2021 AVMA Veterinary Leadership Conference Funding Application Now Open

Announcing the 2021 AVMA Veterinary Leadership Conference & student attendance with National SAVMA funding!

VLC is the veterinary profession's premier conference for leadership development! Grow your leadership skills, gain new insights, and expand your personal toolset. Prepare for professional and personal pursuits and help shape the veterinary profession through CE sessions, AVMA governance meetings, and networking with colleagues! VLC will be held virtually January 7-9, 2021, with optional in-person regional meetings while maintaining safety guidelines, which will be open to SAVMA participants.

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Press Release: Women’s Veterinary Leadership Development Initiative

First released August 5th

Founded during the 2013 AVMA Convention, the Women’s Veterinary Leadership Development Initiative is announcing today that it has a solid online presence with the launch of its new web site and logo at www.womenveterinarians.com. With a strong social media presence on Facebook and LinkedIn, the Initiative has created the new web site to further its reach through Twitter, blogs, links, and other resources.

Formed as a response to the disproportionate amount of women in leadership positions in organized veterinary medicine, most notably with the AVMA, compared to the number of women in the profession, the Initiative provides a support network for the promotion of women veterinarians as leaders. The mission of the organization is to gather veterinarians and friends to help “develop, encourage, and mentor female leaders for our profession.”

Karen Bradley, DVM, Founder of the Initiative, is excited about this next step. As she states, “my goal is to empower more women veterinarians to be active, appointed, and elected to leadership positions at all levels of organized veterinary medicine. I see a growing disconnect between the demographics of those in veterinary leadership and those populating the profession. Too many people think this will self- correct with time but that has not been the case in other areas—for example, the US population is greater than 50% women yet our US Congress only has 20% women.”

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