Here is the Foundation's August Newsletter! While COVID-19 may be shutting down everything around the world, the Foundation is busier than ever. And yes, the 3rd volume of Surgical Pathology of Tumors of Domestic Species - Soft Tissue Tumors - will be published this fall. (No, we are not taking advanced orders, we will just start filling them as soon as we have the books in hand.)
Inside, find information on some Foundation goings on including a big congratulations to our outgoing DE editor, Vini Carreira and incoming editor Claudio Barros, and some recaps of some great virtual seminars from last month!
As always, stay safe...
Bruce Williams, DVM,
CEO Davis-Thompson Foundation
Enjoy the full-resolution version of the August 2020 newsletter - 
CLD_Newsletter_-_August_2020.pdf (3.4 MiB, 4 hits)
For archive copies of newsletters, visit: http://www.cldavis.org/newsletter_archive.html
Great news: The Latin Comparative Pathology Group (LCPG)/Davis-Thompson Foundation (DTF)’s Diagnostic Exercises (http://www.cldavis.org/diag_exercise.html) have been added to the list of activities that provide recently board-certified ACVP diplomates credit toward their maintenance of certification.
This is a credit to the great job done by the LCPG and the DTF and all the contributors, who for the past 10+ years have been publishing periodically diagnostic exercises.
The template to prepare DE is attached here. For additional information and to see the past DEs, please, refer to http://www.cldavis.org/diag_exercise.html. The template for submission of cases is also attached here. It is necessary that the answer sheet is sent to us concurrently with the submission form.
DE_Submission_form.doc (277.0 KiB, 15 hits)
Please, send your cases to diagnostic_exercise_submission@list.cldavis.org and please do not hesitate to contact me (claudioslbarros@uol.com.br) if you have any questions.
Best regards
Claudio Barros
Editor in Chief
If anyone doesn’t think the Foundation isn’t the busiest veterinary pathology organization in the world, we beg to differ!
Attached here are .pdfs with CLICKABLE links so you can register for our upcoming free seminars aimed at our colleagues in the US, Australia (it’s late in the US but early in Australia - Europe, you are asleep), and in Brazil (these seminars are in Portuguese!)
They are free and for everyone to participate! We also will be recording these lectures and rebroadcasting (for a duration determined by the speakers) so people in “awkward” time zones can enjoy them too!
Don’t forget about the Foundation’s full Day seminars, workshops in association with other organizations like the ACVP (virtual this year as well), and more. Make sure watch your email, or visit the Foundation’s FB page or Instagram to catch all the announcements!
augustvirtualseminars.pdf (1.7 MiB, 22 hits)
australiansaturdayseminars.pdf (1.6 MiB, 17 hits)
brazilianseminars2020.pdf (1.3 MiB, 15 hits)
julyvirtualseminars.pdf (572.0 KiB, 21 hits)
Pathology of the American lobster - free virtual seminar Friday 14 August
A very unusual and unique presentation for this Friday's Free Friday Seminar! On 14 August at 1200 EDT, Dr. Sal Frasca, DVM, PhD, DACVP of the University of Connecticut will be presenting a seminar on ""Necropsy techniques, histology, and pathology of the American lobster". The name says it all. No recipes are included in this presentation, just hard science on a species you never get a full hour on! To register, visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NvVeXXq-SMmxZYA9c3IY0Q
All attendees will receive a certificate of attendance. This seminar is worth 2 credits toward ACVP MOC.
This Friday's Australian Seminar Series (8P EDT (New York), 5P PST (Los Angeles) in the US and 8AM Saturday in Perth and 10AM Satuday in Sydney) features Dr. Matti Kiupel, Dr. med. vet. Dr. habil. Matti Kiupel, BS, MS, PhD, DACVP, Professor of Pathology at Michigan State University on "Molecular pathology - Bridging the gap between molecular biology and clinical medicine"
Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oIxEKzN2Rvmy-OCw3lZAuA
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
The seminar is worth 2 credits toward ACVP MOC and all attendees to the live seminar will receive a certificate of attendance.
Here's our second August Day-seminar! On Tuesday, August 18th, the Foundation is presenting a day-seminar on Digital Pathology, in co-sponsorship with the American College of Veterinary Pathologists.
It is going to be a great introduction to varied aspects of digital pathology, and the first in a series of seminars/meetings on this rapidly evolving subspecialty (or is it a digital specialty?) We will be covering the basics of digital pathology, teaching applications, image analysis, articial intelligens, and deep learning.
Don't get left behind and get 8 hours of cutting edge CE for only $50!
Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rDvPnqbNS0iGyJ4oDu-8bg
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Scrambling for CE? - our friends at the Joint Pathology Center have provided 12.5 RACE accredited CEUS in association with the 2019-2020 WSC.
Each set of results (25 in all) and accompanying 5 question self-assessment is worth 0.5 CEUS.
There are a couple of ways to get your CEUs - you can download (or view) the full results (it’s 611 pages, so don’t print it!) and the tests are after each set of results here: - http://www.askjpc.org/wsco/wsc/wsc19/WSCProceedings2019-2020.pdf
Or you can download all of the self-assessments here - http://www.askjpc.org/wsco/SelfAssessment.php and go through the individual cases here: http://www.askjpc.org/wsco/index.php
..Whichever works better for you.
Scan the set when you are done and send them to me at these two emails: bruce.h.williams.dvm@gmail.com (I’m working at home right now( and bruce.h.williams12.civ@mail.mil (my office email for record keeping) so I can grade and send you your RACE certificate!
Did you know that the Foundation has made a Spanish Translation of Gardiner and Poynton's Metazoan Parasites in Tissue Section available on its website for FREE as a .pdf?
You can find it at: http://cldavis.org/PDFs/atlas_esp.pdf If you are looking for the softbound version of this book in the original English, these are available for only $40 (plus shipping) at the Foundation's online bookstore (https://store.cldavis.org) and you will be supporting the Foundation's many global initiatives!
The Foundation is very proud to announce the publication of a brand-new, absolutely FREE e-book explaining gross (macroscopic) description entitled "Opening Pandora's Box", by Drs. Paul Stromberg, Dr. Dan Rissi, Dr. Claudio Barros, and with minimal contribution (explained in the preface) by Bruce Williams.
This beautifully illustrated e-book is available to view online at http://www.cldavis.org/pandora or available for download in multiple electronic formats including .PDF, .epub, .azw3 (Kindle) and .mobi at: http://cldavis.org/pandora/ebooks.html
Chapters include Gross Description of Tissue Changes, Interpretation of Tissue Changes, Writing a Pathology Report, as well as an informative preface, introduction, and postface. The text is illustrated by over 80 beautiful gross images.
We believe this is going to be a fantastic help for pathology trainees, veterinarians, veterinary students, and anyone wishing to improve their gross descriptive skills.
If you are not familiar with the Joint Pathology Center's (JPC's) Wednesday Slide Conference, it is weekly slide conference (well 25 weeks a year) in which over 125 institutions submit two cases and writeups each year. Now in its 65th year, the results are a fantastic trove of information on pathology of all types in all species. They are always available via the JPC at https://www.askjpc.org/wsco/index.php, and here are this results from the last 3 conferences.
WSC #19 - 19-20_Conference_19_illustrated_final.pdf (3.6 MiB, 91 hits)
WSC #18 - WSC_1920_Conf_18_illustrated_final_reduced.pdf (2.8 MiB, 129 hits)
WSC #17 - WSC_1920_Conf_17_illustrated_final.pdf (3.3 MiB, 57 hits)
Vol 2 of the Surgical Pathology of Tumors of Domestic Species: Mammary Tumors is now on sale.
Mammary tumors, the second volume of the of the Surgical Pathology of Tumors of Domestic Species, has an international slate of co-authors (Drs. Valentina Zappulli, Laura Pena, Roberta Rasotto, Michael Goldschmidt, Adelina Gama, Jennifer Scruggs, and Matti Kiupel) and contains the latest classification schema and criteria for mammary tumors of the domestic species. This book is a vast improvement over its second edition counterpart with 150 additional pages, all color images incorporated directly into the text (no more flipping to the back of the book and hunting for the right images), and includes not only histology, but cytology, immunohistochemistry, and far more explanatory material on normal anatomy, embryology of common tumors and much more.
A 60-page, reduced resolution sample of the 1st edition is available at http://www.cldavis.org/PDFs/Surg_Path_Vol_2_sample.pdf to give you an idea of the sweeping improvements in the new series.
This second volume will be priced at $40 (plus shipping and handling.) Two books ship for the same price as one!
Online orders: http://store.cldavis.org/surgicalpathologyoftumorsofdomesticanimalsvol1mammarytumors.aspx
Fax or email orders - download your form here!: http://www.cldavis.org/PDFs/Surg_Path_Vol_2_order_form.pdf - email to cldavisdvm@comcast.net
If you have any problems with ordering online (sometimes it says we don't ship to a particular location BUT WE DO!!!) - please use the order form and send by email.
