2026 MVMA Fall CE Conference (In-Person)

Join us for the MVMA Fall Conference on October 3-4, 2026, at the Sea Crest Beach Resort in Falmouth, MA.

Attend for one day or dive into the full two-day experience while earning up to 12 CE credits. Enjoy high-quality educational tracks designed around your interests, and connect with fellow veterinary professionals and industry leaders. Just steps from your room, you’ll find private, soft white-sand beach—perfect for a sunset stroll, relaxing in a beach chair, or simply soaking in the sea breeze.

Wrap up Saturday with a relaxed evening at our cocktail reception, where you can mingle with colleagues over complimentary appetizers and a cash bar.

The Celebrate Veterinarians reception will also take place on Saturday, October 3rd at 6:30 PM. Registration is separate, and you can register HERE.

Don’t miss this chance to learn, connect, and unwind in a fantastic setting!

To register for the CE conference online click the REGISTER NOW button at the top of this page.

Conference Brochure and paper registration

Hotel Reservations (discounted until September 2)

PLEASE NOTE: There is NO hybrid/virtual option for this event. This is an in-person conference.

JmBee Travel Health Clinic (formerly Destination Health Clinic) will have an RN on-site at the MVMA conference on SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4th from 9am - 1pm to provide rabies and tetanus vaccines and blood draw for rabies titer testing.  Appointment is required and each person must register for their own appointment time. Payment will be taken at time of service. Credit card, debit card, or HSA card accepted. No cash or check. Once an appointment is scheduled they will send an email with additional information along with a consent form.

REGISTRATION COMING SOON

Rabies Titer (Endpoint): 
Cost: $230
*Results will be returned in 3-4 weeks 

Rabies Vaccine (Human Use)
Cost: $550/dose

Tetanus (Tdap) Vaccine
Cost: $75 

If an MVMA member can’t make the conference but still wants to participate Destination Health will honor the same pricing in any of their three offices and you can contact them separately for an appointment. 

Questions? Call JmBee Travel Health at 508-784-6602 or email: clinicsupport@jmbeetravelhealth.com

For more detailed descriptions of tracks, click HERE

Saturday, October 3

Track 1
Nutritional Approach to Canine and Feline Disorders
Craig Datz, DVM, MS, DABVP, DACVIM (Nutrition)

Track 2
Dentistry
Donnell Hansen, DVM, DAVDC

Track 3
Equine Neurology
Daniela Bedenice, DVM, DACVIM (LAIM), DACVECC

Equine Nutrition
Marty Adams, DVM

Sunday, October 4

Track 1 
Oncology
Andy Abbo, DVM, MS, DACVIM
Erin Romansik, DVM, DACVIM

Track 2
Small Animal Emergency Medicine
Elizabeth Rozanski, DVM, DACVIM (SAIM), DACVECC

Track 3
Equine Anesthesia and Pain Management
Alycia K. Frampton, VMD, MS, DACVAA

Equine Sports Medicine
Ryland B. Edwards, DVM, PhD, DACVS, DACVSMR

Track 1 

Nutritional Approach to Canine and Feline Disorders
Craig Datz, DVM, MS, DABVP, DACVIM (Nutrition)
9:00am – 5:00pm

 - Trust Your Gut: a guide to the nutritional management of various gastrointestinal disorders
 - Sugar Highs and Renal Lows: handling tricky cases of chronic kidney disease, diabetes mellitus, or both
 - A Weighty Matter: tackling the scale when comorbidities complicate your plans
 - De-Liver-ing Success: nutritional management of hepatic disorders 
 - Tube-ular Nutrition: tips on critical care nutrition and assisted feeding in the clinic and at home

Track 2 

Dentistry
Donnell Hansen, DVM, DAVDC
9:00am – 5:00pm

Why do we care?  The difference between periodontal disease and endodontic disease. 
In this hour we will discuss what really is the difference between periodontal disease and endodontic disease… and how does that affect our treatment plans in family practice.  What does it mean for a tooth to be stable?  And where do abscesses come from anyway?  When do we need to extract and what can be done to save an important tooth?  The answers to these questions become second nature when we really understand what disease process is affecting the teeth and how we can be help support the patient in front of you (and the family that is supporting them).  Dentistry really is so much fun when you have the power of common sense knowledge guiding you!  
Learning Objectives:  
· Be able to identify the clinical and radiographic signs of periodontal disease 
· Be able to identify the clinical and radiographic signs of endodontic disease 
· Understand they are two different entities that may require different treatment plans 
· Begin to make practical, family practice-oriented treatment plans 
· Guide how to communicate the importance of dental disease with the families that come visit

MEOWW… Let’s talk cat mouths 
My goodness, let’s face it… cats have an uphill battle when it comes to oral health. Although  
they really only get 3-4 diseases, those diseases are so prevalent that many cats wander  
around with really enthusiastically painful mouths. In this lecture, we will mostly focus on  
tooth resorption and stomatitis, however do not forget, cats are faced with periodontal  
disease, alveolar expansion/osteitis, traumatic pyogenic granulomas, and oral cancers (most  
commonly squamous cell carcinoma but others like fibrosarcoma, FIOTs, etc are possible).  It’s no wonder they wander around saying, “Me-OWWW” all the time… but thankfully, we are here to help our feline friends! It is so exciting!   
Learning Objectives:  
· Be able to identify the clinical and radiographic signs associated with various feline oral             diseases including periodontal disease and tooth resorption 
· Develop treatment plans for the most common feline oral concerns 
· Differential between type I, II, III tooth resorption 
· Understand the indications for surgical extraction versus “modified” crown amputation            

Get in there!  The how and why of tackling malocclusions early!  
We will spend the hour touring through the common pathologies that occur when malocclusions are not addressed earl in the juvenile patient in an effort to inspire early and thoughtful care in family practice.  We will review the steps to performing interceptive orthodontics (aka extracting those maloccluding deciduous teeth!) and what to watch for/be careful about when performing oral surgery on our young furry friends!    
Program Agenda: 
· Review of common pathologies in the adult patient with unaddressed malocclusions 
· What to look for in a bite evaluation 
· How to talk with a family about their pet’s occlusion 
· A step by step review of extraction of deciduous canine teeth 
Learning Objectives: 
1. What knowledge will an attendee gain from this program?  A practical, hands on, approach to malocclusion in our juvenile pet population.  
2. What might they share with their fellow licensees about this program?  We hope to inspire veterinarians and their teams to consistently evaluate deciduous dentition and confirmation in an effort to provide an improved quality of life for our patients, peace of mind for the families that support them, confidence in the veterinarian offering care, and an appropriate resource for the financial health of the practice.  

Walking through the zebras- a safari through the unexpected in dentistry and oral surgery 
We will review some of the less common or surprising pathology encountered in the adventures of veterinary dentistry and oral surgery.  This will be case based discussion help navigate the thought process and treatment plans associated with some of the unexpected diagnoses we may encounter in our important companion animals/patients . 
Learning Objectives:  
· To remind ourselves that sometimes there are unexpected diagnoses that may inspire thinking outside of the box 
· To help guide evaluation using known diagnostics to ultimately still find the diagnosis and formulate a treatment plan 
· To emphasize that even with unexpected pathologies, many of the uncommon diagnoses can still carry favorable prognoses 
· To have a little fun considering all the “weird” that vet med can bring!  

Track 3

New and Old Challenges in Large Animal Neurology – Practical Approach and Problem Solving
Daniela Bedenice, DVM, DACVIM (LAIM), DACVECC
9:00am – 12:30pm

These lectures focus on a problem-based approach to assessment and management of the neurological large animal patient, with a focus on the sport horse. We will discuss the challenges of gait interpretation and lesion localization in both common and uncommon case presentations, to establish practical recommendations. Special emphasis will be placed on diagnostic procedures and their interpretation, to guide problem solving and treatment decisions based on available evidence

Marty Adams, DVM
Equine Nutrition
1:30pm – 5:00pm

Clinical Horse Nutrition

This course presents nutritional management of the horse over a range of health issues. It starts with nutrient requirements of the horse, then addresses feeding the post-surgical colic horse. Concentrate and hay selection for safe feeding regarding sugar and starch content or nonstructural carbohydrates (NSC), glycemic response of normal and insulin dysregulated horses, NSC content of equine feedstuffs and commercial horse feeds and dietary NSC feeding examples for metabolic horses are also explained.

Performance Horse Nutrition

This course presents the nutritional management of performance horses, beginning with a review of the anatomy and physiology of the equine digestive system, nutrient requirements, and nutritional evaluation of horses. Optimal performance horse diet formulation will then be discussed, with emphasis on special nutritional considerations for equine athletes, including nutrient partitioning of digestible energy, current research and nutritional strategies for the support of muscle development and recovery, and prevention of digestive disturbances.

Nutritional Management of Equine Metabolic Diseases

This course explains how nonstructural carbohydrate (NSC) content of equine feedstuffs is determined and its effects in the horse. Discussion of feeding recommendations, major symptoms, affected breeds and feeding examples of horses diagnosed with Equine Metabolic Syndrome, Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy Type 1, Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy Type 2, Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy Type 2 Myofibrillar Myopathy and Recurrent Exertional Myopathy will be provided.

Track 1

Oncology
Andy Abbo, DVM, MS, DACVIM

The approach to Oncology case management for the general practitioner.
 - How to approach any oncology case
 - Review of oncology definitions, staging, grading and diagnostics/ interpretation of results
 - Review of treatment modalities, chemotherapy side effects and MOA/ safety concerns

Transitional Cell Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder
 - Review of TCC in the canine and feline patient including biological behavior, staging/ treatment recommendations and prognostic factors.

Electrochemotherapy for companion animals.
 - Review of ECT as it pertains to companion animals with regards to MOA, appropriate case selection and review of current literature.

Erin Romansik, DVM, DACVIM
9:00am – 5:00pm

Track 2 

Small Animal Emergency Medicine
Elizabeth Rozanski, DVM, DACVIM (SAIM), DACVECC
9:00am – 5:00pm 

Brachycephalics: The worse is yet to come
This session will focus on emerging development for the management of conditions associated with brachycephalic dogs, including respiratory, gastrointestinal, orthopedic and neurological.


Pleural effusion: Now what
This session will focus on the a clinical approach after identification of pleural effusion, including how to perform thoracentesis, appropriate diagnostics and therapeutic options.

The Geriatric pet on emergency
This session will focus on the approach to older animals in the emergency room, and how to prioritize diagnostic and treatment options. We will also discuss fraility and hidden sepsis. 


Sometimes kitties breathe hard
This session will focus on a practical approach to respiratory distress in cats, including how to identify heart versus lung disease, and how to choose effective treatments.

I think I see the lungs; Approach to thoracic trauma.
This session will focus on improving outcome in animals with blunt and penetrating chest wounds, including bite wounds. We will discuss when surgery treatment is indicated and when medical care will suffice.

That is a low PCV!
This session will focus on the approach to anemia; both acute and chronic, as well as how to decide about blood transfusions. We will cover both cats and dogs, and discuss the role of outpatient transfusions and autotransfusion.

What is new in feline urinary obstruction?
This session will new updates in the management of cats with urinary obstruction; we will discuss what is new and what we can be doing better for these cats!

Wait they don’t have any money!
This session will discuss how you can decide and feel good about your plan in clients with financial constraints. We will additionally focus on resources in MA for cases requiring specialized procedures.

Track 3

Equine Anesthesia and Pain Management
Alycia K. Frampton, VMD, MS, DACVAA
9:00am – 12:30pm

Equine Anesthesia – From Sedation to Recovery 
Covers the continuum of equine anesthesia from sedation through recovery. Discusses drug selection and physiologic effects during sedation and induction, followed by maintenance considerations including cardiovascular support and positioning. Highlights common and high-impact complications (hypotension, hypoventilation, neuromuscular injury) and their prevention. Concludes with recovery management, emphasizing strategies to improve outcomes, reduce morbidity, and enhance safety in clinical practice.

Recognizing and Treating Pain in the Horse
Focuses on recognizing and managing pain in horses across perioperative and chronic settings. Reviews validated pain assessment tools and limitations in clinical recognition. Covers multimodal analgesic strategies for intraoperative and postoperative care, including systemic and regional techniques. Addresses challenges in managing chronic pain conditions and gaps in current approaches. Emphasizes practical, evidence-based strategies to improve patient comfort and clinical outcomes.

Equine Sports Medicine
Ryland B. Edwards, DVM, PhD, DACVS, DACVSMR
1:30pm – 5:00pm

At this time, the MVMA is not requiring vaccinations, boosters, or masks at in-person events. We will continue to adhere to the public health restrictions set forth by individual communities and will alert you of any changes to this policy. Complimentary face coverings will be offered at the registration desk for those who would like them.

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