Aust Vet J Vol 78, No 2, February 200074
News
THE AVJ’s new ClinicalEditor, Dr Jeni Hood, ofPerth, officially started
duty last month. As part ofher induction, she flew toMelbourne to attend twodays of meetings and brief-ings with a number of seniorAVA figures and AVJ staff, aswell as attending a regularmeeting of the AVJ EditorialCommittee. The mother ofthree young children, Jeniwill be working on a limitedpart-time basis for the AVJ,using a spare office in theWA Division building in Perth(contacts not available attime of writing).She holds Bachelorsdegrees in Science,Veterinary Medicine andSurgery, and VeterinaryScience (First ClassHonours) and recently sub-mitted her PhD thesis. HerBVS thesis, Bull TerrierHereditary Nephritis, hasmade her widely knownamong practitioners. Apartfrom an extensive back-ground in university teach-ing, Jeni has established agood reputation as a free-lance journalist who has writ-ten major news articles andthe “Incisor” column in TheVeterinarian for the past fiveyears. She also operates abehavioural consultancy andmaintains close interest inresearch. Jeni is a pastmember of the WA Divisioncommittee, a past NationalPresident of the EVA, a pastPolicy Councillor and a for-mer member of the AVA’sNational ConstitutionalCommittee.
New ClinicalEditor for AVJ
Jeni Hood
THE AVA has established a telephonesupport service for employed veteri-narians to provide individual and con-
fidential advice on the Veterinary SurgeonsAward. It will cover issues such as negotiating work-place agreements with employers, workingconditions and wage/salary arrangements. TheAVA has contracted this service to be providedby Dr Harry Wever, an AVA member who forthe past five years has worked for the NSWBoard of Veterinary Surgeons as a hospitalinspector and complaints officer. Dr Wever has worked in the veterinary profes-sion for 23 years, including many years as anemployed veterinarian and as a locum inAustralia and the UK.Since leaving private practice in 1990, DrWever has completed postgraduate studies in
Environmental Science and DisputeResolution. He has an interest in practicemanagement and quality assurance systemsand recently drafted a practice manual forNSW small animal practices, while workingfor the ASAVA as the hospital inspector forthe Hospital Accreditation Scheme. Extensiveexperience as a employed veterinarian and as ahospital inspector (visiting practices through-out Australia), enables him to effectively dealwith the issues concerning employed veteri-narians in private practice.Dr Wever can be contacted between 9am andnoon on Tuesdays and Thursdays on M) 0418483 686 – if necessary, messages can be left.All calls will be strictly confidential, and fol-low-up help, including negotiations andmediations, can be arranged. Other contacts: Fax) 02 4869 3298; Email)[email protected]
New telephone support servicefor employed AVA veterinarians
THE AVA Board haselected the firstgroup of Trustees to
serve on the Association’sAnimal Welfare Trust. Thesix Trustees were selectedfrom a field of candidatesnominated by the member-ship at large. The Trusteesare: Peter Alexander, LyndyScott, Robert Baker, BobMunro, Stephen Atkinsonand Roger Clarke. They willmeet soon to elect aChairperson and selectmembers of the Awards/Grants Committee and thePublicity/Fund RaisingCommittee.The AVA Animal WelfareTrust should not be con-fused with other researchtrusts of the AVA. It existsspecifically to promoteresearch into animal welfareissues for all species ofdomestic animal.
Welfare trustees
APPLICATIONS toparticipate in the thirdintake for the AVA’s
Graduate Certificate inManagement (VeterinaryPractice) course will close on25 February. Conductedthrough the GraduateManagement Consortium,comprising the CanberraInstitute of Technology;TAFE, NSW and theUniversity of Western Sydney(Hawkesbury), the 12-monthcourse is undertaken throughexternal study and four ‘resi-dentials’. Each of the residen-tial sessions is staged inCanberra but participantsarrange their own accommo-dation – if they wish, from arecommended list of localhotels/motels.The course has been an out-standing success, with partici-pants on the almost-com-pleted first intake issuingglowing reports of the bene-
fits is has brought to themand their practices. Soimpressive are the coursematerials and arrangementsthat Sydney Universitybooked two of its staff intothe second intake, whichstarted in October.The 25 students from bothintakes so far have agreed tocome together during thismonth’s residential so the firstgroup can offer their advice tothe second group about howthey might approach thestudies. The third intake isexpected to start training inMarch but final dates havenot yet been set. Extensiveinformation about the courseis available on the AVA web-site. Inquiries from prospec-tive participants can bedirected to the CourseCo-ordinator, Mr TrevorLipscombe: Tel) 02 62579250, Fax) 02 6257 9251 orEmail: [email protected]
AVA’s practice managementcourse to close this month
NOMINATIONS for two positions onthe AVA Board close on 28 April. Thesuccessful candidates will take-up their
places in June at the AVA Annual Conferencein Perth. Both jobs involve a three-year term.The President-elect will serve a year in thatrole before becoming President for 12 months
and then Vice-President – the other role is thatof a member of the Board. An official nomi-nation form was printed in the January AVJclassifieds section. This will be repeated innext month’s AVJ classifieds. The address fornominations is: CEO, PO Box 371, ARTAR-MON 1570, NSW.
AVA seeks National Board nominations for 2000
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