UPCOMING EVENTS
Finances
Darren Osborne
Darren Osborne is the Director of Economic Research for the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association (OVMA) and Economic Consultant for the Veterinary Hospital Managers Association, and Canadian Veterinary Medical Association. Darren conducts economic research and analyses data in order to provide thousands of veterinarians with Fee Guides, Economic Reports, Personal Benchmark Reports, Reports on Compensation and Benefits for Associate Veterinarians and Non-DVM Wage Reports. More recently, Darren has partnered with Idexx to create a Practice Dashboard Report that automatically extracts financial information from veterinary practice management software to provide monthly metrics that track performance and compare to the average veterinary hospital in their province. Darren attended York University and completed his Master's Degree in Economics in 1992. When he is not crunching numbers, you can find Darren ultra-running, marathon swimming or napping with his two dogs.
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October 8, 2025
Anesthesia
Dr. Graeme Doodnaught
Dr. Graeme Doodnaught received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Guelph and his veterinary degree from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (Edinburgh, Scotland). He completed an equine internship at Milton Equine Hospital (Campbellville, Ontario) before working in mixed animal practice. He then pursued a Master of Science in Feline Acute Pain and Opioid Pharmacology and a Residency in Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia at the University of Montreal.
Dr. Doodnaught is a Board-Certified Specialist in Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia. He has previously served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois and staff anesthesiologist in various centres in Montréal. Graeme is currently Medical Director and Anesthesiologist at Lakeshore Animal Health Partners (Mississauga, Ontario). His clinical interests include enhancing perioperative patient management, ultrasound-guided locoregional blocks anesthesia, and other opioid-sparing techniques.
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September 10, 2025
November 12, 2025
Surgery
Dr. Seanna Swayne
Dr. Seanna graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College in 2004 and then completed a rotating internship at The Ohio State University in 2005. For 2 years, she worked extensively in Veterinary Emergency medicine from busy urban practice in downtown Toronto to rural afterhours clinics in rural Ontario. Seanna then completed a one-year surgical internship at the Veterinary Emergency Clinic in Toronto, followed by a 3-year surgical residency at the VEC as well. She successfully completed my board certification in 2013 and became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons, the highest level of surgical training. Seanna worked as a surgeon at 2 major referral centres in the GTA over a 4 year period. For the past 9 years she has been working as a mobile surgeon in Southern Ontario.
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February 11, 2026
Behaviour
Dr. Colleen Wilson
***VIRTUAL LECTURE***
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Dr. Wilson's journey to becoming a Specialist in Animal Behaviour began with her Bachelor of Science at the University of New Brunswick, where she double majored in
Biology and Psychology. She then earned her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at the Atlantic Veterinary College. Her unique path includes 15 years of experience in general practice, a period that enriched her practical knowledge and understanding of animal behaviour. This was followed by her residency with the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists, a crucial step in her career.
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Dr. Colleen Wilson holds a unique position as the only Specialist in Animal Behaviour in Eastern Ontario and one of only 10 in Canada. Her passion is communicating and clarifying the most current science about Animal Behaviour to Veterinary Professionals. She is a member of the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behaviour, an official
Fear Free Speakers Bureau member, and is Elite Fear Free certified. Dr. Wilson’s published research in peer review journals includes “Owner Observations regarding cat scratching behaviour, an internet based survey,” she is a contributing author to the more recent research in 2020 on “Pain and Problem Behavior in Cats and Dogs.”
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March 11, 2026
Emergency Medicine
Dr. Barb Bryer
Barb Bryer has worked in emergency medicine for more than 25 years. After starting her career in a rural mixed practice, she identified a passion for emergency medidine and upon moving back to Toronto started to focus on this area of medicine. In the early 2000's Dr Bryer began to only practice emergency medicine and shortly after became the head of emergency medicine at Toronto's first 24/7 emergency and referral hospital. In 2018 she took on a role with the inception team at the Toronto Animal Health Partners and now leads a team of 12 ER doctors and over 20 RVTs. In her free time Barb enjoys bicycling, travel, good food and drink and her family. She shares a home with a geriatric turtle, a very young cat and a very patient husband.
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April 8, 2026
Pathology
Dr. Janet Beeler-Marfisi
By day, Janet Beeler-Marfisi, a Diplomate of the ACVP, does research on lower airway disease in horses and leukemia in dogs. Janet participates in the diagnostic service for the OVC’s Large and Small Animal Hospitals, teaches, and mentors several graduate and undergraduate students.
By night, Janet thinks up novel ways to help students truly learn their way through this Mount Everest of knowledge that is a veterinary medical education. She also loves hearing from former students when they have questions on challenging cases. She especially likes helping them understand case data and to select tests that will help them achieve the best diagnostic yield!
Janet’s motto is, No Student Left Behind. She is truly grateful that she can be one of the little fires along the path to a career in veterinary medicine.
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May 13, 2026
Dentistry
Dr. Amy Thompson
Dr. Amy Thomson, otherwise known as “toothy”, works as a board-certified dentist and oral surgeon at Lakeshore Animal Health Partners. This nickname and her career started in small animal general and emergency practice in southeastern Ontario after graduating from the Ontario Veterinary College in 2012. It was pretty quickly that she found her passion for dentistry. After years of attending additional conferences, laboratories and working with other dentists, she pursued a residency in Small Animal Dentistry & Oral Surgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which she completed in 2019. Dr. Thomson became a board-certified diplomate of the American Veterinary Dental College in 2021.
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Dr. Thomson’s professional areas of interest include pediatric dentistry, a multidisciplinary approach to maxillofacial tumours, preserving the function of teeth through periodontics, endodontics and prosthodontics, as well as being passionate about educating pet owners and other veterinary professionals.
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Lectures are located at:
Hawridge Golf and Country Club
1151 Hurlwood Ln
Severn, ON
L3V 0Y6
​**Lectures run from 1 pm to 7 pm**
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All lectures run from 1 pm to 7 pm. Dinner, coffee, tea and dessert are included (see membership page for more details).
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Interested in hearing a specific topic or speaker? Feel free to contact us at georgianbayveterinaryassoc@gmail.com with your ideas!