Behavior

• Better Living Through Chemistry: Neurochemical Modulation for Situational Fear and Anxiety

This lecture will provide information to help identify canine and feline patients in need of pharmaceutical intervention for stressful situations, including vet visits, and to determine which immediate-acting anti-anxiety medications to consider for those patients. Better understanding which patients to treat and which immediate-acting anti-anxiety medications to use helps you prepare your clients and your patients for success during stressful events. Feeling confident in selecting anxiolytic medications for your fearful, anxious and fractious patients for their vet visits will improve their experience at your practice and your ability to treat their physical needs. Ensuring clients are set up for success in treating their pets for stressful situations outside of vet care improves quality of life for your clients and patients in situations that could otherwise be very difficult for both the pet and their person. Improve your comfort in selecting the most effective immediate-acting anti-anxiety medications for your patients so you can help them have better living through chemistry.

• We Weren’t Prepared for This: Identifying and Treating Day Cases/Hospitalized Patients in Need of Behavioral Intervention

This lecture will provide ways to help identify hospitalized canine and feline patients in need of behavioral intervention and recommendations for how to improve their comfort while in your care. We will discuss utilizing oral and injectable medications to mitigate fear, anxiety and arousal during hospitalization. We will cover environmental and behavior modification that can be implemented to improve patients’ stay in your hospital. The more comfortable your patients are while in the hospital, the easier they will be to assess and handle, which will improve your ability to identify and treat their physical concerns.

• “Please Don’t Leave Me”: Treating Separation Anxiety in Primary Care Practice

This lecture will provide information on identifying and treating canine and feline patients with separation related behaviors. Living with pets with separation related distress can be difficult and life-changing for owners, leading to impact on the human-animal bond. Better understanding how to support your clients and patients in treating separation related behaviors allows you to improve quality of life for both and prevent fraying of their bond. Treating separation related distress can be overwhelming and time-consuming, we will discuss practical ways to treat these disorders in your practice.

• “I Only Bite You Because I Love You the Most”: Identifying, Understanding and Considerations for Treating Conflict-Related Aggression in Canine Patients

This lecture will help you better understand owner-directed aggression in your canine patients. Identifying patients exhibiting conflict related aggression will allow you to improve the quality of life of clients you might not even realize are fearful.

Bio:

Dr. Shana Gilbert-Gregory grew up in New York City and at a very young age, she developed a passion for animals and their well-being. Her experiences with sheltering and animal rescue throughout her life helped her realize that she was especially interested in addressing behavioral medicine concerns and helping improve the human-animal bond. This passion led her to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine followed by completing her behavioral medicine residency at The Ohio State University to become a Behavioral Medicine Clinician.

Dr. Gilbert-Gregory has a special interest in behavioral medicine but also enjoys shelter medicine, internal medicine, neurology, emergency, critical care and orthopedics.

At home, she has 4 pets: Roland, a 3-year-old Golden Retriever, Lou-Wee, a 10-year-old Golden Retriever, Eldy, an 8-year-old Boston Terrier and Brick, an ancient domestic shorthair who rules the roost.