Davis-Thompson Foundation
Welcome to the last issue of 2023 of the Davis-Thompson Foundation Newsletter, with the compliments of our outstanding managing editors: Javier Asin and Jeann Leal.
Although the year is coming to an end, we continue offering training opportunities in person and virtual all over the world. Look them up in the following pages and/or in our website: https://davisthompsonfoundation.org/events-calendar/
Organization of the "Big 4" courses of the Foundation for 2024 is in full swing. Registration for the General Pathology Course (January-February) is already open and registration for CLIIC will be opening soon. Please stay tuned for this and for additional information on the course on Pathology of Laboratory Animals and the Descriptive Course on Veterinary Pathology.
Also, make sure you do not miss "Evolution of uncertainty in surgical pathology, Part 1: recognition and acceptance" a brilliant article by Paul Stromberg, an icon of veterinary pathology and a long-standing member of the Foundation's Board of Directors. Part 2 to follow in January. Thank you, Paul!!
This month we are also proud to share links to a large amount of outstanding teaching material on musculoskeletal pathology of multiple animal species, generously shared by Dr Roy Pool, from Texas A&M. Thank you, Roy!
Last but not least, please do not miss our great volunteer appreciation campaign that started a few months ago and that will continue for several months to come.
Looking forward to see you in one of our upcoming training activities.
With my warmest regards
Francisco Uzal, Davis/Thompson Foundation CEO
Enjoy the full-resolution version of the December 2023 newsletter - 
DTF Newsletter - December 2023 (2.7 MiB, 86 hits)
Keeping track of webinars and for prompt information and networking, join our social media:
If you use Google calendar, please feel free to sync your calendar with the Davis-Thompson Webinar Calendar linked below. Make sure to save in your time zone, to set reminders to ON and never miss a webinar again!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CLDavisFoundation/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvGM1s5wysXq-HGLAyZzClQ
You can also visit the Non-BSTP Events and Webinar Page - https://www.bstp.org.uk/non-bstp-events/
Seeking Newsletter Cover Art Images
Have you captured an image you feel deserves to be shared with pathologists around the world? Every month is a new opportunity to submit images to be featured on an upcoming cover of the Davis-Thompson Foundation Newsletter.
Are you worried about image copyrights? Have no fear, the foundation does not claim copyright for any material published by us.
Submission information (see attached document for detailed information): 2023_General_newsletter_cover_image_requirements.pdf (802.4 KiB, 0 hits)
Send your image and description by e-mail to: images@davisthompsonfoundation.org
From the JPC - upcoming changes in VSPO
From the JPC: We wish to make you aware of an upcoming change to VSPO. As a result of continued evolution of programming languages and the increased familiarity with whole slide images (WSI) by our customer base, effective 31st August 2023 the JPC will discontinue the “hotbox/diagnostic series” feature on the VSPO site. The “hotbox” feature was programmed in HTML v.3.2 (a full decade before the advent of WSI), but is no longer compatible with current programming languages. Disabling this feature means that viewing VSPO entities as unknowns is also discontinued; however, we are exploring means to restore this particular feature with WSI. Whole slide images continue to be available for each entity and can be accessed by using the username “guest” with no password.
Free online Veterinary Ocular Pathology Atlas
The COPLOW lab is proud to announce we have just launched the Veterinary Ocular Pathology Atlas (VOPA).
The VOPA is a FREE online histopathology atlas with dozens of veterinary ocular pathology cases from the COPLOW lab containing clinical information, gross images, and fully annotated scanned (APERIO) slides.
The VOPA project was spearheaded by Dr. Ryan Taylor (former COPLOW pathologist, now anatomic pathology faculty at Cornell University) and through a partnership between COPLOW and VetDermPath Atlas, particularly Dr. David Gardiner (DACVP) and Drs. Bernstein and Whitley.
Our hope is that the Atlas will be an ever-expanding resource of study material for those interested in ocular pathology, from vet students to board certified pathologists and ophthalmologists.
The Atlas can be freely accessed through the link - http://bit.ly/3zgmbcx
Curious about multiomic pathology?
Don't have any idea what it is? Explore with other histopathologists.
Greetings Histopathologists.
Mass multiplexing immunofluorescence and in-situ hybridization in FFPE have just started to decode our 200-year old oral tradition of interpreting H&E slides. If you've spent time around the engineers, microscopists, molecular biologists and bioinformaticians who are advancing this technology, you may have longed for someone you can discuss these technologies and data with from a histopath perspective. Long no more! We are starting a Multiomic Histopathology Journal Club where we can speak pathology and anatomy without wondering if anyone understands our language. At the same time, MHJC will always be a place where newcomers can be comfortable asking basic questions like what is segmentation?
Anyone who is interested please send me an email. Have a great day histopathologists!
Ken (Self-appointed secretary of the MHJC)
Kenneth Kim Dipl. ACVP | Director, Histopathology Core | La Jolla Institute for Immunology | 9420 Athena Circle, La Jolla, CA 92037 | kenneth@lji.org |
Davis-Thompson Foundation News and housekeeping:
- On our registration webpage, you will note that we are now asking for your license state/providence and license number if applicable. This information will be submitted to RACE as requested after the meeting, in order to validate our programs and your continuing education. RACE also recommends that you register for a free account at https://cebroker.com/ so your state board can track your attendance.
- This month we will start our membership drive. Stay tuned for an upcoming email with additional information. Meanwhile, if you agree that we bring you valuable information, please consider renewing or starting a membership. Members receive many benefits, some of which you can find listed via link: https://davisthompsonfoundation.regfox.com/individual-membership
- There is always the option to make a donation to the foundation here: https://davisthompsonfoundation.regfox.com/donation
- Joining a webinar. Please remember that you need to register for a webinar with the same email that you are registered on Zoom. You will not need a passcode to get in a webinar. For a step by step instructions please see the info chart in the attachments. If you don't know how to log into your zoom account, follow this video tutorial: https://youtu.be/N54rrH4HU5o
BOOKS/LITERATURE
Please note this offer does not include shipping.
Christmas_Present_Special_2022.pdf (451.0 KiB, 110 hits)
This document with a summary (and great photos!!!!) of diseases that occurred in the Eastern part of Uruguay, put together annually by Dr Fernando Dutra Quintela. Dr Quintela is an incredibly experienced and detailed-oriented pathologist, and a Latin American pathology legend!. He is currently the Head of the Laboratorio Regional Este de DILAVE “Miguel C Rubino”, Uruguay.
Dr Quintela has been putting together this summary uninterruptedly for 12 years and although over the past few years we shared it with the Spanish speaking colleagues through the Latin Comparative Pathology Group, we decided that this jewel is simply “too good” not to share it with the rest of the world, so here you are.
The document is in Spanish, but as Dr Bruce Williams well put it: “it is fantastic how pathology transcends any language barrier”.
Archivo_Veterinario_del_Este_-_2021.pdf (2.2 MiB, 358 hits)
Preorder now for Haschek and Rousseaux's Principles and Practice of Toxicologic Pathology
It's not a Foundation publication, but the authors have all been great supporters, and some officers of the Foundation, so we are happy to give this one a boost! (Just don't expect Foundation pricing from Elsevier!)
Haschek and Rousseaux's Handbook of Toxicologic Pathology, Volume 1: Principles and Practice of Toxicologic Pathology - 4th Edition (elsevier.com) https://www.elsevier.com/.../haschek/978-0-12-821047-5
Haschek and Rousseaux's Handbook of Toxicologic Pathology,
Volume 1: Principles and Practice of Toxicologic Pathology
4th Edition - October 20, 2021
Editors: Wanda Haschek, Colin Rousseaux, Matthew Wallig, Brad Bolon
Hardcover ISBN: 9780128210444
eBook ISBN: 9780128218297
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.
