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Avian diagnostician position at CAHFS, UCDavis
by Francisco Alejandro Uzal May 23, 2025

May 23, 2025

Dear colleagues See attached a great opportunity for an avian diagnostician at the Turlock lab of CAHFS, California. Best regards Francisco Uzal, DVM, MSc, PhD, Dipl. ACVP Chief Executive Officer Davis-Thompson Foundation Ph: 951 751 0027 E-mail: fauzal(a)ucdavis.edu<mailto:fauzal@ucdavis.edu> www.davisthompsonfoundation.org<https://www.davisthompsonfoundation.org/> [https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1oticUQZYjDPU-1vMA4wHKvLb2SScHV-J]

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participate in a research study on diagnostic challenges!
by Jey Koehler May 19, 2025

May 19, 2025

Hello Foundation members and friends. Dr. Giuseppe Giglia, an Italian board-certified veterinary anatomic pathologist and post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy is conducting research on the systematic reporting and data analysis of pathology diagnostic findings and causes of death in animals in the context of their regional animal cancer registry. One of his research lines involves examining how diagnostic uncertainty and levels of diagnostic confidence affect reporting practices in veterinary diagnostic pathology. To better understand the challenges faced in this field, his lab has designed a short (10-minute) survey aimed at veterinary pathologists and residents. The survey explores the (patient, sample, and pathologist-related) factors that influence diagnostic confidence and uncertainty in our daily diagnostic practice. The collected data will be analyzed and insights gathered in a scientific publication intended for submission to Veterinary Pathology to share the results and insights of the survey with all the colleagues. These findings and insights on the variables influencing the diagnostic uncertainty in routine veterinary pathology diagnostic practice may help identify areas where further support to pathologists, or resources, or residency training initiatives could be implemented to reduce their impact on the diagnostic uncertainty. All data will be fully anonymized before the data analysis. The requirement to add an email address to send the form is solely to prevent duplicate entries (this will be deleted when checking the dataset for duplicates before analysis). This and other measures are in place to preserve the validity and integrity of the survey results. Additionally, while questions about society or college memberships may appear specific, they serve only to help us relate the sampled population (sample size) with a known denominator. This allows us to assess whether a representative sample has been reached or whether limitations should be kept in mind for the representativeness of the survey on some aspects. If you would like to participate, please click on The Survey Link<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScpVvpL3r-wgimnqYvTHLC3eluPVFHE3li…> Jey Koehler, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVP Professor and Tyler & Frances Young Endowed Chair in Pathology Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine President, Davis-Thompson Foundation www.davisthompsonfoundation.org<http://www.davisthompsonfoundation.org/>

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DTF-LCPG # 260 – Answer Sheet
by Claudio Barros May 15, 2025

May 15, 2025

Dear All, Attached is the Answer Sheet for Diagnostic Exercise #260 contributed by Renata Brizzio1 Cecilia Degiovanni1*, Ana Maria Martin1 1Patologia Animal Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina. *Corresponding author: cecidegiovanni28(a)gmail.com Best Regards Claudio The Diagnostic Exercises are an initiative of the Latin Comparative Pathology Group (LCPG), the Latin American subdivision of The Davis-Thompson Foundation. Members and non-members from any country of residence may contribute to these exercises. Please consider contributing a case to this initiative. It does not have to be unusual, and all pathology sub-specialties are welcome! Please consult instructions on how to format and submit your DE at https://davisthompsonfoundation.org/diagnostic-exercises-instructions/ Previous cases are available at https://davisthompsonfoundation.org/diagnostic-exercise/

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DTF-LCPG # 261 – Question Sheet
by Claudio Barros May 15, 2025

May 15, 2025

Dear All, Attached is the Question Sheet for Diagnostic Exercise #261 contributed by Fabricio Moreira1, Milena Carolina Paz1, Fernado Octavio Mascarenhas Ladeira1, Ana Lucia Schild1 and Claudio Barros2 1Laboratório Regional de Diagnóstico (LRD), Faculdade de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel), Brazil. 2Laboratory of Anatomic Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil. *Corresponding author: alschild(a)terra.com.br Claudio The Diagnostic Exercises are an initiative of the Latin Comparative Pathology Group (LCPG), the Latin American subdivision of The Davis-Thompson Foundation. Members and non-members from any country of residence may contribute to these exercises. Please consider contributing a case to this initiative. It does not have to be unusual, and all pathology sub-specialties are welcome! Please consult instructions on how to format and submit your DE at https://davisthompsonfoundation.org/diagnostic-exercises-instructions/ Previous cases are available at https://davisthompsonfoundation.org/diagnostic-exercise/

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Pathology Fellow opening at Oregon Health & Science University
by Francisco Alejandro Uzal May 14, 2025

May 14, 2025

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JPC VSPO/WSC guest access re-established
by Bruce Williams May 14, 2025

May 14, 2025

The guest access for the JPC VSPO/WSC server has been established. Clicking on a wholeslide will once again bring up the front page of the Aperio image server, and if you click on the Guest login button, you don't need a password. That being said, the chronic issue of the server freezing up has still not yet been identified. This summer, the JPC will be rebuilding the server (the current server will stay up during this period) to see if a total rebuild will correct the issues that have been plaguing the server since the "Big Crash of '24". The server currently is set to autoreboot daily at 0600, 1400, and 2000 hrs. daily. Utilization of the server during these times offers the greatest chance of the wholeslides working as prescribed. Another utilization note - if you click on a whole slide and get anything other than a "Bad Gateway" message, the server is actually working and try clicking on the whole slide you want to view - sometimes it takes two or three actual clicks before it pops in. b P.S - if you haven't visited Noah's Slidebox lately - we are over 3750 slides and counting and it is an excellent adjunct to VSPO/WSC. -- Bruce Williams Chief Financial Officer Davis-Thompson Foundation 301 467-4024 bruce.williams(a)davisthompsonfoundation.org www.davisthompsonfoundation.org

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Great career opportunity at CAHFS, Tulare branch
by Francisco Alejandro Uzal May 8, 2025

May 8, 2025

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CLIIC registration deadline is MAY 26...don't miss out!
by Jey Koehler May 8, 2025

May 8, 2025

Hola friends, just a reminder that the registration deadline for the Current Literature and Image Interpretation Course (CLIIC) in will be MAY 26. Absolutely NO exceptions will be made to this deadline, even if you cry real tears, send nasty emails, or attempt to bribe us with incredible lesions floating in jars of formalin. This fantastic course gets rave reviews every year, and for good reason. It's the perfect system-by system review of those "photogenic" lesions as well as interpretation of lesions in the context of the current literature (are you sure you're caught up?). If you are sitting phase II this year or next, this course can be a great study tool! If you are a practicing pathologist and need 28 hours of high quality CE and a trip to beautiful Knoxville and the Great Smoky Mountains, also good! Go here to find out more and register: https://davisthompsonfoundation.org/event/2025-current-literature-and-image… [cid:image001.png@01DBBFF4.F13B1C70] Jey Koehler, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVP Professor and Tyler & Frances Young Endowed Chair in Pathology Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine President, Davis-Thompson Foundation www.davisthompsonfoundation.org<http://www.davisthompsonfoundation.org/>

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DTF Newsletter May 2025
by Francisco Alejandro Uzal May 2, 2025

May 2, 2025

Dear colleagues Welcome to the May issue of the Davis-Thompson Foundation newsletter, with the compliments of our outstanding Managing Editors, Jeann Leal and Javier Asin. Thank you, Jeann and Javier! As usual, you will find in these pages a large number of upcoming training opportunities around the world, in several different languages. In particular, three of our "BIG 4" are coming up and are already announced and/or registration is open: CLASS and POLA, CLIIC (US and UK versions) and Foundations of Pathology. More information about these, and many more training events is available at: https://davisthompsonfoundation.org/ events-calendar. This month we were fortunate to have a great article for our Expert's corner, prepared by Dr Roger Kelly, University of Queensland, Australia. Thank you Roger!!! Last but not least, my usual enormous Thank you!!! to our fabulous volunteers from all over the world. Nothing of what we do would be possible without your selfless dedication! Warm regards, Francisco Uzal, DVM, MSc, PhD, Dipl. ACVP Chief Executive Officer Davis-Thompson Foundation Ph: 951 751 0027 E-mail: fauzal(a)ucdavis.edu<mailto:fauzal@ucdavis.edu> www.davisthompsonfoundation.org<https://www.davisthompsonfoundation.org/> [https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1oticUQZYjDPU-1vMA4wHKvLb2SScHV-J]

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DTF-LCPG # 259 – Answer Sheet
by Claudio Barros May 1, 2025

May 1, 2025

Dear All, The Answer Sheet for Diagnostic Exercise #259, contributed by Erin Schwalbe, Matias Dorsch, and Jose Cesar Menk*, is attached. Department of Pathobiological Sciences and Louisiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine, Baton Rouge, LA. *Corresponding author: cmenk2(a)lsu.edu Best Regards Claudio The Diagnostic Exercises are an initiative of the Latin Comparative Pathology Group (LCPG), the Latin American subdivision of the Davis-Thompson Foundation. Members and non-members from any country of residence may contribute to these exercises. Please consider contributing a case to this initiative. It does not have to be unusual, and all pathology sub-specialties are welcome! Please consult instructions on how to format and submit your DE at https://davisthompsonfoundation.org/diagnostic-exercises-instructions/ Previous cases are available at https://davisthompsonfoundation.org/diagnostic-exercise/

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