AABP President Dr. Carie Telgen, DVM Speaks at the 2021 NEAFA Annual Meeting
NEAFA’ August 31st Annual Meeting and Forum featured a number of topics and speakers focused on the theme: Resiliency. In this light, NEAFA was happy to welcome Dr. Carie Telgen, DVM, the President of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) to speak about the common ground shared by the two organizations.
“It was an honor to be able to share how the AABP and the members of the NEAFA have much in common,” said Telgen. “As organizations that are driven and sustained by agriculture and the clients we serve, we need to continue to collaborate and use our mutual resources to ensure the success, viability and resiliency of agriculture in the Northeast as well as in the country as a whole.“
During Telgen’s talk, she described some of the history of AABP, which was formed in 1965 as a 501c6, and currently has a membership of more than 5,000 cattle veterinarians and students, throughout the world. According to Telgen, their mission is to “provide relevant continuing education to our members, advocate and be the voice of the bovine veterinarian, and to support the AABP Foundation which administers scholarship, education/extern grants, and clinically relevant research.” AABP’s 54th Annual Conference will be taking place October 7-9 in Salt Lake City, Utah, with the theme “Science with Practice.”
Telgen also presented some of the demographic and statistics about the organization’s various newsletters, podcasts, publications, guidelines, and membership numbers and gender demographics for example. She continued with some of the current challenges that the organization and its members are facing, which include veterinarian shortages in 221 areas throughout the US, causes behind mental health problems, suicide, and burnout, and some of the ramifications of recent legislation in Colorado, Oregon, NY and in the European Union.