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Free Friday virtual seminar - May 1 2020 - Freshwater fish pathology
by Bruce Williams April 21, 2020

April 21, 2020

You are invited to a "Free Friday Virtual Seminar," sponsored by the Latin Comparative Pathology Group. The subject of this virtual seminar is "Freshwater Fish Pathology". This free hour-long seminar (with 30 minutes for questions) features Dr. Paola Andrea Barato Gómez DVM, Esp, PhD, Executive Scientific Director, CORPAVET, Bogota, Colombia. Aquaculture is a crucial sector in the goal of a world without hunger and malnutrition. The production resulted in a record-high world-wide per capita consumption of 20,3Kg. The sector's contribution to economic growth and the fight against poverty is growing. The intensification of animal production leads to the presentation of diseases and aquaculture is no exception. The conference will discuss emerging diseases and histopathological lesions of the main freshwater fish species produced in Latin America (tilapia, trout and ornamental fish). When: May 1, 2020 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ktvL7DClT7uDToCRtTUKTg After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

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8 hours CE - May 12 - Equine Diseases virtual seminar - only $50
by Bruce Williams April 20, 2020

April 20, 2020

You are invited to join a virtual day seminar When: May 12, 2020 07:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Topic: Equine Diseases Fee $50 for 8 hours of RACE- accredited CE Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mvncxu-qR02ZqsGuyUqRzA After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. And HERE is a .PDF flyer for the seminar to share with EVERYONE YOU KNOW, with a CLICKABLE registration link at the bottom!

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Equine Diseases Virtual Seminar - 12 May - 8 hour RACE credits available
by Bruce Williams April 19, 2020

April 19, 2020

Wondering where you can get your CE to renew your license this year? Here's an exciting announcement from the Foundation - On 12 May, the Foundation will hold its first in a series of biweekly Day-Seminars, which will provide 8 hours of RACE-accredited CE for veterinarians who need to meet license requirements (and some that don't, I suppose). Our first seminar will focus on various aspects of equine pathology, with great speakers. Tuition is $50 if you desire the eight hours of RACE-accredited CE (with certificate, of course!) If you do not need the CE, the lectures will be posted on our YouTube channel in the days following the seminars., and you can watch them for free. Registration is limited to 500 seats, (registration link at the bottom of this flyer) and we expect that a number of vets in other discipline will jump on this opportunity as well, so don't wait. Additional seminars coming on 26 May, 9 June, and 23 June for a total of 32 available hours. Who knows - we may even continue these seminars beyond June… Bruce Williams, DVM CEO Davis-Thompson Foundation

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UPDATED invitation for Mast Cell Seminar with new link
by Bruce Williams April 15, 2020

April 15, 2020

You are invited to a free Foundation Friday virtual seminar: When: Friday, Apr 24, 2020 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Prognostic evaluation of canine cutaneous mast cell tumors Speaker: Matti Kiupel, Dr. Vet Med., Dr. Habil, MVSc, PhD, DACVP Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LUVCskp4ReCzg63bIrhNtA There are 500 seats available for this seminar, but it will be recorded. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

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Friday virtual seminar, April 24 - "Prognostic evaluation of canine cutaneous mast cell tumors"
by Bruce Williams April 15, 2020

April 15, 2020

You are invited to a free Foundation Friday virtual seminar: When: Friday, Apr 24, 2020 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Prognostic evaluation of canine cutaneous mast cell tumors Speaker: Matti Kiupel, Dr. Vet Med., Dr. Habil, MVSc, PhD, DACVP Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j1MjYmaDSEi89dcs33l2dQ There are 500 seats available for this seminar, but it will be recorded. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

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Invitation to Register for April 17 virtual seminar
by Bruce Williams April 12, 2020

April 12, 2020

You are invited to a virtual seminar sponsored by the Davis Thompson Foundation on Apr 17, 2020 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada). The speaker is Dr. Fabio Del Piero, DVM, PhD, DACVP and Professor of Pathobiological Sciences at the School of Veterinary Medicine. The topic of this one-hour seminar (with an additional 30 mins. for questions will be: "Respiratory viral diseases in domestic mammals. Scary monsters at least as bad as SARS-Covid 2 (Covid 19)" Register in advance for this virtual seminar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j1MjYmaDSEi89dcs33l2dQ After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the virtual seminar

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May virtual seminars: Davis/Thompson Foundation
by Francisco Uzal April 12, 2020

April 12, 2020

Dear all Happy Easter!! Attached is the flyer with our 5 fantastic virtual seminars for May!! We will be announcing the registration for the seminars approximately a couple of weeks before each of them. However, because we have upgraded our Zoom account to 500 seats, we will not be opening the registration at a set date and time because we are pretty sure that everybody who is interested in these seminar will be able to register and attend. Watch out for the registration announcement. Bruce Williams and Paco Uzal Francisco A. Uzal, DVM, MSc, PhD, Dipl. ACVP Professor of Veterinary Diagnostic Pathology Branch Chief California Animal Health and Food Safety Lab School of Veterinary Medicine University of California, Davis 105 W Central Ave. San Bernardino, CA 92408 Ph 909-383-4287 Fax 909-884-5980 E-mail fauzal(a)ucdavis.edu<mailto:fauzal@ucdavis.edu>

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Re: Zoom webinar invitation - Non-clinical Safety Assessment in Human Embryo-derived Stem Cell-Based Therapies: The Long Path for Type I Diabetes and Stem Cells.
by Bruce Williams April 6, 2020

April 6, 2020

You are invited to a Zoom virtual seminar, sponsored by the Latin Comparative Pathology Group. When: Apr 10, 2020 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Non-clinical Safety Assessment in Human Embryo-derived Stem Cell-Based Therapies: The Long Path for Type I Diabetes and Stem Cells. Our speaker will be Kevin Keane. Kevin is the lead pathologist for the Danish pharmaceutical Novo Nordisk Stem Cell Unit based at the company’s main research campus near Copenhagen, Denmark. Kevin works with his fellow scientists on assessing the safety and efficacy of human embryo-derived stem cell-based therapies for Type I diabetes, Parkinson Disease, Macular Degeneration, and Heart Failure among other diseases. Kevin is involved in the pathology assessment of their in-house efficacy models and external CRO partners. Register in advance for this webinar: https://us04web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qGukxCVUT-iWhXpoKHTyXg <https://us04web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qGukxCVUT-iWhXpoKHTyXg> After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. If you are unable to attend as an active participant, the seminar will be recorded and available for viewing on the Davis-Thompson Foundation YouTube channel and FB page immediately after its conclusion.

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Upcoming Uruguayan meeting
by Francisco Uzal March 31, 2020

March 31, 2020

Dear all See attached information on the upcoming Uruguayan seminar. Fingers crossed that by the end of August things will have improved around the world and we will be able to reconvene our in-person seminars. We will keep everybody posted. Keep healthy Paco Uzal

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LCPG/DTF seminar in Chile
by Francisco Uzal March 30, 2020

March 30, 2020

Dear all See attached information on the Chilean seminar of the LCPG/DTF next August. Paco Uzal

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April Newsletter
by Bruce Williams March 29, 2020

March 29, 2020

Here is the Foundation’s April newsletter n.PDF format. Our front page story details how the Foundation is currently weathering the current COVID-19 pandemic as well as flyer for courses we are still conducting, some we hope to conduct, and recaps of previous courses. Enjoy! b

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For everyone who couldn't get a seat at our upcoming webinar...
by Bruce Williams March 27, 2020

March 27, 2020

To all of the many very interested parties who were unable to get a seat in our upcoming webinar on "Updates of Clostridial Disease".... This webinar filled to overflow in approximately 20 mins. (I do hope that everyone who snagged a seat plans on showing up or you have stolen a seat from someone who really wanted one.) For those of you who couldn't get a seat - not to worry, as the webinar will be pre-recorded and uploaded to the Foundation YouTube channel concurrently. For those of you who wonder why the Foundation doesn't have more seats available... a) We are pre-recording it and it will be available to everyone at no charge (didn't I just say that?) b) The 30 minutes of Q and A at the end would be absolute CHAOS with more than 100 people. c) With literally over TWO HOURS of experience in tele-education, we are learning this as we go along. We have no tele-education budget, we are handing out course refunds like hotcakes, and right about now we are the only vet path organization that is offering anything telewhatever. So we ask that you are patient as we adjust to a rapidly changing paradigm. If we find that limiting live seats to these webinars is a serious mistake, I promise we will fix that going forward.

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First free webinar from the Davis-Thompson Foundation
by Bruce Williams March 27, 2020

March 27, 2020

More excellent news from the Foundation! Beginning Friday 3 April, the Foundation will present the first in a series of biweekly one-hour webinars (with an additional 30 minutes for Q&A). These webinars will be presented at 12PM Eastern Standard Time. Our first webinar, entitled "An Update on Enteric Clostridial Diseases". This webinar, will be presented by Foundation President and UCDavis Professor of Pathology Paco Uzal, emphasizing gross and morphologic lesions in animals, will also cover recent discoveries on the pathogenesis of enteric clostridial diseases in animals, and recent changes in clostridial taxonomy and toxin classification. These webinars are free, and there are currently 100 seats available for this first webinar on a first-come first serve basis. The webinar will utilize computer audio only (there are no dial-in numbers). PLEASE, if you are not sure of your availability to attend, do not take a seat away from someone who can by reserving "just in case". We will make this lecture subsequently available through the Foundation YouTube channel. Registration for this webinar is available at: https://us04web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_R3Hi72ivSl-sq8SEZz90gg

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2020 Descriptive Veterinary Pathology Course is now a telecourse!
by Bruce Williams March 27, 2020

March 27, 2020

We have excellent news concerning this year's Descriptive Pathology Course. This course will continue on 1-5 June, as planned, but will now be conducted entirely online as a telecourse. Lectures will be presented on the Zoom platform, gross and microscopic exams will be graded with personal feedback as in all iterations of this course, and virtual slides will be utilized in place of glass slides. There are currently 34 seats remaining at this telecourse, and will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Tuition for this course is $350 for individual, university, or corporate Foundation members, and $450 for non-members (which includes a one-year Foundation membership.) For more information and registration, please visit: http://www.cldavis.org/upcoming.html#242 <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cldavis.org%2Fupcoming.html…> .

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Descriptive pathology course: June 1-5 GOING VIRTUAL
by Francisco Uzal March 26, 2020

March 26, 2020

Dear all This course will be given by video conference instead of in person. The dates and the general program remain unchanged. For those of you that have already registered, an~ 50% refund will be issued (or if you prefer not to attend at all, a full refund will be offered). Dr Bruce Williams will be contacting each of you personally soon. If you have not yet registered, please wait for a day or two until the registration site is updated with the new, reduced price. More details to follow soon. Thank you for your patience and a huge thank you to our faculty for working on this virtual version. Paco Uzal

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Two more courses cancelled
by Francisco Uzal March 26, 2020

March 26, 2020

Dear all It is with a heavy heart that we are announcing the cancellation of following Davis/Thompson Foundation meetings: * Third Annual DTF Eastern European Veterinary Pathology Meeting, Ohrid, North Macedonia and * European Division Symposium on Mouse and Laboratory Animal Pathology, Torino Italy Both meetings will be rescheduled as soon as the circumstances permit. With our huge thanks to the organizers and lecturers for all the work they already put into these meetings. Stay safe Bruce Williams (CEO) and Paco Uzal (President) Davis Thompson Foundation [cid:F4BBE2FF-B620-4EBF-9EA0-801222CB2FE5@fios-router.home][cid:B370249E-3A00-4F4F-9707-7FCE94C0C550@fios-router.home]

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2020 POLA Course coming up
by Francisco Uzal March 22, 2020

March 22, 2020

Dear all More great DTF courses being scheduled. Stay tuned. Paco Uzal

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Marine Species Histopathology Workshop canceled
by Francisco Uzal March 22, 2020

March 22, 2020

Dear all The 13th CL Davis & SW Thompson DVM Foundation Marine Species Histopathology Workshop, originally scheduled for May 16 2020 in Tampa, Florida, has been canceled. As with other DTF canceled activities, we will re-schedule it as soon as the circumstances permit. Stay safe Paco Uzal

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DTF Seminar flyers going out......
by Francisco Uzal March 20, 2020

March 20, 2020

Dear all As you probably saw over the past few days, your Foundation keeps busy posting flyers for courses and seminars. These courses were planned before the COVID-19 outbreak, and while there is a chance that we may still have to postpone them to a later date, we wanted to make sure that everybody knows about them. Also, when possible we are working on virtual backup options, like in the case of the upcoming Descriptive Pathology course (in-person version still ON, but our faculty is working hard on a virtual version in case it has to be cancelled). Thank you for your continuous support. Bruce Williams and Paco Uzal

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More courses to come......
by Francisco Uzal March 19, 2020

March 19, 2020

Dear all Despite COVID19, the fantastic Davis/Thompson Foundation faculty keeps working and organizing courses, and we hope that we are going to re-start our in-person teaching activities soon. Please see attached flyers on two great courses: * Workshop on Pathology and Basic Mechanisms of Disease (Corrie Brown), University of Zambia, 21-23 July 2020 * Oral Pathology of Companion Animals -ACVP Pre-Congress Workshop- (Cincy Bell and Brian Murphy), Chicago Marriot Downtown, 31 October 2020 Stay safe Paco Uzal

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Costa Rica seminar cancelled
by Francisco Uzal March 15, 2020

March 15, 2020

Dear all In view of the travel restrictions related to COVID 19, which are now affecting most parts of the world, we were forced to postpone the upcoming “1st Costa Rican meeting of the CLDavis/SW Thompson Foundation”, scheduled for April 17-19. Be assured that we will reschedule this seminar as soon as the situations improve. Thanks Paola Barato (President-elect) and Paco Uzal (President), LCPG

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Additional course cancellations
by Bruce Williams March 12, 2020

March 12, 2020

We regret to inform our participants and colleagues of cancellation of two of our early April meetings for 2020. After careful consideration of the expanding coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. and around the globe, travel restrictions now imposed of many of our attendees and presenters, and most importantly, the safety and welfare of our course participants, the Foundation has decided to postpone the Northeast Veterinary Pathology Conference in Silver Spring, MD, as well as the 2nd Spanish Seminar on Swine and Ruminants in Lleida Spain. It is our promise, having already discussed this matter with our co-sponsors, the Joint Pathology Center and MAJ Sarah Cudd, our local host for the NEVPC, and Drs Simon Priestnall, Alejandro Suarez-Bonnet, and our local host, Dr. Gustavo Ramirez, (for the Lleida meeting ) that we will reschedule both meetings at the earliest time when it is appropriate to do so. Refunds have already been processed for tuition for all registrants for the Lleida symposium. With sincere regret, Bruce Williams, DVM CEO, Davis-Thompson Foundation

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6th WNPRC Lab Animal Med and Pathology now a teleconference
by Bruce Williams March 12, 2020

March 12, 2020

The upcoming lab Animal Medicine and Pathology Seminar with iNternational Mock ACLAM Exam on 2-3 May will continue as a teleconference. There will be no classes held at the University of Wisoncin veterinary schools. the method of teleconferencing has yet to be determined. See attached flyer, schedule, and letter from course director Andres Mejia. Be safe! Bruce Williams, DVM CEO Davis-Thompson Foundation

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Cancellation of 2020 Gross Course
by Bruce Williams March 11, 2020

March 11, 2020

Due to the likely unavailability of our planned venue, we regret to notify our registrants, faculty and our colleagues that the Foundation has decided to postpone the 2020 Gross Pathology Review Course. We appreciate that The Ohio State University is acting with abundant caution in the face of the expanding COVID-19 outbreak in the US and we certainly understand their position. The uncertainty surrounding this global event is unfortunate, but we are confident that in retrospect, this will prove to be a prudent decision. The safety and welfare of our participants is our highest priority. For our registrants – we will be processing your full refund starting today. The local course director, Dr. Krista LaPerle, and the course faculty have requested the opportunity to host this course in 2021, and we have already agreed. We understand how important this course is to pathology residents and graduate students studying for certification examinations around the globe. Unfortunately, the opportunity to teach this course online has not presented itself at this time. I am hopeful that the over 150 hours of gross pathology lecture (available on the Foundation YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvGM1s5wysXq-HGLAyZzClQ?view_as=subscriber <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvGM1s5wysXq-HGLAyZzClQ?view_as=subscriber…> ) and the handout material from years’ worth of previous iterations of the Gross Pathology Review Course at: http://www.cldavis.org/syllabi_archives.html <http://www.cldavis.org/syllabi_archives.html?fbclid=IwAR0_GVg7Spl1888D8pxXH…>) will be helpful to you in your study. With sincere regret, Bruce Williams, DVM CEO, Davis-Thompson Foundation

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Complete Listing of Confirmed 2020 Foundation Courses (April Courses are a GO!)
by Bruce Williams March 4, 2020

March 4, 2020

Dear Colleagues: Attached please find a complete listing of Foundation meetings attached as a PDF document. At the current time, all of these course listed on these two pages are a “GO". Our current course in Pakistan is in its last day, and our meetings in the first week of April, the 2nd Spanish conference in Lleida, Spain and the Northeast Veterinary Pathology Conference are ON. Rest assured that the Foundation officers are conducting daily review and discussions with speakers and local course directors or our meetings in coming months, and the safety and well-being of our participants is our primary concern. We are currently evaluating a number of criteria that may impact any of our courses, including but not limited to government-issued travel advisories and restrictions for particular areas, emerging patterns of spread of COVID-19, rirline cancellations and other disruptions that will affect travel to and from course destinations, evolving University policies on speaker travel as well as the ability to congregate in a course setting, and any other factor that may impact our ability to conduct a seminar or course. It is our intent on each course to correspond frequently with our participants in order to share any information in days and weeks leading up to all of our courses. This is a unique situation in the history of the Davis-Thompson Foundation, and as a global community, we are all in this together. Sincerely, Bruce Williams, DVM, DACVP CEO Davis- Thompson Foundation

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