Ep 140: Mentorship and NAVC plans, with Jon Townsend

About this episode

Chris Simpson interviews Jon Townsend about mentorship in the veterinary profession and updates on avian influenza and telemedicine.

Chris Simpson sits down with new president of the North American Veterinary Community’s (NAVC) board of directors, Jon Townsend, to discuss his plans to expand mentorship opportunities across the profession during his presidential year. Dr Townsend also discusses the latest updates on the outbreaks of avian influenza in dairy herds across the United States and offers his take on veterinary telemedicine. Podcast music: “Funky Chunk” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

People in this episode

Host: Chris Simpson

Guest: Jon Townsend

Topics covered

• mentorship
• veterinary community
• avian influenza
• telemedicine
• NAVC

Keywords

• mentorship
• NAVC
• avian influenza
• veterinary telemedicine
• veterinary community

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: North American Veterinary Community, NAVC

Products: veterinary telemedicine

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