 Dr. Francisco UzalVice President (Term: 2024-2025)
Francisco A. Uzal, DVM, FRVC, MSc, PhD, Dipl. ACVP, is a Distinguished Professor of Diagnostic Pathology and Branch Chief of the San Bernardino Laboratory of the California Animal Health and Food Safety, UC Davis. He trained in Argentina (DVM), Sweden (FRVC and MSc) and Australia (PhD and Post-Doc). He is a leading expert on clostridial diseases of animals with a special emphasis on enteric diseases, and a special interest in gastrointestinal diseases of horses, ruminants, and other farm animals. Dr. Uzal has published ~ 355 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is the senior author of the chapter on “Alimentary Diseases”, for the 6th edition of “Jubb, Kennedy and Palmer’s Pathology of Domestic Animals” (2016, Elsevier; 7th edition forthcoming) and the first author of the textbook on Clostridial diseases of animals (2016, Wiley and Blackwell; 2nd edition forthcoming). He has also authored chapters on clostridial diseases in several traditional veterinary textbooks such as Diseases of Poultry, Diseases of Pigs, and Textbook of Internal Medicine. He has an active NIH research program on clostridial diseases with special emphasis on enteric diseases produced by Clostridium perfringens. He is a Diplomate and Distinguished Member of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists, a member of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians,s and a member of the Argentinean Academy of Agronomy and Veterinary. He was the president (and founding member) of the Latin Comparative Pathology Group for 6 years and he is currently president-elect of the same organization; he was for 1.5 years the president of the Davis-Thompson Foundation and he is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the same Foundation. He has a long history of service to AAVLD, including being the chair of the Enteric Diseases Committee and the co-chair of the Pathology Committee. The latter has been in great part responsible for the surge in pathology trainees attending the annual meeting of AAVLD over the past few years. Dr Uzal is an associate and Photo Editor of the Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, Associate Editor of Anaerobe, Veterinary Research Communications and Microbiology Spectrum, and a member of the editorial board of several other journals. He is fully bilingual (Spanish and English). Back to our teamBack to our team |
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