WDA Wildlife Pathology Workshop 2025
July 26 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm CDT
This in person workshop will be held Saturday, July 26, in association with the 73rd Annual International Conference of the Wildlife Disease Association, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
This will be a histopathology workshop in which participants will submit histopathology slides as unknown cases for others to evaluate. Whole-slide images will be dispersed to conference participants for evaluation approximately one month before the workshop. Prior to case presentations we will have a keynote lecture by Dr. Karen Fox titled, Applications of Next-generation Sequencing for Wildlife-Disease Diagnostic Investigations.
Call for Cases!
Do you have an interesting case with good microscopic lesions? Please submit it for inclusion in the workshop!
The day of the event, the submitters of each case will present the clinical findings, the gross lesions and finally their histopathology findings. They will summarize the case with ancillary diagnostic results and a final diagnosis of the case.
Instructions for Case Submission.
Please submit one, H&E-stained slide no later than June 2, 2025. Limit slides to one piece of tissue with the lesion, and try to avoid any artifacts on the slide.
You must submit a two page synopsis in Microsoft Word (not pdf).
Page 1: Submit page 1 on institutional letterhead. Include in this order:
Contributors, Institution(s), Signalment, History, and Gross findings
Page 2: Include in order:
Histopathology (full description of microscopic lesions), Clinical Pathology (summary of any findings if relevant), Morphologic Diagnosis (include the etiology in parentheses), and Discussion
Further submission instructions for the slides, case synopses, and PowerPoint presentations are forthcoming.
When: Saturday, July 26, 2025
Where: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Keynote Lecture: Applications of next-generation sequencing for wildlife disease diagnoses
Speaker: Karen Fox
Registration: WDA Website
Price:
Students and residents: $100
Career professionals: $200
This event will not include food, but restaurants are close by and we will provide 90 minutes for lunch.
