The ACVPSTP Coalition for Veterinary Pathology Fellows at Work for You

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The ACVP/STP Coalition for Veterinary Pathology
Fellows at Work for You Gary Cockerell, DVM, PhD,
DACVP, Director of the Coalition
Funded Training Positions
Introduction
Interactions Between Sponsors and Fellows
The ACVP/STP Coalition for Veterinary Pathology
Fellows is a joint educational initiative between
the American College of Veterinary Pathologists
(ACVP) and the Society of Toxicologic Pathology
(STP) to provide a unified mechanism to solicit
and allocate funds to train veterinary
pathologists. The Coalition partners industrial
sponsors with North American universities who
apply for funded positions on a competitive
basis. Sponsors support 3-years of residency
training in either anatomic or clinical
pathology, or post-residency PhD graduate study.
Following completion of training, Fellows have no
pay-back obligation other than to complete the
ACVP certification examination and/or PhD degree
and become employed as veterinary pathologists.
The inaugural class of 8 Fellows will complete
their fellowships in 2009.

• The Coalition is interested not only to fund new
  training positions, but also to ensure on-going
  interactions between sponsors and participating
  training institutions which enhances Fellows
  training. Examples of these interactions
  include
• Annual externships by Fellows at their sponsors
  site
• Appointment of industrial mentors with special
  faculty appointments at the respective training
  institution
• Coalition Scientific Conferences at ACVP and STP
  annual meetings, during which time Fellows
  present results of their training, and
  representatives from academia and industry
  present issues of mutual interest

Anat Path Residencies
2009 Request for Applications (RFA)
Sponsors/Funding

• The Coalition periodically issues RFAs to North
  American training institutions as funding for new
  positions becomes available. The 2009 RFA
  includes 2 new positions
• 1 anat path residency (funded by Genentech)
• 1 post-residency PhD graduate position (funded
  by Schering-Plough)
• The 2009 RFA issued 1 June, applications are due
  17 July, and award decisions will be announced by
  18 Sept

• To date, sponsors have funded 22 Coalition
  training positions at 14 different North American
  universities (see table to the right) supported
  by 5.7M in financial commitments. In addition
  to support for the positions themselves,
  unrestricted contributions have been received
  from the following organizations (and responsible
  individuals)
• Allergan (Tim Terrell)
• Aperio (Kevin Whiteley)
• Bristol-Myers Squibb (Denise Bounous)
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund (Victoria McGovern)
• Elsevier (Linda Duncan)
• Experimental Pathology Labs (Jerry Hardisty)
• GEMpath (Brad Bolon)
• Histo-Scientific Research Labs (Serge Rousselle)
• Integrated Lab Systems (Todd Painter)
• Millennium/Takeda (Carl Alden)
• The Leyden Group (Terry Leyden)
• Wyeth Research (Rick Perry)

For More Information

• To learn how your organization can participate in
  this exciting educational initiative, please
  visit the ACVP/STP Coalition web site
  (www.vetpathcoalition.org) or contact
• Gary Cockerell, Coalition Director
• gcockerell_at_vetpathcoalition.org
• Keith Harris, Chair, Coalition Board of
  Governors rkharris_at_uga.edu
• Susan Rees, Coalition Administrative Office
• info_at_vetpathcoaltion.org

Clin Path Residencies
Post-Residency PhD Grad