Join Us March 25 for this premier event!
The FelineVMA is excited to bring the second edition of our live CE virtual event for veterinary technicians, by veterinary technicians! Register today for the 2026 Vet Tech Purrposium, sponsored by Zoetis.
Featuring three CE sessions from three expert speakers — Caitlin Dutcher-Lundy, BS, RVT, VTS (CP-Feline), Alison Gottlieb, BS, CVT, VTS (ECC), and Yvonne Brandenburg CVT, RVT, VTS (Internal Medicine – Small Animal) — attendees will learn about the unique challenges of Cat Friendly nursing care, how to develop a feline pain veterinary team, and practical strategies for supporting feline patients with renal disease. Learn more below.
March 25, 2026 | 5:00PM – 8:30PM ET
Free for FelineVMA Technician Members
$75 for Non-members
3.0 RACE approved CE Credits
Art and Science of Feline Nursing: From Intake to Discharge
Presented by Caitlin Dutcher-Lundy BS, RVT, VTS (CP-Feline)
Caitlin is a practicing feline clinical practice VTS and Director of Clinic Operations at Faithful Friends Veterinary Clinic & Cat Specialty Center in Dublin, OH. She is passionate about advanced feline nursing, mentoring, educating, and creating/leading a strong team culture. She also loves wearing multiple hats in practice, lives for medicine, and strives to be the best leader.
Feline patients present unique challenges that require a balance of clinical precision and compassionate, Cat Friendly nursing care. This presentation explores essential nursing interventions from intake through discharge, including pain assessment, procedural support, anesthesia monitoring, post-operative care, and management of common surgical complications using evidence-based guidelines. Attendees will gain practical strategies to deliver consistent, feline friendly, and high-quality care tailored to the needs of hospitalized feline patients.
Developing a Feline Pain Veterinary Team
Presented by Alison Gottlieb, BS, CVT, VTS (ECC)
Alison graduated from Towson State University with a bachelor’s degree in Animal Behavior. She earned certification in emergency and critical care in 2000. Alison has served on the board of AVECCT as a member at large and on the application committee. Alison is the Co-founder/Owner of Four Paws Consulting LLC, an education-based veterinary consultant. She is an active member of FelineVMA (formerly AAFP) and iCatCare Veterinary Society (formerly ISFM). Over the years, Alison has published many feline articles, frequently on pain, as well as authored a chapter on pain in the ICU. Alison has lectured extensively, with Australia and New Zealand being amongst her favorites. Her favorite topics/areas are anything feline, osteoarthritis, analgesia, and low-stress handling. In the clinic, you can usually find Alison giving the patients catnip and feeding cats. She spends most of her free time outside with her pit bull and her cats
Recognizing pain in cats is important, but taking action to help them is what truly matters. This session will show you how to build a pain management team in your practice and give you practical tools to reduce suffering in feline patients. You’ll learn effective ways to talk about cat pain with caregivers and your coworkers, discover treatment options that actually work, and get step-by-step guidance for creating a team focused on feline pain relief, demonstrating that by working together, we can make a real difference for the cats we care for and the caregivers who love them.
Renal Disease: When BUN and Creatinine Are Too Much
Presented by Yvonne Brandenburg CVT, RVT, VTS (Internal Medicine – Small Animal)
With over 20 years of veterinary experience, Yvonne currently works as a Clinical Learning and Development Specialist for Ethos Veterinary Health and loves to teach about a variety of medicine topics. An active volunteer, Yvonne served as the 2021 President of the Academy of Internal Medicine for Veterinary Technicians, and founder and co-host of Internal Medicine for Vet Techs Membership and Podcast. She is passionate about elevating our profession and veterinary technicians and nurses around the world.
When kidney values climb in your feline patients, veterinary technicians become essential team members in patient care, diagnostics, and client education. This presentation will help you understand the differences between acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease in cats, interpret diagnostic results like bloodwork and urinalysis, and use IRIS staging guidelines with confidence. You’ll learn about the diagnostic tools we use to assess renal cats—including blood pressure monitoring and imaging—and discover how these results guide treatment decisions like fluid therapy, renal diets, phosphate binders, and supportive medications. Beyond the medical side, you’ll develop skills to have compassionate conversations with cat caregivers about prognosis, quality of life, and what to realistically expect as their cat’s disease progresses. Whether you’re working with a newly diagnosed feline patient or managing a long-term kidney case, this session will give you the knowledge to be a confident partner on the veterinary team and a trusted support for concerned caregivers.