Charles Louis Davis and Samuel Wesley Thompson DVM Foundation

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Registration URL: https://davisthompsonfoundation.regfox.com/2019-classpola

This two-day course is aimed at pathologists and trainees and especially those studying for ACVP or ECVP board exams.

Topics include:
Diseases of wildlife and zoo animals
Marine Mammals
Reptiles
Amphibians
Wild felids
Gross and histology quizzes
Audience participation

Please register and pay by credit card on https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/davis-thompson-dvm-foundation-european-symposium-zoo-pathology-tickets-50901990223?utm_term=eventname_text

If you wish to register and pay via bank transfer, please contact Course Organiser, Dr Simon Priestnall (spriestnall@rvc.ac.uk) for details.

This eight-hour workshop brings together zoo veterinarians and pathologists for a full day of discussion of interesting cases and a didactic lecture on a hot topic in zoo and wildlife pathology. This year's keynote lecture will be "A Primer of Invertebrate Histology and Pathology", by Dr. Elise LaDouceur, Chief, Extramural Projects and Research, Joint Pathology Center, Silver Spring, MD. Following the keynote lecture, pathologists from around the world will present their most interesting recent cases throughout an interactive all-day session.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CASES SELECTED

1. 5 replicate H&E slides plus 2 unstained are required. PLEASE limit slides to one piece of tissue with the lesion to facilitate Aperio scanning for digital production. If diagnostic images (radiographs, sonograms, MRI images, etc) are also included, please submit those as high-resolution jpg. Send by 23 August 2019 to:

Shipping Address:

Dalen W. Agnew
Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
Department of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation
College of Veterinary Medicine
4125 Beaumont Road, Lansing, MI 48910
P: 517.432-5806
agnewd@dcpah.msu.edu

2. Please prepare your 2 to 3 page write up in Microsoft Word (NOT pdf files) using the following headings on institutional letter head and send via email to Dalen Agnew (agnewd@msu.edu) by 23 August 2019:

Page 1 CONTRIBUTOR(S)/ INSTITUTION: SIGNALMENT: HISTORY: GROSS FINDINGS:
Page 2 and 3. HISTOPATHOLOGIC AND CLINICAL PATHOLOGY FINDINGS: MORPHOLOGIC/ETIOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS: DISCUSSION: REFERENCES: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

The syllabus and scanned slides from the case write-ups should be available at least one week prior to the workshop and can be downloaded from the Davis-Thompson Foundation website at: http://www.cldavis.org/syllabi.html

Cost for this full day workshop is yet to be determined, but includes access to images and case information and refreshments. All participants must register for this course.

Remember that you are welcome to attend the Workshop even if you have not submitted a case.

Dr. Edward Dick, Texas Biomedical Research Institute 8715 NW Military Dr. San Antonio, TX 78227-5302 (210)258-9894 edick@txbiomed.org

Attendees are also invited to present a 10 to 15-minute report to the group on an interesting case. Please send two (2) stained microslides with MS Word formatted files (no PDFs) of Signalment, history, and gross findings (microscopic findings, comments, acknowledgements, applicable references on a separate page) for digitiziation and redistribution by August 25, 2019.

Slides and Files to:

By US Mail:
Dr. Edward Dick, Texas Biomedical Research Institute
P.O. Box 760549,
San Antonio, TX 78245-0549

By FedEx or UPS:
Dr. Edward Dick, Texas Biomedical Research Institute
8715 NW Military Dr.
San Antonio, TX 78227-5302
(210)258-9894
edick@txbiomed.org

OR

Hilton Galveston Resort and San Luis Resort, both (844) 203-5351

Didactic lectures will be combined with audience participation to result in an engrossing day-long seminar. Don’t miss out on what promises to be another exciting CL Davis/SW Thompson/AAVLD co-sponsored symposium.

Coverage of major topics are:
Cellular responses to injury
Hemodynamics
Inflammation and Repair
Immunity and Hypersensitivity
Neoplasia
Toxicologic Pathology
Microbial mechanisms of disease