Grandin draws record audience to Animal Handling Seminar CCA members, animal health practioners and students gathered in record numbers for the 3rd Annual Beef Improvement and Low-Stress Animal Handling Seminar, hosted by the University of California, Davis, Livestock Medicine and Surgery Center in conjunction with the UC Davis veterinary student-based Food Animal Reproduction and Medicine (FARM) Club, held on the UC Davis campus, Jan. 11. The major draw to this year’s sold-out event was animal handling expert Temple Grandin, Ph.D., of Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo. Grandin, known within the animal agriculture community for her innovative approach to animal handling and facility design, has also gained notoriety outside of the industry for her awardwinning HBO feature film, Temple Grandin, which highlights Grandin’s stuggle with and triumph over autism. Grandin has become a heroin for people worldwide in proving success can be acheived despite limitations. Many who attended the event expressed their excitement over hearing Grandin’s animal handling message and said they were eager to return home to their own operations and put her advice and methods to use. There were nearly 200 attendees at the standing-roomonly event, with dozens more tuning in to the live webinar to hear from Grandin and other event speakers. Other featured speakers included: Joe Campbell, DVM, Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc.; Bruce Hoar, DVM, Ph.D., an epidemiologist at UC Davis; cattle ultrasound expert Tommy Perkins, Ph.D.; Anita Varga, DVM, a large
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animal clinician with the Livestock Medicine and Surgery Service at UC Davis; climate change expert and animal scientist Frank Mitloehner, Ph.D., UC Davis; Birgit Puschner, DVM, Ph.D., a toxicologist with UC Davis; feedlot nutritionist Gary Sides, Ph.D., TEMPLE GRANDIN, Ph.D. Zoetis; and Leslie Woods, DVM, Ph.D., a professor of clinicalpathology, microbiology and immunology at UC Davis’ School of Veterinary Medicine. Pictured at left, CCA President Tim Koopmann and his wife, Melinda, Sunol, were among the many CCA members who attended the UC Davis event. Bud Sloan, DVM, and his wife Kim made the long trip to UC Davis from Santa Paula to hear from Grandin and other event speakers.
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CCA members Jack and Barbara Cowley also made a long trip, coming from Siskiyou County to attend the 3rd annual event.
Dean Michael Lairmore, DVM (left), and Greg Ferraro, DVM (center), both of UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, with CCA member Gene Harlan, DVM, Penngrove.