Francisco A. Uzal, DVM, FRVC, MSc, PhD, Dipl. ACVP, is a Distinguished Professor of Diagnostic Pathology and Branch Chief of the San Bernardino Branch of the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System (CAHFS), University of California, Davis. He trained in Argentina (DVM), Sweden (FRVC and MSc) and Australia (PhD and Post-Doc). He is a leading expert on clostridial diseases of animals with special emphasis on enteric diseases, and a special interest in gastrointestinal diseases of horses, ruminants and other farm animals. Dr.

Uzal has published ~ 355 articles in peer reviewed journals. He is the senior author of the chapter on “Alimentary Diseases”, for the 6th edition of “Jubb, Kennedy and Palmer’s Pathology of Domestic Animals” (2016, Elsevier; 7th edition forthcoming) and the first author of the textbook on Clostridial diseases of animals (2016, Wiley and Blackwell; 2nd edition forthcoming). He has also authored chapters on clostridial diseases in several traditional veterinary textbooks such as Diseases of Poultry, Diseases of  Pigs and Textbook of Internal Medicine. He has an active NIH research program on clostridial diseases with special emphasis on enteric diseases produced by Clostridium perfringens. He is a Diplomate and Distinguished Member of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists, a member of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians and a member of the Argentinean Academy of Agronomy and Veterinary. He is the president (and founding member) of the Latin Comparative Pathology Group, the Chief Executive Officer of the Davis-Thompson Foundation and the Vice-President of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians. Dr Uzal is an Associate Editor and Photo Editor of the Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, and Associate Editor of Anaerobe, Veterinary Research Communications and Microbiology Spectrum, and member of the editorial board of several other journals. He is fully bilingual (Spanish and English).