Laboratory Diagnosticians' News Matters
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Jeremiah T. Saliki, DVM, PhD, DACVM
AAVLD President
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Dear AAVLDers:
Greetings from Oklahoma. In response to concerns raised by a few members of AAVLD, I have decided to use this newsletter’s feature article to highlight and clarify the role and functioning of the Accreditation Committee (AC). I will do so in the form of FAQs.
Where can I find AC documents?
All Accreditation Committee documents are found on the AAVLD website under Accreditation > SOP and Forms. These documents are available to all members and contain all essential information on the functioning of the committee.
How is membership of the AC determined?
Membership of the AC is determined according to AAVLD by-laws (Article IX, Section 2, Subsection A, which prescribes a minimum of two members per AAVLD region. Currently, the committee has 21 members, with representation from all seven AAVLD regions by 2 or more members. Over the past five years, 7 new members have joined the committee. The composition of the committee is designed to provide the complete range of administrative, quality management, and discipline/technology expertise needed for the AAVLD Laboratory Accreditation Program. When a vacancy occurs, potential candidates are preferentially nominated by AC members from the list of active audit pool members who have been on at least one site visit, but can also be nominated by any AAVLD member for vetting and approval by the AC. This process, outlined in SOP AC-4 - Accreditation Committee Management, was designed to ensure that new members are experienced with the comprehensive accreditation process.
Why is membership of the AC limited, unlike other committees where any AAVLD member can belong? Why are there no term limits for AC member?
The work of the AC is a labor-intensive year-round activity. The committee’s work requires specific initial and ongoing auditor training as well as a range of subject matter expertise that matches a laboratory’s testing expertise in order to optimize laboratory audits. It also requires institutional knowledge of previous site visits and interpretation of the standard. Furthermore, confidence in auditing and report writing takes time. For efficient management and functioning, the committee needs just enough qualified members to cover the range of needed expertise. Based on these requirements, it is logical to understand why term limits for AC members would degrade the committee’s ability to function effectively, as continual turn-over would lead to inconsistency and inexperienced committee members lacking historical knowledge of committee procedures. In short, it takes several years to get up to speed and we wish to capture the experience gained for as long as possible.
How are AC chairs selected?
Like any other committee, AC committee chairs are recommended by committee members to the President. The President may appoint or seek further recommendations. They may be reappointed annually for no more than five consecutive years.
How is the site visit committee selected?
The process for selecting is prescribed in SOP AC-7, AAVLD Accreditation Site Visit Preparation. Briefly, a site team chair appointed by the AC co-Chairs selects team members and proposes them to the laboratory being audited. The Laboratory Director has the right to object to any member of the site team by communicating with the site team chair or AC co-Chairs. Site team members are chosen to provide a broad range of expertise. The number of team members varies with the size of the lab and number of sites to be audited. To develop and maintain a competent accreditation committee, each committee member is encouraged to participate in at least one site visit per year.
What is the mechanism for providing feedback on the accreditation process?
Currently, feedback on the accreditation process is sought through a form that is given to the audited laboratory immediately upon completion of a site visit. These evaluations are reviewed annually to address continual improvement of the site visit process. The evaluations are not considered as part of the AC evaluation for a particular laboratory’s accreditation status. There are currently discussions within the AC to expand site visit evaluations to include both audit and post-audit processes.
Closing Comment:
The AAVLD accreditation program is the oldest animal health diagnostic laboratory accreditation program in the world. The first standard was written in 1967 and the first labs were accredited in 1969. It is a much more comprehensive process than a scope-based audit. It evaluates all the factors that have potential impact on producing reliable test results, and considers other important factors such as biosafety and biocontainment. We are proud of this standard which has moved the discipline of veterinary diagnostic science as well as the quality and reputation of our laboratories forward.
Jerry Saliki, AAVLD President
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Editor’s Note: Thank you to AAVMC for permitting reprinting of this story about Dr. Willie Reed. AAVLD has also enjoyed the leadership of Dr. Reed; one of our past Presidents (2004). In 2008 Dr. Reed received AAVLD’s highest award, the Pope Award recognizing outstanding service to the organization and our discipline. Thank you, Dr. Reed! DHZ
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
The time is always right to do what is right.
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The 33rd year of JVDI was successful – we published our full allotment of 1,200 pages, which included 177 items: 4 reviews, 54 full scientific reports, 95 brief reports, 2 commentaries, 3 editorials, and 2 special issues (Next-generation sequencing, Laboratory data enhancement – 19 articles). As a precursor to going on-line-only in January 2022, we published our first full-issue cover-to-cover PDF in November 2021. As described in our November editorial (Maxie G, et al. JVDI goes green: online-only publication for AAVLD members as of January 2022. J Vet Diagn Invest 2021; 33:1035-1038 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10406387211050758 ), the decision to go online-only is in line with the trend in industry practices – we thereby reduce the number of trees harvested, reduce manufacturing chemicals, use less water, and use less energy to produce or ship print copies.
Email alerts will be sent to members by the AAVLD office when each bimonthly issue of JVDI is published, with a reminder email one month later. Access to full articles is a member benefit that is available by entry through the AAVLD website www.aavld.org – otherwise, access to full articles is embargoed to non-members and non-subscribers for 12 months after publication. We also encourage everyone interested in immediate notification of our publications to sign up with SAGE, our JVDI publisher, for email alerts of individual articles as they are published on OnlineFirst, which occurs in the months preceding the publication of the compiled bimonthly Journal. Please see the editorial for details.
We look forward to member feedback on the evolution of the Journal.
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JVDI goes green: online-only publication for AAVLD members as of January 2022
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Grant Maxie, DVM, PhD, DACVP
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- As of our January 2022 issue, JVDI joins the evolution of scholarly journal publishing by going online-only for AAVLD members – for full details, see our November 2021 editorial.
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84% of respondents to our 2021 member communications survey were in favor of online-only publication of the Journal.
- Environmental benefits include: no consumption of ink and paper; no mailing wrappers (which resolves the issue of plastic versus paper); no mail deliveries; and no waste, recyclable or not, generated.
- These changes will also lead to some cost savings for AAVLD, allowing us to keep membership dues as low as possible.
- The transition to electronic publishing is happening worldwide and fits with the rest of our fully electronic publication process—from submission, through reviewing, revising, editing, proofing, and compiling.
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The AAVLD office will send members an email notification of the Table of Contents of each bi-monthly issue of JVDI. Full articles are embargoed and accessible only to subscribers (including AAVLD members and libraries) for 12 mo following publication; members will sign-in to the AAVLD website to access full articles.
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Effective November 2021, a full-issue, cover-to-cover PDF of the Journal will be available to all subscribers. As with a magazine or newspaper, the PDF can be scrolled through, or a topic selected and found by a word search.
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If you would you like to receive immediate notification of online publication of new articles (OnlineFirst) and electronic Tables of Contents (eTOCs) from SAGE, be sure to sign up for journal alerts on the JVDI website! https://journals.sagepub.com/home/vdi
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ATTENTION: Vendors Serving Veterinary Diagnostic Labs and the Animal Health Industry
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2022 AAVLD Hybrid Trade Show
During the AAVLD/USAHA Annual Meeting 2022 Minneapolis
October 5-13, 2022
Onsite in Minneapolis and Virtual
We hope to see you there.
For details contact our meeting planner Kaylin Taylor
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JVDI in Focus
Our February focus is an article in JVDI’s upcoming March issue: “Review of genome sequencing technologies in molecular characterization of influenza A viruses in swine,” by Ravendra P. Chauhan, Michelle L. Gordon
Abstract. The rapidly evolving antigenic diversity of influenza A virus (IAV) genomes in swine makes it imperative to detect emerging novel strains and track their circulation. We analyzed in our review the sequencing technologies used for subtyping and characterizing swine IAV genomes. Google Scholar, PubMed, and International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) database searches identified 216 studies that have utilized Sanger, second-, and third-generation sequencing techniques to subtype and characterize swine IAV genomes up to 31 March 2021. Sanger dideoxy sequencing was by far the most widely used sequencing technique for generating either full-length (43.0%) or partial (31.0%) IAV genomes in swine globally; however, in the last decade, other sequencing platforms such as Illumina have emerged as serious competitors for the generation of whole-genome sequences of swine IAVs. Although partial HA and NA gene sequences were sufficient to determine swine IAV subtypes, whole-genome sequences were critical for determining reassortments and identifying unusual or less frequently occurring IAV subtypes. The combination of Sanger and second-generation sequencing technologies also greatly improved swine IAV characterization. In addition, the rapidly evolving third-generation sequencing platform, MinION, appears promising for on-site, real-time sequencing of complete swine IAV genomes. With a higher raw read accuracy, the use of the MinION could enhance the scalability of swine IAV testing in the field and strengthen the swine IAV disease outbreak response.
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Figure 2. Illustration of sequencing approaches for partial and full-length genome sequencing of influenza A virus (IAV) subtypes from swine globally. Various sequencing techniques were used in 216 studies to generate IAV genomes in swine up to 31 March 2021. Sanger dideoxy sequencing was the sequencing technique used most widely, followed by second-generation Illumina sequencing. Since 2014, a third-generation sequencing method, MinION, has also been used for generating IAV genomes from swine.
JVDI News
We encourage all authors to link your ORCID iD to your ScholarOne account using the following steps. NOTE: If your article is accepted, your ORCID iD will accompany your name in the published article only if your accounts are linked (otherwise, your name will appear without the ORCID icon, and your iD information will not be listed at the end of your article).
1) Log in to the JVDI submission site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jvdi
2) Click your name at the top-right corner of the page
3) In the drop-down menu select Email/Name
4) Under the ORCID section, you will find two links:
Create an ORCID iD and Associate your existing ORCID iD
—If you already have an ORCID ID, select “Associate your existing ORCID iD”
5) You will be directed to the ORCID site login page where you will need to log in using your ORCID account credentials
—If you have selected to create an account on the ORCID site, click “Register Now”
6) After logging in, you will be automatically redirected to the ScholarOne submission site where it will show a prompt with the following text:
You can update this account with data from your ORCID iD record that is not marked as Private.
Name and e-mail fields will be imported to your account.
Note: this will overwrite existing data. Would you like to update your account now?
7) To complete the process, click OK to UPDATE the journal’s ScholarOne Manuscripts site. Click Cancel to return to ScholarOne Manuscripts without updating the data.
8) Proceed to the User ID & Password step and click Finish to be sure that your account information is properly saved.
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2022 Meeting Announcement
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The organizing committee for the 20th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Animal Health Laboratorians Network/Réseau Canadien des Travailleurs des Laboratoires de Santé Animale (CAHLN/RCTLSA) is pleased to announce that we are jointly hosting our conference with the Canadian Association of Veterinary Pathologists (CAVP). The meeting is not organized to provide virtual attendance.
Meeting dates: CAVP – May 29, 2022; CAHLN/RCTLSA – May 30 – June 1, 2022
Meeting location: Hilton Whistler Resort and Spa, Whistler, BC
CAVP: The meeting is devoted to anatomic pathology. A special presentation by Dr. Craig Litwin, forensic pathologist at the Royal Columbian Hospital will follow the morning break. Case reports and student presentations in the afternoon.
CAHLN/RCTLSA: Theme: Partnerships in Health: Sharing Knowledge, Taking Action
Morning plenary presentations will address Covid-19, Salmonella spp and avian influenza. Scientific reports and student presentations in the afternoon.
Students: Awards for best oral and poster presentations.
Sponsors & attendees: Sponsorship packages and attendee registration packages can be requested at CAHLN2022@gmail.com
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AAVLD New Member Benefit MC l LMS is now here!
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Take a look, the MC l LMS is now here!
AAVLD has brought you a new membership benefit that is sure to peek your interest. The MC l LMS is a Learning Management System. The MC l LMS will keep certification and training materials in one place. Members can view training videos, scientific presentations and much more. AAVLD is offering the current packages to AAVLD members as a membership benefit.
Some of the MC l LMS features:
- Single-Sign-On (SSO) with Oasis
- Content Upload and Management
- Customized Certificates
- Continuing Education Tracking
- Group-based Permissions
- Progress and Usage Reporting
View annual meeting materials now!
- Recordings of Scientific Sessions
- Proceeding's booklet (abstracts)
- Plenary Speaker lectures from the 2020 meeting
All are available to AAVLD members at no cost.
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2022 Hybrid AAVLD / USAHA Annual Meeting
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Take advantage of the terrific AAVLD resources offered to our members
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2023 Renewals are due by November 15!
'Membership is January to December'
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AAVLD membership is open to any individual interested in the disciplines and activities of veterinary diagnostic laboratories. Membership terms are by calendar year (January-December) and membership dues are payable by November 15th of the preceding year (to ensure inclusion in the annual membership directory, eligibility for committee involvement, and receipt of all six issues of the JVDI). Note: In order to receive a discounted rate for the Annual Meeting registration, you are required to be a current AAVLD Member.
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Did your membership Lapse?
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Please select 'Renew Now' to access the Lapsed Membership renewal form. www.aavld.org ->Quick Links->Renew Now->here you can access the Lapsed Membership Form.
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2022 Committee Appointments
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If you wish to serve on a particular committee in 2022, contact the committee chairs now and express your interest. Thank you!
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AAVLD & News Worthy Events
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Executive Board Meeting
August 10, 2022 (Virtually)
AAVLD/USAHA Hybrid Annual Meeting, Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, October 5-13, 2022 (Due to the uncertainty with Covid-19, there may be updates to the details of the meeting.)
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Do you have ideas to improve the AAVLD annual meeting? Contact David Zeman dzeman@aavld.org
Would you like to sponsor an event? Contact
What ever your contribution to the AAVLD mission, we need you!
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Thank You to our Exhibitors and Sponsors of the 2021 Annual Meeting!
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The generous contributions and participation by our Exhibitors and Sponsors is a huge part of our conference success year after year. On behalf of the AAVLD, we would like to thank these companies for their commitment to our organization and helping us to achieve our mission.
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Thank you
2021 Annual Meeting Sponsors
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bioMérieux Corporate Website | Pioneering diagnostics
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THANK YOU TO OUR AFFILIATED INDUSTRY SUSTAINING MEMBERS
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AAVLD Foundation Committee
Brett Webb- Cochair
Francois Elvinger- Cochair
Pat Halbur, Christie Mayo, Kristy Pabilonia, Bruce Akey, Beate Crossley, Kerri Sondgeroth, David Zeman, Tim Baszler, Jamie Henningson, Donal O’Toole
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The AAVLD Foundation is a non-profit foundation that raises funds for the advancement of veterinary diagnostic laboratory disciplines through scholarship programs, student travel support to our scientific meeting, guest lectures, seminars, professional awards and research programs. Contributions to the Foundation are tax-deductible 501(c)(3), and can be paid when you renew your AAVLD membership. Thank you for remembering your AAVLD Foundation!
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