An invitation to DAERA’s inaugural Balmoral Show Breakfast Reception on Thursday 12 May 2016 was extended to Cahir King, President of AVSPNI and Seamus O’Kane, President of NIVA. 
It was also attended by a number of executive ministers joined by Greg Burton, the US Counsel General, and the new Chinese Consul General, Madam Wang Shuying. Members of the agri food industry and farmer representatives made up the audience.

Please take note of our new address below and please can you encourage herd owners to use our new helpdesk number
028 79639333.
AHWNI, Box 10, 1^st Floor, Dungannon Business Cube, 5 Coalisland Road, Dungannon, Co Tyrone, BT71 6JT

Jill Maddison BVSc, Dip Vet Clin Stud, PhD, FACVSc, MRCVS, SFHEA

Jill is a graduate of the University of Sydney. She completed an internship at the University of Sydney, spent 18 months in full time private practice in Sydney then completed a residency in small animal medicine at the University of Guelph, Canada. She returned to Australia and completed a PhD entitled Neurochemistry of Hepatic Encephalopathy at The University of Sydney. She was a senior tutor and clinician in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at the University of Sydney from 1987 and from 1990-2000 was a senior lecturer in the Department of Pharmacology. During this time she also worked in general and specialist veterinary practice and was a consultant for a veterinary clinical pathology lab. In 2000 she became the Director of the Veterinary Science Foundation at the University of Sydney.

Jill moved to the UK with her family in April 2001. From 2002 she was a veterinary clinician and lecturer at the Royal Veterinary College, London based at the college’s first opinion practice and was appointed a Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge where she tutored in pharmacology. She is currently Professor of General Practice, Director of Professional Development and Director of Extramural Studies at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). She is actively involved in undergraduate teaching and CPD at the RVC in the areas of small animal medicine, clinical problem solving and clinical pharmacology.

Jill has published over 60 refereed papers in veterinary and medical journals and is the senior editor of Small Animal Clinical Pharmacology, the 2nd edition of which was published by Elsevier in 2008. She is also senior editor of Clinical Reasoning in Small Animal Practice published by Wiley-Blackwell in March 2015. She has lectured extensively around the world on clinical problem solving, small animal internal medicine and clinical pharmacology. Jill was co-chair of the Scientific Program Committee for the World Small Animal Veterinary Association Congress held in Sydney in 2007 and is coordinator for the clinical CPD streams at The London Vet Show. She is also the chair of the World Small Animal Veterinary Association Continuing Education Committee. To keep in touch with the realities of private general practice she consults at a local veterinary practice and at the RVC’s first opinion practice, the Beaumont Sainsbury Animal Hospital.

To view Jill’s lectures at this years congress check out the brochure click here

Delegate Registration Form available here

REMEMBER: Early-bird prices we must receive your payment before 15th April.

For those of you that haven’t already seen it, here is the link to the TBSPG Interim Report.  The TB Strategic Partnership Group (TBSPG) is an independent high level advisory group which has been tasked by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development with developing a strategy and implementation action plan to effect a progressive and sustained reduction of TB in the cattle population here, with a view to eventual eradication. The Group is chaired by Mr Sean Hogan and is made up of five independent industry and stakeholder representatives plus two DARD ex-officio members.  The TBSPG was due to have produced its final report by now but has requested, and been granted, an additional extension on its deadline to submit its TB eradication strategy and implementation action plan.  The group wishes to secure input from external consultants, in particular to provide independent analysis of possible options and recommendations. The acquisition of the necessary consultancy advice requires advertisement at European level and the observation of specified time periods in the procurement process. This will mean that the consultants appointed will now be unlikely to complete their work before late May 2016.

https://www.dardni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/consultations/dard/tbspg-interim-report.pdf