Dear Colleagues,

HCAVS (Hellenic Companion Animal Veterinary Society) is hosting FORUM’25 in Companion Animal Medicine. Our annual congress for 2025 is multidisciplinary and it will take place in Athens, Greece, at Grand Hyatt Hotel, 8 - 9 March,2025. Pre-congress seminars and labs will take place on March 7, 2025.

HCAVS is from 2015 a full member of World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA). Our mission is to provide high level postgraduate continuing education to veterinarians of Companion Animal Medicine and our annual congress is an outstanding continuing education event.

The scientific program of our FORUM’25, is a variety of labs and lectures from national and international invited speakers both from universities and private practices. The main scientific program consists of a Canine Stream and a Feline Stream that will run in parallel. Topics from several disciplinesof companion animal medicine and surgery will be presented.Oral and poster communications are also an integral part of FORUM’25 and will also be available along with industry sessions.

Our website and social media will be constantly updated so please stay tuned!

Interpretation in Greek language will be provided for lectures of international speakers.

 

Organising Committee

Chair	Members
Efstratios – ErricosTsipianitis	Stefanos Kladakis    Venizelos Leventogiannis   Serafim Papadimitriou   George Mantziaras

Scientific Committee

Chair	Members
George Mantziaras	Stefanos Kladakis   Maria Lyraki   Serafim Papadimitriou   Lysimachos Papazoglou   Evgenia Flouraki   Efstratios – ErricosTsipianitis

PRECONGRESS LABS – Friday, March 7, 2025

To be announced

FORUM’25 – PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

INVITED SPEAKERS
(Interpretation in Greek language will be provided for lectures of international speakers)

Prof. Guillaume Chanoit
DEDV PhD DECVS DACVS FHEA FRCVS, Head of Small Animal Surgery, VetAgroSup, Department of Small Animal Surgery, Veterinary School of Lyon, France

Danielle Gunn-Moore
Prof MACVSc (Feline), RCVS Specialist (Feline Medicine), FHEA, FRSB, FRCVS, The University of Edinburgh, UK

Alex Reiter
Dipl. Tzt Dr. Med. Vet. DACVD, DEVDC Founding Fellow AVDC-OMFS, Professor of Dentistry & Oral Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine, USA

Martina Mosing
Univ.-Prof. Dr.med.vet, MANZCVS, DECVAA, University of Vienna, Austria

George Valiakos
DVM, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece

Stamatina Giannikaki
DVM, MSc, DECVO, EBVS® European Specialist in Veterinary Ophthalmology, MRCVS, Meyevet, Αθήνα

Maria Lyraki
DVM MSc DipECVIM-CA MRCVS EBVS and RCVS Recognised Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine, Plakentia Vet Clinic, Athens, Greece

Matthaios Mylonakis
DVM, PhD, Professor of Companion Animal Internal Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, AUTH, Thessaloniki, Greece

Ioannis Oikonomidis
DVM, PhD, DACVP (Clin Path), DECVP, AFHEA, MRCVS, Associate Professor in Veterinary Clinical Pathology, University of Liverpool, UK

Ioannis Panopoulos
DVM, PhD, Dip.ECVDI, EBVS® European Specialist in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging, Alphavet, Αθήνα

Panagiotis G. Xenoulis
DVM, Dr.med.vet., PhD, cECVCN Adjunct Assistant Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

Μarios Lysitsas
DVM, MSc, PhD student, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Thessaly

Sofia Zoi
DVM, PhD, Larisa

Efstratios-Erricos Tsipianitis
DVM, Vetsurgery, Athens

 

REGISTRATION FOR INTERNATIONAL DELEGATES

Until 17.02.2025	€120
From 18.02.2025 & on site	€150

Registration to FORUM’25 includes:

Free entrance to lecture halls and commercial exhibition, congress bag, e-proceedings, e-certificate of attendance, 4 coffee breaks and 2 light lunch breaks

 

REGISTRATION

ONLINE REGISTRATION

 

CANCELLATION POLICY

Delegates who want to cancel their registration should send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. until Jan 10, 2025 and they will receive 50% refund.

Cancellations received from Jan 11, 2025 are not entitled to refund.

 

ACCOMMODATION

For room reservations please contact directly GRAND HYATT Athens Tel. +30 2144021234

 https://www.hyatt.com/grand-hyatt/en-US/athgh-grand-hyatt-athens

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Accommodation is based on availability

 

CONTACT US

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