Texas Equine Veterinary Association

50 Russ Freeland, DVM, DACVS-LA Dr. Freeland grew up in agriculture in southwest Louisiana. He attended Louisiana State University earning a bachelor's degree in wildlife ecology and a Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine. After graduating he spent a year in a general and referral large animal private practice in Colorado as an intern. Following his internship, Dr. Freeland worked in upstate New York in general and referral equine practice prior to starting a large animal surgery residency. Dr. Freeland was trained in soft tissue and orthopedic surgery as well as sports medicine at the University of Wisconsin. During this time, he also performed research in the area of equine wound management. He is a board-certified large animal surgeon by the American College of Veterinary Surgeons. He is a member of the American Association of Equine Practitioners; American Associa- tion of Bovine Practitioners, OA; and the American Veterinary Medical Association. Dr. Freeland spent four years in private practice in Texas prior to moving to Lexington, KY, as a surgeon at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute. Outside of practice, Dr. Freeland enjoys the outdoors, spending most of his free time hunting, fishing, flying, and diving. FRIDAY & SATURDAY Technician Program Total CEU for this Program: 10 Credits Elizabeth Hinton Elizabeth Hinton is the Large Animal Surgical and Sports Medicine Coordinator at Texas A&M University Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. She manages the large animal operating rooms, orthopedics and soft tissue surgery services, sports medicine service, central sterile supply services, large animal anesthesia, and currently serves as interim co-supervisor for the radiology services for large and small animal hospitals. Her career at TAMU VTH began as a large animal operating room student technician in May of 1997. She grew up in a small rural community outside of Bryan, TX, and completed her Associates degree at Hill College in 1996. At this stage in her 25 year career, her main focus is developing and mentoring young leadership as well as focusing on cultivating the culture and climate by engaging in and facilitating dialogues utilizing her mediation certification and intentional leadership training. Her biggest accomplishment is raising her daughter Kasey Jo, who is a graduate from the University of Mary Hardin Baylor, where she will begin their Doctor of Physical Therapy school in the fall. In her spare time she loves to watch her daughter play collegiate basketball and training her corgi Hattie Mae. Wet labs brought to you by: As we come into a new era of equine practice, I hope that you all will join us in Fort Worth for a very interactive meeting and will register your technicians as well. We have a fun tech meeting planned with dry labs and lectures on Emergency and Critical Care. Russ Freeland, Jr., DVM, DACVS-LA , has developed his skills in dystocias and emergency management during his last year working at Hagyard. You all may remember him from the Vet ER LIVE show in which he resuscitated the piglets with snout to mouth on national TV. He will share his ideas with our techs to help efficiency with triage. In addition, Elizabeth Hinton, from Texas A&M, has trained surgery technicians for years and will educate us all on sterile techniques and sterilization of both surgery tools and endoscopes. We hope that these topics will help bring novel ideas into your practice and will help to develop your technicians' skills further. Can't wait to see you there! Piper Norton, DVM, DACVIM-LA TEVA Vice President and Technician Program Chair Animal Imaging

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