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Dr John Finnie

BVSc PhD DVSc FRCVS
John Finnie
  • Location: Australia
  • Year of Fellowship: 2009
  • Route to Fellowship: Meritorious Contributions to Knowledge

Field of work

Universities and colleges

Areas of special interest

  • Neuropathology

Areas of support

  • Collaborative research

Professional positions

  • Associate Professor, Discipline of Anatomy and Pathology, Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide

Biography

Associate Professor John Finnie is a veterinary anatomical pathologist with experience in diagnostic and investigative pathology, including gross and histopathology, ultrastructural pathology, immunohistochemistry, and toxicological, comparative and laboratory animal pathology.

His main research interest is the pathology and pathogenesis of neurological diseases, with investigative experience in the following disorders: traumatic brain injury (blunt, closed, non-missile; penetrating missile; and paediatric non-accidental (“shaken baby syndrome”) head injuries); tunicamycin (corynetoxins) and Clostridium perfringens type D neurotoxicity and retinopathy; neurological effects of exposure to mobile communication radiofrequency fields; neuroaxonal dystrophy; demyelinating peripheral neuropathy; and forensic neuropathology, lysosomal storage diseases, and neoplasia.

Dr Finnie has lectured and supervised postgraduate (Honours and PhD) students at medical and veterinary schools. He has also supported research using considerable experience in animal welfare and ethics and management of laboratory animal facilities, and continues to provide pathology examinations for a wide range of biomedical research projects.

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