Medicine & Management Courses

Veterinarian Speakers

Nov. 12 & 13, 2006

(Approved Accreditation for Attending Vets)

DG Pugh DVM , MS , DACT, DACVN

 D.G. Pugh earned both DVM and MS (ruminant Nutrition) degrees from the University of Georgia .   He received post DVM training at Virginia Tech (equine nutrition) and Texas A & M University (Theriogenology).  Dr. Pugh has held faculty positions at the University of Georgia (Assistant Professor) and Auburn University (Professor of  Large Animal Medicine), and was the owner of a multi-person large animal practice in the greater Atlanta, Georgia area for five years. During his academic career he taught veterinary nutrition, lectured on reproductive medicine for horses and small ruminants, and was a clinician in Ambulatory medicine and Theriogenology.  He is the author of     >640 publications, ~ 60 book chapters, a textbook, and is the recipient of five university and three national awards for teaching.  


 Gregg Adams: DVM , MS , PhD, Diplomate ACT  

Gregg P. Adams received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in 1982 and went into a private practice in Lethbridge , Alberta for 3 years working primarily with cattle and horses. In 1985 he was accepted into a combined Residency/Master’s degree program in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Master’s of Science degree in reproductive physiology in 1987 and became a Board Certified Diplomate of the American College of Theriogenologists in 1988. After receiving a PhD in reproductive physiology/endocrinology from the University of Wisconsin in 1991, he joined the faculty at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan where he is presently Professor in the Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Adams teaches anatomy in the veterinary curriculum and reproductive physiology in the graduate student program. He has broad interests in basic and applied aspects of reproductive science and medicine, and is recognized internationally for his work in ovarian function and follicular dynamics using the bovine model. Dr. Adams has used ultrasound and magnetic resonance to study ovarian function and follicular dynamics. He is co-PI for the BioMedical Imaging and Therapy beamline project and will be using synchrotron based biomedical imaging to examine bovine soft tissues.


Robert J. Pollard DVM

 Robert J. Pollard graduated from UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in 1970, after having been one of the first students in Dr. Murray Fowler’s zoo and wildlife medicine class.

Rob attended his first Camelid vet conference in 1984 in Santa Cruz CA . Since then he has compiled a long list of Camelid education classes both as a student and as a speaker.  He has attended every annual Camelid vet conference at UCD, Colorado State , Ohio State University, and Oregon State University .

He has served as a vet screener for ARI and ILR for Alpacas and Llamas to be imported from both Chile and Bolivia .  

As a speaker he has been a contributor for all the LANA conferences since 1995, and for AOBA in 1996, and 1998.

He has been a contributor for many publications including the Camelid chapter for the book  Hand-Rearing Wild and Domestic Mammals

His awards include 1993 International Llama Assoc's. Pushmi-Pullyu award.   2000 CAL-ILA's  Dr. Murray E. Fowler Award,  and the Humdinger Award from LANA in 2001.

He and his wife Suzi moved to Sonora , in the Sierra foothills, and started a small animal practice. As llamas became more popular in the area in 1983, Dr. Pollard used his wildlife medicine experience to work on llamas, and to help the new llama owners. He and his wife own 50 llamas, with usually a dozen or more other llamas visiting their Valley of the Llama Ranch for breeding, birthing, or medical care.


Judith Koenig
Mag med vet, Dr med vet, DVSc, Diplomate ACVS, Diplomate ECVS

 Assistant Professor, Large Animal Surgery, Ontario Veterinary College , University of Guelph Guelph , Ontario , Canada   


 Corry Jeanne Mortensen, B.Sc., B.Ed., D.V.M.

 Doctor of Veterinary Medicine  Western College of Veterinary Medicine, May 2000

·        Current President of Llama Canada

·        Raise llamas at Carousel Farms - Home to over 90 animals, pet/fiber/show quality animals - 1997 to present