Speaker bio page for Valeria Scorza

Bio

Dr. Scorza is an Instructor at the Center for Companion Animal Studies (CCAS). She graduated from La Plata University (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina) and then finished a PhD program in the Department of Clinical Sciences at Colorado State University. Her research interests are diagnosis and transmission of zoonotic diseases of companion animals.  Examples of her research are parasite testing and molecular characterization of Giardia duodenalis and Cryptosporidium spp. and vector borne zoonotic pathogens (Ehrlichia spp. and Bartonella spp.) in animal samples from veterinary practitioners and from research projects at the CCAS.