Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 8 pm ET
Evaluating Pet Supplements in Practice: Helping Clients Make Informed Choices
Speaker: Laura Gaylord, DVM, DACVIM (Nutrition)
Pet supplement use is rapidly expanding mirroring the widespread adoption of supplements in human health. Owners increasingly seek products to support mobility, skin and coat health, anxiety, and aging, yet veterinarians receive limited training on evaluating and recommending these products. This session will provide practical guidelines for assessing supplement quality and efficacy, review current regulation and oversight, and highlight cautions regarding adverse events and unsupervised use. Case examples will illustrate how supplements can be successfully integrated into multimodal treatment plans to enhance patient care.
Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 8 pm ET Neo-Natal Nutrition Across Species: From Calves and Foals to Puppies and Kittens Speaker: Mark Fagundes, DVM, PhD Registration is Open! Sign Up Here!
The neonatal period presents unique physiological challenges and represents a critical stage of life, during which nutrition plays a central role in health, growth, and development. This session will explore comparative neonatal nutrition across calves, foals, puppies, and kittens, highlighting colostrum, passive transfer, milk composition, and gastrointestinal adaptation. Attendees will gain a practical, cross-species framework for understanding how early nutritional management influences both immediate outcomes and long-term health.
Dr. Mark Fagundes was raised on a family dairy farm in California. He attended Cal Poly–San Luis Obispo for his undergraduate studies and Washington State University, where he earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. After veterinary school, he completed a veterinary internship and went on to earn a Doctor of Philosophy degree in ruminant nutrition from Utah State University. He practiced as a large animal veterinarian in California’s Central Valley before pursuing small animal general practice. Dr. Fagundes is currently a nutrition resident at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine, where he provides clinical nutrition consultation across a range of species.
Tuesday, August 4, 2026, 8 pm ET
Weight Management/Obesity
Speaker: Katherine Oakes, DVM
Tuesday, September 8, 2026, 8 pm ET
Chronic GI Disease
Speaker: Kyle German, DVM
AAVN student webinars are free but registration is required. CE credit is not provided for these sessions.
