Honoring Veterinary Medicine Pathology

The Linda Munson Pathology Manuscript Award offers a first place $250 award and a second place $150 award for the best zoo or wildlife pathological manuscript published each year by a graduate student or resident in either the Journal of Wildlife Diseases or the Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine. Criteria is established by the Education Committee and manuscripts reviewed by a designated group of individuals in the practice of pathology.

Recipients of the Linda Munson Pathology Manuscript Award

2024
1st Place
Elis Fisk for his paper in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases:
ABORTION AND NEONATAL MORTALITY DUE TO GONDII IN BIGHORN SHEEP

2^nd Place
Jessica Lovstad for her paper in the Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine:
PROSPECTIVE POSTMORTEM ASSESSMENT OF THE INCIDENCE OF MAMMARY NEOPLASIA IN CHIMPANZEES

PAST RECIPIENTS

2023
1^st Place
Maria Ribas for her paper in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases:
COINFECTION OF CHYTRID FUNGI IN URODELES DURING AN OUTBREAK OF CHYTRIDDIOMYCOSIS

2^nd Place
Alisia Weyna for her paper in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases:
DISTINTIVE GROSS PRESENTATION IN FREE-RANGING WHITE-TAILED DEER (Odocoileus Virginianus) WITH RABIES

2022
1^st Place
Sara Goñi Martinez for her manuscript in the Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 2022:
CHOLELITHIASIS IN CAPTIVE MOUNTAIN CHICKEN FROGS (Leptodactylus Fallax): DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING AND HISTOPATHOLOGICAL FEATURES.

2^nd Place
Rachel Conway for her paper in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases 2022:
HISTOLOGIC LESIONS IN PLACENTAS OF NORTHERN FUR SEALS (Callorhinus Ursinus) FROM A POPULATION WITH HIGH PLACENTAL PREVALENCE OF COXIELLA BURNETII

2021
1^st Place
Anna-Katarina Schilling
DIAGNOSING AND CATEGORIZING LEPROSY IN LIVE EURASIAN RED SQUIRRELS FOR MANAGEMENT, SURVEILLANCE, AND TRANSLOCATION PURPOSES.

2^nd Place
Molly Horgan
CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC FINDINGS OF AN OUTBREAK OF VITAMIN-D3 RESPONSIVE METABOLIC BONE DISEASE IN HERON AND EGRET CHICKS FED CAPELIN

2020
1^st Place
Arthur B. Muneza
QUANTIFYING THE SEVERITY OF GIRAFFE SKIN DISEASE VIA PHOTOGRAMMETRY ANALYSIS OF CAMERA TRAP DATA (JWD)

2^nd Place
Carolyn Hodo
PATHOLOGY AND DISCRETE TYPING UNIT ASSOCIATIONS OF TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI INFECTION IN COYOTES (Canis Latrans) AND RACCOONS (Procyon Lotor) OF TEXAS, USA (JWD)

2018
Chloe A. Steventon
STEROIDAL SAPONIN TOXICITY IN EASTERN GREY KANGAROOS (Macropus Giganteus): A NOVEL CLINICOPATHOLOGIC PRESENTATION OF HEPATOGENOUS PHOTOSENSITIZATION

2017
James MacGregor
A NEED FOR DYNAMIC HEMATOLOGY AND SERUM BIOCHEMISTRY REFERENCE TOOLS: NOVEL USE OF SINE WAVE FUNCTIONS TO PRODUCE SEASONALLY VARYING REFERENCE CURVES IN PLATYPUSES (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

2016
Georgina Bartlett
PREVALENCE, PATHOLOGY, AND RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH STREPTOCOCCUS PHOCAE INFECTION IN SOUTHERN SEA OTTERS (Enhydra lutris nereis)

2015
Vienna Brown
PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNE RESPONSES OF FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS STRAINS IN WILD-CAUGHT COTTONTAIL RABBITS (sylvilagusspp.)

2014
Sophie Regnautl
OSTEOPATHOLOGY IN THE FEET OF RHINOCEROSES: LESION TYPE AND DISTRIBUTION

2013
Rhea Hanselmann
CAUSES OF MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY IN CAPTIVE KORI BUSTARDS (ARDEOTIS KORI) IN THE UNITED STATES

2012
Mark G. Ruder
SUSCEPTIBILITY OF WHITE-TAILED DEER (ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS) TO EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION WITH EPIZOOTIC HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS SEROTYPE 7