Dr. David Vail received his DVM from the University of Saskatchewan in 1984 and completed an internship in small animal medicine and surgery at Colorado State University prior to practicing in his native western Canada for two years. He completed a residency in Medical Oncology at the Animal Cancer Center at Colorado State University in 1990. Dr. Vail has served as President of the Veterinary Cancer Society, Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Boards for the Morris Animal Foundation and the ACVIM Foundation, President of the Canine Comparative Oncology and Genomics Consortium (CCOGC), and past North American journal editor for Veterinary and Comparative Oncology. He is a founding member of the Comparative Oncology Trials consortium.