Grant Maxie,  DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVP

Formerly:

Director, Animal Health Laboratory, and Co-Executive Director, Laboratory Services Division, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

(retired, August 31, 2019)

Phone: (519) 822-1640.  Cell 519-835-3481

Email: [email protected]

Grant Maxie was born and raised in southern Alberta. After graduating with his DVM from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatoon in 1969, he completed an internship in small animal medicine and a PhD in clinical pathology at the Ontario Veterinary College in 1973. Following 3 years working in Kenya on a bovine trypanosomosis (sleeping sickness) research project, he joined the faculty at the OVC as an anatomic pathologist, teaching cardiovascular and urinary pathology. After moving to the Veterinary Services Laboratory of OMAFRA in Guelph in 1982, he became board-certified in anatomic pathology by the American College of Veterinary Pathologists in 1984. He worked as a diagnostic pathologist and then as Guelph laboratory head for VLSB until 1997. For 22 years he was the Director of the Animal Health Laboratory plus, for the last 12 years, co-Executive Director of the Laboratory Services Division at the University of Guelph and retired in 2019.

Pursuing an interest in scientific editing, Grant was the editor-in-chief of the Canadian Veterinary Journal (1986-91), has published extensively, and co-authored chapters in the 3^rd to 7^th editions and edited the 5^th, 6^th, and 7^th editions of “Jubb, Kennedy, and Palmer's Pathology of Domestic Animals". He is a past-president of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (AAVLD, 2007-08), volunteered for many years as an assessor on the Accreditation Committee, and is the current editor-in-chief of the Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation (2015-present).

Grant married Dr. Laura Smith-Maxie (veterinary neurologist, also now retired) in Kenya in 1975. They have 2 children – Kevin, entrepreneur and showjumper, Erin, ON (first grandchild, Tristan Eames, 2020; granddaughter Coco Yvaine, 2025); Andrea, teacher and outdoorsperson, Nelson, BC. Grant is enjoying retirement, keeps editing and consulting, continues farming, plus horseback trail-riding with his wife.