Panel Discussion: Key Conversations for Developing Tomorrow's Surgeons

Saturday, October 25, 2025

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Speaker(s)

Philip J. Kieffer, DVM, DACVS (Large Animal) (he/him/his)

Överveterinär
Evidensia Specialisthästsjukhuset Helsingborg
Helsingborg , Skane Lan, Sweden
David Upchurch, DVM, MS, MVetEd, DACVS (Small Animal)

Associate Professor of Small Animal Surgery
Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas
Eric J. Parente, DVM, DACVS

Professor of Surgery
University of Pennsylvania
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
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Jennifer L. Huck, DACVS (Small Animal) (she/her/hers)

Senior Surgeon
The Schwarzman Animal Medical Center
New York, New York

This panel discusses issues such as residency selection, characteristics of successful veterinary residents, the value of specialty internships, helping our residents prepare for boards, and the tension between the demand to produce more surgeons and the decreased resources available for such training.