Chiara Palmieri

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Chiara is Professor in Veterinary Pathology at the School of Veterinary Science (SVS) of the University of Queensland (UQ). She is a board certified specialist veterinary pathologist (Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Pathology), graduated with a DVM from the University of Teramo (Italy) in 2002 and a PhD in Ultrastructural Pathology in 2006. Before joining UQ in 2012, She has been working as an Assistant Professor in Veterinary Pathology at the University of Teramo (Italy). 

She has a specific research interest is small animal oncology, in particular canine prostate cancer, veterinary oncoepidemiology and cancer data.  

She is leader of the first Australian veterinary cancer registry (ACARcinom), co-coordinator of the Global Initiative for Veterinary Cancer Surveillance (GIVCS) committee for the establishment of international standards of veterinary cancer registration and team leader of the comparative oncology theme of the Queensland Alliance of One Health Science.  

She is past President of the Australian Society for Veterinary Pathology and, within UQ SVS, she has been postgraduate coursework coordinator (2014-2017), HDR coordinator (2017-2019) and Director of Research (2019-2021). She is now coordinator of the DVClinSc program (combined residency and research program) within UQSVS, coordinator of the residency program in veterinary pathology and Chair of the ESVP/ECVP DEI Task force. 

She has received several academic awards, including SVS awards for research excellence (2017, 2021), best lecturer (2021, 2022, 2023), and UQ award for excellence in HDR supervision (2020). She has published more than 100 papers on international journals, 3 book chapters and numerous abstracts in proceedings of national and international conferences. Students know her for the unique Italian hand gestures while teaching and her never ending passion for coffee.