Join us at the first combined educational event in Timonium, MD on June 21, 2019 presented in collaboration between Winn Feline Foundation (Winn), The International Cat Association (TICA) and the Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA). This podcast is presented by Dr. Glenn Olah, a cat veterinary specialist in Albuquerque, NM. Dr. Olah has written articles about cat health for a number of different veterinary publications. He has been on the board of Winn Feline Foundation since 2012. He will cover much of the exciting research Winn has funded in recent years and discuss where the future of cat health is headed.

Winn Feline Foundation Podcasts on Feline Health

WINNing Cats Feline Education Event

Join us at the first combined educational event in Timonium, MD on June 21, 2019 presented in collaboration between Winn Feline Foundation (Winn), The International Cat Association (TICA) and the Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA). This podcast is presented by Dr. Drew Weigner, a veterinarian for cats from the Atlanta, GA area. Dr. Weigner has practiced medicine for more than 35 years and is one of the first established feline practitioners. He has been on the board of Winn Feline Foundation since 2014. He will cover the history of Winn from its inception in 1968   and the top advances in feline medicine Winn Feline has been involved with over the years.  

Join us at the first combined educational event in Timonium, MD on June 21, 2019 presented in collaboration between Winn Feline Foundation (Winn), The International Cat Association (TICA) and the Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA). This podcast is presented by Dr. Jody Gookin, a distinguished professor at North Carolina State University. The first part of the presentation discusses bacterial causes, in particular E. coli, of diarrhea and mortality in kittens. The latter half of her talk covers information about the parasite, Tritrichomonas foetus, that causes large bowel diarrhea in kittens and cats. Dr. Gookin covers information about her research on these significant causes of diarrhea in cats.

Join us at the first combined educational event in Timonium, MD on June 21, 2019 presented in collaboration between Winn Feline Foundation (Winn), The International Cat Association (TICA) and the Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA). This podcast is presented by Mr. Steve Dale, well-known radio personality and a Certified Behavior Consultant, discussing inappropriate elimination and the strategies to diagnose and treat this behavioral problem in cats. A discussion about the importance of environmental enrichment for the welfare of cats and as an approach to preventing or eliminating such behaviors.

Join us at the first combined educational event in Timonium, MD on June 21, 2019 presented in collaboration between Winn Feline Foundation (Winn), The International Cat Association (TICA) and the Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA). This podcast features Dr. Emily Graff, a clinical pathologist specializing in neurologic disease, discussing inherited genetic neurologic disorders in cats and her work determining ways to treat and improve the lives of affected kittens and cats.    

Join us at the first combined educational event in Timonium, MD on June 21, 2019 presented in collaboration between Winn Feline Foundation (Winn), The International Cat Association (TICA) and the Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA). This podcast features Dr. Katie Lytle from Wisdom Health discussing how to understand and apply DNA panel testing to increase genetic fitness in cats. Wisdom Health has worked with TICA to collect DNA data on well over 100 cats to determine genetic diversity among different cat breeds.   Dr. Lytle's presentation will cover the results from this collaboration and how it impacts cats in general. Wisdom Health has supported cat health research by sponsoring grants for approved future feline research in genetics.

Please join Winn Feline Foundation at the second half of our 40th Annual Symposium with Dr. Melissa Beall, DVM, PhD, of IDEXX Laboratories, Portland, ME.  Despite its discovery over 50 years ago, the feline leukemia virus (FeLV) continues to challenge our thinking about the nature of the disease and our ability to diagnose the infection.  Testing, vaccination, and segregating progressively infected cats remain effective practices to help control the spread of the disease. Results of this new research are helping to inform improvements in medical decisions and long-term patient care.

Winn Feline Foundation's 40th Annual Symposium-"Perplexing Paradigms of Feline Medicine, Part Two"

Please join Winn Feline Foundation's 40th Annual Symposium on June 28th, 2018 with our speaker, Katie Tolbert, DVM, PhD, DACVIM from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Trichomonosis is a rapidly emerging infectious disease of cats that is caused by the parasite, Tritrichomonas foetus. Unfortunately, little is understood about how this parasite causes disease and what methods can be used to treat it. Dr. Tolbert will discuss why infectious diarrhea such as that caused by T. foetusis such a concern for catteries and shelters. She will also share the results of her Winn-sponsored research investigating therapies for the treatment gastrointestinal ulceration in cats.  

Winn Feline Foundation 40th Annual Symposium - "Perplexing Paradigms of Feline Medicine"

Dr. Niels Pedersen, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California-Davis, discusses the current prospects for preventing and treating feline infectious peritonitis in cats. FIP has remained a major problem of cats for over five decades. We now understand where and how the virus that causes FIP mutates from the ubiquitous and otherwise innocuous feline coronavirus (FECV). However, we are only just beginning to untangle the complex virus, host and environmental factors that have the most effect on FIP incidence and how this knowledge can be applied to both disease prevention and cure. Following Dr. Pedersen's outstanding presentation, Dr. Vicki Thayer, executive director of Winn Feline Foundation, will introduce Winn's future Cures4CatsDay for October 21, 2017. Questions and answers by Dr. Pedersen will follow that short presentation.

Winn Feline Foundation 39th Symposium - "Ending FIP, Is There Hope?", Part Two

Join Steve Dale, Master of Ceremonies and Winn board member, as he introduces retiring Winn President Dr. Glenn Olah. Dr. Olah covers Winn's recent efforts and the funding of the largest single grant review in Winn's 50 year history. 11 research grants for a total of $214,017. Dr. Olah also introduces the incoming Winn President, Dr. Shila Nordone, and then the founder of the Bria Fund, Susan Gingrich. Susan covers the history and progress the Bria Fund has made in raising funds for FIP research. At the end, she is followed with a short presentation by Peter Cohen, Zen by Cat, owner of Smokey, a cat surviving feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) due to treatment through Dr. Niels Pedersen initial clinical trial with an antiviral drug, GC376, a protease inhibitor.

Winn Feline Foundation 39th Symposium - "Ending FIP, Is There Hope?", Part One

Join Dr. Glenn Olah and the audience at the 2016 Winn Symposium for a lively Q&A session with Drs. Leslie Lyons and Nicholas Dodman. Speakers at Winn Symposiums provide excellent answers to important questions from our audience. We at Winn thank you for listening.

2016 Winn Symposium Q&A with Drs. Lyons and Dodman

Dr. Dodman provided information on the common presentation of three compulsive behaviors in cats - wool sucking/pica, psychogenic alopecia and feline hyperesthesia syndrome. He addressed the cause and treatment of each disorder, including genetic foundations, environmental pressures that trigger them, and environmental and pharmacologic therapies that have been shown to reduce, or in some cases practically eliminate their expression. He outlined a phenotypic study of wool sucking funded by Winn, listing potential causes and preventive measures that can be taken to reduce the occurrence of this troubling and occasionally lethal condition. Also, Dr. Dodman discussed findings of a Winn-funded study to locate atypical genomic regions in Birman cats affected with this condition.

Feline Compulsive Disorders

In a short segment, Dr. Glenn Olah introduces the Winn Feline Foundation board members in the audience. Dr. Olah introduces the second speaker for the 2016 Symposium, Dr. Nicholas Dodman, BVMS, MRCVS, DACVA, DACVB. Dr. Dodman has just retired and was a Professor at Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. He is an expert in behavior and covered Feline Compulsive Disorders in his presentation.  

Introduction of Dr. Nicholas Dodman

Dr. Lyons presented a review of her work, then lead into a description of “Precision Medicine”, which is now available for humans, and its role in the future of feline medicine. Gene-specific DNA-based tests for inherited diseases have been available for veterinary health care in cats for over 25 years. Now over 40 genes with nearly 70 DNA variants have been documented to cause phenotypic, disease or blood type variations. More recently, the entire genomes of dozens of cats have been sequenced, rapidly gleaning the genetic information that is controlling health and what an animal looks like. In the coming years, veterinarians will be performing whole genome screens of some kind as a routine component of a disease diagnosis. Whether for tumors or other diseases, the DNA results will routinely direct future therapies.

Genetics and Precision Medicine: State of the Art Health Care for Cats

Dr. Glenn Olah, President of Winn Feline Foundation, gives a brief history of Winn's major research milestones from 1968 and in recent years. Dr. Olah introduces the first speaker, Dr. Leslie Lyons, for the 2016 Winn Symposium. Dr. Lyons, PhD, is the Gilbreath-McLorn Endowed Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia College of Veterinary Medicine. The introduction delivers background on the cutting edge feline medicine Winn has provided to cats over the years and the exceptional investigators like Dr. Lyons who perform the health studies.

2016 Winn Symposium ~ Cat Tails of Genetics and Behavior

Presentations from Winn Feline Foundation on Feline Health Studies and the latest research in feline disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

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Winn Feline Foundation Podcasts on Feline Health

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