by Leila Maidana The 4th Paraguayan Seminar of the Davis-Thompson Foundation was held on 27 and 28 September in Asuncion, Paraguay. The meeting was organized by the Department of Pathology, in the Veterinary Faculty of the National University of Asunción. A total of 310 attendees followed enthusiastically the 16 hours of great presentations on Pathology … Read more
by Roger Kelly and Majid Ghoddusi Fixation of any tissue for electron microscopy is best achieved by perfusion of the tissue with chilled buffered glutaraldehyde via its arterial supply. But to run in a large volume of expensive fixative via an aortic cannula is problematic and wasteful in animals and birds larger than rats. We … Read more
Behind-the-Scenes of the educational opportunities and materials the Davis-Thompson Foundation offers is a skilled team of volunteers. These professionals carve personal time for tasks and projects that directly impact the Foundation’s mission.
To showcase our volunteers’ efforts, we are launching a space on our blog, newsletter and social media to bring awareness to their hard work and express our gratitude. Please join us in applauding their noble gestures and helping each see the great impact their efforts have made on our pathology community and beyond.
This month we will be uploading the newest addition to our free e-book collection: a Portuguese translation of Gardiner’s Atlas of Metazoan Parasites in Animal Tissues generously translated by Dr. Igor Santos, a pathology resident at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. The book will be available for viewing for free on … Read more
Behind-the-Scenes of the educational opportunities and materials the Davis-Thompson Foundation offers is a skilled team of volunteers. These professionals carve personal time for tasks and projects that directly impact the Foundation’s mission.
To showcase our volunteers’ efforts, we are launching a space on our blog, newsletter and social media to bring awareness to their hard work and express our gratitude. Please join us in applauding their noble gestures and helping each see the great impact their efforts have made on our pathology community and beyond.
Another in the series “Things I didn’t learn in the library”By Roger Kelly We’ve all been there. One or more round, pale nodules protrude from liver, or spleen, or lymph node… or indeed, from any tissue. You pause during the autopsy and consider the options. Something has been focally added to the tissue, so it’s … Read more
Another in the series “Things I didn’t learn in the library”By Roger Kelly ‘OK, who’s going to get the brain out?’ I had just put the question to a group of senior students and the duty pathology resident working on the autopsy on an adult Holstein dairy cow. We were in the large post mortem … Read more
A full-day workshop on Necropsy and Gross Examination was held on June 11 2023 in Paysandú, Uruguay. The workshop was organized by the Davis-Thompson Foundation and the Paysandú Veterinary Medical Center. The course coordinators were Drs. Carolina Matto, Lourdes Adrien, and Rodolfo Rivero. The meeting was held together with the 50th Buiatrics Uruguayan Meeting which … Read more
This all day, in person workshop will be held on Sunday, 17 September, 2023 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Central Time, in association with the annual meeting of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians in Nashville, TN. This eight-hour workshop brings together zoo veterinarians and pathologists for a full day of discussion of interesting … Read more
by Bruce WilliamsChief Financial OfficerDavis-Thompson Foundation In May 2023, the Foundation’s newest online endeavor, Noah’s Slidebox, became the largest repository of online educational whole slides, eclipsing the 1700 slides contained within the JPC’s Online Wednesday Slide Conference, and its cousin, the Veterinary Systemic Pathology Online (VSPO), at 925 slides. Continuing to grow by an average … Read more
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