Wet Lab: Optimize Surgical Efficiency of Feline Spays
Join us for a wet lab (5.5 approved CE) to help you enhance your skills and more efficiently perform feline spays.
This program includes a dry lab with time to practice before surgery. Surgery techniques covered will include the ovarian pedicle tie. Each veterinarian attendee will perform 4-5 feline spays.
Drs. Sherri Therrien, Rosario Delgado-Lecaroz, and Elizabeth Helton will lead the class with assistance from Dakin Humane Society staff.
All attendees must be licensed in Massachusetts and carry liability insurance.
This wet lab is targeted to people who are comfortable with performing basic spay/neuter.
Space is extremely limited.
Dr. Therrien has been a veterinarian at Dakin Humane Society since the opening of its Community Spay/Neuter Clinic in 2009. In addition to performing daily spay/neuter surgery, she also develops anesthetic and pain management protocols and supervises staff training and education.
Dr. Therrien has also performed spay/neuter surgery for Thomas J. O’Connor Animal Control & Adoption Center, Second Chance Animal Shelter, and the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, where she initiated “Operation Fix It,” a spay/neuter program targeted to an at-risk animal population. In 2018, she joined ViDAS (Veterinarios Internacionales Dedicados a Animales Sanos) for a six-day high-volume spay/neuter clinic in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
A member of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), the Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association (HSVMA), and the Association of Shelter Veterinarians (ASV), Dr. Therrien holds a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Tennessee, College of Veterinary Medicine, a Bachelor of Science from UMass Amherst, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Veterinary Forensics from the University of Florida.
Dr. Rosario Delgado-Lecároz grew up in Puerto Rico. She graduated from Tufts University in 1993 and completed a one year large animal production medicine internship at Cornell University where she worked with farm animals mainly cows, horses, sheep, goats and pigs. She did a second internship in CT working with medicine and small animal surgery specialists. The plan was to go back to PR to work on a mix animal practice but she met a really cute American, got married, and the rest is history.
Before working as a shelter veterinarian, she worked at an emergency clinic for 3 years and completed training in veterinary homeopathy and acupuncture. She was a holistic veterinarian for a period of time but community and shelter medicine was more fulfilling than individual medicine. She recently finished a shelter medicine certificate and divides her time working with several local shelters in MA. She also enjoys working at her mix animal practice, Country Veterinary Services, working with sheep, goats, and pigs.
At Second Chance, she provides spay and neuter surgeries for dogs, cats, rabbits, pigs and small ruminants. Rosario is also helping in Puerto Rico since the hurricane in 2017 through “Veterinarians for Puerto Rico” performing spay and neuter for owned and stray ‘satos’ on the Island. She lives in Upton with her two teenagers, 3 dogs, 2 cats, 2 geckos, a herd of friendly fat sheep and her lucky husband. She LOVES being a vet and working at the shelters, and the local farmers in the area. In her free time she does laundry, cleans the house and enjoys life resting peacefully.
Dr. Helton has been performing surgeries and treating shelter animals since 2016 at Dakin Humane Society. She graduated with a DVM from Tufts University in 2015 and completed externships in shelter medicine and spay/neuter surgery including 3 weeks of training at the ASPCA Spay/Neuter Alliance in Asheville, North Carolina.
Dr. Helton has also worked as a surgeon and shelter medicine veterinarian at the Thomas J. O’Connor Animal Control and Adoption Center, Sterling Animal Shelter, and on the Catmobile/Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society.
Dr. Helton has a special interest in zoological (exotic) companion animal medicine and surgery. She volunteers with the House Rabbit Network to provide medical and surgical services to rescue rabbits. At Dakin Humane Society, Dr. Helton is the exotic animal medicine expert on staff and treats a wide variety of species ranging from hamsters and chinchillas to ferrets, rabbits, guinea pigs, and birds.
Outside of work, she enjoys hiking with her pack of Chihuahuas, gardening with her ducks, and enjoying the company of her cats.
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