Update from the Ohio ADDL
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Aug
18
Update from the Ohio ADDL
Ohio ADDL is excited to welcome two new section heads this summer:
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Aug
18
Dr. Francisco Uzal honored as Distinguished Professor
Dr. Paco Uzal (San Bernardino Pathology) received a high-level merit advancement to Distinguished Professor. The title of Distinguished Professor is the highest campus-level faculty title that can be bestowed. In the entire history of the university, Dr. Uzal is the first faculty member in the “Professor of Clinical” series at UC Davis to have reached this rank. To be recognized as a Distinguished Professor, a faculty member must have achieved the highest level of distinction in their scholarship, teaching, and public service – with international recognition for their scholarly work and demonstrated excellence in their teaching. Dr. Uzal’s scholarly work in both clostridial infections of animals and racehorse pathology was recognized, as was his sustained continuing and professional education in veterinary pathology.
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Aug
18
Government Relations Committee Update
| Bruce Akey, BS, MS, DVM | Pat Halbur, DVM, MS, PhD |
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Jul
19
Pope Awardee Dr. Art Bickford Passes
AAVLD is sad to inform our members that one of our dedicated leaders has passed. Dr. Art Bickford was a lab director, served as Secretary-Treasurer of AAVLD for five years, and was the 2001 Pope Awardee. He was a national leader in poultry pathology diagnostics and was engaged with numerous professional organizations. He advanced our discipline in many ways and was a wonderful colleague. Rest in peace, Dr. Bickford.
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May
10
Dr. Edwards' Career Honored by KSU Alumni Association
Congratulations Dr. Edwards for recognition of your distinguished career by the KSU Alumni Association. AAVLD is proud to claim you as a member and we are appreciative of your dedication to our Association and your efforts to advance the discipline of veterinary diagnostic sciences.
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USDA Announces $2.29 Million in Farm Bill Funding to NAHLN Lab Projects
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May
10
USDA recently announced the following research/development projects to state NAHLN diagnostic laboratories. Congratulations to the award winners!
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Iowa State University Foundation to Honor Lorraine J. Hoffman for Outstanding Contributions
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Apr
26
Iowa State University Foundation to Honor Lorraine J. Hoffman for Outstanding Contributions
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Apr
07
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JVDI in Focus- April 2023
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Apr
07
JVDI in Focus
Our April focus is an open-access article appearing in the upcoming May issue: “Lesions and viral loads in racing pigeons naturally coinfected with pigeon circovirus and columbid alphaherpesvirus 1 in Australia” by Babu K. Nath, Shubhagata Das, Naomie Tidd, Tridip Das, Jade K. Forwood, Shane R. Raid.
J Vet Diagn Invest 2023;35(3). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10406387231156839
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Feb
22
Functions of Committees
Committees serve multiple functions that are essential to the AAVLD mission. This includes dissemination of the latest scientific information that will advance the many disciplines engaged with diagnostic medicine, including:
- technological or methodological advances in the disciplines
- new or changing disease syndromes and how they are detected.
- sharing of one’s expertise and experience with colleagues, students, and trainees
- sharing one’s expertise when called upon to aid stakeholders, and policy and decision makers.
- recognizing excellence in others to encourage ongoing excellence in our disciplines.
- supporting the annual meeting, the organization’s Journal (JVDI), Newsletter and list-serve to ensure good communication, collaboration, training, and cooperation.
- provide leadership to ensure a successful scientific session of their discipline at the annual meeting.
Committees may identify, address, and resolve specific issues related to diagnostic laboratory medicine. Committees may, as a function of their investigation of the diagnostic challenges associated with a particular disease, present scientific and educational data for further discussion within their committee meetings with the expected outcome of reaching a greater level of confidence and understanding of the diagnostic criteria and methodologies that are most appropriate to determine the presence or absence of the disease in question. These outcomes are communicated to the Association membership via their annual committee report.
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$1.26M Earmarked in Federal Budget for UNH’s NH Veterinary Diagnostic Lab
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Feb
22
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Feb
22
Feb
22
JVDI in Focus
Our February focus is an article appearing in JVDI’s March issue, “Immunohistochemical analysis of expression of VEGFR2, KIT, PDGFR-β, and CDK4 in canine urothelial carcinoma” by Laura C. Setyo, Shannon L. Donahoe, Patrick L. Shearer, Penghao Wang, Mark B. Krockenberger.
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Feb
22
Varioius diseases affect domestic and wild lagomorphs and challenge veterinary laboratory diagnosticians regularly. Domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) are bred for different purposes including meat or fur production, laboratory research investigation, or simply as companion animals. Neoplasms, infectious diseases, and several background lesions are important conditions in this group. Wild lagomorphs, including rabbits of different genera (Oryctolagus, Sylvilagus, Brachylagus), hares/jackrabbits (Lepus spp.), and pikas (Ochotona spp.), are very common in different parts of the world and are affected regularly by outbreaks of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases or exposed to environmental toxins.
We are inviting submissions to a JVDI special section on Lagomorph disease investigations to be guest edited by Drs. Javier Asin, CAHFS, UC Davis; Denise Imai-Leonard, Comparative Pathology Laboratory, UCDavis; and Fábio Abade dos Santos, National Institute for Agricultural and Veterinary Research (INIAV), Oeiras, Portugal.
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MSU VDL welcomes inaugural Diagnostic and Client Services Veterinarian (DCSV)
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Feb
22
MSU VDL welcomes inaugural Diagnostic and Client Services Veterinarian (DCSV)
On January 17, 2023, Dr. Rachel Whitesell, DVM joined the Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory as the Lab’s inaugural diagnostic and client services veterinarian.
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Feb
22
Lab News by DHZ
Dr. Brodersen Retires from the University of Nebraska
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AVMA State diagnostic laboratories protect all creatures, great and small
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Oct
10
October 10, 2022
The caseload at the Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory has more than doubled since the 1990s, but the personnel has dropped by about half with the use of new technologies.
Yet, staffing continues to be a big challenge at the OADDL to meet the ever-increasing number of cases—with the main caseload coming from swine, cattle, chickens, and horses, in that order.
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Oct
03