Professor Simon Priestnall

BSc (Hons) BVSc PhD PGC(VetEd) FHEA FRSB DipACVP FRCPath MRCVS
Head of Department (PPS) and Professor of Veterinary Anatomic Pathology

Department: Pathobiology & Population Sciences

Campus: Hawkshead

Research Groups: Host-Pathogen Interactions and Vaccinology, IRLFS (Research Programme), CPCS (Research Programme)

Simon is Head of Department for Pathobiology & Population Sciences (PPS) and Professor of Veterinary Anatomic Pathology. Simon is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath), board certified by the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (DipACVP) and a recognised Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Specialist in Veterinary Pathology with diagnostic and research expertise in respiratory, gatrointestinal and experimental histopathology.

Simon is a Senior Examiner for the Royal College of Pathologists and committee member (past section Chair) of the Certifying Exam Board of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP). He has previously served as President of the British Society of Veterinary Pathology (BSVP).
 

2002 BSc (Veterinary Pathology) First Class Hons, Royal Veterinary College, University of London 

2002 Leadership Programme for Veterinary Students at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, New York. 

2004 Bachelor of Veterinary Science, University of Bristol 

2007 PhD, 'The pathogenesis of a novel canine respiratory coronavirus', Royal Veterinary College

2008-11, Anatomic Pathology Residency, Royal Veterinary College

2010 Fellow of Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath) by examination

2012 Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (DipACVP)

2013 PGCert (Veterinary Education) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

2014-current RCVS Specialist in Veterinary Pathology

2016-2019 President of the Bristish Society of Veterinary Pathology (BSVP)

2016-current Visiting Professor, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

2016-current ACVP Certifying Exam Board Member

2017-current Editorial Board Member for Veterinary Pathology and Journal of Comparative Pathology

2018-current Visiting Professor, Universitat de Lleida, Spain

2019-current Visting Professor, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

2020-2022 Editor for Animals

 

 

Researchgate

Scopus 

Orcid ID 0000-0002-6027-1879

 

Simon teaches general and systems-based pathology across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including the BVetMed course and he particularly enjoys training anatomic pathology residents and preparing them for board examinations in pathology. Simon has previously served as Anatomic Pathology Residency Director, BSc Comparative Pathology Course Director and Intramural Rotation Director for Pathology. In 2020 Simon was awarded an Achievent Award by the Royal College of Pathologists for Contribuition to Education.

Invited speaker on respiratory disease and gastrointestinal pathology at a number of national and international meetings in Dublin (BSVP), Maastricht (ECVIM-CA), Leon (CL Davis Foundation), Oslo (MSD Animal Health), Helsingor and Reykjavik (Havemeyer Foundation), Rotterdam (ECVIM-CA), Lerida (Davis-Thompson Foundation), Guangzhou (SCAU), Pheonix (ACVIM), Edinburgh (BSVP), Paris (SFAPV), Portoroz (Slovenian Veterinary Congress), Krakow (ECVS).

Senior Examiner for the Royal College of Pathologists (Veterinary Pathology)

Davis-Thompson DVM Foundation European Division Treasurer and Board Member

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