President's Message

Greetings,
Recently, several of the IVMA officers, our Iowa AVMA Delegates, and I attended the AVMA Veterinary Leadership Conference in Chicago. This was an excellent conference. As the name suggests, we did not learn about the latest and greatest treatments for pancreatitis, kidney disease or atopy. Some of the main topics discussed were mental health, governance, team-building, DEI, and mentorship . Mentorship has always been important to me, so I attended several of the meetings to improve my skills. I also signed up for one of the optional parts of the conference called the Mentor-Mentee Program. I guess since I have more birthdays and more gray hair, I was considered the mentor. I was assigned 2 young individuals with whom to spend some 1-on-1 time. More...