Michael J. Day
M
ichael Day is Director of Pathology for Asia Veterinary Diagnostics, a diagnostic laboratory based in Hong Kong and Singapore, serving veterinarians in a number of Asian countries. He is Emeritus Professor of Veterinary Pathology at the University of Bristol and Assistant Professor of Veterinary Pathology in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences at Murdoch University (Western Australia).
Course
He graduated as a Veterinary Surgeon from Murdoch University in 1982. After a period of practice in small animals, he returned to Murdoch to complete an internship in microbiology and immunology and a PhD in collaboration with the Royal Perth Hospital.
Michael Day held postdoctoral positions in experimental immunology at the Universities of Bristol and Oxford, before spending 27 years at Bristol Veterinary School. His research focuses on infectious and immune-mediated diseases in companion animals. Michael has published over 325 papers in the field of immunopathology.
A Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Pathology, he is also a Fellow of the Australian Society of Microbiology, the Royal College of Pathologists and the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. Michael is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Comparative Pathology.
He is a past president of the BSAVA. Michael is a member of the WSAVA Board of Directors and is also Chairman of the WSAVA Vaccination Guidelines Group. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Petplan Charitable Trust, a board member of the WSAVA AFSCAN project, a board member of the Regional Veterinary Congress of Eastern Europe and a trustee of the Mission Rabies project. Michael is a co-founder of the academic company KWS Biotest Ltd, where he is Director of Pathology.
Awards
- BSAVA Amoroso Award for outstanding contribution to small animal studies (1999)
- BSAVA Petsavers Award (2000, 2006 and 2007)
- G. Norman Hall Medal from the RCVS Trust for outstanding research into animal diseases (2003)
- Petplan Charitable Trust Scientific Award (2009)
- Murdoch University Distinguished Alumnus Award (2015)
- FAVP Paatsama Lectureship (2016)
