Interview 29150 – Caption Index: 359
What was the most important piece of advice you received that stayed with you throughout your career?… Read More
What was the most important piece of advice you received that stayed with you throughout your career?… Read More
And, and that’s something that I’ve taken with me. Read More
What issues would you like to see national or International Zoo Aquarium Association such as A-Z-A-Z-A-A waza be addressing now?… Read More
I, I think the, the big thing is whether, whether it’s with individual examples or just sort of on a global level to, to be more active and inspiring people to both, to change attitudes as well as inspire action on critical conservation issues. One that comes to mind is… Read More
Why and, and why?… Read More
Are there any zoos in the world that you particularly admire?… Read More
I I think some of the places I, I guess perhaps it, not so much admire, but I, I envy places like the San Diego Zoo or the Living Desert as places that, I mean, San Diego, you can plant environments, naturalistic settings, and it grows and it grows year… Read More
Physicians are trained to look at one species and everything is about that relationship. And so it was challenging to, to really get the, you know, it seemed like the physicians were, okay, that’s all good. How does it impact people? That’s really interesting. Read More
And it, it could be challenging for some to, to look at kind of the broader integration of all three of those different aspects. And so it, it never quite got off the ground. But now, 25 years later, something like that, there’s a group of medical students at Loyola… Read More
How does it impact people? What does it do to humans?… Read More
So what did I know?… Read More
The, the one that comes to mind back before, back before a lot of emerging diseases have happened before sars, before COVID, before bird flu was a big deal. We, we tried to develop a partnership among Brookfield Zoo, university of Illinois and Loyola, looking at what we call conservation… Read More
I, I just as, I just assumed I wasn’t smart enough to be a physician and, and went the root with medicine and my love of animals. So Are there programs you would’ve have implemented during your tenure that did not happen?… Read More
And I also thought, you know, if I was, if I was interested in being a physician, I, I’m not, I’m not bright enough to get through med school ’cause that’s gotta be way harder. So I went the, the vet school route and I had no idea that because… Read More
You think there’s a, a different psyche of people who say they want to be zoo vets rather than companion animal vets?… Read More
I, I’m tempted to say the gluttons for punishment, but no, I think it, it, it comes, it comes down to your experience. You know, I think it’s what has, you know, if, if part of what has, if part of what has encouraged you to be a veterinarian is… Read More
And so, so they have, they have some freedom to not just go to one place. They might go to some place that has, you know, a stronger program in zoo or wildlife. So, you know, I think for those reasons, particularly the fact that, you know, there is that… Read More
And a pre-vet student may get accepted to multiple veterinary colleges and they ask, you know, which is the, which is the best one to go to?… Read More
Zoo and aquarium medicine?… Read More
I th I think I would say a, across the board, if you look at veterinary schools across the board, I, I think the answer is yes. Obviously they have different, they have different levels of expertise and you know, the number of staff that are devoted to zoo and… Read More