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About the Society of Comparative Hepatology

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Board

President: Penny Watson

Senior Vice President: Jonathan Lidbury

Treasurer: Hedwig Kruitwagen

Secretary: Marisa Ferreira (also Website admin)

Board Member at large: Hille Fieten

Scientific Committee: Ben Harris, Cynthia Leveille-Webster, Emma O’Neill, Pauline Jamieson (also ECVIM-CA CSF liaison), Tarini Ullal (also Social media coordinator)

Honorary member: Jan Rothuizen

Annual financial report auditors: Gonçalo Serrano, Floris Dröes

Objectives

  1. To actively organize and stimulate the exchange of information and ideas between professionals working in the field of comparative hepatology.
  2. To set up and maintain international standards for nomenclature, diagnostic criteria, treatment and prevention of liver diseases in companion animals.
  3. To actively stimulate evidence based veterinary hepatology by contribution to the organisation of multicentre studies.
  4. To promote translational hepatology by identifying diseases of comparative interest to veterinary, medical and biomedical research and to stimulate collaborations.
  5. To advance training in veterinary and comparative hepatology by disseminating information at scientific meetings, seminars and courses.
  6. Liaise with the European and American Colleges for Veterinary Internal Medicine, Veterinary Pathologists, and Veterinary Clinical Pathology to exchange information and organise meetings dedicated to comparative hepatology.
  7. To organize a scientific hepatology program at the annual congress of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine.

Listserv activities

The SCH membership mailing list is used for any board announcements and to provide an online platform for the community to exchange any hepatology-related information. It also functions as an archive where you can access previous posts.

We encourage all members to:

  • Post their interesting and difficult cases for advice, and clinical questions for discussion – these can also be submitted anonymously here
  • Answer advice requests and clinical questions that are being posted – we value everyone’s input and we are keen to promote discussion
  • Use the listserv as a vehicle for hepatology-related multicentre research recruitment / survey-based research recruitment, or any other hepatology research-related endeavours – we want to foster collaboration
  • Use the listserv or the Contacts section to let the SCH community know if there are any hepatology-related events happening around the world, vet and major human conferences, as some of us may not be aware of these – we can then announce them on the website’s Events section