PetDx names new president and chief executive officer - DVM 360

PetDx announced it has appointed Alejandro Bernal, DVM, MS, MBA, arsenic its caller president and main enforcement officer. Bernal succeeds PetDx laminitis Daniel S. Grous, MD, MBA, who volition proceed to service arsenic Chairman of the Board.

"Alejandro Bernal is 1 of the astir respected leaders successful the carnal wellness industry, with extended acquisition successful driving transformative concern agendas and gathering unique, differentiated, and fast-growing businesses," said Grosue, successful an organizational release.¹ "We are excited that helium brings that acquisition and passionateness to PetDx and to OncoK9, the archetypal and lone genomics-based multi-cancer aboriginal detection trial successful veterinary medicine."

Bernal received his maestro of concern medication and doc of veterinary medicine grade from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, and a maestro of sciences from Texas A&M. According to the release, Bernal served arsenic president for Mars Veterinary Health International and Global Diagnostics wherever helium led the consolidation and operations of Mars-owned veterinary hospitals extracurricular of North America, positive Antech’s web of veterinary notation labs. Before moving for Mars, Bernal worked 17 years with Zoetis serving arsenic a subordinate of the enforcement squad that worked successful planetary enactment and strategy roles.

"I person ever been passionate astir the relation that innovation and caller technologies tin play successful improving the lives of pets. Over the past decade, rapidly evolving next-generation sequencing-based investigating solutions person revolutionized aggregate specialty areas successful quality medicine, improving the prime of attraction for millions of people,” expressed Bernal.¹

“Genomic medicine is present making accelerated inroads into veterinary attraction and holds peculiar committedness for the detection, characterization, and absorption of cancer, which is by acold the biggest origin of decease successful dogs. The cutting-edge liquid biopsy solutions developed by PetDx are without parallel successful veterinary diagnostics, and I americium excited to articulation specified an innovative institution astatine this unsocial constituent successful their maturation trajectory," helium concluded.¹

Reference

PetDx Appoints Alejandro Bernal arsenic its New President and Chief Executive Officer. News release. PetDx. January 24, 2023. Accessed January 25, 2023. https://prnmedia.prnewswire.com/news-releases/petdx-appoints-alejandro-bernal-as-its-new-president-and-chief-executive-officer-301729681.html