{"id":8603,"date":"2020-08-03T18:43:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T01:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/?p=8603"},"modified":"2023-07-01T13:29:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T20:29:15","slug":"ovag2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/ovag2020\/","title":{"rendered":"OVAG 2020 &#8211; A Message from OC&#8217;s President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/OVAG2020-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/OVAG2020-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/OVAG2020-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/OVAG2020-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/OVAG2020-350x196.jpg 350w, https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/OVAG2020.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you are all staying safe and keeping others safe by wearing your masks!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the pandemic currently raging, it should come as no surprise that this year\u2019s OVAG was virtual.&nbsp; Thanks to a grant and an invitation from University of Michigan, we were able to build a meeting site with materials on the Canvas platform.&nbsp; Since we were virtual, we sent invitations to everyone who had ever attended an OVAG workshop (since 2009) to participate.&nbsp; Everyone was given access to the online materials \u2013 and those materials were extensive!!!!&nbsp; We also held a weeklong \u201cLive Session\u201d that ran from July 6 \u2013 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>97 people attended the weeklong Zoom sessions \u2013 lasting 5 to 6 hours per day (though not everyone was able to attend every day as many work at centers or in the forest).&nbsp; On day 1 we had 64 people, Day 2 we had 76, Day 3 we had 78, Day 4 we had 84 and on Day 5 we had 72.&nbsp; We had 51 people attend all 5 days.&nbsp; The following countries were \u2018logged in\u201d: Indonesia (61 people), Malaysia (8 people), the United States (11 people), United Kingdom (9 people), Africa (1 person), Korea (2 people), India (2 people), Thailand (2 people), Australia (1 person).&nbsp; It was an amazing turnout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topics we covered were of course an extensive session on the Corona virus as well as other emerging and\/or reemerging infectious diseases and was to mitigate responses.&nbsp; We, as OVAG, came up with our own helpful guidelines and steps to manage any outbreak that might occur and how to prevent it if possible.&nbsp; We went over some anesthetics, nutrition, TB, field projects, Exhibit Design Tool (from University of Birmingham, UK), the orangutan microbiome, molecular diagnostics (parasites), a much requested dentistry session, clinical husbandry issues and we even managed to squeeze in a day for case studies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018live\u2019 participants not only spend so many hours on line with us, but they also had a lot of \u2018homework\u2019 to complete.&nbsp; Several quizzes and assignments were required of them and now they all have to be collated!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While not the face to face OVAG we have all become used to \u2013 we were still able to conduct a fruitful, educational and communal experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next year \u2013 fingers crossed we will be back in Southeast Asia for OVAG 2021 ( our lucky 13<sup>th<\/sup>!!!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for all your support in helping to make our 2020 OVAg workshop successful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Raffaella Commitante,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! 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