Nutritional Management of Pancreatitis
Pancreatitis can be managed through focus on key nutritional factors and diligent owner compliance. The healthcare team’s role in managing pancreatitis is crucial, beginning with proper identification of pancreatitis vs. other vomiting and diarrheic conditions. This webinar will focus on the healthcare team’s role in identifying and managing pancreatitis and the key nutritional factors responsible for minimizing signs and symptoms associated with pancreatitis.
Kara Burns
MS, MEd, LVT, VTS (Nutrition), VTS Hon (Internal Medicine, Dentistry)
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Obesity in Pets: A Practical Approach to Weight Management
Pet obesity is one of the most common and preventable conditions seen in clinical practice today, affecting over half of dogs and cats in the U.S. This session addresses the medical, behavioral, and emotional challenges of pet obesity, equipping the veterinary team with practical tools to support successful weight management plans.
We’ll explore how obesity alters physiology, complicates comorbidities, and reduces lifespan—and how veterinarians and technicians can build effective partnerships with pet owners to reverse these effects. Using real cases, we’ll examine the steps to create individualized diet plans, tackle begging behavior, and overcome common barriers in multi-pet households. This session benefits every member of the veterinary team by improving communication, increasing client compliance, and most importantly, enhancing patient outcomes.
Camille Torres-Henderson
DVM, DABVP, DACVIM (Nutrition)
Time: 1:10 pm - 2:10 pm
Fiber in Veterinary Nutrition
In this VetCE Virtual session, Dr. Adam Rudinsky, DACVIM reviews the complicated arena of fiber and how to use it in practice. Dietary therapy if at the foundation of all gastrointestinal disease management, and the most critical nutrient in a majority of cases is dietary fiber. Despite this importance, dietary fiber is a vexing area due to the complexity of what fiber is and does. This course covers how to assess fiber intake, strategically adjust dietary fiber supplementation, and implement it in practice. We will review key concepts like fermentability, viscosity, and solubility and the outcomes associated with these factors.
Adam Rudinsky
DVM, MS, DACVIM
Time: 2:20 pm - 3:20 pm
VetCE Virtual: Bite-Sized Science: Advancing Animal Health Through Nutrition
October 11, 2025 @ 12 pm - 3:30 pm ET
Speakers
Kara Burns
MS, MEd, LVT, VTS (Nutrition), VTS Hon (Internal Medicine, Dentistry)
Kara Burns is a licensed veterinary technician with a master’s degree in physiology and a master’s degree in counseling psychology. She began her career in human medicine working as an emergency psychologist and as a poison specialist dealing with human and animal poisonings.
Kara is the Founder and Past President of the Academy of Veterinary Nutrition Technicians. She teaches nutrition courses around the world. Kara is an independent nutritional and well-being consultant and is the Editor in Chief of Today’s Veterinary Nurse.
She is a member of many national, international, and state associations and holds positions on many boards in the profession: NAVTA Past President; Chair-Elect of the EveryCat Health Foundation (formerly Winn Feline Foundation); Society of Veterinary Medical Ethics Board; and the first technician to be President of the Pet Nutrition Alliance, to name a few.
She has authored ~200 articles, textbooks, and textbook chapters and is an internationally invited speaker, focusing on topics of nutrition, leadership, communication, and technician utilization. Kara and her wife Dr. Ellen Lowery developed the Pet Nutrition Coach Certification Courses course through NAVC. Kara also co-authored veterinary microbiome course certification through NAVC with Robin Saar and Brandon Burch.
Ms. Burns was recently named the Bridge Club 2024 Industry ICON Award recipient – the first veterinary technician to be recognized as The Bridge Club ICON. She was also recognized by Today’s Veterinary Business Article Nine Lives – Plus 3, as a feline-focused woman charting the course for extraordinary veterinary care. Ms. Burns has been featured on the cover of the Veterinary Technician Journal and the NAVTA Journal and most recently has been featured in PetVet Magazine. She was named the North American Veterinary Conference Technician Speaker of the Year in 2013, 2016, and in 2021. She was granted an honorary VTS (Internal Medicine) in 2011. She was also granted an honorary VTS (Dentistry) in 2012. She was the Inaugural 2010 NAVTA Veterinary Technician of the Year. Kara was the 2011 Dr. Franklin Loew Lecturer and the 2024 Dr. Roger L. Lukens Lecturer.
Camille Torres-Henderson
DVM, DABVP, DACVIM (Nutrition)
Dr. Camille Torres pursued her undergraduate and veterinary education at Colorado State University, and obtained her DVM in 2001. Dr. Torres initially went into small animal private practice in Albuquerque, N.M., before joining Community Practice at Colorado State University in 2008. Her commitment to continued learning led to the achievement of feline and canine diplomate status with the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (DABVP) in 2011. Seeing how preventing disease can be so much easier for a pet than treatment led her to explore the effects of obesity on companion animals and nutrition’s role in obesity management. Driven by a curiosity of how to enhance health through nutrition, Dr. Torres pursued a residency in veterinary nutrition and achieved diplomate status with the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Nutrition) in 2021. Beyond her professional life, Dr. Torres has a furry family consisting of two cats, a Yorkiepoo, and a French Bulldog. Her personal life revolves around quality time with her husband and two boys, and she seizes every opportunity to engage in the outdoor activities that Colorado has to offer.
Adam Rudinsky
DVM, MS, DACVIM
Dr. Rudinsky is an Associate Professor -Tenure in the Small Animal Internal Medicine service at The Ohio State University Veterinary Medical Center. He received his DVM degree from The Ohio State University, completed a small animal rotating internship at Purdue University, and then a combined residency in internal medicine and MS degree at The Ohio State University. Following residency training he completed two post-doctoral research fellowships in Mucosal Immunology at The Ohio State University and Microbial Pathogenesis at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. He is now on faculty at Ohio State as a staff internist, research scientist and member of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. His current clinical and research interests include gastrointestinal endocrinology, chronic enteropathies, pancreatic and hepatic disease, mucosal immunology, and the intestinal microbiome as it relates to disease pathophysiology and treatment.
Why Attend?
The VetCE Virtual event series of micro-conferences is designed to deliver multiple approved RACE and/or CVPM CE credits in a concise, half-day virtual format with three consecutive one-hour presentations. The series not only provides you with the opportunity to benefit from educational sessions presented by expert speakers but also offers an easy way to learn and earn credits from the comfort of your home or office!
VetCE Virtual events cover a wide range of topics, from detailed medical discussions to practice management and other non-medical subjects relevant to everyday situations encountered by veterinary professionals. If you’ve already registered and happen to miss the live event, no worries, you’ll be given access to the OnDemand courses once they become available (typically about three weeks after the live event) Recordings of the sessions will be accessible for viewing for 2 weeks following each event, providing participants with a valuable reference.
Please be advised that we can not issue CE certificates for only viewing the session recordings. Anyone who registers for a VetCE Virtual event but is unable to attend the live sessions will get free access to the VetCE OnDemand courses we create from the recordings on VetMedTeam so you can still get CE credits!
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