WORKSHOP: The Biologic Resources Laboratory's collection of study materials will be available for review, at the BRL, 1840 West Taylor Street, Chicago, Illinois, beginning at 8:30 AM, Wednesday the 21st of April and continuing through Friday the 23rd of April. The 2 x 2 slide collection includes 14,000 kodachromes many of which have been digitalized on laboratory animal diseases and management. In addition glass micropathology slides with histories and sixty-six T60 video tutorials, of The Foundation's Independent Study Center at The Biologic Resources Laboratory, will be available for individual and/or group study. Microscopes, Projectors (2x2 and LCD), and VCRs will be available at The Biologic Resources Laboratory.

PRACTICAL EXAMINATIONS: Members of the senior staff of The Biologic Resources Laboratory will give a Simulated Practical Examination, in the morning of Friday the 23rd of April.

SEMINARS: Members of the senior staff at the Biologic Resources Laboratory and invited speakers will present seminars in the afternoon of Thursday and Friday the 22nd and 23rd of April on Primate Pathology, Mouse Nomenclature, Rat Pathology, Review of Equipment Used in Biomedical Research, Review of Legislature, and the Use of Swine as a Surgical ModelTopics on Large Animal Techniques.

For general information about the Asilomar Conference Grounds, you can visit their website at http://www.visitasilomar.com/

Pathology trainees (residents and graduate students) will have a reduced fee of $125, while veterinary students will have a further reduction in their fee to $75. In order to qualify for these greatly reduced fees, the status of trainees and veterinary students MUST be certified by an advisor’s or faculty member’s signature. Trainees will be housed two to a room and veterinary students will be housed 3 to a room.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Stephen Raverty, DVM, DACVP
An Overview of Pathology Findings of Marine Mammals within the Pacific Northwest 1998-2008

Dr Stephen Raverty is a board certified veterinary pathologist and is head of the of the pathology section of the provincial veterinary diagnostic laboratory in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. For the last 10 years, Stephen has been actively involved in the investigation of infectious and noninfectious disease processes in dead stranded and live captured marine mammals. He is adjunct professor with the University of British Columbia, research associate with the Vancouver Public Aquarium, and consulting pathologist with the Calgary Zoo. Stephen has been involved with the diagnostic evaluation of sonar related stranded porpoises in the pacific northwest, health status of hunter harvested beluga in the western arctic, tissue response to tag implants in Hawaiian odontocetes, and evaluation of factors that may have contributed to the decline of the Irrawaddy river dolphins in Cambodia. He will present an overview of work undertaken on the health status of marine mammals within the Pacific Northwest.

The workshop will run from 8:00am until 4:30 pm and will consist of the Keynote presentation followed by 10-15 marine species case presentations. Fish, birds, and marine mammals are welcome. These presentations will focus on audience interaction to promote case discussion. All participants submitting a case will receive a DVD set of digital slides and case histories prior to the workshop.

Dr. Judy St. Leger
SeaWorld
500 SeaWorld Dr.
San Diego, CA 92109

The slide collection established by the team at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) will be available for review in the NCSU-CVM library. This collection includes biology and diseases of many laboratory animal species. Also available will be many of the Foundation’s video collection accumulated by NCSU. Computers and VCRs will be available. The library will be open extended hours the May 13th -16th.

The Laboratory Animal Medicine Mock Exam on Saturday, May 15th is open to all interested individuals and does not require registration to the symposium. Anyone wishing to attend only the mock exam should contact D. Kurtz directly.

The Gross course, now in its 37th year, makes its Florida debut, covering the major diseases of domestic and exotic species. Over four days, and utilizing thousands of excellent gross images, faculty will focus on the identification of common diseases of these species from its gross appearance, salient diagnostic features of each, and the formation of appropriate morphologic and differential diagnosis. This course is appropriate for practicing veterinary pathologists, pathology residents, and diagnosticians working with animals.

The second half of this course will be the third annual Gross Pathology Review course, based loosely on the first six chapters of McGAvin and Zachary's textbook, Pathologic Basis of Veterinary Disease. Also appropropriate for M.D. pathologists and residents, this four-intensive course covers both the basics of general pathology of cellular adaptation, inflammation, tissue repair, immunology, hemostasis, cancer biology, and mechanisms of toxiologic and infectious disease pathology, but also identifies salient recent developments in these areas. Each of these courses have received outstanding reviews in past years, and the combination of the two will hopefully ease economic burders on potential participants who can now attend both courses in the same trip.