VHMA Annual Meeting & Conference 2024
When it comes to Veterinary Practice Management, the course is everchanging. Ready to start your engines and discover what it takes to be a front-runner among your peers and within your veterinary practice? If so, mark your calendar for VHMA’s 2024 Annual Meeting & Conference: “Racing Towards Success.”
Through dynamic educational sessions, top-caliber speakers, and adrenaline-pumping networking events, you’ll hone the practice management skills needed to master even the most unpredictable course.

Don't Miss the Special Programs & Events

Pre-Conference Workshop
This six-hour workshop will help attendees better understand how systems thinking works and how to apply this thinking to problem solving at the practice. By looking at the practice as a system and digging below the issues seen at surface level, leaders will be better equipped to apply solutions that will address the root cause of issues at their practice. The workshop will include instruction on the fundamentals of systems thinking and present case studies for attendees to work through real veterinary practice challenges using the organizational systems model. Interactive group activities will provide attendees with the opportunity to learn from their peers and deepen their understanding of the process.

Speakers
Dr. Jimmy Bell, CPA
Dr. Alise Cortez
Dr. Christopher Doherty, DVM, CBV, MBA
Dr. Nellie Goetz
Dr. Randy Hall
Dr. Mira Johnson, CPA, CVPM
Dr. Melissa Mauldin, CVPM, SHRM-SCP, ACC
Dr. Kimberly Mackey, MS, CVPM
Dr. Eric Meyer
Dr. Jessica Molina, CVPM, PHR, CCFP
Dr. Beckie Mossor, RVT
Dr. Lu Olson

Schedule

September 5, 2024
7:00 am – 5:00 pm   
Conference Registration
7:00 am – 3:45 pm    
Professional Photo Service in Exhibit Hall (open to all attendees)
7:00 am – 4:00 pm    
Exhibit Hall Open
7:00 am – 8:00 am  
Breakfast with Exhibitors
7:00 am – 5:00 pm  
Career Conversations - Private Appointments
8:00 am – 8:10 am    
President’s Welcome
8:10 am – 9:10 am    
GENERAL SESSION
9:10 am – 10:00 am  
Roundtable Discussions
10:00 am – 10:45 am  
Networking Break with Exhibitors
10:45 am – 12:15 pm    
EDUCATION TRACKS
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm    
Lunch with Exhibitors
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm  
New Member Orientation
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm  
EDUCATION TRACKS
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm  
Networking Break with Exhibitors
3:45 pm – 5:15 pm    
EDUCATION TRACKS
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm    
VHMA General Membership Meeting & CVPM Pinning Ceremony
6:30 pm – 7:30pm    
Welcome Reception at the NASCAR Hall of Fame

September 6, 2024
7:00 am – 5:00 pm    
Conference Registration
7:00 am – 4:00 pm  
Exhibit Hall Open
7:00 am – 8:00 am    
Breakfast with Exhibitors
7:00 am – 4:00 am    
Professional Photo Service in Exhibit Hall (open to all attendees)
7:00 am – 5:00 pm    
Career Conversations - Private Appointments
8:00 am – 10:15 am    
GENERAL SESSION
10:15 am – 11:00 am    
Networking Break with Exhibitors
11:00 am – 12:30 pm    
EDUCATION TRACKS
12:30 pm – 1:45 pm    
Lunch with Exhibitors
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm    
CVPM Information Meeting
1:45 pm – 3:15 pm    
EDUCATION TRACKS
3:15 pm – 4:00 pm    
Networking Break
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm    
Roundtable Discussions
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm     
Software Roundtable Discussions
5:30 pm – 6:15 pm    
CVPM General Meeting (CVPM’s only)
6:30 PM    
Optional Dinner Meet Up

September 7, 2024
7:00 am – 12:00 pm    
Conference Registration
7:00 am – 9:00 am    
Networking Breakfast
8:00 am – 8:50 am  
Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
9:00 am – 10:30 am    
GENERAL SESSION
10:30 am – 11:00 am  
Networking Break
11:00 am – 12:00 pm    
GENERAL SESSION

Location/Hotel

Sheraton/Le Meridien Charlotte Hotel
555 S McDowell Street, North Tower
Charlotte, NC 28204
United States