| Local Seminar Focuses on Pet Issues |
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Thursday, June 25 2009 |
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A series of "Let's Talk" Community Forums are being held locally to provide information about pet issues. Each features a speaker well-respected in their field of expertise. The sessions are free, and will be held at the Applegate Civic Center, 18014 Applegate Road in Applegate. Each begins at 7 p.m. The forums are being presented through the support of the Placer County Animal Trust Fund by Friends of Placer County Animal Shelter, the Auburn Area Animal Rescue Foundation (AAARF) and Fieldhaven Feline Rescue. On Thursday, June 25, Jyothi Robertson, DVM will speak on "Preventative Medicine and Contagious Diseases (including Zoonotic Disease). Dr. Robertson is a Resident in Shelter Medicine at the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine. After graduating Magne cum laude from Princeton University, she began working at the Center for Comparative Medicine, UC Davis, on post-graduate doctoral research in Nutrition/Physiology. She has more than 20 years of laboratory experience in infectious disease, and began working on independent research projects at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee at the age of 10. |
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Location: 18014 Applegate Road, Applegate |