IDEXX Laboratories : Learning Center Leads Veterinary Industry in Continuing Education
June 25, 2015 at 07:57 am EDT
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WESTBROOK, Maine, June 25, 2015-IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDXX) today announced that the IDEXX Learning Center has awarded over 800,000 continuing education (CE) credits free of charge since its founding in 2007. This contribution to the profession is valued at $30 million dollars based on similar educational offerings. The IDEXX Learning Center is an online source of insight and knowledge designed to help veterinary professionals stay on the forefront of rapidly changing medicine and technology. IDEXX offers innovative CE courses designed by leading veterinary professionals that enable practices to stay current with the most important advancements in the field. The IDEXX Learning Center also helps professionals comply with state-mandated annual CE requirements. The webinars, in-person events, tutorials and online courses bestow CE credits to almost 31,000 practices in 207 countries.
"The IDEXX Learning Center's contribution to the industry is unparalleled," said Julie Legred, executive director of the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America. "The varied curriculum and innovative interactive learning tools are helping to raise the bar for pet health throughout the industry."
The IDEXX Learning Center provides CE on a wide range of topics important in veterinary practice, from how to talk to customers to endocrinology to financial management. As part of an ongoing commitment to help veterinary practices grow professionally and financially, the IDEXX Learning Center continually introduces new and relevant CE content. Upcoming examples include these live webinar events:
Advances in Early Diagnosis of Chronic Kidney Disease and Implications for Disease Management presented by Dr. Jane Robertson
Parasites Lost: Fecal Antigen Testing and the Identification of Parasitic Infections by Dr. Susan Little
Pulmonary Hypertension in Veterinary Medicine presented by Dr. Allison Adams
"Medical and practice technology is constantly evolving, changing and improving in veterinary medicine. The IDEXX Learning Center helps support the profession by providing veterinary staff the ongoing education required to keep pace and provide an extraordinary level of care to their patients and clients," said Jonathan W. Ayers, chief executive officer, IDEXX Laboratories. "By providing these educational resources, we help to strengthen the bonds that lead to healthy pets and practices, in a way that also advances the veterinary profession."
The IDEXX Learning Center is a unique resource for the veterinary industry, as typical CE accredited events can cost up to $500 per course, and yet everything offered on the IDEXX Learning Center is without charge. Like all IDEXX products and services, the goal of the IDEXX Learning Center is to help veterinary professionals both deliver exceptional medical care to pets and run a fiscally healthy practice.
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. is a world leader in the design, development and marketing of diagnostic test instruments for animal health monitoring and analysis of dairy products and water. Net sales break down by area of application as follows:
- veterinary diagnoses for pets (91.6%);
- water quality analysis (4.6%);
- veterinary diagnoses for livestock and poultry (3.3%): solutions that help detect infectious diseases in ruminants, pigs, poultry and horses. The group also offers test solutions for dairy products;
- other (0.5%).
Net sales by source of income break down between product sales (57.1%) and services (42.9%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (65.3%), Canada (4.1%), Americas (2.3%), Germany (4.1%), the United Kingdom (3.3%), France (2.7%), Italy (1.5%), Spain (1.4%), Switzerland (0.9%), the Netherlands (0.8%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (4.8%), Australia (2.6%), Japan (2.1%), China (1.2%) and Asia/Pacific (2.9%).
IDEXX LABORATORIES, INC. 
