Talbot Symposium 2025

Please join us for the virtual Talbot Veterinary Informatics Symposium on both Thursday, August 14 and Friday, August 15, 2025 for lectures and live Q&A from 12:00 - 4:30pm EDT, followed by a virtual happy hour. 

AVI is pleased to bring together speakers with a wide range of professional experience each year, including clinical practice, academic research, industry, and diagnostics. This year's lectures have a strong focus on Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning in clinical practice and academia, as well as standard terminology.

Lectures will be available on our member online education portal, VetBloom at a later date.

Registration is now open. Members, please sign in before registering. CE Credit may be available pending RACE approval.

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Thursday, August 14

12:00 pm - 12:10 pm EDT | 9am PDT | 4:00pm GMT | Fri 2:00am Melbourne, AUS

Opening Remarks from AVI President

Nathan Bollig, DVM, MS

12:10 pm - 1pm EDT 

Agentic AI in Veterinary Medicine: What it is, how it works, and how it is impacting us through practical use cases

Jonathan Lustgarten, MS, PhD, VMD, CSPO

1pm - 1:50pm EDT  | 10am PDT | 5:00pm GMT | Fri 3:00am Melbourne, AUS

Tails from the Transformer: BERT Models and their big brothers in Veterinary Informatics

Peter-John Noble, BVM&S, PhD

2pm - 2:50pm EDT | 11am PDT | 6:00pm GMT | Fri 4:00am Melbourne, AUS

Supporting veterinary data interoperability with the Vertebrate Breed Ontology and Mondo Disease Ontology 

Kathleen Mullen, DVM, MS, DACVIM (LAIM)

3pm - 3:50pm EDT | 12pm PDT | 7:00pm GMT | Fri 5:00am Melbourne, AUS

Applying Natural Language Processing in R to Transform Free-Text Food Diaries into Structured Data 

Janice O'Brien, MPH, PhD student

4pm - 4:20 pm EDT | 1:00pm PDT | 8:00pm GMT | Fri 6:00am Melbourne, AUS

Staying Positive: Embedding Sustainability in Veterinary Informatics

Tracy Webb, DVM, PhD

4:20 pm - 4:30 pm EDT

Closing Remarks from Immediate Past President

Anne Kimmerlein, DVM, MPVM, DACVPM

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT  | 8:30pm GMT | 9:30pm London | Fri 6:30am Melbourne, AUS

Networking with attendees and AVI members


Friday, August 15

12:00 pm - 12:10 pm EDT | 9am PDT | 4:00pm GMT | Fri 2:00am Melbourne, AUS

Opening Remarks from AVI President

Nathan Bollig, DVM, MS

12:10 pm - 1pm EDT 

The Veterinary Committee Trauma (VetCOT) trauma registry: updates and lessons learned

Kelly Hall, DVM, MS, DACVECC

1pm - 1:50pm EDT  | 10am PDT | 5:00pm GMT | Fri 3:00am Melbourne, AUS

Veterinary Abbreviated Injury Scale: Data Mining to Improve Trauma Patient Outcomes

Hailey Harroun-White, DVM, MPH, DACVPM

2pm - 2:50pm EDT | 11am PDT | 6:00pm GMT | Fri 4:00am Melbourne, AUS

Competency-Based Training and Scaling MentorshipDigital Twins, Agentic AI, and the Future of Learning

Patrick Welch, DVM, MBA, DACVO

3pm - 3:50pm EDT | 12pm PDT | 7:00pm GMT | Fri 5:00am Melbourne, AUS

Enhancing Veterinary Information Retrieval with Agentic AI

Brian Hur, DVM, PhD

4pm - 4:20 pm EDT | 1:00pm PDT | 8:00pm GMT | Fri 6:00am Melbourne, AUS

Injecting AI literacy into veterinary literature searching

Jeanine Fletcher, PhD, MLS

4:20 pm - 4:30 pm EDT

Closing Remarks from Immediate Past President

Anne Kimmerlein, DVM, MPVM, DACVPM

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT   | 8:30pm GMT | 9:30pm London | Fri 6:30am Melbourne, AUS

Networking with attendees and AVI members



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