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
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
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
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
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
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
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
But I was a clinical vet, as is the head of the, the program today still has clinical responsibilities. 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
Was the medical staff at Brookfield larger than Lincoln Park?… Read More
Does this mean you’re no longer doing veterinary work, but only administration?… Read More
And even some things that turned out to be disaster management, it had a giraffe procedure that didn’t go well and wound up having to euthanize the giraffe. I had all those experiences and I had met George multiple times throughout that time and prior to my immediate predecessor getting… Read More
And so he asked us all to come on board. He asked me to run to, to chair the search committee simply because I was really close, I could come out and communicate much more easily than the, the folks that were widely scattered. So through that process, I, I… Read More
Rab and to talk at length about the program without being one of his employees. And so I, I think that was a huge help and, and I think, you know, may have been a factor in me getting the job after the person that was hired after that search,… Read More
So Who was the zoo director at the time and what was your relationship with him?… Read More