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Welcome To Palm Beach Veterinary Society, Inc.!

The Palm Beach Veterinary Society, Inc. is an organization of veterinarians dedicated to providing the community with animal hospitals of the highest quality of service and care for pets.

The PBVS was established to promote the highest professional relationship among its members and the public. Providing programs that further the professional education of veterinarians is part of the PBVS's objectives, in an atmosphere of friendship, cooperation, and good fellowship. Our web presense will allow us to convey important information to the public as well as to our existing members. This will allow us to keep pet owners current with information when it comes to their pets.

Board Members for PBVS

Left to right
Dr's Forsythe (liason), Kreager(sect),Miller(Treasurer),
Carastro(president),Dugal(liason),Dew(Liason)

Bark and Bowl

Benefitting the South Florida Chapter of the NCCF The National Canine Cancer Foundation of South Florida presents the Inaugural Bark and Bowl! Friday July 16th at the Palm Beach Strike Zone, we let the dogs out! Lace up your bowling shoes (if they haven’t been chewed up!) and grab your bowling ball to find a cure for Canine Cancer. For more information on this event, please visit barkandbowl.com.

PBVS Veterinary Scholarship Program

My name is Santiago Diaz and I am a third year veterinary student at the University of Florida. I am originally from Colombia but came to the United States with my father four and a half years ago. In my home country, I was in vet school but I did not have the opportunity to graduate due to safety reasons. However, I put a lot of effort into completing my pre-requisites and was able to resume my veterinary education again at UF.

Before veterinary school I volunteered for one year at the Flamingo Gardens Wildlife Sanctuary located in Davie, Florida. There, I helped take care of some of the most important Floridian wildlife including Florida panthers, American alligators and bald eagles among other species. I then worked at an exotic animal practice in Pompano Beach as the head veterinary technician for two years while attending Florida Atlantic University as a full time student.

Because of my interest in wildlife and exotic animals, upon graduation I aspire to work in a private practice treating exotic and pocket pets. I also hope to work as a per diem vet at local zoos the Palm Beach County. I’m also interested in conducting research on endangered species and being part of state programs that focus on saving our native animals and plants from the invasion of non-indigenous species. During the summer of my first year in veterinary school here at UF, I conducted a research project with a scholarship that I obtained from the Morris Animal Foundation which is only given to 25 students from veterinary schools around the United States. My mentor and I developed a serology test to detect tuberculosis in captive Asian elephants. The project was completed before classes started again and I am very proud to say that we obtained excellent results. I went to the Merck Merial conference in July of 2008 and to the Morris Animal Foundation conference in May of 2009 to present the results of my project. At the latter conference, I was awarded third place in the wildlife category. Besides the prestige of earning an award and receiving much needed scholarship funds, these conferences were of great benefit to me additionally by introducing me to experts in the zoo medicine field and in building great contacts for my future professional career.

Since the beginning of this year, I have been taking several classes and I have been writing up my research project, both for publication in a well-renowned journal and for an elective class at the veterinary school which will allow me to graduate with honors. Throughout vet school, I have been deeply involved with our wildlife club, WZAAM. I have held both wetlab and speaker coordinator positions and I am currently the club’s president. I am also the vice-president for the Reptile and Amphibian club (ARAVSC), and the Lafeber student rep. Additionally, I am in the process of creating an Anesthesia club for our school.

Health Professions Graduate School Fair

Meet admission representatives from medical schools, dental schools, pharmacy schools, veterinary schools, physicians assistant programs, public health programs. Monday March 22, 2010 Raffle from 2:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. Enter for a chance to win a Dell Inspirion Mini 10 Laptop, a $50.00 Publix gift card, 2 all day passes to Boomers, a digital camera, a 20" LCD TV, and much more!

For more details on these events or to purchase a raffle ticket in support of the Graduate Fair, contact President Christie Gonzalez at cgonza48@fau.edu. We will be selling tickets in your area for a $1 throughout the next two weeks prior to the fair and can schedule a stop at your practice. You may also contact us via our club webpage to purchase tickets at www.wix.com/vetwardbound/vetward. Thank you for your support and we hope to see you at the fair! For more information, please click on the download button.

FVMA Conference

AAHA Long Beach 2010 Conference!

AVMACONVENTION 2010 Atlanta

Public Blog and Events

The Palm Beach Veterinary Society has established a blog.
To view recent entries, please click here.

If you are having a pet related event and would like it posted on our blog, please contact us by going to the "Contact Us" page.

Sponsors

The Palm Beach Veterinary Society, Inc. would like to thank all of its sponsors for their generours financial contributions and support of our organization. Please read below all about our sponsors by clicking on their links. Sponsors will be listed soon!

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