ADDL STAFF NEWS

The serology laboratory at ADDL has successfully completed USDA proficiency testing for Equine Infectious Anemia, Bluetongue and Bovine leucosis.  These check tests are administered at regular intervals in order to maintain a laboratory’s ability to conduct official tests.  Serology technicians Brenda Turner, Tammy Crowell and Jennifer Wells are to be commended for their efforts.

Dr. Evan Janovitz, ADDL Pathologist, has served for six years as a member of the AmericanCollege of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP) examination committee.  The ACVP is an organization of veterinarians who specialize in practicing, teaching and performing research in veterinary pathology.  Diplomate status is attained by passing a certifying examination (CE), for which candidates qualify only after at least three years of supervised post-DVM study and training.  The ACVP was established in 1949 making it the oldest of the current specialty colleges recognized by the AVMA.  The Examination Committee consists of a group of ACVP diplomates selected to write, edit, administer, and grade the annual CE.  In 1999, Dr. Janovitz was chairman of the Anatomic Veterinary Pathology Committee and will complete his service in 2000.  The Examination Committee is active throughout the year, writing and editing questions during winter and spring, meeting in Colorado to assemble the CE in June, and administering the CE in Iowa in September.  The veterinary pathology section itself is subdivided into clinical pathology and then (by the candidate’s choice) three of the following five sections:  dog and cat pathology, large animal pathology, laboratory animal pathology, wildlife and non-mammalian pathology, and toxicologic pathology.

ON THE ROAD

  Drs. Leon Thacker, Charles Kanitz, Bill   VanAlstine, Brad Njaa, and Marlon Rebelatto   attended the North Central Conference of   Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians at   MichiganStateUniversity, June 2000.

  Drs. Leon Thacker, Ching Ching Wu, and  Tsang Long Lin attended the American  Veterinary Medical Association  and American  Association of Avian Practitioners annual  meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah,  July, 2000.

  Drs. Janice Lacey and Victoria Owiredu-Laast,  ADDL Graduate Students, attended the Armed   Forces Institute of Pathology Descriptive  Veterinary Pathology course in QashingtonD.C.,   June, 2000

   Dr. Ching Ching Wu served as technical committee   Member at the National Poultry Improvement Plan  Meeting in Colorado Springs, CO, June 2000

   ADDL Graduate Students Drs. Janice Lacey, Victoria,  Owiredu-Laast, Karen Tucker-Gillum, Matt  Renninger, Marlon Rebelatto, and Kaori Sakamoto    presented papers at the Midwest Association of    Veterinary Pathologists meeting in Bloomington In,   August, 2000.

    Mary Woodruff, Virology Lab Supervisor, attended  the Association of Veterinary microbiologists   meeting and workshops in Savannah GA,    August 2000.