Laboratory Diagnosticians' News Matters |
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AAVLD Executive Director's Message |
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David Henry Zeman, DVM, PhD, DACVP |
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2022 Hybrid Annual Meeting On Track
Submit Abstracts Now!!
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Greetings fellow veterinary diagnosticians! I hope all is going well and that you are enjoying the fresh air of spring. We were excited to launch our call for abstracts on April 1st for the 2022 annual meeting in Minneapolis. Last year we had over 170 scientific presentations and several symposia for our attendees. This will be our second year of offering both live on-site attendance as well as virtual on-demand attendance. We have discovered that our membership appreciates both options. We understand that someone must stay home and take care of the laboratory, however, now those staying at home can still participate in a great continuing education experience from the convenience of their laptop. On-site attendees can also view recordings of every scientific presentation at their convenience during the meeting or after they come home. No longer do attendees have to make tough decisions about which presentation they have to attend if they are occurring concurrently.
So, if you are a mentor or advising professor of a diagnostician trainee, please work with them and encourage a scientific submission for a live presentation, recorded presentation or poster. Also encourage them to apply for various trainee awards including travel awards, and outstanding presentation awards. They are all listed in pertinent documents on our annual meeting website page; applicants apply as they submit their abstracts through our ScholarOne system.
If you are a Committee Chair, spring and summer are great times to meet with your committees and discuss issues for your discipline and prepare for final deliberation and action at the annual meeting.
Lastly, we are very proud of the response put forth by many of our AAVLD laboratories relative to the avian influenza outbreak occurring across the country. It has been a challenging time for the poultry industry, but I hear much appreciation regarding the laboratory response to testing needs, which continues as farms recover and begin restocking their barns. The NAHLN partnership between state and federal laboratories has once again proven to be a vital infrastructure for food producers and consumers. Thank you all for your dedicated efforts!
Most sincerely,
David H. Zeman, DVM, PhD, DACVP
Executive Director, AAVLD
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Call for Abstracts and Award Applications:
65th Annual AAVLD Meeting
October 6-12, 2022, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Submission opened April 1st & closes May 31st
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It is with hard to believe the annual meeting is just a little more than 6 months away. It was great to see many of you in-person in Denver last year and we are planning a similar hybrid format for the annual meeting this year in Minneapolis. All presenters, whether planning to attend in-person or remotely, will submit an electronic recording of their presentation that can be viewed by remote participants. As an added value, these presentations will be available for viewing on-demand by all meeting attendees until December 1st so there is no need to worry if you want to see two presentations that are scheduled at the same time.
The theme for the plenary session is “Technological Advances in Veterinary Diagnostics: What’s Here and What’s on the Horizon?” This session will include talks by experienced scientists in the fields of digital pathology, microbiology, toxicology, and bioinformatics. Please watch for more information on our plenary speakers and meeting details in upcoming newsletters and on our meeting website at aavld.org.
We count on you to further enrich the scientific program through the submission of your abstracts on cutting-edge diagnostic science. According to meeting feedback surveys, the quality of presentations in the Scientific Oral and Poster Sessions is the single most important reason for attending the AAVLD Annual Meeting. There are few other venues where veterinary laboratory scientists can present and share information across so many disciplines and learn from experts in other peer laboratories. Now is the time to start preparing your abstracts as the submission portal opened on April 1st.
Please visit the meeting website at aavld.org and review the many travel and presentation awards that you, your students, or staff may wish to apply for. If applicable, please also consider submitting a manuscript or brief communication based upon your oral or poster presentation to the Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation (JVDI), the official journal of the AAVLD.
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NE Regional Meetings of AAVLD and USAHA Held in Ithaca
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On May 2nd – 4th the Northeast Region held their 2022 joint meeting between the NEUSAHA, NEAAVDL and NE Wildlife Rabies Group in Ithaca NY. While the HPAI outbreak and lingering COVID related issues impacted the usual attendance, there were approximately 75 attending this year’s meeting.
Presentations (in person and virtual) included a wide range of topics such as HPAI, ASF, CWD, Environmental Toxins, Zoonotic Disease Spillover, aquaculture and more. Richard Ball, NY Commissioner of Agriculture, provided welcoming remarks and USDA updates were provided by APHIS administrators, Alecia Naugle and Kevin Shea. USAHA president, Dustin Oedekoven also attended and provided updates.
The dinner banquet, sponsored by Global Vet Link, was held at the veterinary school. Attendees were also treated to tours of the NY Animal Health Diagnostic Center, the veterinary school’s teaching hospitals and the Cornell dairy processing facility.
The Northeast Regional Planning Committee would like to thank the many generous sponsors for their support and to all the NY staff for hosting the event. It was great to spend time with colleagues in person and all are looking forward to next year’s meeting in New Hampshire.
Contributed by: Director Robert Gibson, NH Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
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Here is some news from the Washington State University Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (WADDL)
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Dr. Tim Baszler’s last day as WADDL Executive Director will be June 1st. He will be continuing on with the Paul G. Allen School of Global Health at 25% time for the next year. Dr. Kevin Snekvik will become the next Executive Director.
- WADDL is partnering with the WA Department of Health to increase statewide capacity in the detection of zoonotic disease. The partnership is starting with WADDL providing official rabies testing for Washington state, which is expected to start August 1st. Additional projects involving antimicrobial resistance surveillance and genomics are forthcoming.
- The combined Anatomic Pathology/ PhD program between WADDL and the Department of Veterinary Microbiology will be transitioning to a consecutive program with an initial 3 year anatomic pathology residency training program followed by a PhD program. The change will allow resident trainees to select from any research laboratory across the College of Veterinary Medicine.
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WADDL is implementing a new LIMS system (CoreOne for Labs) with an expected “go live” date of July 11th for the Puyallup Branch lab and August 1st for WADDL Pullman.
AAVLD congratulates Dr. Basler for his years of excellent leadership and wishes the new ED Dr. Snekvik the very best as new leader!
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For decades veterinarians have had an arsenal of safe and effective drugs for which to rely upon to manage common parasites in pets and agricultural animals.
But over the years, many parasitic species have developed varying levels of resistance to many of those drugs, creating challenges for veterinarians, including those like Dr. Laura Williams who has dedicated her career to the field of parasitology.
Williams, a licensed veterinarian at the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Washington State University, is one of fewer than 50 veterinarians in the United States board certified in parasitology by the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists (ACVM) and the only one in Washington. At WADDL, she serves as section head of the parasitology laboratory, a full-service diagnostic laboratory offering testing for the detection of parasitic infections in domestic and wild animals. Williams consults with the public, producers, and veterinarians in the identification, treatment, and control of parasites.
“The concern in parasitology is the resistance to medications – there are only a limited number of antiparasitics that we have available on the market,” Williams said. “I can’t speak about what is going to be available in the future, but it has been about 30 years since big classes have been released into the market, so there’s a lot of concern about once resistance develops in parasites like hookworms in dogs and cats or strongyles in horses and cattle, what do we do then? That’s why we have to figure it out before we get there.”
With resistance a growing concern, Williams is encouraging more sustainable solutions to parasite control and management, which means moving away from drugs as the sole management strategy. For large animal producers, many of these methods revolve around stocking density and maintaining a clean environment for livestock.
“Stocking density is by far the biggest contributor to too many parasites in animals,” she said. “Having too many animals in the same pasture just perpetuates the lifecycles of these parasites, and the animals can get overrun pretty easily. If you can spread out animals more and you can clean up poop from the pasture, that is probably going to make the biggest difference in controlling parasites.”
In addition to assisting with management practices and parasite control, Williams is also an expert at identifying parasites.
“As a pathologist and diagnostician, my job is to diagnose disease in animals. That interest extends to the identification of parasites too, whether they are sent to us from a live animal or we find them on a post-mortem exam,” Williams said. “It is nice that WADDL has the tools I need to be able to do that identification and ultimately help people control these issues in their animals.”
Williams earned a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from WSU in 2013 and stayed at the university for a combined pathology residency and doctoral program, which she completed in 2018. She became board certified in pathology in 2019.
After earning her doctorate, she remained at WSU as clinical instructor, teaching a parasitology course to veterinary students. The course fueled her interest in the field and she took a more active role in the parasitology section at WADDL. In September of 2021, she became ACVM board certified in parasitology.
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The Arizona Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (AZVDL) is proud to announce
Dr. Yan Zhang as the new Director beginning May 16!
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Dr. Zhang comes to Arizona after 24 years of diagnostic laboratory work including, since 2002, the Veterinary Virologist/Section Head of Virology, Avian Serology, and Molecular Diagnostics, Next Generation Sequencing, Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Ohio Department of Agriculture, Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
His extensive experience in leading veterinary virology and diagnostic laboratory service includes 2 years as the Ohio Lab’s Interim Director; 2 years as Assistant Director; 11 years as Adjunct Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University; 12 years as Principal Investigator on major grants from the FDA VET-LIRN surveillance system and special projects, and the USDA – Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s Select Agent Programs and National Animal Health Laboratory Network; and 2 years as the Section Head of Bacteriology, also at the diagnostic laboratory in the Ohio Department of Agriculture.
Dr. Zhang brings the leadership and expertise needed now and in creating a new future for the AZVDL’s service to Arizona and the nation.
Contributed by AZVDL
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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
~Mark Twain
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
~Sitting Bull
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
~Henry David Thoreau
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
~Margaret Atwood
Source: BrainyQuote
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JVDI goes green: online-only publication for AAVLD members as of January 2022 |
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Grant Maxie, DVM, PhD, DACVP |
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- As of our January 2022 issue, JVDI joins the evolution of scholarly journal publishing by going online-only for AAVLD members – for full details, see our November 2021 editorial.
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84% of respondents to our 2021-member communications survey were in favor of online-only publication of the Journal.
- Environmental benefits include: no consumption of ink and paper; no mailing wrappers (which resolves the issue of plastic versus paper); no mail deliveries; and no waste, recyclable or not, generated.
- These changes will also lead to some cost savings for AAVLD, allowing us to keep membership dues as low as possible.
- The transition to electronic publishing is happening worldwide and fits with the rest of our fully electronic publication process—from submission, through reviewing, revising, editing, proofing, and compiling.
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The AAVLD office will send members an email notification of the Table of Contents of each bi-monthly issue of JVDI. Full articles are embargoed and accessible only to subscribers (including AAVLD members and libraries) for 12 mo following publication; members will sign-in to the AAVLD website to access full articles.
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Effective November 2021, a full-issue, cover-to-cover PDF of the Journal will be available to all subscribers. As with a magazine or newspaper, the PDF can be scrolled through, or a topic selected and found by a word search.
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If you would you like to receive immediate notification of online publication of new articles (OnlineFirst) and electronic Tables of Contents (eTOCs) from SAGE, be sure to sign up for journal alerts on the JVDI website! https://journals.sagepub.com/home/vdi
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ATTENTION: Vendors Serving Veterinary Diagnostic Labs and the Animal Health Industry |
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2022 AAVLD Hybrid Trade Show
During the AAVLD/USAHA Annual Meeting 2022 Minneapolis
October 8-9, 2022
Onsite in Minneapolis and Virtual
We hope to see you there.
For details contact our meeting planner Kaylin Taylor
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JVDI in Focus
Our May focus is an article in JVDI’s May issue, in the Special Section on equine gastrointestinal diseases in horses: “Gastrointestinal biopsy in the horse: overview of collection, interpretation, and applications” by Jesse M. Hostetter, Francisco A. Uzal.
Abstract. Evaluation of gastrointestinal (GI) biopsies is a multistep process that includes reviewing an appropriate history, determining sample quality, and evaluating histologic sections. Selected diagnostic parameters that, in combination with intestinal histopathology, can be useful to localize disease to the intestinal tract in the horse include hypoproteinemia and hypoalbuminemia, ultrasound evidence of increased thickness of the small intestinal wall, and alterations in glucose or D-xylose absorption tests. Biopsies may be acquired either endoscopically, or via laparoscopy or standing flank incisional approaches. GI sections should be evaluated using a systematic approach that includes both architectural changes and inflammatory cell infiltrates. Although strategies have been developed for assessment of GI biopsies from the dog and cat, a standardized approach to interpretation of the equine GI biopsy has yet to be developed. GI biopsies pose several challenges to the pathologist, especially for endoscopic biopsies in which the quality of the specimen and its orientation may vary greatly. Architectural changes are arguably the most critical changes to evaluate. In a horse with chronic GI inflammation, such as occurs in idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), the cell types encountered frequently are macrophages, eosinophils, lymphocytes, and plasma cells. Increased numbers of these cell types are categorized loosely as mild, moderate, and severe. Specific forms of idiopathic IBD have been further classified by this infiltrate as granulomatous enteritis, eosinophilic enteritis, and lymphoplasmacytic enteritis; there is limited information on microscopic changes with each. Unfortunately, microscopic GI lesions are usually nonspecific, and determination of etiology requires further investigation.
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Figures 1–6. Equine gastrointestinal biopsies. Figure 1. Gastric endoscopic biopsy showing only mucosa sectioned tangentially. H&E. Figure 2. Colon surgical biopsy, including full thickness of the colonic wall. H&E. Figure 3. Duodenal surgical biopsy. This biopsy is mostly free of artifact and well oriented, so that numerous villus-crypt units with associated lamina propria can be evaluated. H&E. Figure 4. Gastric endoscopic biopsy that includes only the superficial aspect of the mucosa with artifactually detached mucosal epithelium. H&E. Figure 5. Duodenal endoscopic biopsy with severe crushing artifact. H&E. Figure 6. Duodenal biopsy with muscularis and serosa, but missing mucosa and submucosa. H&E.
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Be sure to sign up for JVDI email alerts! JVDI alerts let you know when new articles and eTOCs are available online. Alerts can be requested on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Note that only abstracts are available via email alerts—you will need to login through AAVLD or your institution to access and read the full articles.
Signing up for email alerts is simple.
2. On the Stay Connected tab dropdown menu, click on Email Alerts
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3. Choose New Content and/or Announcements, then Create Email Alert
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4. Then “Sign into SAGE Journals”
If you already have a SAGE account, use the left box My Account. Otherwise, click Register for a free SAGE Journals account. (You will be able to update your email alerts anytime and will see the message “Your email alert settings have been updated” at completion.)
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2022 Meeting Announcement |
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The organizing committee for the 20th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Animal Health Laboratorians Network/Réseau Canadien des Travailleurs des Laboratoires de Santé Animale (CAHLN/RCTLSA) is pleased to announce that we are jointly hosting our conference with the Canadian Association of Veterinary Pathologists (CAVP). The meeting is not organized to provide virtual attendance.
Meeting dates: CAVP – May 29, 2022; CAHLN/RCTLSA – May 30 – June 1, 2022
Meeting location: Hilton Whistler Resort and Spa, Whistler, BC
CAVP: The meeting is devoted to anatomic pathology. A special presentation by Dr. Craig Litwin, forensic pathologist at the Royal Columbian Hospital will follow the morning break. Case reports and student presentations in the afternoon.
CAHLN/RCTLSA: Theme: Partnerships in Health: Sharing Knowledge, Taking Action
Morning plenary presentations will address Covid-19, Salmonella spp and avian influenza. Scientific reports and student presentations in the afternoon.
Students: Awards for best oral and poster presentations.
Sponsors & attendees: Sponsorship packages and attendee registration packages can be requested at CAHLN2022@gmail.com
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AAVLD New Member Benefit MC l LMS is now here! |
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Take a look, the MC l LMS is now here!
AAVLD has brought you a new membership benefit that is sure to peek your interest. The MC l LMS is a Learning Management System. The MC l LMS will keep certification and training materials in one place. Members can view training videos, scientific presentations and much more. AAVLD is offering the current packages to AAVLD members as a membership benefit.
Some of the MC l LMS features:
- Single-Sign-On (SSO) with Oasis
- Content Upload and Management
- Customized Certificates
- Continuing Education Tracking
- Group-based Permissions
- Progress and Usage Reporting
View annual meeting materials now!
- Recordings of Scientific Sessions
- Proceeding's booklet (abstracts)
- Plenary Speaker lectures from the annual meetings
All are available to AAVLD members at no cost.
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2022 Hybrid AAVLD / USAHA Annual Meeting |
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Credit video to 'Don't Blink' |
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Annual Meeting Quick Links |
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Technological Advances in Veterinary Diagnostics: What's Here and What's on the Horizon?
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Sponsor and Exhibitor Opportunities
2022 AAVLD/USAHA Annual Meeting
Hyatt Regency Minneapolis-Minneapolis, MN
Meeting dates: October 6-12, 2022
Show dates: October 8th-9th, 2022
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2022
Abstract Submission opened April 1 and ends May 31, 2022.
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2023 Renewals are due by November 15!
'Membership is January to December'
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AAVLD membership is open to any individual interested in the disciplines and activities of veterinary diagnostic laboratories. Membership terms are by calendar year (January-December) and membership dues are payable by November 15th of the preceding year (to ensure inclusion in the annual membership directory, eligibility for committee involvement, and receipt of all six issues of the JVDI). Note: In order to receive a discounted rate for the Annual Meeting registration, you are required to be a current AAVLD Member. |
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Please select 'Renew Now' to access the Lapsed Membership renewal form. www.aavld.org ->Quick Links->Renew Now->here you can access the Lapsed Membership Form.
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AAVLD & News Worthy Events |
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Executive Board Meeting
August 10, 2022 (Virtually)
AAVLD/USAHA Hybrid Annual Meeting, Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, October 6-12, 2022 (Due to the uncertainty with Covid-19, there may be updates to the details of the meeting.)
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Do you have ideas to improve the AAVLD annual meeting? Contact David Zeman dzeman@aavld.org
Would you like to sponsor an event? Contact
What ever your contribution to the AAVLD mission, we need you!
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Thank You to our Exhibitors and Sponsors of the 2022 Annual Meeting!
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The generous contributions and participation by our Exhibitors and Sponsors is a huge part of our conference success year after year. On behalf of the AAVLD, we would like to thank these companies for their commitment to our organization and helping us to achieve our mission.
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Thank you
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AAVLD Foundation Committee
Brett Webb- Cochair
Francois Elvinger- Cochair
Pat Halbur, Christie Mayo, Kristy Pabilonia, Bruce Akey, Beate Crossley, Kerri Sondgeroth, David Zeman, Tim Baszler, Jamie Henningson, Donal O’Toole
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The AAVLD Foundation is a non-profit foundation that raises funds for the advancement of veterinary diagnostic laboratory disciplines through scholarship programs, student travel support to our scientific meeting, guest lectures, seminars, professional awards and research programs. Contributions to the Foundation are tax-deductible 501(c)(3), and can be paid when you renew your AAVLD membership. Thank you for remembering your AAVLD Foundation!
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