Speakers
Freeman, Kathy
Dr. Freeman completed her veterinary training (DVM) and completed her MS and PhD in veterinary pathology at Oklahoma State University College of Veterinary Medicine. She has been on faculty at Oklahoma State University , Cornell University and Ithaca College and has been the Director and Head of Pathology or Senior Veterinary Clinical Pathologist at Animal Reference Laboratory (USA), Lab Corp (Veterinary Division)(USA), Animal Health Trust(UK), IDEXX Laboratories(UK) and SynLab-VPG(UK).
She has lived and practiced veterinary clinical pathology in the United Kingdom for the past 27 years. She is a Founding Diplomate for the European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology and is the Founding Chair for the American Society of Veterinary Clinical Pathology Quality Assurance and Laboratory Standards Committee and for the European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology Laboratory Standards Committee.
She has been a consultant for Veterinary Information Network since 1997 and currently works part-time for VIN as a staff veterinarian. She is a contractor for Companion Animal Health Cellfie (USA), providing remote patient-side cytologic evaluations. She is a member of the nonprofit website committee for www.vetbiologicalvariation.org and is a Director of CustomClinPath, a group working to develop applications in veterinary biological variation. She received the American Society of Veterinary Clinical Pathology Teaching Award in 2014. Her areas of special interest include laboratory quality, cytology, and competency-based veterinary specialty education.