What is Oquendo Center?

At its core, Oquendo Center is a facility designed for veterinary professionals to share, communicate, teach and learn. It enables hands-on, state of the art medical continuing education and training.

Originally built to support the Western Veterinary Conference annual meeting of over 14,000 professionals, Oquendo Center has become a year-round resource for the medical community at large. It has inherited the WVC’s tradition of excellence and innovation in veterinary training, originally set forth in 1928.

Its vision is a powerful one: To enable continuing medical education for all fields, thereby expanding the knowledge and experience of all medical professionals alike—those who unselfishly devote themselves to the ongoing care of ourselves and our loved ones.

This incomparable venue houses over 1.5 acres of state-of-the-art spaces devoted to practical, clinical lab, and knowledge-based learning, making Oquendo Center one of the only facilities of its kind in the country.

Fact Sheet:

• Provide the highest possible quality continuing education to the veterinary professional and related groups.
• More than 60,000 square feet of interactive, flexible meeting space
• Present state-of-the-art information, delivered by nationally and internationally recognized and emerging authorities.
• Oquendo Center is a spacious, carefully equipped venue for activities geared to veterinarians, veterinary technicians, and others in the allied health profession.
• Conservative, humane treatment and protection of all specimens in the Center
• 190 Seat high-tech theater and smaller classrooms for lectures, demonstrations and other special events
• Food service and comfort areas for Oquendo Center registrants
• High-tech audiovisual support
• State-of-the-art multimedia room with newest computer technology
• Major, flexible spaces adaptable to small, large, and exotic animal instruction
• 5 skills-training small animal examination rooms
• Fully equipped clinical/diagnostic labs with audiovisual enhancement
• Specimen prep and necropsy teaching areas
• Radiology units for samll and large animals-digital, fluoroscopy, and ultrasound
• Small and large animal surgical suites featuring the most advanced anesthesia and monitoring equipment
• 5 top-line dental operatories
• Large animal instructional and housing sections for cattle, hogs, sheep, and llamas
• Cattle chutes and handling equipment
• Equine labs with advanced anesthesia setups and dedicated space for lameness diagnostics
• Food service and comfort areas for Oquendo Center registrants
• Extreme sensitivity to animal use
• Appropriate, approved spaces for handling and protecting live animals
• Conservative, humane treatment and protection of all creatures in the Center

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