Horses in Therapy Services: Updates to Terminology and Concepts. This is bound to be an excellent presentation, Wednesday, September 20 at 10:00-11:30 am (MT). Hosted by Lynn Thomas, LSW and Nina Ekholm Fry, MSSc, participants will learn about equine therapeutic interactions in a way that aligns with legal and ethical responsibilities of a licensed mental…
Read MoreAre you interested in wound care practice or education? WoundCon Fall 2023 starts Friday, October 13, 2023. This year the interactive educational program will be conducted virtually. Although the BTER Foundation will not be participating in this conference, Dr. Sherman represented the Foundation during the Summer Program, and has been praising its speakers and organizers…
Read MoreHas the BTER Foundation helped you obtain information or service? Instructions or care? Literature or grants? If so, here is a way to help us spread the messageand the good: share your experience with us and the Great Nonprofits https://greatnonprofits.org/reviews/write/biotherapeutics-education-and-research-foundation. Each evaluation received before the end of the month will contribute to our profile and…
Read MoreExciting news! The Biotherapeutics, Education & Research (BTER) Foundation was recently awarded the Silver Seal of transparency from Candid, a nonprofit that provides comprehensive data and insights about the social sector. Candid – the organization that resulted from the union of GuideStar and Foundation Center in 2019 – provides information about how nonprofits obtain and…
Read MoreThe Biotherapeutics, Education & Research Foundation (BTER) Foundation was in the news again. The Los Angeles Times’s list of 2022 “Orange County Visionaries ”includes our very own Director and Board Chair, Ronald A. Sherman, MD. Dr. Sherman was included amongthe 54 individuals honored as education and non-profitvisionaries, due to his ground-breaking research inmaggot therapy for…
Read MoreThe next BioTherapy Live! broadcast will air Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 11:00 am PDT (2:00 pm New York time). The program, will feature YOU! That’s right: this program will focus on your questions about maggot therapy. So be sure to join the Zoom call, or watch live and ask your questions during the Facebook broadcast. If you have questions…
Read MoreThe next BioTherapy Live! broadcast will air Tuesday, March 21 at 9:00 am PST (12:00 pm New York time). The program, will feature Dr. Sílvia González Monteiro, who will discuss larval biotherapy in animals, and Dr. Janaína Brand Dillmann, who will share her experience treating injured horses, and her research with resistant bacteria. You can learn more about the webinar here: https://conta.cc/3YX3Co7.
Read MoreThe next BioTherapy Live! broadcast will air on Tuesday, February 21 at 1:00 pm PST (4:00 pm New York time). The program, will feature Dr. Frank Stadler who will lead a discussion about maggot therapy in compromised healthcare settings and the related supply chain challenges. More information about the webinar can be found here: https://conta.cc/3xxSkLA.
Read MoreA primary objective of this organization is to meet the needs of its constituents: therapists, patients, researchers, and the general public. To do that, we must make it easy to provide input, and listen to that input. To that end, we have decided to reserve this month’s Biotherapy Live! webinar as a “Town Hall Meeting” which will broadcast on…
Read MoreThe next BioTherapy Live! broadcast will air tomorrow, Tuesday, October 11 at 8:00 am PDT (11:00 am New York time). The program, titled: “Women and larvae, “will feature three women profoundly advancing maggot therapy and wound care in Poland: 1) Aneta Zymon, a surgical nursing specialist in Krakow; 2) Paulina Szymańska, M.Sc., specialized in anesthesiology nursing and doctoral student at…
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