Thank you Bruce for your nice words and accolades. As you mentioned I am passionate about teaching, and I am very proud to be part of the team leading the way with this new venture of virtual seminars. It gives me enormous pleasure to work with you and the Foundation, engaging talent new and old, and sharing our knowledge and expertise to trainees and pathologists worldwide. I join you in extending my personal thanks to our team of collaborators, faculty and other speakers, and to all of our back-up and support crew for their fantastic hard work and dedication. You are a very big part of the Foundation’s success. Paco From: Bruce Williams <bruce.h.williams.dvm@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2020 11:42 AM To: davis_members@list.cldavis.org Subject: A very important and overdue note of thanks... Recently I have gotten a lot of really nice emails about the good work that the Foundation is doing with our virtual seminar series and how it really is filling a void left by the cancellation of so many meetings this year. I just want people to know that while my face may be all over it (sorry I’m not more Brad Pitt-like), there is absolutely no way I could do all this by myself, and there are a lot of people who deserve notice and credit. I am remiss for waiting this long to do it... First and foremost, our Foundation President Paco Uzal, who puts in such incredible long hours keeping everything running, if not smoothly, then with that appearance (and really, which is more important?) It took a lot of years to find someone that not only shared my vision, but could rearrange their schedule (yes, we all have real jobs that pay the bills), to make it a reality. Paco is incredibly devoted to international education, and he has brought the same fire with him to global (and national) education that he did to Latin American education before he became President of the entire Foundation. There is also a great crew of young (at least younger than me) pathologists who are spearheading the "Virtual Seminar Committee" and are responsible for doing all of the heavy lifting, as there are a lot of moving parts. RACE requires applications to go in on time, evaluations to be created, and certificates to go out on time. We need moderators for the seminars, ideas for the seminars, people to corral speakers. They brought a much more advance online evaluation system to the Foundation (why did I wait so long?). Even the videos have to be edited and cleaned up (blank spaces taken off the front and end and if you see some of the ones from yesterday, we now have a cool intro and watermark. Here are the people who make me look good when I upload the videos and flyers. I am putting some of the things they do beside their name so when you see their work, you will think of them: (but everyone pitches in to get everything done and some are so good at everything, they haven't found a niche!) Jeann Leal - (our graphic designer - all those flyers) Laura Bassel - (Survey Monkey and boy is the output amazing) Rafaela De Negri - (great moderator) Laura Setyo - (great moderator) Sophia Rosales Martinez - (she is a much better moderator than she thinks) Rachel Neto (she writes great reviews for the newsletter and can do anything behind the scenes) Whitney Zoll (RACE applications, certificate distribution - this sounds easy but it is a killer) Neha Mishra (certificates) Brigid Troan - (did you see her moderate this last Tuesday - that's 11 hour's folks and she was perfect till the end!) Marie-Odile Benoit-Biancamo - (video editing and she may just have the longest name in the Foundation!) Will O'Neill - (video editing, and I rarely involve residents as they have more important things to do) and of course Jim Britt - who makes sure we ALWAYS get our RACE credits. Thank you to all these folks and you deserve all the credit. Bruce Williams, DVM CEO Davis-Thompson Foundation