DIAG207-1012: Quality Management for the Veterinary Clinical Pathology Laboratory, Part II
About the Instructors:
- Kathleen Freeman is a 1981 graduate of Oklahoma State
University, College of Veterinary Medicine and received her MS and PhDs
from OSU in 1984 and 1987, respectively. She was on faculty at OSU and
then at Cornell University before taking a detour and teaching all sorts
of Science courses and in the Educational Opportunity Program at Ithaca
College for several years.
During these years she was also doing cytology and laboratory consultations
for commercial laboratories.
She then moved into commercial laboratory medicine and worked as
Director or Senior Clinical Pathologist at several laboratories.
She moved to the UK in 1997 to develop a diagnostic laboratory service
for the Animal Health Trust and was Head of Anatomic and Clinical
Pathology there. She subsequently moved to Scotland and works from home
for Idexx Laboratories, based in Wetherby, West Yorkshire.
She is past Chair of the ASVCP QA Committee and the ECVCP Laboratory
Standards Committee and is currently a member of both committees, as well
as the ECVCP Examination Committee.
She has special interests in QA, QC, customer service, cytology and
general clinical pathology.
She obtained a Certificate in Laboratory Quality Management
via e-learning from the University of Wisconsin and had the opportunity
to work with James Westgard which she says was a great experience!
It is that course that provided the inspiration for her to develop
THIS course for Quality Management in the Veterinary Laboratory.
- Stefanie Klenner graduated in 2004 from the University
of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany. Between 2004 and 2006 she wrote
her thesis about canine intestinal permeability tests at the same University,
successfully receiving her Dr.med.vet. After a rotational internship at the
Small Animal Clinic at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany,
Dr. Klenner started a residency in veterinary clinical pathology at the
Central Laboratory of Justus-Liebig University.
She is an experienced speaker in various themes of veterinary clinical
pathology and could already lecture at several national as well as
international conferences.
Since 2009 Dr. Klenner is one of the instructors of the VIN Quality
Management Course and provides her skills and knowledge also to other
courses of VIN. She is especially interested in general clinical pathology,
quality control as well as learning strategies.
- Ernst Leidinger graduated from the vet-school in Vienna,
Austria in 1986 and worked as assistant professor at the department for
medical chemistry for about 10 years. Since 1995 he is director of a
private veterinary diagnostic lab in Vienna were he established the
lab's QM system resulting in an ISO 9001 accreditation about ten
years ago. Being one of Dr. Freeman's Students in the VIN QM course,
he has been course instructor for several years now.
He is webmaster and chair of the website editorial board in the ECVCP.
His special interest in the lab are clinical chemistry, LIMS
(computer bases lab management systems) and all aspects of quality control.
If there's some time left he enjoys SCUBA diving.
Katherine James, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (SAIM)
VIN Education Coordinator
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