DERM DIALOGUE
FALL 2021
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Editor: Norma White-Weithers, MS, DVM, DACVD • Veterinary Allergy & Dematology Consultant, Baldwin, NY 11510 Work: 646-329-4719 • Fax: 631-694-3401 • E-mail: nweithers@yahoo.com Assistant Editor: Tim Strauss, DVM • Frederick,CO 80516 | E-mail: drtim@comcast.net
FROM THE PRESIDENT Dear AAVD members Hope everybody is in good health and staying safe in these strange times On behalf of the executive committee I hope everybody enjoyed virtual NAVDF 2021 as much as I did and I hope that people took advantage of the ability to attend lectures for the additional two months after the conference itself is over.
Dr. Klaus Earl Loft, DVM AAVD has been working with the organizing committee and the program committee to secure recordings of this year’s NAVDF lectures. We are in the process of creating a library of lectures from this year’s meeting and potentially future meetings that would be available on the password protected section of our website. These recordings will only be available for paying members of the AAVD at this point, We will likely be making this available starting in the early New Year on the www.AAVD.org. The executive board hopes that the Academy sees this as one more valuable membership benefit and will use this opportunity to review, revisit or see lectures from our fantastic meeting that we were able to have been spite of COVID-19. Please go check out the website to update your membership information on our password protected sections, so we all can use this as a portal to find and contact peers and colleagues. Remember you can also pay your membership fees online, check out bylaws and past meeting minutes and information about how to nominate for the Frank Král award. We hope to have the in person presentation of the 2020, 2021 and 2022 recipients in New Orleans in April 2022. Also remember to check out the AAVD Facebook page, as we are constant working to improve these sites and if you have suggestions, requests or comments or events we all can benefit from. Some of might have noticed that ISVD have generously allowed us to share their fantastic “case of the month” with the academy, please take advantage of this great resource also on the website. This year’s NAVDF virtual meeting went really well and I want to thank the entire organizing committee and the program committee for their hard work putting this meeting together under these difficult circumstances and being very successful. I hope and think this virtual meeting, will serve as the best possible promotion for next year’s meeting in April in New Orleans, where it will be held at the Sheraton from April 27-30, 2022. I think I can speak for everyone; we all hope that this meeting will be in person. Continued on page 2