/9d46160048cfcf74cadcf46d/wg2020-03-inf-11-en.pdf C. government negotiations agreement: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2021IRR0063-001940 C. regulation proposal: https://apps.nrs.gov.bc.ca/ahte/content/close-peace-caribou-hunts-and-reduce-peace-moose-hunts-region-wide University of Calgary Faculty of Law blog on Yahey v British Columbia: https://ablawg.ca/2021/09/24/yahey-v-british-columbia-and-the-clarification-of-the-standard-for-a-treaty-infringement/ Action: BC Wildlife Federation Peace Region Hunting Regulations campaign: https://bcwf.bc.ca/peace-region-hunting-regulations/ My Goodreads page for all my book recommendations: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/69758704-paul-mccarney?ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=conservation

So what would your mental health be like if your children were separated from you, living in a refugee camp halfway around the world? Or, how do you think your mental health would suffer if you lived your life under suspicion? Arbitrarily pulled over by police or followed around shops by store-owners who assume you're a thief? Dr. Régine Uwibereyeho King, PhD was troubled by the descriptions she saw of African newcomers in academic literature. They are frequently described with terms like: “very vulnerable ... unable to fit in ... or traumatized people from Africa.” This didn't fit the people she knew and worked with as a social worker. So she set out to discover what really impacted their mental health; how they tried to deal with the stressors in their lives, and what the solutions might be, to make things better. Her research has taken her from Toronto, to Winnipeg and currently Alberta, where she is an Associate Professor, and researcher with the University of Calgary Faculty of Social Work.

Dakshima Haputhanthri is a (former) Attorney from Sri Lanka and now a Registered social worker. She is passionate about creating safe spaces in the community, Diversity and Inclusion, Equality and LGBTQ2S+ support, mental health, community capacity building, and programming for youth.As a queer woman of colour, she has said she struggled immensely to find her way in Calgary, and now completing five years here, she would say it's a home away from home for her.Advocacy and Volunteering are her ways of giving back to the community. She volunteers with many organizations either as a board member or as an advisor, City of Calgary, Calgary Police Services, University of Calgary - Faculty of Social Work are some of the places she volunteers.She is the founder of Dilipani and a Rainbow Light Woman where she provides support and guidance to those who are struggling to come out and help bridge the relationships between them and their families. She herself has gone through tumultuous struggles and trauma in coming out and she wants to be that safe space and guiding light to someone who needs her.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TalesLGBTQ+)

Dr. Jocelyn Monsma Selby, founder and co-chair of Connecting to Protect, speaks to the goals of her organization's upcoming virtual, global summit, which aims to protect children from online pornography by inviting a public health response. Summit presenter Dr. Marc Potenza of the Yale University School of Medicine discusses what science has to say about the impacts of online pornography on the brain. Connecting to Protect is supported by the University of Calgary Faculty of Social Work. Learn more.

On today's podcast we are joined by Dr. Renaud Léguillette, of University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCVM), a leading authority on cardio-respiratory physiology and Dr. Doug Myers, the long-time Western Technical Services Veterinarian for Western Canada for Boehringer-Ingelheim Animal Health. Today we discuss equine asthma in the performance horse, diagnostic options, traditional treatment protocols and a brand new prescription product to the Canadian equine market from Boehringer-Ingelheim, the Aservo EquiHaler is used for the alleviation of clinical symptoms of severe equine asthma. Make sure to "like" our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/energyequineveterinary or check us out online at www.energyequine.ca.

This episode, we are pleased to welcome the Co-Founder of veterinary telemedicine start-up Vetsie, Dr. Steve Boyer, to the show. Dr. Boyer is a born and raised Calgarian. He grew up with a passion for animals, and always knew he wanted to work with them. Steve graduated from the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in 2013 and jump started his career in a busy 24 hour emergency hospital in Calgary. He worked a combination of days, evenings and overnights for a year and a half, then moved into primary care where he has been since. Over the past few years he has developed an interest in telemedicine and in 2020, Co-Founded Vetsie, a veterinary telemedicine company. Steve feels there is significant opportunity in the veterinary industry to utilize technology to improve the Veterinary – Client – Patient interaction. With the current shortage of veterinarians and technicians, combined with the increase in pet ownership, there is too much pressure on the industry. Steve hopes that with more innovation and embracing change in how we practice, more pets can get the help they need, without the burnout and stress that often comes with being a veterinary professional. In this wide-ranging conversation, Steve discusses: How the pace of being a veterinarian can be a lot to keep up with Veterinary burnout and taking on too much How working night-shifts straight out of Vet school gave Steve multiple years worth of experience within months Overcoming internal doubts around your own limitations and experience Recognizing the signs of burnout and compassion fatigue to actively do something about it Financing the life you want to live through creating more streams of revenue outside of being a Veterinarian The genesis of starting Vetsie: A Veterinary Telemedicine Company The case for Telemedicine in the Veterinary industry High points and low points of being involved in a start-up Thank you to Dr. Boyer for joining us on the show! For more information and to see what Vetsie is all about, check them out online: www.vetsie.com Connect with Steve in the following places: steve@vetsie.com @govetsie If you liked the show and want to stay in the know, please subscribe to the podcast on the listening platform of your choosing. Want to join our community of like-minded Veterinary Professionals? Send us an email at theveterinaryprojectpodcast@gmail.com and we'll get you connected to our private Veterinary Project Facebook group. Any questions, comments, feedback, or requests for guests can also be sent to theveterinaryprojectpodcast@gmail.com. Thank you for listening and we look forward to seeing you next Wednesday for another episode of The Veterinary Project Podcast! - Jonathan Leicht, DVM and Michael Bugg, DVM

Bonus Episode presented by CBA National and CBA Futures: After the pandemic: The future of justice, Ep 5:In this fifth episode, Joshua Sealy-Harrington discusses COVID 19 and the impact it's had on global protests calling for an end to systemic racism. He also shares his thoughts on how our justice system is embedded in a broader framework of capitalism that is deployed against marginalized people.Joshua Sealy-Harrington is a lawyer at Power Law and a J.S.D. candidate at Columbia Law School.  You can follow him on Twitter @JoshuaSealy. He's also published articles for CBA National, the Globe and Mail and Ablawg, the Law Blog of University of Calgary Faculty of Law.To contact us (please include in the subject line ''Podcast''): national@cba.orgPlease subscribe, rate and review our podcast if you are enjoying it on Apple Podcast.

This Thursday’s EnergyTradeoffs.com podcast episode features me talking with the University of Calgary Faculty of Law’s Kristen van de Biezenbos about her research on “Social License & Fossil Fuels.” Kristen describes how the term “social license” has become so important in Canadian energy policy and shows the different ways it has been used and misused by provincial and federal politicians. Kristen explains

In this episode, Howard Kislowicz, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law, discusses his article "Recontextualizing Ktunaxa Nation v. British Columbia: Crown Land, History and Indigenous Religious Freedom," which was co-authored with Senwung Luk and published in the Supreme Court Law Review. Kislowicz begins by explaining the source of protection of religious freedom under the Canadian Constitution, and how the Supreme Court of Canada has interpreted and applied constitutional protections of religion. He describes the recent Ktunaxa Nation case, in which the Supreme Court rejected an aboriginal religious freedom claim on novel grounds. He observes that the basis for the Supreme Court opinion fails to account for the history and circumstances of aboriginal Canadians. And he speculates on how the issue may develop in the future. Kislowicz is on Twitter at @HowieKislowicz.The stinger for this episode is Kislowicz's band Shoulders performing "Spectacular Failure" from What Does it Eat (2018).This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, Michael Nesbitt, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law, discusses his article "An Empirical Study of Terrorism Charges and Terrorism Trials in Canada between September 2001 and September 2018," which will be published by Criminal Law Quarterly. Nesbitt begins by describing how Canada first adopted terrorism offenses in the wake of September 11, based on laws adopted in other common law countries. He explains how he created a comprehensive dataset of all the terrorism offenses charged or tried in Canada, and describes the observations and conclusions he drew from that dataset. Among other things, he observes that it suggest that the RCMP tasked with anti-terrorism have focused on Islamist terrorism to the exclusion of white nationalist terrorism. Nesbitt is on Twitter at @MichaelJNesbitt.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's episode of Stereo Decisis, Rob Danay and Hilary Young are joined by their old colleague, Professor Howie Kislowicz of the University of Calgary Faculty of Law to discuss the proposal by the premier-designate of Quebec, Francois Legault, to ban the wearing of religious symbols by public employees as well as the lawsuit brought by Toronto mayoral candidate Faith Goldy against Bell Media for failing to run her commercials. In Obiter Dicta, Howie talks about WNYC's "More Perfect Album," Hilary talks about a study showing that climate change may double the price of beer, and Rob talks about a man who unlawfully skinny dipped with sharks in Ripley's aquarium. We are on Twitter: @stereodecisis And Facebook! And Patreon!

University of Calgary Faculty of Social Work researcher, Deinera Exner-Cortens speaks about her findings in a teenager dating abuse study.  

On October 11, 2016, the Supreme Court decided Bosse v. Oklahoma. In 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Booth v. Maryland that the Eighth Amendment prohibits a sentencing jury in a death penalty case from considering victim impact evidence that does not directly relate to the circumstances of the crime. Four years later in Payne v. Tennessee, the Supreme Court clarified that the ban only applied to certain kinds of victim impact testimony. -- Shaun Michael Bosse was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder. The prosecution sought the death penalty and, over Bosse’s objection, asked three of the victims’ family members to recommend a sentence to the jury. All three recommended the death penalty, and the jury sentenced Bosse to death. Bosse appealed, arguing that the testimony violated the Eighth Amendment under Booth. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed, holding that Payne had implicitly overruled Booth’s ban as it related to characterizations of the defendant and opinions about the sentence. -- By a vote of 8-0, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the decision of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals and remanded the case. The Supreme Court held in a per curiam opinion that the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals erred in concluding that Payne had implicitly overruled Booth in its entirety. Supreme Court decisions remain binding precedent until reconsidered, the Court explained--even when subsequent cases have raised doubts about their continuing vitality. Justice Thomas filed a concurring opinion in which Justice Alito joined. -- To discuss the case, we have Erin Sheley, who is Assistant Professor, University of Calgary Faculty of Law.

On March 1, 2016, the Supreme Court decided Lockhart v. United States. Petitioner Avondale Lockhart pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography. Because Lockhart had a prior state-court conviction for first-degree sexual abuse involving his adult girlfriend, his presentence report concluded that he was subject to a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence enhancement, which is triggered by prior state convictions for crimes “relating to aggravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse, or abusive sexual conduct involving a minor or ward.” Lockhart argued that the limiting phrase “involving a minor or ward” applied to all three state crimes, so his prior conviction did not trigger the enhancement. Disagreeing, the District Court applied the mandatory minimum. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed. -- By a vote of 6-2, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the Second Circuit. Justice Sotomayor delivered the opinion of the Court, holding that the phrase “involving a minor or ward” in §2252(b)(2) modifies only “abusive sexual conduct.” Thus, Lockhart’s prior conviction for sexual abuse of an adult was encompassed by §2252(b)(2) and the 10-year mandatory minimum applied. -- Justice Sotomayor’s majority opinion was joined by the Chief Justice and Justices Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, and Alito. Justice Kagan filed a dissenting opinion in which Justice Breyer joined. -- To discuss the case, we have Erin Sheley, who is Assistant Professor at University of Calgary Faculty of Law.

In everyday terms, parasites make their living off other unsuspecting organisms. Traditionally researchers, veterinarians and medical doctors have focused on the disease aspects of parasitism. These aspects are certainly not trivial and are deserving of the attention (e.g., malaria). In the last decade, it has been observed that there are much more subtle and far reaching effects of parasitism that have real consequences. There are numerous examples of parasites taking control of their hosts and making them do very strange things. Two very surprising examples will illustrate this phenomenon. Speakers: Doug Colwell Doug Colwell is a Principal Research Scientist at the Lethbridge Research Centre. He has a B.Sc. from the University of Lethbridge, a M.Sc. from the University of Alberta and a Ph.D. from the University of Guelph. Colwell is an adjunct Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Lethbridge and in the Department of Production Animal Health at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Doug's research focuses on the production aspects of parasitism in livestock, but his collaborations span the vast arena of parasitology from parasite manipulation of neurochemicals in mice to the influence of parasitic infection on populations of howler monkeys in Panama.

In everyday terms, parasites make their living off other unsuspecting organisms. Traditionally researchers, veterinarians and medical doctors have focused on the disease aspects of parasitism. These aspects are certainly not trivial and are deserving of the attention (e.g., malaria). In the last decade, it has been observed that there are much more subtle and far reaching effects of parasitism that have real consequences. There are numerous examples of parasites taking control of their hosts and making them do very strange things. Two very surprising examples will illustrate this phenomenon. Speakers: Doug Colwell Doug Colwell is a Principal Research Scientist at the Lethbridge Research Centre. He has a B.Sc. from the University of Lethbridge, a M.Sc. from the University of Alberta and a Ph.D. from the University of Guelph. Colwell is an adjunct Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Lethbridge and in the Department of Production Animal Health at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Doug's research focuses on the production aspects of parasitism in livestock, but his collaborations span the vast arena of parasitology from parasite manipulation of neurochemicals in mice to the influence of parasitic infection on populations of howler monkeys in Panama.

In everyday terms, parasites make their living off other unsuspecting organisms. Traditionally researchers, veterinarians and medical doctors have focused on the disease aspects of parasitism. These aspects are certainly not trivial and are deserving of the attention (e.g., malaria). In the last decade, it has been observed that there are much more subtle and far reaching effects of parasitism that have real consequences. There are numerous examples of parasites taking control of their hosts and making them do very strange things. Two very surprising examples will illustrate this phenomenon. Speakers: Doug Colwell Doug Colwell is a Principal Research Scientist at the Lethbridge Research Centre. He has a B.Sc. from the University of Lethbridge, a M.Sc. from the University of Alberta and a Ph.D. from the University of Guelph. Colwell is an adjunct Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Lethbridge and in the Department of Production Animal Health at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Doug's research focuses on the production aspects of parasitism in livestock, but his collaborations span the vast arena of parasitology from parasite manipulation of neurochemicals in mice to the influence of parasitic infection on populations of howler monkeys in Panama.