Midwest Association of

Veterinary Pathologists

This year’s meeting will be hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and held at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine in Urbana, IL.

We encourage you to consider sharing cases with reference to oncopathology and include both clinical and anatomic pathology material in your presentations.

For all email correspondence regarding the meeting, please include ‘MAVP’ in the subject line. Please reach out to the moderator with questions: Dr. Miranda Vieson (mvieson@illinois.edu) 

REGISTRATION AND ACCOMODATIONS

Registration:

There is no registration fee for the meeting, but we do need basic information regarding expected participants. A certificate of attendance will be provided. Whether you plan on attending the meeting as a case presenter or only as an attendee, please register using the following link: 

https://go.illinois.edu/MAVP2024reg

Our presenter spots are currently filled as of 6/20/24!

• We will contact you by email to confirm that you have successfully reserved a case presentation spot within a week of submission. 
• For general registration, we ask that you register by August 9, 2024.
• If you are presenting, the deadline for uploading case synopses and shipping glass slides is July 8, 2024 (see below for further instructions).

Accommodations:

The meeting will be held at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine in the Veterinary Basic Sciences Building located in Urbana, IL. Ample parking is available at the College at no cost on the weekends (F-27 lot). Breakfast will not be provided at the meeting. A block of rooms is available to MAVP participants at the hotels listed below, however this is not an all-inclusive list of possible accommodations in Champaign-Urbana.

iHotel

1900 S. 1^st Street

Champaign, IL  61820

217-819-5000 --> Block code: MAVP824

(2 night minimum)

Comfort Suites Urbana Champaign, University Area

2001 N. Lincoln Avenue

Urbana, IL 61801

217-328-3500

Hilton Champaign/Urbana (3 hotels): 217-359-1151  (Click here for reservations)

Hilton Garden Inn                Homewood Suites                Home2 Suites

1501 S. Neil Street               1417 S. Neil Street               2013 S. Neil Street

Champaign, IL 61820          Champaign IL, 61820          Champaign, IL 61820

CASE SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Glass Slides:

• Thanks to a generous offer from Dr. Bruce Williams, slides for case-based presentations will be scanned and hosted on the Davis-Thompson Foundation website in perpetuity.
• In order to ensure consistency in scanning quality and whole slide image file format, we ask that you submit two stained slides from each accepted case for collation at UIUC VDL by July 8, 2024.
• A collated slide set will be sent for scanning at the Davis-Thompson Foundation and slides should be available to view a least 2 weeks prior to the meeting at the following link:

         https://davisthompsonfoundation.org/available-slide-conferences/ 

Please ship glass slides via USPS, FedEx, or UPS to:

University of Illinois Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory

Attn: Miranda Vieson

2001 S. Lincoln Ave, Room 1225

Urbana, IL 61802

217-300-9940

Email: mvieson@illinois.edu 

Case History and Synopsis:

• Please use the Case History and Synopsis template (single word document) sent via email or available for download at the following link: 

         https://go.illinois.edu/MAVP2024CaseTemplate

• Case History and Synopsis, including references (limit to 3 pages) should include (please use template provided):
  • Case # as corresponds to the slide label
  • Presenter +/- Co-Presenter(s) along with corresponding institution
  • Signalment
  • History
  • Gross Findings/Hematology, etc.
  • Histopathology/Cytologic Findings
  • Morphologic Diagnosis and Etiology
  • Results of diagnostic/confirmatory testing
  • Comments
  • References
• Please upload Case History and Synopsis by emailing as a Word file by July 8, 2024 to the following address (with file name: Lastname.Firstname_CaseSynopsis.doc):

         2024_MA.t5sp1i75aplgfu0k@u.box.com

• Case synopses will be available with whole slide scanned images files on the Davis-Thompson website

Case Presentations:

• THE PRESENTATION SHOULD NOT EXCEED SEVEN MINUTES. One to two minutes will be allowed for questions and answers.
• Please upload presentations by emailing as a PowerPoint file by August 9, 2024 to the following address (with file name: Lastname.Firstname_Presentation.ppt):

         2024_MA.t5sp1i75aplgfu0k@u.box.com

DEADLINES

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Joanna M. Schmit, DVM, MS, DACVIM (Oncology)

Joanna Schmit earned her DVM at the University of Minnesota and completed her rotating internship, clinical trials internship, Master’s degree and oncology residency at the University of Illinois. After completing her residency and board certification, she worked in private practice for 10 years in both corporate and privately owned practices. In addition to busy clinical practice, she has held hospital leadership roles, designed chemotherapy facilities for construction, and lectured on topics that include cancer diagnostics, treatment, USP 800 and chemo safety. Dr. Schmit returned to the University of Illinois in 2023 to support and expand the clinical trials team, where she currently oversees nearly twenty open trials. She enjoys the fast pace and discovery that trials bring to the oncology world. Her goal in providing continuing education and consulting with referring veterinarians is to make oncology straightforward and accessible to all. 

In her free time, Dr. Schmit loves being outdoors and enjoys hiking, kayaking and camping. She loves to travel and often plans trips that incorporate her love of live music. Her favorite places on Earth are the Serengeti, Scotland and Yellowstone. At home, she supplies friends with a glut of produce from her gardening efforts and spends quality time hiking, then lounging with her sidekick, a couch potato pitty named Boone.

Rohit Bhargava, PhD
Rohit serves as the Director of the Cancer Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Illinois), one of the university-wide institutes at Illinois. His primary academic appointment is in the Department of Bioengineering with joint appointments in several engineering departments and chemistry as well as in the Carle Illinois College of Medicine. Rohit Bhargava’s research focuses on the development of chemical imaging technologies and applying them to enable digital molecular pathology for cancer research and patient care. Traditionally, cancer has been diagnosed by its shape and size. Rohit’s group aims to diagnose cancer by its underlying molecular characteristics, using fundamental advances in chemical imaging and applications of modern machine learning, ultimately allowing for better treatment of patients.

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