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Vote on certificates of attendance for non-RACE seminars passes
by Bruce Williams Aug. 5, 2020

Aug. 5, 2020

thank you for the discussion and votes. The motion has passed with 6 votes yes, 0 notes nay, 3 no votes. We will begin this Friday with John Cullen’s seminar on Chronic Hepatitis.

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CE certificates
by tony ross July 30, 2020

July 30, 2020

Great idea and efficient too. I vote yes. Tony Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>

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Certificates for non-CE courses
by Bruce Williams July 30, 2020

July 30, 2020

This week a very astute young pathologist, Dr. Setyo has devised an automated method for merging and sending out our CE certificates. It was extremely timely, with 560 attendees at our first Black Voices in Pathology seminar. About 5 members of the webinar committee (including myself) are able to use this automated system (a combination of Google Sheets and Autocrat.)) All certificates are now sent by email (and likely will continue to be in the future.) We currently provide certificates for all RACE-accredited courses (as it is a RACE requirement) and in the past have provided certificates (but without RACE language) for select courses in Europe, Australia, and South America. Our Tuesday virtual seminar attendees get certificates (comes with paying $50 for CE). However, we get a tremendous number of requests for certificates from attendees of our Friday seminars (especially faculty in international vet schools, where a certificate of simple attendance at one of our seminars is of value. The process is very simple, and starts after the course, where I download a list of all attendees (about half of the registrants for most seminars do not tune in, and hence do NOT receive certificates.) Using the first and last names and email addresses available through Zoom, we can provide certificates to the attendees within about an hour. The question is whether this is an appropriate commitment of resources. We would like to get your input and a vote on this potential action - a one week period has been allotted for your discussion and vote (which would allow us to provide certificates for Free Friday Seminars beginning with the first FFS in August. bruce

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Reviews on last two virtual seminars
by Bruce Williams June 3, 2020

June 3, 2020

Here are the final reports on the last two seminars - Derm Path and Checkpoint Inibitors and Liver Injury. These are great, and the work Laura Bassel has put in on designing our new data collection is great too!

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Paco's virtual seminar
by Bruce Williams April 4, 2020

April 4, 2020

130 registrants 91 attendees 2 could not get in due to authentication issues 4 apologies because something came up 33 no-shows (~25%) 10 questions 232 views overnight (20 hour total). 0 problems (unless you count the login issues for 4 participants. Am trying to schedule next weeks seminar with Kevin Keane. We have purchased 500 seats for each webinar going forward, but have not been upgraded yet from 100. Have a work ticket with the invoice into Zoom - hopefully it will be rectified before Monday or we will go with the 100 seats we have (we are recording and posting it). b

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Two more items for this morning
by Bruce Williams March 12, 2020

March 12, 2020

We are spreading the word that the folks at the WNPRC=UX Lab Animal Med and Pathology Course are taking the option of making the course into a teleconference. As the speakers are largely local, that simplifies matters. Today we will likely be canceling the Northeast Veterinary Pathology Conference. Cornell, UPenn, and NCSU have placed faculty travel restrictions on their faculty (including residents), so that takes out 13/24 presenters in one fell swoop. While several have floated the possibility of a teleconference, coordinating one speaker and 24 presenters over 8 universities and on a weekend is a rather Herculanean task, and is not considered a viable option. b

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More info
by Bruce Williams March 12, 2020

March 12, 2020

This just in from Sarah Corner, one of our GHPN members (although not on a Foundation-cosponsored mission) “Hello. I have not posted on this internet website in a very long time. Is anyone else currently outside of the US trying to get home? I have been in East Africa for 3 weeks. Virtually all the flights from Kigali to US go through Europe. My connecting flight in Amsterdam has already been canceled since the travel ban was announced a few hours ago. Anyone else currently trying to re-route flights? Should I try to go through London since the UK hasn’t been banned yet apparently? Should I just stay in Europe and try to find a new job? Does anyone know of any pathologist positions in Europe? Please advise.“ We currently only have one other meeting in Europe with an American speaker (The Eastern European Division in Lake Ohrid) at the end of May, and obviously we will be watching this situation closely. b

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Trying to keep everyone informed in real time
by Bruce Williams March 12, 2020

March 12, 2020

Woke up this morning to this from Simon. Don’t think even Paco has seen yet (but he is an early riser.. "Dear All, It is with a very heavy heart and deep regret that this morning Alejandro and I, as course directors, have made the decision to cancel the meeting in Lleida. This is through a combination of increased travel restrictions between US and Europe and an increasing occurrence of the virus in Spain, as well as other parts of Europe, and pressure from local governments/institutions to restrict gatherings of people. We will begin the process of refunding participants via Eventbrite and will send an email now to all participants informing them of this decision. Very sorry about this, but we will return to Lleida as soon as this darn virus runs its course. Simon"

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Fwd: ESVP: Important Message
by Bruce Williams March 9, 2020

March 9, 2020

Important message about the ESVP below. We are not the only ones, and I am sure that ACVP and STP are having the same discussions. > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "Priestnall, Simon" <SPriestnall(a)RVC.AC.UK> > Subject: Fwd: ESVP: Important Message > Date: March 8, 2020 at 11:59:45 PM EDT > To: "Suarez-Bonnet, Alejandro" <asuarezbonnet(a)rvc.ac.uk>, Bruce Williams <dr.brucewilliams(a)icloud.com>, "Francisco A. Uzal" <fauzal(a)UCDAVIS.EDU>, Liz Mcinnes <lizmcinnes50(a)gmail.com> > > Dear All, > > See below re ECVP/ESVP meeting in Torino, confirming what we knew. > > We will continue to follow the news from Italy closely but they do seem to have it bad (for some weird reason..) and have now overtaken S Korea for cases. > > Simon > > Get Outlook for Android <https://aka.ms/ghei36> > From: ESVP website <website(a)esvp.eu <mailto:website@esvp.eu>> > Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2020 5:55:45 PM > To: Priestnall, Simon <SPriestnall(a)RVC.AC.UK <mailto:SPriestnall@RVC.AC.UK>> > Subject: ESVP: Important Message > > > <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.esvp.e…> European Society of Veterinary Pathology > www.esvp.eu <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.esvp.e…> > > > > > ESVP: Important Message > > > > > > Dear Dr. Simon Priestnall, > > As you will be aware, there have been many meetings in both the scientific world and beyond that have been either postponed or cancelled due to the current spread of Coronavirus infection/COVID-19. > > The ESVP board and the local organisers of the Cutting Edge Pathology meeting in Torino in August 2020 have been discussing the situation; we are investigating options and a decision as to whether the congress will go ahead or be postponed for 12 months will be taken at the beginning of May; registration for the meeting and abstract submission will not be opened until this decision is made. > > We hope you appreciate the need to consider carefully the best plan of action, and thank you for your understanding regarding the delay in making this decision. > > Yours sincerely, > > Gail Leeming, Honorary Secretary ESVP > > Gail Leeming BVetMed MPhil PhD FHEA FRCPath MRCVS > RCVS Specialist in Veterinary Pathology > > > > > > www.esvp.eu <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.esvp.e…> > > > > <http://www.rvc.ac.uk/> <http://twitter.com/RoyalVetCollege> <http://www.facebook.com/theRVC> <http://www.youtube.com/user/RoyalVetsLondon?feature=mhee> <http://pinterest.com/royalvetcollege/> <http://instagram.com/royalvetcollege> > This message, together with any attachments, is intended for the stated addressee(s) only and may contain privileged or confidential information. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and be advised that you have received this message in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying is strictly prohibited. Unless stated expressly in this email, this email does not create, form part of, or vary any contractual or unilateral obligation. Email communication cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, amended, lost, destroyed, incomplete or contain viruses. Therefore, we do not accept liability for any such matters or their consequences. Communication with us by email will be taken as acceptance of the risks inherent in doing so. >

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Ad hoc Meetings first email and Colombia update
by Bruce Williams March 8, 2020

March 8, 2020

Happy Sunday all - this is the first email of the adhoc meetings listserv. If you send your email to adhoc(a)list.cldavis.org, it will reach all of the members. Just a note to say that we are currently postponing the Colombian meeting scheduled for 21 April on Digital and Virtual and Veterinary Pathology. The speaker is reticent on air travel from UK to Colombia. bruce

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