Career as a veterinary pathologist has spanned over 35 years, the last quarter of a century with the largest veterinary diagnostic reference laboratory in North America. In that role, has held the title of Chief of Anatomic Pathology and built, nurtured, and led an incredible team of over 40 board certified anatomic pathologists serving thousands of veterinary hospitals in the US, Canada, and Far East. During those 25 years of tremendous growth and change in the profession of veterinary medicine and pathology, proud to have implemented two major technology breakthroughs in diagnostic veterinary pathology: 1) the first successful and largest conversion, in either human or veterinary medicine globally, to 100% Digital Pathology – forever changing how Anatomic Pathologist work and enhancing pathology consultation services to practicing veterinarian clients, which lead to 2) the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to pathology, which has fundamentally changed prognosticating cancer in animals. Both innovations directly and immediately led to advancements in animal health.

Signed out over three-quarters of a million biopsies consultations in my career. Greatest strengths and loves are client interactions with fellow veterinarians, both primary care and specialists; in person, by phone or digitally, reading biopsies for trusted clients, and developing and strengthening the pathologist-client bond. Expertise in surgical pathology and client relationships are two subjects very competent in and genuinely enjoyed. For decades, has sought a better method to speed delivery of biopsy results to veterinarian clients, so that a timelier diagnosis can lead to improved patient care. As such, fascinated by the evolving new technology to radically change the science of how biopsies are processed and readout by pathologists, bypassing the time-consuming transport, expensive and laborious tissue processing at reference laboratories that has not changed in human and animal pathology for over 150 years. By shifting to a point of care (POC) delivery model, and using technological advancements, surgically fresh tissues can be imaged at the veterinary hospital and sent digitally direct to the pathologist remotely for a diagnosis and, when appropriate, tumor surgical margins within 1-2 hours of tissue sampling.