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Promoting safer practices at incidents involving domestic animals
Strategy - Policy - Knowledge Advancement- Practices
Online Conference 2024
Thursday 18 July 2024 6- 8 PM AEST FREE EVENT!
Registrations have now closed.
Thank you to Massey University School of Veterinary Science for hosting this event.
Order of presentations subject to change:
1. Conference welcome and introduction Josh Slater, Chair AEIMN ANZ.
2. Case study: 'Salty goes swimming.' Colin Russell Acting District Manager Nelson Marlbourgh District Fire & Rescue NZ.
3. 'Vets & the 4Rs of emergency management' Dr Wayne Ricketts, National Animal Welfare Coordinator, Animal Welfare Emergency Management, Ministery for Primary Industries (MPI). New Zealand.
4. 'In preparing for the future, where do VERT’s fit in and what is a VERT anyway?'- Dr Steve De Grey, Massey University Veterinary Emergency Response Team.
5. 'Technical Large Animal Rescue in New Zealand – Time to Get Organised' with Dr Peter Gillespie, New Zealand Horse Ambulance Trust.
6. 'Temporary animal sheltering during a disaster' Carolyn Press-McKenzie CEO Helping You, Helping Animals (HUHA) and Gina Kemp. Manager, Animal Welfare Emergency Management | Animal Health and Welfare Directorate | Agriculture & Investment Services. Ministry for Primary Industries - Manatū Ahu Matua
7. IFAW - building disaster preparedness capacity across Australia and New Zealand. Robert Leach, International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).
8. Q & A session. Conference wrap up.
Presenters
Enquiries:
Julie Fiedler
Email: animaleimanz@gmail.com
+61 (0)477 162727 (text preferred)
Carolyn Press-Mckenzie is a qualified veterinary nurse and the CEO/Founder of HUHA-Helping You Help Animals Trust, NZ's leading no-kill animal shelter. As well as providing shelter, rehabilitation and rehoming for hundreds of displaced or unwanted animals, Carolyn leads HUHA's compassionate care veterinary referral clinic, as well as their emergency response team that provides assistance, temporary shelter, veterinary triage and recovery support to communities across NZ during times of disaster. Carolyn and her team are currently building a new HUHA animal rescue hub and evacuation center on 157 overlooking Wellington Harbour. She is the author of the best selling autobiography Animal Magic, my journey to save thousands of lives. and is currently writing the HUHA Handbook, A practical guide to building Temporary Animal Shelters during disasters. Carolyn sits on NZ's National Animal Welfare Emergency Management Sub Function and has won several awards for her dedication, leadership and problem solving over the past four decades. Video: HUHA's response during the 2020 Australian Bushfires https://youtu.be/kGIkgw7D3bo?si=6zT4jXjKSSgrHPuL
Georgina (Gina) Kemp: I am currently the manager for the New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) team that coordinates animal welfare in emergencies in NZ at the National and Regional levels. Prior to MPI, I worked as an Animal Welfare Inspector and Technical Rescue Coordinator for the SPCA NZ. Throughout the last 15 years working in animal welfare, I have always had a strong rescue and operational focus. In the last 9 years, I have had the opportunity to really concentrate on technical animal rescue and animal emergency management. I have experience and qualifications in Swiftwater rescue, confined space rescue, Urban search and rescue, technical rope rescue, large animal rescue, companion animal rescue and a few others! I am known for my effectiveness in response, commitment to training and coaching, passion for animal welfare and my resilience. I believe the more people trained and knowledgeable in animal rescue and AEM then the quicker and better welfare outcomes for all animals.
Dr Wayne Ricketts: From mixed practice Wayne moved into MPI where he held roles as an import/export veterinarian and advisor to the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee where he assisted with the production of animal welfare codes. He was an advisor to two Ministers of Agriculture. Wayne has also worked for NZVA and the Veterinary Council. Following a 2-year stint with the NGO World Animal Protection in disaster management, he moved back to MPI and set up MPI’s animal welfare emergency management role. Currently he has emergency management responsibilities in both a national role and regional role in Nelson Tasman, West Coast and Marlborough. Wayne is a member of the Australian and NZ College of Veterinary Scientists in animal welfare and has been an active member of the Animal Welfare Chapter and the College Council. He is a member of the Veterinary Council Professional Standards Committee.
Josh Slater is Associate Dean at Melbourne Veterinary School. He has extensive experience of specialist equine referral practice, infectious disease research, veterinary education, veterinary professional bodies and equine welfare charities. He is a passionate advocate for animal emergency incident management and is a co-founder of the British Animal Rescue and Trauma Association (BARTA) and the current chair of the Animal Emergency Incident Management Network (ANZ). He is a practising veterinarian, clinical researcher and educator, speaker and author of book chapters and scientific articles on a wide range of equine veterinary topics.
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Collin Russell: Colin has 38 years’ experience as a career firefighter currently serving as an Assistant Commander in North Canterbury. Colin has a longstanding drive to improve the response to animal emergencies and in 2014 was the recipient of the NZFS commission scholarship to study Technical Large Animal rescue.
Steven De Grey BSc, BVSc is Senior Practicing Veterinarian at the School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, New Zealand. Steve has been a practising companion animal veterinarian for over 30 years, with most of his career spent in club and private practice. He is a Rescue 3 certified Swiftwater responder, and trained as an Animal Rescue Technician I, as well as Technical Large Animal Rescue. He is an active member of the Massey University Veterinary Emergency Response team since 2015. With the MUVERT team he was deployed with the team to the Edgecumbe Floods (2017), Nelson-Tasman fires (2019), and Cyclone Gabrielle (2023) in Auckland and Hastings, New Zealand. He enjoys passing on his passion regarding animal welfare in technical animal rescue to the next generation of vets and anyone else who will listen. He is also completing an MVSc on factors that affect the resilience of first responders in technical animal rescue and disaster response to promote better outcomes for all involved.
Robert Leach is the Animal Rescue Program Officer for the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Robert’s career started in human nursing, before quickly realizing that his passion was working with- and for, animals. After a few years of transferring his skills through veterinary hospitals, he returned to study and graduated from the University of Sydney with a Master of Veterinary Studies in 2017. Over the past 10 years, Robert has experienced various aspects of the veterinary and animal welfare sectors; from veterinary nursing, wildlife rescue, and rehabilitation in Africa, numerous ethics committees, and more recently, the non-profit sector. Before joining IFAW, Robert was Programs Manager for Vets Beyond Borders where he coordinated veterinary programs across the globe and led the Australian Veterinary Emergency Response Team through the 2019-20 Black Summer fires and subsequent disasters. Outside of his work, Robert is an SES volunteer, an amateur powerlifter, and father to six rescue animals.