A/Professor Finnie is a veterinary anatomic pathologist with an academic appointment in the School of Biomedicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide. His experience in diagnostic and investigative pathology encompasses gross and histopathology, ultrastructural pathology, immunohistochemistry, and toxicologic, comparative and laboratory animal pathology.Dr Finnie graduated with Biomedical Science and Veterinary Medicine degrees from the Universities of Adelaide and Melbourne, respectively, before completing a residency in anatomic pathology at the Melbourne Veterinary School. He has Master’s degrees from Adelaide and Flinders University Medical Schools, and a PhD from the Melbourne University Veterinary School, in neuropathology, particularly ultrastructural pathology of the nervous system. His contributions to veterinary and comparative neuropathology have been recognised, by examination, with a Doctor of Veterinary Science from the University of Melbourne.Professor Finnie has a strong research interest in the pathology and pathogenesis of neurologic diseases, with a major focus on brain lesions that can be diagnostically useful. These studies encompass naturally occurring neurologic disorders of domestic animal species and the development of animal models of human nervous system diseases. The principal neurologic diseases he has investigated are traumatic brain injury (blunt, non-missile, missile, and paediatric abusive head trauma), tunicamycin/corynetoxin and Clostridium perfringens type D epsilon toxin neurotoxicity and retinopathy, neuroaxonal dystrophy, riboflavin deficiency-induced demyelinating peripheral neuropathy, neurologic effects of radiofrequency field exposure, and forensic neuropathology. He has published more than 200 papers in international biomedical journals and received support for these studies from a range of state and national research funding bodies. Dr Finnie is Chief Investigator (University of Adelaide) of the NH&MRC Centre of Research Excellence, the Australian Centre for Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research. He has supervised higher degree research students, provided pathology support to many postgraduate students and clinicians, and is a consultant pathologist to the Phenomics Australia laboratory animal histopathology service.Dr Finnie has been Director of the South Australian South-East Regional Veterinary Laboratory at Naracoorte; Senior Veterinary Pathologist at the Veterinary Research Institute in Melbourne and the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science (IMVS) in Adelaide; Manager of the IMVS (now SA Pathology) Laboratory Animal Facility; and University Veterinarian at SA Pathology, Adelaide Women’s & Children’s Hospital, and the University of Adelaide.