Thursday, October 8
The ACVS Surgery Summit 2026 is a three-day veterinary surgical conference featuring educational lectures, keynote presentations, hands-on discussions, networking events, and specialty seminars for veterinary surgeons, residents, technicians, and primary care veterinarians.
The program includes large animal and small animal keynote lectures, contemporary topics, primary care education, technician sessions, working groups, resident forums, poster presentations, and exhibit hall activities. Attendees can learn from internationally recognized experts through evidence-based presentations covering orthopedics, soft tissue surgery, minimally invasive surgery (MIS), oncology, emergency and critical care, equine surgery, rehabilitation, surgical performance, and practice management.
| Time | Session | Speaker / Chair |
| 6:15 AM – 7:15 AM | Run for Fun | Social & Networking |
| 7:15 AM – 8:00 AM | Continental Breakfast | — |
| 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM | Mark W. Allam Lecture and Awards Ceremony | Melinda Thacker, MD |
| 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM | Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall | — |
| 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM | Large Animal Keynote: Equine Humerus Fractures: Past, Present, and Future | Jeffrey P. Watkins, DVM, MS, DACVS Moderator: Kati Glass, DVM, DACVS |
| 10:15 AM – 6:00 PM | Anesthesia and Rehabilitation for Technicians | Sandra Engelmeyer, BS, RVT, VTS (Surgery) |
| 10:15 AM – 6:00 PM | Improving and Assessing Orthopedic Outcomes | Kayla M. Corriveau, DVM, DACVS |
| 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM | ACVS Diplomates' Business Meeting | Social & Networking |
| 1:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Small Animal Residents' Forum | — |
| 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Draft & Craft Poster Social | Social & Networking |
Friday, October 9
| Time | Session | Speaker / Chair |
| 6:15 AM – 7:15 AM | Run for Fun | Social & Networking |
| 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | Updates on Librela (bedinvetmab Injection) | Steven C. Budsberg, DVM, MS, DACVS |
| 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM | Large Animal Keynote: Evolution of Large Animal Emergency and Critical Care: Colic and Beyond | Louise Southwood, BVSc, PhD, DACVS, DACVECC |
| 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM | The Science of Surgical Performance | Bronwyn Fullagar, BVSc, MS, DACVS-SA |
| 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM | Orthopedics, Joint Replacement, Cranial Cruciate Ligament Injuries | Sandra Engelmeyer, BS, RVT, VTS |
| 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM | Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall | — |
| 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM | Veterinary Surgery, Let's Talk | Dominique J. Griffon, DMV, MS, PhD, DECVS, DACVS |
| 1:30 PM – 3:45 PM | Failure in Surgical Oncology | Owen T. Skinner, BVSc, DECVS, DACVS |
| 1:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Current Advances in Large Animal Analgesia | Jarrod Troy, DACVS-LA |
| 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Interventional Radiology: Advanced Vascular Options for Benign and Malignant Disease | William TN Culp, VMD, DACVS |
Saturday, October 10
| Time | Session | Speaker / Chair |
| 6:15 AM – 7:15 AM | Run for Fun | Social & Networking |
| 7:30 AM – 8:00 AM | Pre-Session Coffee | — |
| 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM | 3D Guide Design and Additive Implant Manufacturing | Mike Karlin |
| 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Challenging Lameness: Is it Ortho or Neuro? | Sharon C. Kerwin, DACVS, DACVIM |
| 8:00 AM – 3:45 PM | Diaphragmatic and Thoracic Body Wall Reconstruction and Hernias | Tristram C. Bennett, BVSc, DACVS |
| 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM | Challenges and Updates in Equine Arthroscopic Surgery | Lacy Kamm, DVM, DACVS, PhD |
| 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM | Working Group: Navicular Bursoscopy | Moderator: Jose M. Garcia-Lopez, DACVS, DACVSMR |
| 1:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Approaches to Challenging Stifle Conditions | Caleb C. Hudson, DVM, MS, DACVS |
| 3:45 PM – 4:30 PM | Refreshment Break | — |
| 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Upper Airway Complications and Revisions | Bryden J. Stanley, BVMS, MS, DACVS |
