Dr. Beate Crossley

Southwest Representative, Region 6 (Term: 2024-2027)

Beate Crossley, DVM, PhD, MPVM Southwest, Region 6

Beate Crossley, DVM, PhD, MPVM currently serves as the Section Head of Molecular Diagnostics and Virology/NGS at the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory system. After finishing her DVM at the Free University of Berlin she moved to the University of Wisconsin, Madison for her doctorate (Veterinary Virology) in collaboration with The Free University Berlin. After private practice in Germany for a few years, she returned to the US for a Master's in Preventive Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis. It was in Davis she first set foot in a veterinary diagnostic lab and saw that all of her passions and interests came together. The desire to help, the interest in diagnostic test development and validation, the work with producers, and the opportunity to prevent diseases were all there. Needless to say, she never left CAHFS. Dr Crossley has since served as co-director twice while the CAHFS lab was going through management transitions.  Within her first few months of working at CAHFS, California experienced an exotic Newcastle Disease outbreak. Beate was directly involved in high-throughput test development and she worked at the bench testing thousands of Newcastle disease samples. The outbreak lasted 9 months and imprinted her on the complexity and significance of outbreak diagnostics and the importance of the collaborative role state/university labs play nationally. Beate has been active in the NAHLN since its inception, with CAHFS being one of the original NAHLN labs... Beate joined AAVLD in 2006 and has since served on multiple committees (e.g. Virology, Epidemiology, Foundation, House of Delegates CA representative, and also related USAHA/AAVLD joint committees). With Dr Kathy Kurth, Beate founded the New Technology committee and helped develop and publish PCR guidance documents as part of that committee’s work. She became a member of the Accreditation Committee in 2018 and enjoys seeing all the good work you do.

Note from Beate: Greetings, AAVLD members. It is an honor for me to be considered for the role of the Southwest Regional representative to the AAVLD Executive Board. I have been a very thankful member of AAVLD throughout my career,  particularly enjoying the annual meetings every year and wishing there would be more time to connect with colleagues and hear about individual lab activities. As much as I love learning within my area of expertise, I also really look forward to the opportunities to venture out into other disciplines to see the big picture of diagnostic medicine. I sincerely appreciate this potential opportunity to further serve AAVLD as the next Southwest Regional Representative to the AAVLD Board of Directors.  

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