Veterinary Ethics and a Spotlight on the Feline Skin Biome

This month Dr. Karen Hiestand sits down with Dr. Nathalie Dowgray to talk about ethics in veterinary medicine. We're also featuring our monthly JFMS clinical spotlight interview in which Dr Kelly St Denis discusses the feline skin microbiome with Dr. Alison Diesel.To begin our episode, Nathalie is joined by Veterinary and Animal Ethics Lecturer andResearcher Dr Karen Heistand. They discuss the intricacies of balancing personal ethical views with those of caregivers or colleagues. Karen shares how she manages difficult ethical decisions and how we can improve things in practice.Kelly St Denis then sits down with Dr. Alison Diesel to discuss her JFMS clinical spotlight article The feline skin microbiome: interrelationship between health and disease as well as a wider discussion on Skin disease and dermatology.For further reading material please visit:https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1098612X231180231Host:Nathalie Dowgray, BVSc, MANZCVS, PgDip, MRCVS, PhD, Head of ISFM, International Society of Feline Medicine, International Cat Care, Tisbury, Wiltshire, UKSpeakers:Dr Karen Heistand, BVSc, BSc, MSc, MA, MRCVS, Lecturer and Researcher in Animal and Veterinary EthicsDr Kelly St Denis, MSc, DVM, DABVP (Feline), 2022 ISFM/AAFP Cat Friendly Veterinary Environment Guidelines Co-Chair,  St Denis Veterinary Professional Corporation, Powassan, Ontario, CanadaDr Alison Diesel, DVM, DACVD, Veterinary Dermatologist and JFMS Spotlight AuthorFor ISFM members, the full recording of this discussion is available for you to listen to at portal.icatcare.org. To become an ISFM member, or find out more about our Cat Friendly schemes, visit icatcare.org