Our Speaker Lineup


We are very excited that we have been able to engage the services of some of the best international and local speakers to motivate and educate for our 2017 Conference program.   Our speaker list will be updated shortly.

Announcing our international speaker:


Dr Patricia Pesavento, DVM, PhD, DIP ACVP

Dr. Pesavento is a Swarthmore College graduate and received her PhD in 1997 from Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. She received her DVM and pathology residency training sequentially at UC Davis. After two years of diagnostic research at the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratories, she joined the faculty in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, at the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis. The organizing focus of work in the Pesavento laboratory is to investigate the biology of interactions between viruses and their target tissues. Depending on the virus, this work ranges from the molecular development of viral constructs to perform cell biology or diagnostics, to tissue culture models of virus: host cell interaction. The laboratory has current focused efforts on viral discovery in intensively housed animals such as small animals in the shelter environment, or wildlife at the human-animal interface.