IDEXX Laboratories Advisory Board IDEXX Laboratories ensures that the quality of our products and services consistently meet or exceed the expectations of our customers by including key opinion leaders and industry experts in all phases of research and development. This collaboration helps shape IDEXX innovations from the start and continues with expert support and advice all the way through a product’s life cycle. Thanks to thorough evaluation, veterinarians can be confident that our analyzers, tests, testing protocols, interpretation and treatment plans will perform in their practices as promised. 
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IDEXX Laboratories Advisory Board
for the ProCyte Dx® Hematology Analyzer
Rick Alleman, DVM, PhD, DABVP, DACVP 
 |  Dr. Alleman received his DVM from Louisiana State University, practiced veterinary medicine for nine years and became board certified in the companion animal specialty in 1987. Dr. Alleman completed his residency in clinical pathology and his PhD at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, where he is professor of clinical pathology, service chief of the Clinical Pathology Laboratory and director of the Clinical Diagnostic Laboratories. |
 | Dr. Cowell graduated from Oklahoma State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1978. She later completed an internship in small-animal medicine, surgery, radiology and anesthesia at OSU. Board certified in canine and feline practice, Dr. Cowell operates The Cat Clinic of Stillwater in Stillwater, Oklahoma, providing quality, compassionate care for cats. |
Rick L. Cowell, DVM, MS, MRCVS, DACVP
 | Dr. Cowell received his DVM from Oklahoma State University in 1978 and achieved board certification in 1983. Before joining IDEXX as a clinical pathologist in 2005, he was a professor of veterinary clinical pathology at Oklahoma State University for 17 years. Dr. Cowell has authored or coauthored numerous journal articles and is coeditor of several diagnostic textbooks. |
Dennis B. DeNicola, DVM, PhD, DACVP
 | Dr. DeNicola completed his DVM and PhD at Purdue University, where he taught for more than 20 years and directed the veterinary clinical pathology laboratory. He is a renowned international speaker and has published more than 150 articles and authored or coauthored multiple books in various aspects of veterinary clinical pathology. |
Stephen DiBartola, DVM, DACVIM
 | Dr. DiBartola, professor of medicine and associate dean of curriculum and administration at the Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, graduated from University of California, Davis, in 1976. Author of the textbook Fluid Therapy in Small Animal Practice, he is also currently a coeditor-in-chief for the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine. Dr. DiBartola’s clinical interests include fluid and electrolyte disturbances and renal diseases of dogs and cats. |
 | Dr. Frye received her DVM from the University of Georgia and her master’s degree in infectious disease epidemiology, specializing in molecular genetic testing, from Harvard University. Dr. Frye completed her residency and fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she worked on field outbreaks and quality assurance for laboratory testing. Dr. Frye is the marketing manager for IDEXX Medical Affairs Department and manages the North American Advisory Board. |
 | Dr. Hawthorne graduated from Texas A&M University in 1978 and has more than 30 years of private and emergency practice experience. He is the past president and medical director of the Emergency Animal Clinic, a three-hospital referral practice in Dallas, Texas. He is currently a private-practice owner and senior emergency practitioner. |
 | Dr. Hohenhaus graduated from Cornell University and completed oncology and small-animal internal medicine specialty training at New York City’s Animal Medical Center (AMC). She is on staff at AMC, serves as their spokesperson and blogs for the WebMD® Healthy Pets Community. Dr. Hohenhaus’ area of research is mast cell tumors. |
 | Dr. Irwin received his DVM from Purdue University in 1971 and has been a small-animal practitioner for more than 35 years. He has also owned and managed three practices in suburban St. Louis, Missouri, for more than 20 years. |
 | Dr. Kintzer, a graduate of Cornell University, practices internal medicine in New England and serves as an internal medicine consultant for IDEXX Reference Laboratories. He has written many articles and chapters and lectured nationally and internationally on small-animal endocrine and internal medicine disorders. |
 | Dr. Lees is a professor of internal medicine at Texas A&M University. He received his DVM from Colorado State University in 1972 and trained at the University of California, Davis, and at the University of Minnesota before joining Texas A&M. He focuses on urinary tract diseases of dogs and cats. |
Douglass K. Macintire, DVM, MS, DACVIM, DACVECC
 | Dr. Macintire is the P. B. Griffin Distinguished Professor of Acute Medicine and Critical Care at Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine, where she is also the codirector of the Critical Care Program. She is a past president of the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society and currently serves as the small animal editor for Compendium: Continuing Education for Practicing Veterinarians. |
Stanley L. Marks, BVSc, PhD, DACVIM (Internal Medicine, Oncology), DACVN
 | Dr. Marks is a graduate of the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He is a professor of internal medicine in the Department of Medicine and Epidemiology and the Companion Animal Gastrointestinal Laboratory’s director at University of California, Davis. His research interests include epidemiologic and risk factors for bacterial and parasitic enteropathogens as well as characterization and management of dysphagia in dogs. |
 | Dr. Metzger is a 1986 graduate of the Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine and is a diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (canine/feline). He is an adjunct professor at Pennsylvania State University and serves on the practitioner advisory boards of Veterinary Economics and Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Metzger also owns a five-doctor general and referral practice in State College, Pennsylvania. |
 | Dr. Rebar received his DVM and PhD from Purdue University. While he has worked in mixed-animal practice and as an experimental pathologist, his career has focused on veterinary education at Purdue, where he currently serves as senior associate vice president for research, executive director of Discovery Park and professor of clinical pathology. |
Roberta Relford, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVIM, DACVP
 | Dr. Relford, head of worldwide pathology and internal medicine for IDEXX Reference Laboratories, graduated from Auburn University in 1982 and was a small-animal practitioner for several years. She later obtained a MS in pathology at Mississippi State University and a PhD in pathology from Texas A&M University, where she also achieved board certification in both clinical pathology and internal medicine. |
 | A graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College, Dr. Robertson completed a medicine residency at the University of California, Davis, and became board certified in small-animal internal medicine in 1998. In 2000, after practicing in a busy referral hospital, she joined IDEXX Reference Laboratories as an internal medicine consultant. Dr. Robertson currently serves as the head of internal medicine for North America and Europe. |
IDEXX Laboratories Advisory Board
Mission
The IDEXX Laboratories Advisory Board is committed to seeking ways to better understand the current veterinary market through communication with influential key opinion leaders, universities, organizations and successful practitioners. By constantly improving our understanding of the diagnostic challenges facing the veterinary community, IDEXX Laboratories can provide the most effective products, services and education materials to assist our customers in practicing the highest-quality medicine.
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The IDEXX Laboratories Advisory Board meets annually to establish a collaborative relationship between IDEXX Laboratories and key opinion leaders, universities and veterinary organizations. Representatives of successful veterinary hospitals are included to share best practices and to better define current veterinary clinical procedures. The IDEXX Laboratories Advisory Board is devoted to aligning IDEXX research and development efforts, products and services to better meet the needs of the veterinary community.
In addition, European and Asian-Pacific advisory boards focus on better defining current diagnostic testing paradigms by region and individual country, and special-focus advisory boards focus on hematology and emergency and critical care.
The ProCyte Dx® Hematology Analyzer
Sysmex Corporation, the worldwide leader in human hematology Expert pathologists from four veterinary universities to aid in algorithm development Purdue University (USA), Dr. Alan Rebar Dr. John Christian University of Florida (USA), Dr. John Harvey Dr. Heather Wamsley University of Giessen (Germany), Dr. Andreas Moritz Dr. Natalie Bauer University of Toulouse (France), Dr. Catherine Trumel Dr. Nathalie Bourgès-Abella Dr. J.P. Braun | Independent key opinion leaders to help with analyzer development and clinical assessment referral hospitals to assist in creating work-flow efficiencies Advisory Board for ProCyte Dx Analyzer, international leaders in veterinary hematology, to help evaluate the product | Four independent, peer-reviewed abstracts, presented at the 2010 American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) meeting | In addition, over 80,000 hematology samples were run on the analyzer prior to its launch |