And she did that for over a year and now has finished that grant and is going into that specialty full-time. So, so the, the bottom line is we’ve, so I, I was involved in, in this process sort of from the beginning and, you know, now I’m, you know,… Read More
Can you discuss your role with the Great eight Heart Project and how you became involved?… Read More
It, it started a, a, a group looking at Gorilla Health and then one of the, one of the other veterinary advisors who was particularly interested in that topic, right from the get go, Dr. Haley Murphy, who’s currently the director at Detroit, Haley, put together a grant to look… Read More
The Great Eight Heart Project, I, for me, it really started all the way back when I was at Lincoln Park and I was, I was named as the veterinary advisor to the Gorilla, SSP, I think as the first veterinary advisor. And we’ve had some, some other associates, other… Read More
But the second thing is they almost never get heart attacks. The, the, the same sort of myocardial infarct, the thing that, you know, is characterized as a heart attack in humans. They have other cardiovascular disease that are not unheard of, but less typical, more unusual in humans. And… Read More
I have not published nearly as extensively as a lot of my colleagues have been accused of having an ink allergy. But, but I’ve, I, I hope I have contributed to the field, you know, particularly in areas of research, some of the unusual cases, things like the gorilla that… Read More
I, I think a, a very supportive environment in terms of being, I mean there, there’s a real cost in terms of resources involved in supporting a veterinary program at this level, whether it’s adding the zoo pathology program, adding veterinary staff, upgrading equipment as new thing, all the things… Read More
Based on your many years at Brookfield, what impact on the field of zoological medicine did working at Brookfield provide you?… Read More
And developing a comprehensive resource so somebody can go out and say, what does a normal, what does an MRI or a CT on a normal aardvark look like, or a gorilla or a dolphin?… Read More
Was there pressure for you to publish or was this something you wanted to do and why?… Read More
And, and that’s just, that’s been going on for a couple of years now. The, the grant was a collaboration among a number of institutions. Everybody has pooled their normal exams, hired a database manager to, to essentially oversee the whole operation. And it’s probably sometime early next year it… Read More
So I, I think in terms of surgical equipment, patient monitoring equipment, and particularly diagnostic equipment, those were things that, you know, we made a, a big jump right around the time we moved into the building. And then because of the space that we had available over, you know,… Read More
And the zoo has been a big proponent of getting that installed as the standard of care in lots of zoos and even developing a database to help radiologists interpret zoo radiographs or Dr. Mike, who has since become our director, got a grant through the institution of mu museum… Read More
Absolutely. I mean, you have the, I mean, part of it started with the, the hospital. The hospital opened about a week or two before I started. So I walked into a brand new building, but there was also a significant amount of budget that had been allocated for equipment… Read More
Yes, I think so. One of the new, one of the new veterinarians, actually, one of the very first responsibilities I had before I ever even officially started is there was, as Dr. Phillips was making the decision to go to California, there was also an opening for a second… Read More
As a director of veterinary services, did you have more opportunities to make changes in the manner in which veterinary medicine was practiced at the zoo?… Read More
But I was a clinical vet, as is the head of the, the program today still has clinical responsibilities. Read More
So I, I was, I, I can’t, I I can’t actually tell you what my position was. It might have been chief veterinarian or it was head veterinarian. The veterinary services thing wasn’t part of the title, but I was the, I was hired to, to fill the role that… Read More
Were you accepted by the new veterinarians and staff?… Read More
Yes, yes. At Lincoln Park, 50% bigger. There were, there was a head veterinarian and two assistant veterinarians at Brookfield, and there was a head vet and an associate at Lincoln Park, roughly similar collections. But you did not start out as a staff veterinarian, you’re director of veterinary services… Read More