VENOM SYMPOSIUM IN ALBUQUERQUE
When: 1-4 June 2009
Where: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Venom Week 2009 is the third in a series of international scientific symposia about all
things venomous. The Venom Week Symposium brings together zoo and other animal care
workers, basic scientists, clinicians, regulatory agencies, antivenom producers, and others
with an interest in venomous animals. There will be sessions on marine animals,
venomous snakebite management, zoo collections, venomous animal conservation,
veterinary toxinology, regulatory issues, taxonomic controversies, spiders, scorpions,
squamates, an update on coral snake antivenom (no longer being manufactured), a
wilderness medicine session, posters, and more, all presented by an acclaimed national
and international faculty.
Check out the website for registration, agenda, abstract submission, CME and WMS credit
at
http://hsc.unm.edu/conf/venomweek2009/
Steven A. Seifert, MD
Professor
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Medical Director
New Mexico Poison and Drug Information Center
MSC09 5080
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-0001
(505) 272-4261 (office)
(505) 934-2479 (cell)
(505) 272-5892 (fax)
sseifert@salud.unm.edu
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Attitude, rather than disposition is more definitive of serpent behavior. From the moment they emerge into this world until they complete their life cycle, their attitude is "Don't tread on me. I am well equipped to defend myself, but content to pass through life unnoticed. I mean no harm to anything or anyone that our creator has not provided as my bill of fare; I am self sustaining and I like it that way, please pass me by." - W.E. Haast
