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European Association of Zoo and Wildlife Veterinarians – March 2016/ 1– Nr March 2016 / 1 – Nr.66 Contents (you can click on a topic to go straight to article!) Letter from the Vice President and Executive Director. ........................................................... 2 Minutes of the 41st Board Meeting, December 4th, 2015 – IZW Berlin............................................... 3 Financial Report year ending 31st December 2015. 9 EAZWV Member Benefits 2016 .......................... 11 Full Member Summer School 2016 ...................... 5 Conference Announcement ................................ 6 Student Prize: Free Registration for Atlanta Conference – APPLY NOW! ................................. 7 European Association Supporting Research in Zoological Medicine: EAZWV & the Zebra Foundation ...................................... 7 of Zoo and Wildlife Student Section: Letter from the Chair ................. 8 July 2013 / 2 – Nr.59 EAZWV Student Workshop Lisbon, Portugal .......... 8 Veterinarians Student Placement at Wildbase – All about Kiwis! 23 Scientific corner ............................................... 24 Variegated squirrel 1 Bornavirus (VSBV-1) – a novel zoonotic pathogen ........................................... 25 www.eazwv.org Update from the EAZWV Contraception Working Group ............................................................. 26 Rietschel‘s Gallery ............................................ 27 Changes to the Directory .................................. 27 Member Feedback ........................................... 29 16 Website (Peters, Ludwig) European Association of Zoo and Wildlife Veterinarians – March 2016/ 1– Nr. 66 Letter from the Vice President and Executive Director. Dear EAZWV Friends and Colleagues, It is a pleasure to send you the first newsletter of this new era of EAZWV’s history. We have had a busy few months and want to tell you all about it but first we want to wish all of you a good year in 2016. We started 2016 with a brand new Executive Director, Stephanie Sanderson, formerly our president. A very warm welcome Steph! This appointment will be a big step forward for our association, increasing its professionalism, member services and influence. Unfortunately, as Stephanie has resigned her position as President in order to take up the role of Executive Director, we are currently without a president. The work of the president has been distributed between the board members and, as Vice-president, Hanspeter has taken on the role of acting president pending elections at our General Assembly in Atlanta. The vice-president and secretary positions are also up for election this year. We will publish the job descriptions and skills we are looking for shortly. We would love to welcome new board members from the membership and are particularly keen to have representation from veterinarians working with free ranging wildlife as we grow this area of our work. We are a friendly team and will provide the necessary training to undertake the role – we just need your enthusiasm, passion and time. If you are at all interested, please contact us at [email protected]. January 2016 also saw the closure of the old EAZWV secretariat at zoo office Bern and we would like to acknowledge once again all the great work and time Peter Dollinger and Silvia Nanni have dedicated to the EAZWV. This is a very exciting year for EAZWV. The board is working hard on behalf of the Association and meets every two weeks by skype to keep each other up to speed. We have identified a range of new activities and initiatives that we will be exploring with the advisory board during our strategic planning meeting in Barcelona on 26/27th April. We are also really keen to hear from the wider membership as to what you want to see from EAZWV going forward. Please do contact us with your feedback and ideas on [email protected]. The new initiatives we identify are likely to require a number of new working groups and will provide opportunities for more members to get involved in the development of our organisation. We would love to hear from you if you would like to volunteer for a working group – more information on the new positions and initiatives will be circulated after the meeting. Our new online renewal system was launched in February. There have been a few teething problems with credit card payments but thanks to your patience and feedback these are now largely resolved and, for most of you, this has been a much easier renewal process. The new system will come into its own over the coming year as we integrate it with our website. The member only area will be relaunched, new resources will be uploaded, we will be setting up forums and areas for working groups and the capacity for online voting. There will also be a fully searchable member directory and list of TAG/EEP vet advisors. We hope you will also see a big improvement in our communications with more regular news updates. All these new activities require resources. The board and ED have been undertaking a full financial review of our organisation (see minutes and financial report in this newsletter). This includes evaluating our current tax status and investigating whether we should become a registered charity (official not-for-profit status). We have engaged a tax advisor to help us with this and will be bringing our recommendations for your vote shortly. We will also be working on our long term financial plan, formulating a reserves policy and exploring opportunities for raising funds to support our work. Your increase in membership dues has been a big help in us taking a step up in professionalism and allowing us to appoint an Executive Director. We now need to work hard on establishing long term financial security for the organisation In July we will have our first joint AAZV – IZW – EAZW conference in Atlanta. Many members from AAZV, IZW and EAZWV are working hard to prepare the conference and ensure it will be a great success. We hope most of you can come. Although it is a long way and flight costs will stress your budgets, we are sure it will be an exciting conference and well worth the investment. In response to feedback received from the Barcelona conference survey we have taken this opportunity to try a new process for selecting manuscripts. Selection has been undertaken by the sessions chairs (one American and one European for each session) using a standardised scoring process. Over 280 abstracts from 37 countries (22% of submitted abstracts were EAZWV members) were submitted and 95 were accepted as oral 2 European Association of Zoo and Wildlife Veterinarians – March 2016/ 1– Nr. 66 presentations and 105 as posters. Unfortunately, 80 submissions needed to be rejected due to time constraints or limited space. Our Association is well represented. EAZWV members have 18% oral and 22% poster presentations. Instead of offering prizes at the conference this year, we have decided to offer 10 free student conference registrations. This should help encourage and support students to come. Selection will be administered by the Student Section. Please see their article in this newsletter for the application process. Thanks to all for taking the opportunity to represent Europe in the first joint conference – we look forward to seeing you in Atlanta! We also have summer activities closer to home. We are proud to announce the second EAZWV Full Member Summer School at Nuremberg Zoo and the student summer school in Paris. More information on these events can be found in this newsletter and on the website. We are looking forward hearing from you and hopefully to seeing you at an EAZWV event soon. Thank you again for all your support. Hanspeter Steinmetz: Vice-President/ Acting President; Stephanie Sanderson: Executive Director Minutes of the 41st Board Meeting, December 4th, 2015 – IZW Berlin Attendees: EAZWV Board: Kim Grützmacher (KG) Vice-treasurer, Sabine Öfner (SO) Treasurer, Stephanie Sanderson (SS) President, Hanspeter Steinmetz (HS) Vice-president, Hugo Fernández (HF) Honorary secretary. EAZWV Secretariat: Peter Dollinger (PD) – Agenda items A and B1&B2 only. Apologies: Alexis Lécu (AL) Past president A. OPENING & ADOPTION OF AGENDA AND PAST MINUTES SS opened the meeting at 10:45 The agenda was reviewed and adopted. The minutes of the 40th EAZWV Board meeting held at Barcelona on 14 May 2015 are adopted as published in Newsletter 2015/2, p. 3. B. ACTIVITY REPORTS 1. Membership Membership report (Secretariat) EAZWV currently comprises 703 paying members and candidate members (of which 173 are student members). The names of 53 new candidates were published in NL 2/2015, only 4 more have formally applied since. This number is lower than previous years, possibly due to the current lack of online registration. There are 46 free members, Dr. Bernhard Lasarz is the only new free member in 2015. 112 members have been excluded due to non-payment of dues. The collective member category will be renamed Institutional members as of Jan 1 2016 with a fee of 250€ - to include one electronic subscription to the JZWM. Dr. med. vet. DVM Andries W. van Foreest, founding member of the European Veterinary Dental Society (EVDS) and EAZWV Free member, died on 19th February 2015. It was noted that there currently is no formal way of identifying deceased members. This may be more difficult in the future due to the changing structure of the secretariat. There is some discussion regarding student memberships. KG is tasked to characterize the student KG membership. The Board agrees to exempt Sara Abreu from her 2016 membership fee in recognition of her SS outstanding contribution to the association. SS to ensure that this is recorded at the time of invoicing. 2. Transition to the new secretariat structure. 2.a Report on the Executive Director recruitment (Vice-president) The position and job description were advertised via email to the membership as well as on the EAZWV, AAZV and EAZA websites. Five applications were received by 12 October 2015. A panel composed by 3 European Association of Zoo and Wildlife Veterinarians – March 2016/ 1– Nr. 66 seven experienced EAZWV (non-Board) members was selected to represent gender, age, nationality, and occupational profile of the membership.
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