Uzal Francisco

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Francisco A. Uzal, DVM, FRVC, MSc, PhD, Dipl. ACVP, is a Distinguished Professor of Diagnostic Pathology, Branch Chief of the San Bernardino Laboratory of the California Animal Health and Food Safety, and Chair (interim) of the Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, UCDavis. 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 in enteric diseases, and a special interest in gastrointestinal diseases of horses, ruminants and other farm animals. Dr. Uzal has published ~ 370 articles in peer reviewed journals. He is the senior author of the chapter on “Alimentary Diseases”, for the 6th and 7th edition of “Jubb, Kennedy and Palmer’s Pathology of Domestic Animals” (2016, 2025, Elsevier) and the first author of the 1st and 2nd edition of Clostridial diseases of animals (2016, 2026). 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 past-president (and founding member) of the Latin Comparative Pathology Group, the Chief Executive Officer of the Davis-Thompson Foundation, the President-elect of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians and Vicepresident of the Anaerobe Society of the Americas. Dr Uzal is a Section Editor and Photo Editor of the Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, and Associate Editor of Anaerobe and Veterinary Research Communications, and member of the editorial board of several other journals. He is fully bilingual (Spanish and English).