Dr. Sarah Wilson – Nutrition

About Sarah Wilson, BScH, DVM, DACVIM (Nutrition)

Dr. Sarah Wilson has been passionate about nutrition in the veterinary world since her undergraduate Honours Bachelor of Science in Animal Biology at the University of Guelph in 2003. Since then, she went on to work as a registered veterinary technician in private clinical practice in Canada for a few years, and then went on to study veterinary medicine at St. Matthew’s University and the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) in Saskatchewan, Canada. After completing a small animal rotating internship and working as a Clinical Associate in the Small Animal Internal Medicine Department at WCVM she then completed a Small Animal Clinical Nutrition residency at the University of California Davis. Dr. Wilson is a Board Certified Veterinary Nutritionist® and is currently Director of Veterinary Nutrition at BSM Partners (a consultant company for industry) as well as a remote clinical consultant for individual pet patients both in the United States and in Canada.

Dr. Wilson enjoys being able to help clients find ways to bring good nutrition to the pets we love, whether it is helping provide evidence-based nutritional guidance to companies so they can produce nutritionally appropriate options for the public to purchase or helping customize options for individual pets, often with complex medical requirements. In her spare time Dr. Wilson enjoys fostering kittens, going hiking or travelling with family, or training for her next triathlon.

Presentation Synopsis

1. Nutrition in Practice – Why is it Important? How To Have the Hard Conversations?
2. Prehab! Obese Patients and Surgical Success Through Nutritional Management (Overweight Presentation)
3. The Dysrexic Patient Struggle! What to Feed When They Won’t Eat
4. Strategic Use of Assisted Feeding
5. GI Surgical Cases; To Feed or Not To Feed – What is the Evidence?
6. Nutritionally Managing Obesity and Comorbid Diseases - Feeding for Multiple Diseases
7. Feeding the Senior Pet in Health and Disease
8. When it Hits the Fan! Chronic Enteropathies & Nutritional Management of GI Cases
9. Stones in the Picture – Nutritional Management of Urolithiasis
10. Supporting the Kidneys in Acute Injury or Chronic Disease with Nutrition
11. Optimizing Liver Health: Unleashing Nutritional Strategies for Dogs and Cats with Hepatic Disease
12. Is Fat the Problem? Nutritional Management of Fat Intolerance
13. Brain Food – How to Feed Pets to Support Brain Health
14. Nutrition for the Skin – How the Proper Nutritional Foundation Can Support a Healthy Skin Barrier
15. Feeding the Heart Healthy
16. Feeding Considerations for Oncology Patients (and Their Owners)!
17. The Psychology of Feeding and Nutrition
18. Insights Into Pet Food; Understanding Labels, Regulatory Information, and Marketing
19. Impact of Nutrition and the Microbiome