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Anđelo Beletić, Assistant Research Professor, European Specialist in Laboratory Medicine (EuSpLM), obtained PhD from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Following 13 years of scientific and routine expertise in human Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, in 2015. he joined the research team of Prof. Kovačević Filipović at the Department of Pathophysiology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia.

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Zoe Brooks is a recognized thought leader in laboratory risk management. She is author of AACC’s Performance Driven Quality textbook. Zoe served as an advisor on CLSI EP 23 Laboratory Quality Control Based on Risk Management and has created a software program to bring these recommended best processes to life.

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Professor David Eckersall graduated from the University of Liverpool with a BSc in Biochemistry (1973) and a PhD in Biochemistry from University of Edinburgh (1977). Prof Eckersall is the Professor of Veterinary Biochemistry at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow. His research has been focused on the diagnostic applications of protein analysis and proteomics in veterinary medicine and has published over 200 peer reviewed papers, holds 4 patents and co-edited the first and second books on animal proteomics (Methods in Animal Proteomics, 2011, Wiley, Proteomics in Domestic Animals: from Farm to Systems Biology, 2019, Springer).

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Dr. Kathleen Freeman is a veterinary clinical pathologist based in the UK. She is a Founding Diplomate for the European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology. She is the recipient of the 2014 Educational Award of the ASVCP. She is the Founding Chair for the ASVCP Quality Assurance and Laboratory Standards Committee and for the ECVCP Laboratory Standards Committee. She has special interests in competency-based veterinary medical education, equine pathology, laboratory quality and digital cytology.

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Consultation on laboratory diagnostic testing, lecturer on medicometrics, curator art collections
Position: director, share-holder consultancy agency and CEO “The ART lab”

He was educated as an analytical chemist (Universities of Utrecht and Delft in The Netherlands), registered as clinical chemist (EU as well as NL), obtained a PhD degree as a statistician.

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Peter remained at Glasgow University after graduating in 1989 as Small Animal House Physician, Research Scholar and Lecturer in Clinical Pathology until 1996 obtaining his PhD in 1995. Subsequently, Assistant Professor at Michigan State University from 1996 and Managing Director of NWL and CSLS 2002-2014, and now Professor of Endocrinology and Clinical Pathology, University of Nottingham. He is a past president of the European Society of Veterinary Clinical Pathology

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Dr Laetitia Jaillardon is a veterinary clinical pathologist based in the National Veterinary School of Nantes (France). She is an assistant professor in clinical pathology since 2017. She is also the head of a clinical pathology laboratory dealing with approximately 50 000 analysis per year, including a large proportion of endocrinology in all species.

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Milica Kovačević Filipović, DVM, obtained her Ph.D. (2005) at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Belgrade (FVMUB), Serbia. She had 18 months of postdoctoral studies in research on stem cells in France (Institute for Natural Substances Chemistry, CNRS, Paris and National French Institute for Blood, Bordeaux).

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PD Dr. med. vet. Rachel E. Marschang, DECZM (herpetology), FTÄ Mikrobiologie, ZB Reptilien
PD Dr. Rachel Marschang qualified as a vet from the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany in 1995 and has been working in reptile medicine and infectious diseases ever since. She received her doctorate in viruses of tortoises from the Jusus Liebig University and her habilitation in Environmental and Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Virology from the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany.

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Cameron Martin graduated from Queensland Institute of Technology with a BAppSc in Medical Technology and took a position with the Mater Public Hospitals in Brisbane. He worked in Haematology and Immunology, for 15 years, obtaining an MAppSc Medical Laboratory Science (Haematology) from Queensland University of Technology during this time. Cameron then supervised the district laboratory at Caboolture Hospital for 10 years, completing a Master of Technology Management from Griffith University.

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Carlo Masserdotti graduated in Veterinary Medicine in 1990 at the University of Milan.
From 1993 his interest was mainly focused on clinical pathology, particularly in diagnostic cytopathology, attending specialistic courses and references institutions in Italy and in foreign countries. He is author of scientific papers concerning cytopathology and he had some lectures at national and international meetings.

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Dr Alberto Muñoz is a veterinarian with a PhD in Veterinary Sciences at the University of Murcia (Spain). In the last years, he focused on the method development for acute phase proteins determinations and new biomarker discoveries using non-invasive samples in different veterinary species.

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Dr Jasmina Nikodinovic-Runic obtained PhD degree in Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry from University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia) in 2004. She worked as the postdoctoral researcher at University of Montana, Missoula (USA) and University College Dublin in Ireland, before joining the Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, University of Belgrade (Serbia) in 2011. She now leads Group for Eco-Biotechnology and Drug Development.

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Kelly du Preez graduated from the University of Pretoria in South Africa as a veterinarian in 2013. During her years in small animal private practice, she developed a keen interest in diagnostics and clinical pathology and went on to complete a BVSc honours degree part time and, later, to start a residency in veterinary clinical pathology at the University of Pretoria.

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Jožko Račnik, dr. vet. med., PhD, dipECZM (Wildlife Population Health) is an Associate Professor, and Head of Clinic for Birds, Small Mammals and Reptiles at Veterinary faculty, University of Ljubljana. He is Slovenian specialist in veterinary medicine of birds, small mammals, and reptiles and an EBVS® European Veterinary Specialist in Wildlife Population Health.

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Elizabeth Schmidt graduated with BSc in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Parana State (UFPR), Brazil in 1997; with a Master Degree in Veterinary Sciences in 2000, and from the Sao Paulo State University, Brazil (UNESP) in Veterinary Clinical Pathology with a PhD in Veterinary Medicine in 2008. She undertook a postdoctoral research study (FAPESP Grant) for two years (2008-2009) in Veterinary Pathology at Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), campus of Jaboticabal, Brazil. She spent six months as a training fellow (2013) in Veterinary Biochemistry (Marie Curie Institute Grant – FP07 Nematode Health System) at the University of Glasgow.

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Martina is a Veterinary Clinical Pathologist based in Switzerland. Since 2013, she is working at the animal hospital of the University of Zurich and will soon join Roche Pharma in Basel. Her main interests include haematology, digital cytopathology, quality management and toxicology.

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Dr. Austin Viall is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology at the University of California Davis. Originally hailing from the Pacific Northwest, Austin graduated with his DVM from Washington State University in 2010 and completed a clinical pathology residency and MS at Oregon State University in 2014. Austin was a member of the clinical pathology team at Iowa State University in 2014 until very recently and joined the University of California Davis clinical pathology group in 2022.