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Congress Highlights
David Lloyd, Royal Veterinary College (UK), President of the Congress
| Vienna provides a very special environment for congresses and the 5th World Congress of Veterinary Dermatology takes advantage of all of its unique features.
Congress Location. Vienna has always been a very stylish city, famous for its food, music, art and science. In the past, it was also an expensive place to visit. Nowadays, Vienna has lost none of its culture and sophistication but the cost of visiting this charming city is much reduced. Low-cost airlines have driven down the costs of flying there and, for those living in the adjacent countries, there are many low-cost travel alternatives.
The Congress is staged in the magnificent Hofburg Palace, located in the heart of the city centre and within walking distance of the main Congress hotels. For those who wish to explore this historic city or just to save their energy for the Congress, the city is served by a very efficient underground rail network, the U-Bahn, and at the surface by an effective tram system. Congress registration includes a travel ticket lasting through the entire period of the Congress so that hopping on and off a train or tram will be quite painless.
Congress Programme. The Congress features the widest ever range of clinical, scientific and continuing education presentations designed to meet the needs of clinicians, clinical specialists, postgraduate students and scientists.
As usual nowadays, the Congress begins effectively on the pre-Congress day, Wednesday 25th August, with sessions for Dermatology residents and special symposia organised by three of the Principal Sponsors. The first of the hands-on “wetlabs” also begins on the Wednesday with two otoscopy/otitis practical courses.
Principal Sponsors of WCVD5
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Eve and David Lloyd at home with their grandson, Oscar
There are seven parallel sessions, including CE at both comprehensive and advanced levels, interactive workshops covering new and developing areas of clinical interest, special topic sessions dealing with large animals, particularly horses, histopathology, and veterinary nursing, and practical courses (`wetlabs`) on cytology, otitis and otoscopy, parasitology, histopathology and wound management.
These topics are in addition to the major plenary themes covering vital and emerging topics relevant to current problems in clinical Veterinary Dermatology. The plenary topics are 1) immunology (focus on atopy), 2) therapy (focus on immunomodulatory drugs), 3) nutrition (focus on antioxidants and free radicals), 4) skin biology (focus on wound healing - session organised in conjunction with the Veterinary Wound Healing Association) and 5) infectious and parasitic diseases (focus on mycobacterial diseases).
Congress Documentation. Fortunately for delegates, the proceedings will be well documented in a series of publications. All of the abstracts for both the state-of-the-art lectures, the supporting papers, the free communications and the posters will be published in a special supplement to the journal, Veterinary Dermatology, available at the Congress, and all of the continuing education presentations will be published in the CE Proceedings book. Following the Congress, the state-of-the-art lectures and supporting papers will be published in full, together with reports of the proceedings of the Congress workshops, in the book Advances in Veterinary Dermatology 5.
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