About Us

Mission

To improve health care for individual patients with kidney and urinary diseases and generate new knowledge about renal and lower urinary tract diseases in animals by expertly performing thorough pathologic evaluations of kidney, lower urinary tract, and biofluid specimens obtained from dogs and cats, as well as other animals.

Goals

• Perform histologic, ultrastructural, and immunohistologic examinations of kidney and lower urinary tract tissues and biofluid analysis that will assist veterinarians, especially nephrologists and specialists in academic and private practices, with the evaluation of their patients with kidney disease.
• Effectively communicate in a timely manner with each patient’s attending clinician(s) about the pathologic findings and their implications.
• Collect detailed clinical information about the features, course, response to treatment, and outcome of pathologically well-defined kidney and urinary diseases in animals and integrate the information with the pathologic findings.
• Generate and maintain a database containing the clinical and pathologic information collected about pathologically well-defined kidney and urinary diseases in animals.
• Use the resources of the IVRPS, including leftover sample material and the renal database and technology for gathering and managing the data, to facilitate retrospective and prospective investigations that will advance understanding of the causes, treatment and prevention of renal and urinary tract diseases in dogs, cats, and other animals.