Charles Louis Davis, D. V. M. Foundation
For the International Advancement of Veterinary
& Comparative Pathology
A Not-For-Profit Corporation, Incorporated in The
State Of Illinois, USA
US - IRS Employer's Identification Number
62-6091432
6245 Formoor Lane,, Gurnee, Illinois, 60031-4757,
USA
Telephone: 847-367-4359 Facsimile: 847-247-1869
E-Mail: cldavisdvm@earthlink.net
Revised June 19, 2000
Definition of Pathology
As defined by Jones and Hunt
(VETERINARY PATHOLOGY, 5th Edition) “Pathology is the study of the
molecular, cellular, tissue or organismal response of the living body (animal or
plant) when exposed to injurious agents or deprivations. ****** The key word in
the definition of pathology is response which represents a spectrum of
reactions ranging from cell death to malignant transformation. When this response is deleterious to the
individual, it is called disease.” The
Foundation adheres to this broad definition of pathology.
Mission of The Foundation
The mission of The Foundation
is to further The Advancement of Veterinary and Comparative Pathology. Through a variety of outreach educational
programs The Foundation strives to advance the study of the diseases of animals
(veterinary) and the comparison of diseases manifested by diverse species of
animals. In the pursuit and
dissemination of such knowledge, The Foundation, hopes to improve the health
and well
being of all animals in the
world, including man.
Foundation
Activities and Operational
Information
To stimulate the international
advancement of veterinary pathology The Foundation has, since its inception as
a private, operating, foundation in
1970, carried out a variety of educational outreach programs. In 1997 The Foundation requested of the
State of Illinois to be incorporated as a Not-For-Profit Corporation and of the Internal Revenue Service of the USA
to continue to be classified as a private, operating, foundation. It will continue to foster such programs as
a Not-For-Profit Corporation.
The Foundation has no existent
endowment to support its activities and operations. It must raise the funds necessary for the execution of its
programs and activities, each year, from the dues paid by its Corporate, Institutional and Individual
Members; from registration fees charged for some of its courses and
contributions made for its video tutorials.
The Foundation has no employees.
All administrative functions, membership services, presentation of
symposia and workshops and preparation and
distribution of video tutorials are performed by volunteers. There are over 120 volunteers at the service
of the membership. The Foundation does
not hire any consultants to raise monies, this also is performed by
volunteers. We have relied totally upon
volunteerism, and very successfully for over 27 years
1.) WORLDWIDE
CURRICULUM ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM which maintains a home page on the World
Wide Web at http://www.afip.org/CLDavis/index.html wherein hundreds of pages of lecture outlines and text by The
Foundation's volunteer faculty are available for downloading by the faculties
of veterinary pathology of the veterinary schools throughout the world. The program also produces video
tutorials of special overview lectures
by the volunteer Faculty, During
1996-1999, with financial support provided by several Corporate Members, one copy of each of 15 issues was provided
gratis to each faculty of veterinary pathology of each veterinary school, which
we could reach, in the world. The support of these Corporate Members ended
in 1999. The Foundation will continue the
program, but it will have to become self-supporting commencing with 2000. For the year 2000 the annual issue consists
of 12 one hour lectures on the diseases of ruminants, equine, swine and avians. The program is headed by a vice-president of
The Foundation. The Department of
Veterinary Pathology of The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Wash. DC is a
partner in this effort. The program is
supervised by the senior vice-president of The Foundation.
2.) DEVELOPMENT & PRODUCTION OF TRAINING
AIDS which is accomplished by videotaping the lectures presented by our
volunteer faculty and guest lecturers at the various symposia presented by The
Foundation each year. These are listed
on our home page and within an annual catalog
and are available to the membership for
prescribed contributions to The Foundation. The program is supervised by the senior vice-president of The
Foundation
.
3) REGISTRY OF STUDY MATERIALS which
consists of over 26,000 accessions of cases of virtually every disease of
animals. These specimens and related
documentation have been contributed to The Foundation by over 1000 veterinary
and medical pathologists throughout the world.
The data files are stored in a computer data base from which detailed
catalogs can be developed and printed by disease entity, species, type of
specimen, etc. These materials have
been organized into study sets by volunteers,
Approximately 25 (it varies from year to year) universities or
governmental institutions in the USA receive the loan of a new study set each
month for the instruction of undergraduate and graduate students or residents
in training. In addition to these
study sites, the Registry maintains sizeable (ca. 3600 accessioned cases per
center) collections of study materials
with relevant catalogs, at several Independent Study Centers. These are maintained at institutions which
provide housing and security for the collections and regulate their utilization
by individuals engaged in the study,
practice or teaching of veterinary or comparative pathology or related
scientific disciplines. The centers
currently in operation are located at the Bronx Zoo; the Armed Forces Institute
of Pathology; NIEHS at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; Baylor College
of Medicine, Houston, Texas; University of Illinois at Chicago; University of
Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; Colorado State University, Fort Collins,
Colorado; and the Office of the San
Diego County Veterinarian. Additional
Centers are planned for the Univ. of
Utrecht in the Netherlands, the University of the Philippines Los Banos in the
Philippines, and the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom providing
The Foundation is successful in gaining exemption from the CITES convention to
permit the international transport of the necessary study materials to these proposed Independent Study Centers
.
The
Registry also utilized The Foundation's histology laboratory service at
Westmoreland Research & Testing Laboratories, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania,
USA. to repair slides as they are damaged within the study sets as well as to
prepare new study sets depicting typical lesions of diseases of diverse animal
species, as reference material for the teaching of students of veterinary
medicine. The Registry Activities are
supervised by a vice-president of The Foundation.
4) CONTINUING EDUCATION IN VETERINARY
& COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY ANIMAL MEDICINE which is
accomplished by the presentation of workshops, seminars and symposia on a
continuing annual basis, utilizing a volunteer faculty of over 60
distinguished, university professors and senior staff of governmental or private
research institutions.
An annual 5-day symposium on the Gross
Morbid Anatomy of the Diseases of Animals is presented at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington,
DC..
An
annual 5-day symposium on Advances in the Study of Animal Diseases in North
America is presented at a host
university or government institution.
The host is changed each year. Recent and scheduled future hosts are:
1995, Purdue University; 1996, Baylor College of Medicine; 1997 Michigan State
University; 1998, North Carolina State University; 1999 The Ohio State
University; 2000, The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC and
2001 the University of Illinois at Urbana.
An
annual 3-day symposium on Advances in the Study of Animal Diseases in Europe is
presented at a host university or research institution. The host is changed each year. Recent and scheduled future hosts are: 1994,
the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands; 1995, the Royal College of
Pathologists, London, England; 1996, the University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland;
1997, Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, Macclesfield, England; 1998, the University of
Norway, Lillehammer, Norway; 1999, the National School of Veterinary Medicine
of Nantes, Nantes, France; and 2000, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.
An annual 5-day symposium
on Advances in the Study of Animal Diseases in Southern & Eastern
Africa is being presented on a rotating basis, at one of the
Schools of Veterinary Medicine in the Republic of South Africa, Zambia,
Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya or Uganda. This initiative was
developed in 1995. Recent and
future hosts are: 1997, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe; 1998,
University of Zimbabwe, Harare,
Zimbabwe; 1999, Makerere
University, Kampala, Uganda; and 2000, University of Pretoria,
Onderstepoort, Republic of
South Africa.
An
annual 4-day workshop and symposium on Laboratory Animal Diseases is
presented at the University of Illinois at Chicago,
An annual 3-day symposium on The Pathology
of Mutant Animal Models is presented at the
Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas
An annual 2-day slide seminar and
lectureship on Diseases of Laboratory Animals & Marine Life is presented
at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas.
A nominal registration fee is charged for
each of the above symposia, seminars or workshops, calculated to defray the
local site expenses and the transportation and travel expenses of the volunteer
faculty for each program.
In addition quarterly, 1-day symposia are
presented in the northeastern states of the USA. The
symposia deal with Toxicological Pathology and Drug Safety Evaluation. Attendance
is free to Members of The Foundation.
The symposia rotate between host institutions, which are Novartis
Pharmaceuticals, Hoffmann La Roche Pharmaceuticals and Bristol-Meyers Squibb
Pharmaceuticals. Each host site
provides an auditorium for the symposium and a box lunch for each attendee. .
For all of the above continuing education
symposia and seminars and workshops, the attendees receive a certificate of
continuing education contact hours.
The credit to be awarded for
each particular program is determined by the Department of Education and
Registration of the State of Illinois.
The certificates may be used by the attendees to substantiate their
participation in continuing professional education for license renewal as a
veterinarian or medical doctor in most states of the USA
5.) THE ZOO & WILDLIFE
PATHOLOGY PROGRAM provides
resources to advance knowledge of issues affecting zoo animal and wildlife
health. The program is supervised by a
vice-president of The Foundation and is counseled by a consortium of zoo and
wildlife veterinary pathologists and
clinicians. The members of this
Zoological Consortium are appointed by the Board of Directors of The Foundation
from numerous professional and academic organizations that are dedicated to the
health and well-being of exotic animal species. In addition, each Zoo and Aquaria which is an Institutional
Member of The Foundation may designate one of its veterinarians as its delegate
to the Zoological Consortium of The Foundation. The annual meeting of the Consortium is hosted by The Foundation
during the annual meeting of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians.
To accomplish this mission, The Foundation
provides service support to the residents in training at those zoo's within the
USA which have an intrinsic pathology program.
These are currently limited to a few institutions: The National Zoo, the
Bronx Zoo, the Milwaukee Zoo, the San Diego Zoo and the University of Illinois
Zoo Pathology Program which services the Brookfield Zoo, the Lincoln Park Zoo
and the Shedd Aquarium. The residents
in training are provided a monthly stipend by the institution where they are in
training. The Foundation provides
service support to the residents by supplying their preceptors with study
materials from The Foundation's Registry of Study Materials, video tutorials
from its Training Aids Program, and gratis attendance at any of the symposia
and seminars sponsored by The Foundation.
In addition the residents may utilize the facilities and study materials
at any of the Independent Study Centers of The Foundation.
In addition to service and support to the
residents in training, The program develops video tutorials, and micro slide
study sets on the diseases of zoo animals, fish and wildlife which are supplied
to the Zoos and Aquaria which are Institutional Members of The Foundation, for
use as reference material for their veterinarians.
The Foundation also sponsors workshops and
symposia on the diseases of zoo animals and wildlife which are presented
periodically at varied host sites in the world. Recent and future
symposia in this series are: June,1991 at Woods Hole, Massachusetts; May, 1994
at Virginia State University, Blacksburg, Virginia; June, 1994 at Loyola
University, Maywood, Illinois; June, 1997 at the Guadalajara Zoo, Guadalajara, Mexico; May, and 1999 at
the Berlin Zoo, Berlin, Germany. The
Foundation will endorse a Panda Pathology
Workshop in Chengdu, China in 2001, provided it can raise the necessary
funding for this vital project.
The program also provides three study sites
for Veterinary Student Externs, where
undergraduates, during their required clinical rotation in the senior year of
their veterinary studies, may spend 3-4 weeks in the animal health program of
the Bronx Zoo, New York, New York; the Zoo Pathology Program of the University
of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois; or The Marine Mammal Center, Sausalito, California This is an elective for the students and a
stipend of $250 per month is provided to each accepted student. The program is also open to students in
foreign countries. Applications are filed with the Director of The Foundation’s
Veterinary Student Extern
Program.
Commencing
with 1999, The Foundation became a co-sponsor with the Registry of Comparative
Pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology of the annual Seminar
on the Pathology of Zoo Animals, which is held each year in conjunction
with the annual meeting of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians. This is a no registration fee, all day
meeting, which is open to all individuals attending the AAZV annual
meeting.
In
1997 The Foundation established a ZooPath message board on the internet
for its Zoo & Wildlife Programs Division wherein Zoo Pathologists could
seek consultation or exchange data on their perplexing cases. Since 1999, this message board has been
opened up to pathologists with an interest in zoo, wildlife or exotic species
of animals.
The
programs of the Zoo & Wildlife Pathology Division are supervised by a vice
president of The Foundation.
6.) HONORS AND AWARDS PROGRAMS are carried
out on a continuing annual basis to encourage scholarship and to recognize
professional achievement or service to The Foundation. The awards are in the form of engraved
silver or gold plaques, as authorized by the Board of Directors of The
Foundation. The awards are presented at
an annual reception hosted by The
Foundation in the evening of the Tuesday of the week- long annual meeting of
the American College of Veterinary Pathologists. Attendance is limited to Patrons, Members and invited guests of
The Foundation.
The Faculty of Pathology of each veterinary
school in the USA and Canada, which is an Institutional Member of The
Foundation, selects a graduate student in
pathology for sustained
excellence in his or her studies at their institution and the teaching staff of
the pathology department of each teaching hospital or research
institution, which is an
Institutional Member of The Foundation, select an outstanding resident-in-training,
to receive an award for Scholarship in the Study of Veterinary Pathology. A suitably engraved silver plaque is
presented to each awardee at the annual Awards Reception. The actual presentation is made by a
graduate professor or training officer of each respective institution, who
explains to the assemblage the nature of the awardees achievement.
To stimulate
excellance in authorship, the author or authors of an article in the previous
years volume of the Veterinary Pathology Journal, deemed to be the best original
work appearing in the volume by the Advisory Board of The Foundation, receive a
prescribed, engraved silver plaque at the Awards Reception, presented by the
President of The Foundation, in the recognition of Journal Scholarship.
For
sustained excellence in the graduate level of teaching of veterinary pathology
an annual award ,of a suitable silver plaque, The Harold Casey Award For
Sustained Excellence In The Teaching of Veterinary Pathology, is awarded to a selected educator. The awardee is selected on the basis of
letters of nominations submitted by the educator's former and current graduate
students. Each graduate student must
detail why their candidate should receive the award. The letters of nomination are evaluated by the Advisory Board of The Foundation and the
selection is made by the Advisory Board.
The award is presented at the awards reception by the head of the
department of the awardee’s institution, with a detailed explanation of those
attributes which prompted the award nomination.
Annually, the Board of Directors selects a
Patron and/or Member of The Foundation
to receive the Barbara Jean
Thompson Award for Loyal and Sustained Service to The
Foundation. The award
is presented with suitable ceremony at the Awards Reception
Each year the Director of the Continuing
Education Symposium of The Foundation
nominates a distinguished veterinary pathologist to the Board of Directors to
receive an invitation to be the keynote speaker for the annual 5-day symposium
on Advances in Veterinary
Pathology in North
America. The invitee receives a
suitably engraved, authorized plaque, at the annual Awards Reception as the Robert
Ferrell Lecturer for the year.
Each
year the Director of the Gross Pathology Symposium of The Foundation
nominates a distinguished veterinary pathologist to the Board of Directors to
receive an invitation to be the keynote speaker for the 5-day symposium on the
Gross Morbid Anatomy of The Diseases of Animals. The invitee receives a suitably engraved, authorized plaque, at
the annual Awards Reception as the Samuel Thompson Lecturer for the year.
Each
year the European Division of The Foundation makes several awards to
graduate students of
veterinary pathology at European schools to assist them in attending the annual Symposium of the
European Division or the Symposium of the Southern & Eastern Africa
Initiative The award also includes a
waiver of registration fees. The
graduate students submit an application which is evaluated by the European
members of the Board of Directors and of the
Advisory Board of The Foundation.
The activities of the Honors and Awards Division are supervised by a
vice president of The Foundation
7.) PUBLICATIONS
OF THE FOUNDATION:
The
NECROPSY BOOK by Drs John M. King,
David C. Dodd & Lois Roth was published by The Foundation in December
1999. This 217 page handbook is a
valuable reference and guide for every clinical veterinarian and veterinary
pathologist who has any requirement to perform a necropsy on any species of
animal. Any veterinarian may obtain a
copy for a prescribed contribution to The Foundation.
A
MONTHLY NEWSLETTER is published by The
Foundation. A European edition is
published in England, and distributed to Members and Patrons in Europe, Africa,
Arabia and Australasia; and a North American edition is published in the United
States and distributed to Members and Patrons in North America, Central
America, South America, the West Indies, Asia
and the Pacific Rim. These
editions are mailed monthly to the 2000+ Members and Patrons in
55 countries. The Newsletter is a service to the
membership in that it carries the announcement and application form for each of
the symposia, seminars and workshops presented or cosponsored by The Foundation;
information about other membership services and brief articles on medical
photography, histopathology laboratory techniques and unusual lesions of
diseases of animals. The publication is
supervised by a vice-president of The Foundation
A
BIENNIAL MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY is published by The Foundation and distributed
worldwide to each Individual Member.
Affiliate Members may obtain a copy for a prescribed contribution to The
Foundation.
A
BIENNIAL CATALOG OF PUBLICATIONS is
published by The Foundation and is distributed worldwide to each Corporate
Member, Institutional Member, Individual Member, Affiliate Member, Subscriber
to the Video Tutorial Reference Libraries, Subscriber to the World Wide
Curriculum Enhancement Program, Patron of The Foundation, and Approved Book
Seller.
An
E-MAIL SERVER is operated by The
Foundation. This service is available
to all Individual and Affiliate Members, Patrons, Veterinarians who are
non-members of The Foundation, and Subscribers to the Video Tutorial Reference
Libraries, who have furnished their e-mail address to The Foundation. Individuals on The Foundation’s E-Mail
Server, receive timely e-mail communications concerning the Educational
Programs of The Foundation and allied professional societies and institutions,
and job opportunities. The publication
is supervised by the senior vice president of The Foundation.
A
ZOOPATH MESSAGE BOARD, on the internet, is
operated by The Foundation. This service
is available to all pathologists, irrespective of membership status in The
Foundation, with an interest in zoo, wildlife, or exotic animal species. The ZooPath Message Board affords an opportunity
for its participants to obtain the consultation of their colleagues and/or
exchange information on routine or unusual observations of diseases they have
witnessed. The service is supervised by the senior vice president of
The Foundation.
.
A
HOMEPAGE at http://www.afip.org/cldavis/index.html is
operated by The Foundation. It is
available to all interested individuals and presents numerous educational
documents on veterinary pathology and the activities and programs of The
Foundation. The publication is
supervised by the senior vice president of The Foundation.
VIDEO
TUTORIAL REFERENCE LIBRARIES The Foundation has developed a group of video reference libraries. Each library is composed of 6 T60 video
recorded lectures by Members of The Faculty of Discussants of The Foundation. For an annual subscription fee
the subscriber receives, and
retains, a tape every other month.
Separate libraries are available,
devoted to: Diseases of
Aquatic Animals; Legends of Veterinary Pathology;Zoo & Wildlife
Pathology; Diseases of
Wildlife; diseases of Swine; Domestic Animal Pathology; Diseases of Laboratory
Animals; Avian Pathology; Diseases of Companion Animals; Diseases of The Horse;
Diseases of Non-Human Primates; Diseases of Ruminants; and Diseases of Swine.
8.) VETERINARY STUDENT EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM. Since 1983, The
Foundation has offered undergraduate
students of veterinary medicine in Canada,
Europe and the USA, an
opportunity to work with graduate veterinarians in a diagnostic
laboratory, laboratory animal
care facility, or pathology service of a zoo [ see 5.) above ], during a free
period in their undergraduate curriculum.
Externships are available at the following
Institutional Members of The
Foundation:
The
Arkansas Diagnostic Laboratory of the Livestock and Poultry Commission,
Little Rock, Arkansas under
the preceptorship of Dr. James O. Britt.; The Biologic Resources Laboratory,
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, under the
preceptorship of Dr. B. Taylor Bennett.; The Wildlife Conservation Society
(Bronx Zoo), Department of Pathology, Bronx, New York, under the preceptorship
of Dr. Tracey S. McNamara; The Office of The County Veterinarian, Pathology
Department, San Diego California under the preceptorship of Dr. Kerry
Mahoney; The Animal Disease Research & Diagnostic Laboratory, South
Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota under the preceptorship of
Dr. Dennis T. Nelson; The Marine Mammal Center, Sausalito, California
under the preceptorship of Dr.
Linda Lowenstine. and the Zoological
Pathology Program of the University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
under the preceptorship of Dr. Michael Kinsel.
Students
submit their letter of application to The Foundation’s Director of Veterinary Student Externship Programs. Veterinary undergraduate students from
England, The Netherlands, Romania, Canada and the USA have spent 1 to 3 months
at one of the training sites. A few
positions are available each year for undergraduate students during the
academic interim between their 2nd and 3rd year in veterinary school. Such students receive a stipend of $250 a
month during their visitation from The Foundation. Students Externs are responsible for their own transportation to
and from the externship sites.
The
Foundation also offers externships to graduate veterinarians interested in evaluating
the career opportunities in zoo and wildlife pathology. The periods are for 4,
8, or 12 weeks. Interested
veterinarians submit their letter of application to the Director of the
Veterinary Student Externship Program of The Foundation. Veterinarians accepted
for the program receive a stipend of
$250 a month during their externship.