Dr. Mike Lappin: Hot Topics in Nutritional Management of Small Animal Internal Medicine Cases

Dr. Michael R. Lappin, DVM, PhD, DACVIM

In this 2 hour lecture series, Dr. Lappin’s case examples will be used to demonstrate how the use of diets, with or without probiotic supplementation, can be used to improve clinical outcomes in a variety of internal medicine problems. Specific syndromes discussed will include non-specific diarrhea, antibiotic associated diarrhea, parasitic diarrhea, use of a probiotic to enhance puppy responses to vaccines, use of a probiotic to enhance feline immunity to FHV-1, importance of quality control in selection of probiotics for clinical use, and more!

Dr. Lappin graduated from Oklahoma State University and then completed an internship, internal medicine residency, and PhD program in Parasitology at the University of Georgia. His principal areas of interest are prevention of infectious diseases, the upper respiratory disease complex, infectious causes of fever, infectious causes of diarrhea, and zoonoses of cats.

Monday, May 20
Registration at 2:30
CE Lecture 3 – 5 pm

Purina Institure, Purina HQ
801 Chouteau Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63105
314.610.9310

RSVP by May 10 to Adrienne.Nelinson@purina.nestle.com