UPCOMING CONFERENCE

Join us for our conference in Trondheim, Norway on November 8^th 2022. For details and program click the link below.
The conference will be held in Norwegian.

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June 10, 2022
FREE WEBINAR

09:00 – 11:00 UK
10:00 – 12:00 Norway

Program

Tidspunkt	Foredrag
09:00 (UK) 10:00 (Norway)	Welcome introduction Chris Matthews, Business Unit Director of PHARMAQ Analytiq, UK and Ireland
09:10 (UK) 10:10 (Norway)	Gill challenges in North of Norway - Practical implications for fish health management Mattias Bendiksen Lind, Havet, Norway
09:25 (UK) 10:25 (Norway)	Gill challenges in the South of Norway - Experience from 2021 season Hanna Sæteraas Bjerke, Åkerblå, Norway
09:40 (UK) 10:40 (Norway)	Gill Swabs and Preventive Gill Monitoring Angela Ashby, Head of Clinical Services, PHARMAQ Analytiq, UK
10:05 (UK) 11:05 (Norway)	Gill health in Nowegian farmed Atlantic salmon Liv Østevik, Veterinary pathologist, PHARMAQ Analytiq, Norway
10:25 (UK) 11:25 (Norway)	Results from field monitoring of gill health in freshwater and seawater - is there a correlation? Svein Alexandersen, Senior Manager Commercial Field Vaccines, Therapy and Technical Equipment, PHARMAQ, Norway
10:45 (UK) 11:45 (Norway)	How to move forward and solve the gill challenges Renate Johansen, Global Product Manager, PHARMAQ Analytiq, Norway
11:00 (UK) 12:00 (Norway)	Close Christopher Matthews, Business Unit Director of PHARMAQ Analytiq, UK and Ireland

Speakers

Mattias Bendiksen Lind

Mattias Bendiksen Lind, fish health biologist, educated at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in 2015. Experience from clinical practice in aqaculture in Northern Norway since 2012. Areas of expertise are disease control and prevention, sealice management, biosafety and general fish health management. He is now working in HaVet Fiskehelse, at the coast of Helgeland.

Hanna Sæteraas Bjerke

Hanna Sæteraas Bjerke, Veterinarian (cand.med.vet) Norwegian University of life Sciences 2016. Experience from clinical practice in Aquaculture in the west parts of Norway. Areas of expertise are disease control, brood fish and lice management. She is now working as Senior consultant in Åkerblå, Region West.

Angela Ashby

Angela, graduated from Sydney University in 2008 and has been working as an aquatic veterinarian since 2013. With a particular interest in Fish welfare and gill health, Angela has been involved in a number of gill-focused research projects and publications in recent years.

Liv Østevik

Liv Østevik is a veterinary pathologist at Pharmaq Analytiq. She became a European specialist in anatomic veterinary pathology in 2015, and is currently pursuing a PhD on gill disease of farmed Atlantic salmon. She is also a part of the team that provides diagnostic pathology to the Norwegian aquaculture industry and has a special interest in the use of histopathologic scoring as a tool in research.

Svein Alexandersen

Svein Alexandersen, Technical Manager Pharmaq. Has previous been working as researcher in therapeutics and clinical researcher for developing new vaccines and sea lice therapeutics for the aquaculture industry worldwide. Todays focus is the general fish health of Norwegian aquaculture. This is accomplished through a close customer relationship and cooperation with producers, Pharmaq and Pharmaq Analytiq.

Renate Johansen

Dr Renate Johansen has worked more than 20 years in fish diagnostics & research. Currently she is Fish-health manager in Pharmaq Analytiq, and solving fish health challenges in the industry is her main interest. She has a broad background with research in several areas including a PhD on nodavirus in halibut and post-doc on winter ulcer bacteria in salmon. Gill health problems have changed since she started with fish diagnostics in 1998, but they are still one of the major challenges that we need to solve. In her talk she will summarize the knowledge gaps and possible ways to move forward.

Conference host

Chris Matthews

Chris spent five years in terrestrial animal veterinary practice in Scotland and Australia, before completing a Masters degree in aquatic veterinary medicine at the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling. He has practiced as an aquaculture veterinarian for eleven years, seven of those as Operations Director for Fish Vet Group and Business Unit Director (UK & Ireland) for Pharmaq Analytiq following the former’s acquisition by Zoetis in 2020.
Chris is an honorary lecturer at the University of St Andrews’ Scottish Oceans Institute and has consulted and lectured internationally including in developing aquaculture industries.

UPCOMING CONFERENCE

June 10, 2022
FREE WEBINAR

09:00 – 11:00 UK
10:00 – 12:00 Norway

Program

Speakers

Mattias Bendiksen Lind

Hanna Sæteraas Bjerke

Angela Ashby

Liv Østevik

Svein Alexandersen

Renate Johansen

Conference host

Chris Matthews

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UPCOMING CONFERENCE

June 10, 2022FREE WEBINAR

09:00 – 11:00 UK10:00 – 12:00 Norway

Program

Speakers

Mattias Bendiksen Lind

Hanna Sæteraas Bjerke

Angela Ashby

Liv Østevik

Svein Alexandersen

Renate Johansen

Conference host

Chris Matthews

Pharmaq as

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June 10, 2022
FREE WEBINAR

09:00 – 11:00 UK
10:00 – 12:00 Norway