Clinical Nutrition II

Name: Clinical Nutrition II
Start: 2026-10-12T00:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-16T23:59:59+02:00
Location: Vienna, Austria

Applied Clinical Nutrition: Skin & Allergies, Urinary Tract, Orthopaedic Disease

Principal Course Master(s):

Dr. Stefanie Handl, specialist in veterinary nutrition and dietetics, Dipl. ECVCN (AT)

Course Master(s):

Dr.med.vet. Irene Bruckner, specialist in veterinary nutrition and dietetics (AT)

Course Overview

This course focuses on the nutritional management of skin diseases, adverse food reactions, disease of the urinary tract as well as the role of nutrition in prevention and treatment of orthopedic disease in dogs and cats.
The program includes evaluation and use of commercial diets as well as advanced ration calculation based on case discussions to enable participants to comprehensively manage their patients.

Course Program (Subject to change)

Monday, 12 October 2026

08:30 – 09:00 Welcome and Registration
09:00 – 10.30 Workshop – what has happened since the first course, how´s it going?
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 Foodstuff memory recap
11:30 – 12:30 Nutrition of stationary patients in – clinic, must-dos and pitfalls
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:30 Dermatological patients- the itchies, Anamnesis workshop
14:30 – 15:30 Derma Anamnesis Workshop
15:30– 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:30 Calculation programm recap
16:30 – 17:00 Wrap up

Tuesday, 13 October 2026

08:30 – 09:00 Recap , Quiz
09:00 – 10.30 Derma Diets – comparison and calculations
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 cases workshop
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 Dermatological patients – the non-itchies – coat colour etc, atopy,…
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30 Case calculations
16:30 – 17:00 Wrap up

Wednesday, 14 October 2026

08:30 – 09:00 Quiz
09:00 – 10.30 Urolithiais – from Struvite and Oxalate to idiopathic cystitis
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Diets and homemade calculations Urotlithiasis
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:30 multimorbid patients urolithiasis, cases,snacks
14:30 – 15:00 Certificate Programme Intro
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30 Case calculations, wrap up
16:30 – 17:00 Wrap up

Thursday, 15 October 2026

08:30 – 09:00 Quiz
09:00 – 10:30 Kidney patient workup
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Kidney diets and homemade calculations, snacks, comparisons
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 15:00 Kidney/multimorbid patients- workshop, home made and diet options
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee
15:30 – 16:30 Case calculations, drinking behaviour and water intake
16:30 – 17:00 Wrap up

Friday, 16 October 2026

08:30 – 09:00 Quiz
09:00 – 10:00 Diabetes
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30– 11:15 Heart disease
11:15 – 12:00 CASUS case
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 14:30 Senior/Cancer patients/ “ the hyper-cat”
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:30 Orthopedic Paients and Arthrosis – diets and supplements
16:30 – 17:00 Wrap up