ACVP remains committed to serving the educational and networking needs of anatomic pathology and clinical pathology members and non-members at its Annual Meeting.
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Message from the 2025 Annual Meeting Program Chair
By Melissa Schutten, DVM PhD DACVP
Time’s ticking and the 2025 ACVP Annual Meeting is just around the corner! We’re about two months away from the October meeting and lots of activities have been happening behind the scenes to prepare. The Annual Meeting Committee members, as well as the Chairs and Co-Chairs of Scientific/Concurrent Sessions, have thoughtfully crafted a program that offers high quality and cutting-edge information that will broadly appeal to a diverse audience.
With so much educational content in the program, what am I particularly excited about?
- Sunday’s Plenary Session on Aging: The topic of aging is broad, and this session promises to touch on a wide variety of focuses from space medicine and the impact of microgravity on accelerated aging to the role of immunosenescence on metabolic dysfunction, and canine cognitive dysfunction as a model for human dementias.
- Five Pre-Meeting Workshops: Primate Urinary System Pathology, Automated Image Analysis Using Machine Learning (Pathology Informatics), Anatomy of a Criminal Investigation (Forensic Pathology), Clinical Pathology in Drug Development (American Society for Veterinary Clinical Pathology, ASVCP), and Tumors of the Nervous System (Davis-Thompson Foundation). Add to your Annual Meeting registration with an additional fee.
- Infectious Diseases: Lectures covering current and emerging infectious diseases, including Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), equine viral diseases, and African Swine Fever (ASF).
- Pathology Informatics: AI applications in veterinary pathology concurrent session addressing current flaws and challenges, as well as the Saturday hands-on workshop.
- Clinical Pathology: Digital Cytopathology Quality Guidelines, Clinical Pathology of Laboratory Animals, and Saturday ASVCP workshop.
- Three Mystery Slide Sessions: Neuropathology; the 2025 rotating session, this year on Translational Science and Medicine; and the ASVCP Mystery Case Session, along with a mix of comparative and experimental pathology cases.
- Focused Scientific Sessions (Clinical Pathology, Diagnostic Pathology, Experimental Disease, Industrial and Toxicologic Pathology, and Natural Disease), networking, student, trainee, and alumni mixers, poster sessions… and more!
I hope you will join me in attending the ACVP Annual Meeting this year to connect, learn, and be inspired and energized by so much excellent science — all while enjoying the beautiful sights and sounds of New Orleans. Let’s make the 2025 Annual Meeting an event to remember together!
See you there,
Melissa
What IS the ACVP Annual Meeting?
Get a taste of the energy and excitement of an ACVP Annual Meeting with this video from the 2024 meeting in Seattle!
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the ACVP Annual Meeting offer?
ACVP Annual Meeting registrants can expect outstanding educational content presenting the latest research of interest to anatomic pathologists, clinical pathologists, pathology trainees, and veterinary students with an interest in pathology, as well as networking opportunities that will allow them to connect with colleagues, meet key influencers, and advance their careers. The ACVP Annual Meeting is the premiere convergence of scientists with interests in diagnostic pathology, research pathology, wildlife and zoo pathology, public health and regulatory pathology, molecular biology, toxicology, and more!
Since the 2025 Annual Meeting will not be a co-hosted ACVP and ASVCP Annual Meeting, will there still be content for clinical pathologists?
YES! ACVP remains committed to serving the educational and networking needs of anatomic pathology and clinical pathology members and nonmembers at the Annual Meeting. Watch this page for more specific Annual Meeting information as plans solidify!
What are the best sources of information about the ACVP Annual Meeting?
All the information needed to plan your Annual Meeting experience can be found here (ACVP.org) and a convenient meeting mobile app that will become available a few weeks before the live event. Watch this page for the Annual Meeting program along with information about pre-meeting workshops, highlighted educational sessions, scientific posters, events, and more. See Quick Links above.
Abstract Submission
ACVP issues three calls for abstracts for possible presentation at the Annual Meeting, for scientific poster or platform presentation. All abstracts must fit within the scope of the meeting, which aims to promote excellence in veterinary pathology.
Read about abstract submission.
Read about abstract awards.
General call for abstracts – May 1 – July 1
Call for veterinary student abstracts – June 16 – August 4
Call for late-breaking abstracts – July 28 – August 11
Education Proposals and Space Requests
The 2025 call for education proposals and space requests have closed. However, individuals, ACVP committees, affiliated organizations, or groups within the veterinary pathology community still interested in requesting space for an event or meeting, may do so via a Meeting Space Request Form, understanding that space is now quite limited and will only be considered on a first come, first served basis.