Mrs Melanie Dobromylskyj

Dr. Melanie Dobromylskyj qualified from Bristol University in 2004, having intercalated a BSc with honours in Veterinary Pathology at the RVC in 2002. Following a small animal internship at the Animal Health Trust, she completed her PhD in bovine molecular immunology at the Institute for Animal Health, Compton, and the University of Cambridge in 2009, studying the receptors expressed on natural killer cells. She then spent a year as an anatomic pathology resident at Glasgow University before joining Finn Pathologists, Norfolk in 2012, where she continued her training as an anatomic pathologist in conjunction with a part-time residency at the RVC. She became a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in 2014, and is an honorary lecturer in anatomic pathology at the RVC. In 2016 she became a RCVS-recognised specialist in veterinary pathology (small animals). She has a particular interest in feline pathology and medicine, IHC and image analysis. She has collaborations with the RVC, University of Edinburgh, (previously with the AHT) and pathologists at Dick White Referrals; most recently she has started to collaborate with researchers at the Sanger Institute looking at the genetics of various cancers. She is currently on the council for the British Society of Veterinary Pathology, as joint Education Co-coordinator, and has spent three years as a trustee for the British College of Veterinary Specialists, representing the paraclinical disciplines.