The president and COO of Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica opened BIVI’s 2009 Swine Health Seminar in Dallas on Friday before a group of nearly 300 swine veterinary professionals.

George Heidgerken says events like these are important for BIVI to deliver answers to questions their customers have. “This is a wonderful forum to deliver those answers,” George told me. The seminar included presentations from a number of researchers who presented the results of studies related to PCV2 vaccines.

George says BIVI is helping swine producers meet the challenges of a down market in a number of ways. “Providing safe and efficacious, and even more efficacious, products into the marketplace; escalating our spending on research and development so that there is always a flow of new products; and investing in our manufacturing capabilities so that we ensure a continuous and long-term supply of vaccines and products that help the producer make more money – or lose less.”

Listen to an interview with George here: bivi-09-dallas-heidgerken.mp3

Download the interview here: BIVI president George Heidgerken

Check out a photo album from the BIVI event in Dallas on-line here: BIVI 09 Dallas Photo Album