{"id":15367,"date":"2014-12-22T01:46:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T07:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lafeber.com\/staging\/vet\/?p=15367"},"modified":"2023-08-07T10:08:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T15:08:29","slug":"speer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/vet\/speer\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Speer, DVM, DABVP (Avian Practice), DECZM (Avian)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Speer-Brian-2023-cropped-square.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-63550 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Speer-Brian-2023-cropped-square-250x250.png\" alt=\"Brian Speer \" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lafeber.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Speer-Brian-2023-cropped-square-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Speer-Brian-2023-cropped-square-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Speer-Brian-2023-cropped-square-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Speer-Brian-2023-cropped-square-500x499.png 500w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Speer-Brian-2023-cropped-square-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/lafeber.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Speer-Brian-2023-cropped-square.png 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><strong>Brian Speer<\/strong> is owner and director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalcenterforbirds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Medical Center for Birds<\/a> in Oakley, California. Dr. Speer is Past President of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aav.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Avian Veterinarians<\/a> (AAV), and a consultant for the Veterinary Information Network. He is certified in avian practice through the <a href=\"https:\/\/abvp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Board of Veterinary Practitioners<\/a> and through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eczm.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European College of Zoological Medicine<\/a> in the avian specialty. Dr. Speer is the 2003 recipient of the <a href=\"http:\/\/lafeber.com\/2003-dr-brian-speer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">T.J. Lafeber Avian Practitioner of the Year<\/a> Award and the AAV President&#8217;s Award (2008). He was also named the Speaker of the Year for the North American Veterinary Conference (2006) and Educator of the Year for the Western Veterinary Conference (2015). Brian is co-author of <a href=\"https:\/\/portals.iucn.org\/library\/node\/46594\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Large Macaws<\/a> (1995), Birds for Dummies (1999), editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/book\/9781455746712\/current-therapy-in-avian-medicine-and-surgery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Current Veterinary Therapy in Avian Medicine and Surgery<\/a> (2015), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dummies.com\/book\/home-auto-hobbies\/pets\/birds\/birds-for-dummies-282001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birds for Dummies second edition<\/a> (2021), and co-editor of the next Current Veterinary Therapy in Avian Medicine and Surgery (<em>in press<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Speer is owner and director of The Medical Center for Birds in Oakley, California. Dr. Speer is Past President of the Association of Avian Veterinarians (AAV), and a consultant for the Veterinary Information Network. He is certified in avian practice through the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners and through the European College of Zoological Medicine in the avian specialty. Dr. Speer is the 2003 recipient of the T.J. Lafeber Avian Practitioner of the Year Award and the AAV President&#8217;s Award (2008). He was also named the Speaker of the Year for the North American Veterinary Conference (2006) and Educator of the Year for the Western Veterinary Conference (2015)\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":63550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author-bio","contributor-speer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Brian Speer, DVM, DABVP (Avian Practice), DECZM (Avian) - LafeberVet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dr. Brian Speer is owner and director of The Medical Center for Birds in Oakley, California. 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