Bertone, associate professor of surgery at the Ohio State University Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, will highlight the equine section of the conference. Bertone, board certified with the American College of Veterinary Surgeons, was an assistant professor of surgery at Louisiana State University for two years before joining the Ohio State faculty.

Rogers, an assistant professor at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, will speak on "Low Cost Producers and the Veterinary Profession." A beef cattle production medicine specialist who has been at N.C. State since 1993, Rogers is a 1980 Texas A&M University graduate who built veterinary practices in Texas while owning and managing a commercial Angus operation and an Angus X Brahman replacement heifer enterprise.

McCormack, who earned his D.V.M. at Auburn in 1960, is a professor of large animal medicine at the University of Georgia. After practicing in Foley and Butler for 10 years, McCormack in 1970 began teaching. A diplomate in the American College of Theriogenology. McCormack has authored three books, including Fields and Pastures New: My First Six Months as a Country Vet.

Eustace, a 1977 graduate of Liverpool University, in 1988 established the Laminitis Clinic at the University of Briston, a self funding treatment center for lameness cases. Eustace is the author of Explaining Laminitis and its Prevention, a book for horse owners.

Opperman, based in Indianapolis, in 1980 founded Veterinary Management Consultation, Inc. A year later, he founded the Veterinary Hospital Managers Association, Inc., and served as its president until 1993. Opperman is the hospital management editor for Veterinary Economics, and he also wrote Veterinary Business Management: A Guide to An Efficient and Profitable Practice.

Other events will include a "Better Half Luncheon" on Friday for spouses; a Pharmacy Law Review course, taught by AU veterinary pharmacists Sue Duran and Starr Miller; annual Distinguished Alumni Banquet; reunions for the classes of 1945, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985 and 1990; and a Christian Fellowship Breakfast on Sunday morning, with guest speaker Dr. D.E. Beighle of the Department of Animal Health, University of Bophuthatswana, South Africa.

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