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Appendix C

Workshop Speaker Biosketches

Laurie A. Baeten, D.V.M., Ph.D., is the attending veterinarian and the chair of the National Park Service’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Previously she worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service-WS-National Wildlife Research Center as its attending veterinarian. Her wildlife veterinary career began at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Wildlife Health Center, where she did field research and provided veterinary support for captive animal research projects in the Animal Biosafety Level 3 (ABSL-3). She has also worked for Colorado Parks and Wildlife managing its wildlife health laboratory. Dr. Baeten continues to volunteer as the attending veterinarian for the USGS Science Centers in Fort Collins and Alaska. Dr. Baeten is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine and completed a residency/Ph.D. in veterinary microbiology at Colorado State University.

Heather L. Bateman, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Arizona State University (ASU) and has conducted vertebrate animal research for more than 15 years and authored more than 50 journal articles. Dr. Bateman is a wildlife ecologist interested in how human land use and management affects vertebrate populations and habitats, especially in riparian ecosystems. Her research interests lie in exploring wildlife responses to habitat alteration, with a particular interest in amphibians, reptiles, and birds. Current projects include research to link instream flows to terrestrial wildlife in Southwestern riparian areas. Other research avenues include exploring urban ecology and the socio-ecological factors predicting human–wildlife interactions. Dr. Bateman teaches herpetology and ornithology where students conduct research and participate on field trips. Dr. Bateman mentors undergraduate and graduate students in wildlife ecology and is the recipient of the 2021–2022 Outstanding Master’s Mentor Award at ASU.

John A. Bryan II, D.V.M., M.S., is a native Georgian who received his undergraduate education from Emory University, and his professional (D.V.M. and Certificate in international veterinary medicine) and graduate (M.S. in veterinary pathology) degrees from the University of Georgia. Following veterinary school, Dr. Bryan received postdoctoral training at the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study (SCWDS) in the diagnosis and epidemiology of pathology wildlife disease. From 2009 to 2014, Dr. Bryan served as a veterinary medical officer and a wildlife veterinarian with the Biological Resource Management Division of the National Park Service (NPS), where he served as the chair and the attending veterinarian of the NPS’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), a veterinary diagnostic service coordinator, and as a field wildlife veterinarian. In 2014, Dr. Bryan returned to SCWDS as a public service assistant and a wildlife veterinarian focusing on exotic invasive species and wildlife disease. In 2018, Dr. Bryan left the SCWDS to establish Zachery Consulting, LLC, a freelance wildlife veterinary consulting service specializing in a broad spectrum of wildlife issues, including disease investigation and diagnosis, welfare compliance and oversight, research, and management. Dr. Bryan is a member of The Wildlife Society, the Wildlife Disease Association, the American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians, and the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM), where he currently serves on the ASM’s IACUC and as the ASM delegate to AAALAC International (AAALAC). Dr. Bryan also serves as an ad hoc consultant to AAALAC and holds current veterinary licensure in the states of Colorado and Georgia.

Jeffrey A. Buckel, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Applied Ecology at North Carolina State University. He is a fisheries scientist with a focus on estimating abundance and vital rates of marine and estuarine fishes. Dr. Buckel is an editor for the American Fisheries Society’s (AFS’s) Marine and Coastal

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Speaker Biosketches." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Animal Welfare Challenges in Research and Education on Wildlife, Non-Model Animal Species and Biodiversity: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26614.
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Fisheries journal; the vice-chair of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s Science and Statistical Committee; a panel review member for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s postdoctoral program; the treasurer of the Early Life History Section of the AFS; and a member of the AFS’s Award of Excellence Committee. Dr. Buckel received a B.S. in biology from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in coastal oceanography from Stony Brook University.

Carol Clarke, D.V.M., DACLAM, received her bachelor’s degree in natural sciences from Johns Hopkins University and her D.V.M. from the Tuskegee School of Veterinary Medicine. After receiving her D.V.M., she practiced small animal medicine in New York City for 13 years before entering the laboratory animal medicine training program at SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals. Upon completion of the program, she entered the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1998 as the primate facility attending veterinarian for the Veterinary Resources Program. In 2001, she accepted a position with the Comparative Medicine Branch of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and became a Diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine in 2005. During her 10 years with NIAID, she served as the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee coordinator, the vice chair of the Rodent Gnotobiotic Committee, and the chief of Shared and Central Facility Operations. In addition, she prepared all federally required annual reports on animal usage. Dr. Clarke accepted a position with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 2011 and currently serves as the research program manager for animal care. Her duties include representing the USDA on various federal interagency committees; serving as a member of the Roundtable on Science and Welfare in Laboratory Animal Use at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; participating in investigative actions; writing policies; and providing outreach to the public. She also served as the project officer for Module #26—Nonhuman Primate Transportation for the National Veterinary Accreditation Program, and has received senior leadership training from American University (2012–2013) and the President’s Management Council Interagency rotation through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2017–2018). Dr. Clarke’s current affiliation is NIH’s Office of Research Services.

Mark Drew, D.V.M., M.S., DACZM, received his M.S. (zoology) from the University of Edmonton in Alberta, and his D.V.M. in 1987 from the University of Minnesota. He completed a residency in zoo and wildlife medicine at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Drew was the wildlife veterinarian for the California Department of Fish and Game and then taught zoological medicine at Texas A&M University. Dr. Drew was the wildlife veterinarian for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game for 22 years. He is a Diplomate, the past president of the American College of Zoological Medicine, and the past president of the American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians.

Andrew Engilis, Jr., M.S., is the curator of the Museum of Wildlife Fish Biology (MWFB) in the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology at the University of California, Davis. He has held that position since 2000. He is also a research associate of the Bishop Museum, Hawaii, where he has conducted research in New Guinea and the Hawaiian Islands dating back to the 1980s. His primary research is on specimen-based, avian, mammalian, and herpetological diversity and biogeography studies in the United States and globally. He has collected bird and mammal specimens on five continents over the span of his career working with challenges facing specimen-based collections where modern advancements in euthanasia are not readily available. He has conducted basic research on the efficacy of rapid cardiac compression (formally known as thoracic compression) and developed standardized methodology for the use of this form of euthanasia. He has worked with The Ornithological Council on euthanasia issues and methods. He has published 80 professional papers dealing with specimen-based and basic research questions centered primarily on avian and mammalian distribution and diversity, systematics, ecology, and life histories in the United States, Central America, Chile, Tanzania, Southeast Asia, Mexico, and New Guinea. From 1987 to 1989 he was a non-game biologist for the state of Hawaii coordinating endangered forest and water bird recovery programs. In 1989 he joined Ducks Unlimited (DU) as a senior biologist for 10 years where he coordinated and supervised wetland programs in 10

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Speaker Biosketches." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Animal Welfare Challenges in Research and Education on Wildlife, Non-Model Animal Species and Biodiversity: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26614.
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western states and represented DU conservation programs in Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Rim.

Jeanne M. Fair, Ph.D., is a scientist with the Biosecurity and Public Health Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory with a focus in epidemiology and animal disease ecology. Dr. Fair is the founder of a long-term (27 years) research project on the impacts of stress on avian populations. In 2012, Dr. Fair was the editor-in-chief of the Guidelines for the Use of Wild Birds in Research. Since 1989, Dr. Fair has captured, banded, and collected information from more than 25,000 wild birds on 3 continents. In addition, she has been involved as the principal investigator on numerous laboratory animal infection studies and has extensive experience with handling wild rodents and bats for global biosurveillance programs. Dr. Fair has more than 90 publications, primarily in wildlife ecology and epidemiology. She routinely works with the North American Ornithological Council on animal care and use issues on behalf of the North American ornithological community. Since 2011, she has taught, in association with Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) 101, a wildlife IACUC course, including one in Washington, DC, in 2016 that had a panel of experts of the directors of AAALAC International (AAALAC), the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Dr. Fair was the IACUC chair at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2004 to 2013. From 2013 to 2016 she was on assignment as a science program manager with the Cooperative Biological Engagement Program for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. In this position, she worked with partner countries to develop a biosafety and biosecurity culture and worked with animal care facilities to obtain AAALAC accreditation.

Adam W. Ferguson, Ph.D., is an evolutionary ecologist interested in the natural history, conservation, and diseases of small carnivores (members of the order Carnivora <15 kg) and other neglected small mammals. He joined the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 2017 as the Negaunee Collections Manager of Mammals after completing a 2.5-year postdoctoral studying genets and mongooses in Kenya and a Ph.D. in biology from Texas Tech University, where he studied skunks.

William Greer graduated from The Pennsylvania State University in 1985 with a degree in microbiology. He currently oversees the animal care and use, biosafety, laboratory safety, controlled substances, and autonomous systems research compliance programs. His previous roles included the associate director for research compliance, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) vice-chair, and biosafety committee chair at The Pennsylvania State University, and the production manager and safety director at Intervet State College, Pennsylvania (formally Tri Bio Laboratories). Mr. Greer has overseen animal care and biosafety programs for more than 30 years. In 2005, he organized and held the first research administrators Best Practice meeting, which established a venue for research oversight professionals to informally meet and discuss programmatic concerns. He continues to facilitate at least five annual Best Practice meetings covering both biosafety and animal care and use programs. In 2010, he chaired the founding committee for the nonprofit education-based IACUC Administrators Association, and continues to serve as the organization’s president and the chair of the board of directors. Since 2007, Mr. Greer has served as an ad hoc consultant to the AAALAC Council, where he performs institutional program reviews, assessments, and status determinations.

Lawrence R. Heaney, Ph.D., began research on the evolution, ecology, and conservation of island mammals in the Philippines in 1981, conducted in collaboration with museums, universities, conservation organizations, and government agencies. This has included training for dozens of young Filipino biologists in the Philippines and the United States, and led to the founding of the Biodiversity Conservation Society of the Philippines. The project’s discovery of more than 40 previously unknown species of mammals has contributed substantially to conservation programs and to the establishment of many national parks. Dr. Heaney is the Negaunee Curator of Mammals at the Field Museum of Natural

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Speaker Biosketches." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Animal Welfare Challenges in Research and Education on Wildlife, Non-Model Animal Species and Biodiversity: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26614.
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History in Chicago. He teaches and advises students at the University of Chicago and the University of the Philippines, and is a research fellow at the Philippine National Museum of Natural History.

Caleb R. Hickman, Ph.D., is the supervisory biologist for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) within the southern Appalachian Mountains. With a small team, he works to study and conserve a variety of game and non-game fish and wildlife species and their habitats. He uses a combination of science-based management coupled with a socio-ecological perspective that includes an eye toward preserving traditional knowledge for the benefit of future generations. He is a board member for the Center for Native Health and serves on the Cultural Institutional Review Board review panel for EBCI. He is a certified wildlife biologist and has authored and co-authored numerous publications at the edge of ecology and social science. Prior to working for the tribe, he earned his Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, master’s degree in biology from Missouri State University, and bachelor’s degree in biology from Missouri Valley College. Dr. Hickman spent the past 20 years working across various ecosystems studying the ecologies and behaviors of a variety of species.

George James Kenagy, Ph.D., has been at the University of Washington since 1976, where he continues as an emeritus professor in the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, and as the curator of mammals at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. He received his B.A. in zoology from Pomona College (1967), followed by a Ph.D. in zoology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (1972). His postdoctoral experiences in behavioral physiology and ecophysiology were as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung at the Max-Planck Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie, Erling-Andechs, Germany; and as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biology at UCLA and the Physiological Research Laboratory at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. His research, supported by the National Science Foundation, includes both field and laboratory studies at the interface of ecology, behavior, physiology, and evolution. His work with small mammals addresses a variety of topics, including daily and seasonal patterns of activity and energy allocation, reproduction, hibernation, chronobiology, and geographic analysis of population genetic structure.

Eileen A. Lacey, Ph.D., is a professor of integrative biology and a curator in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, both at the University of California (UC), Berkeley. Dr. Lacey is a behavioral ecologist whose research examines the ecological and evolutionary bases for variation in the social behavior of wild mammals, with an emphasis on rodents. Currently, she is using comparative analyses of free-living and captive tuco-tucos (genus Ctenomys) to explore the causes and consequences of differences in social relationships. Dr. Lacey has served as the vice chair and the chair of UC Berkeley’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and is currently the co-chair of the American Society of Mammalogists’ Animal Care and Use Committee.

Karen Lips, Ph.D., is a professor of biology at the University of Maryland. She has a B.S. in zoology from the University of South Florida and a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Miami. She is an ecologist who studies how global change (e.g., wildlife disease, climate change, land use) affects the biodiversity of amphibians and reptiles in Latin America and the United States. A primary focus of her research is determining the ecological and environmental factors that influence amphibian species’ response to disease, and how that information might be used in conservation and recovery plans. She is interested in how the loss of biodiversity affects communities and ecosystems, and how human activities contribute to the spread of disease and loss of biodiversity. Dr. Lips was a Jefferson Science Fellow at the U.S. Department of State, where she worked in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs and served as an Embassy Science Fellow in Colombia. Dr. Lips has been a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History and at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Ecological Society of America.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Speaker Biosketches." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Animal Welfare Challenges in Research and Education on Wildlife, Non-Model Animal Species and Biodiversity: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26614.
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Anne Maglia, Ph.D., is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Administration and Integrity at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She oversees the Offices of Research Integrity and Research Administration and the Research Support Services group. Her primary responsibility is to build the research portfolio while ensuring effective administration of the university’s sponsored research portfolio and compliance with terms and conditions, policies, laws, and regulations relating to the conduct of research. She previously served at the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a program director and an animal welfare officer. Prior to the NSF, she was an associate professor of biological sciences at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, where her research program focused on amphibian skeletal development and biodiversity. Dr. Maglia served on the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research Roundtable, the Governing Board of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, and the Executive Committee of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. She holds a B.S. in preveterinary medicine from Ohio University, an M.S. in biology from East Tennessee State University, a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Kansas, and is a certified Project Management Professional.

David S. Miller, D.V.M., CWB, Ph.D., DACZM, DACAW, is a veterinarian who has experience with all of the major zoological animal taxa and all domestic animal species. He has worked domestically and internationally in zoo, university, private practice, research, nonprofit, consultant, and government settings. This includes work with wildlife under controlled and free-ranging settings. His Ph.D. training emphasized epidemiology and infectious agent transmission across wildlife interfaces, and his research has been in the areas of wildlife epidemiology and animal welfare. Dr. Miller has veterinary specialty board certification in zoological medicine (DACZM) and animal welfare (DACAW). His American Veterinary Medical Association service includes leadership roles with the Animal Welfare Committee and Panels on Euthanasia and Depopulation, as well as service on other committees and task forces. He has provided animal welfare, wildlife, One Health, epidemiology, and other courses at colleges and universities. These topics are also among the continuing education presentations that he has provided at veterinary and wildlife professional meetings, as well as to stakeholders and the general public.

Michael W. Miller, D.V.M., Ph.D., has served as a wildlife veterinarian and staff scientist with the Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife (CDPW) since 1989. In addition to providing veterinary services, he has actively researched a variety of topics related to the ecology and management of wildlife diseases in Colorado and elsewhere. Dr. Miller worked with agency administrators and in-house research groups to establish and register one of the first Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUC) within a wildlife management agency. The CDPW formally registered with the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a research facility more than 30 years ago, with all captive and field research involving mammalian and avian species subject to CDPW’s IACUC oversight for more than three decades. This program is one of several examples that can serve to catalyze progress elsewhere. Dr. Miller received a B.S. in zoology (biochemistry minor), a D.V.M., and a Ph.D. in wildlife biology, all from Colorado State University. Dr. Miller has retired.

Kevin Monteith, Ph.D., is an associate professor and the Wyoming Excellence Chair in the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources and the Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit in the Department of Zoology and Physiology at the University of Wyoming (UW). Before his stint in Wyoming, Dr. Monteith received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in wildlife and fisheries sciences from South Dakota State University, and his Ph.D. in biology from Idaho State University in 2011. Today, Dr. Monteith leads a team of researchers, the Monteith Shop, at UW, where their program is focused on integrating nutrition, population, and quantitative ecology to understand behavior, resource allocation, and the life history of large mammals. Often, their work uses individual-based and intensive field studies to gain a mechanistic understanding of what influences large mammals and how they cope with a changing world. Some of their long-term, cross-generational work has contributed to understanding the

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Speaker Biosketches." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Animal Welfare Challenges in Research and Education on Wildlife, Non-Model Animal Species and Biodiversity: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26614.
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effects of human disturbance and changing environmental conditions to various aspects of life history, including ontogeny of migration, resource allocation, and reproductive chronology.

Daniel M. Mulcahy, Ph.D., D.V.M., Dipl ACZM, has been both a research biologist and a wildlife veterinarian. He first earned a Ph.D. in microbiology (1977) from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. Dr. Mulcahy worked in the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the U.S. Geological Survey for more than 30 years, beginning with research on infectious fish diseases in Seattle, and then served as the first chief of research at the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin, directing projects on wildlife disease research. Dr. Mulcahy then obtained a D.V.M. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1992) and moved to Alaska, obtained board certification with the American College of Zoological Medicine (1998), and worked as a federal wildlife veterinarian specializing in field surgeries, particularly transmitter implantations in Alaska and internationally, until his retirement. Dr. Mulcahy then served as the editor of the Journal of Wildlife Diseases for 5 years. He has served on four Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees dealing with research on free-ranging animals and has published about 100 articles and chapters, including several pertaining to animal welfare issues with free-ranging wildlife.

Christopher L. Parkinson, Ph.D., attended Ohio University for his undergraduate education, then went on to earn his Ph.D. from the University of Louisville and carried out postdoctoral work at Indiana University and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Dr. Parkinson is currently a professor in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Forestry and Environmental Conservation at Clemson University, where he and his team utilize genomic approaches to investigate the evolution, conservation, and systematics of venomous snakes. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Parkinson has worked extensively with the biogeography, systematics, and taxonomy of pit vipers and of late investigates the evolution of venom and venom variation. Dr. Parkinson has extensive experience conducting fieldwork and leading expeditions in more than 20 countries. Dr. Parkinson has been a University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee member and chair, is currently the chair of the American Society of Ichthyologist and Herpetologists’ Herpetological Animal Care Committee, has lectured for the Scientists Center for Animal Welfare on utilizing wild animals in research and safely conducting fieldwork, and has participated as an invited speaker at the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science on safely utilizing venomous snakes in research.

Nicolette Petervary, V.M.D., M.S., DACAW, is part of the Division of Policy and Education in the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare at the National Institutes of Health, and was formerly the national animal welfare specialist for Animal Welfare Operations, Animal Care, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Prior to her government positions, she was in private small and exotic animal practice and worked as a research associate at the University of California (Davis and San Francisco campuses). Dr. Petervary obtained her V.M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. She completed an M.S. in comparative biomedical sciences from North Carolina State University, focusing on research in behavioral neuroscience, and is a Diplomate of the American College of Animal Welfare.

Jonathan Reichard, Ph.D., has 20 years of experience in basic research in the ecology and physiology of mammals and the applied science for the management of bats. He received his B.S. in natural resource management from Cornell University in the School of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He then served as a natural resource extension agent with the U.S. Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa, and as a high school science educator in Boston, Massachusetts. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in biology at Boston University conducting field research on physiology, ecology, and disease in bats of Texas and New England. Dr. Reichard currently serves as the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s assistant coordinator for the national response to white-nose syndrome (WNS) in bats. Dr. Reichard’s work currently focuses on research and the management of hibernating bats. WNS is caused by a non-native fungal pathogen that is responsible for the deaths of millions of bats in North America and is a high management priority for federal, state,

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Speaker Biosketches." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Animal Welfare Challenges in Research and Education on Wildlife, Non-Model Animal Species and Biodiversity: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26614.
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and other agencies to prevent population losses from this disease. Dr. Reichard coordinates research prioritization, partnerships, communication, and development and implementation of management tools in order to advance conservation for bats.

L. Michael Romero, Ph.D., received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1993 and has been a professor at Tufts University since 1996. His research interests focus on the vertebrate stress response in wild animals. Research in Dr. Romero’s laboratory is aimed at increasing understanding of the reasons for, and the mechanisms underlying, stress in wild animals. His research takes an integrative approach, with work in several different fields simultaneously (e.g., neuroscience and ecology). Approximately one-third of the work is done in the field in order to understand how an animal fits into its environment, but detailed mechanistic studies are performed in the laboratory on captive animals. The captive studies have primarily been on various avian species, but fieldwork has included studies from nearly 50 wild species, including birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals. Dr. Romero’s research thus consists of intimately intertwined laboratory and field studies in the areas of physiology, ecology, and neuroscience, all with the goal of increasing comprehension of the causes and effects of stress in wild animals. Dr. Romero has also served on the Tufts Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee for more than 20 years, including periods as the chair and the vice-chair.

Rebecca J. Rowe, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Rowe received her B.A. in biology at Bowdoin College in 1997, her Ph.D. from the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago in 2006, and conducted her postdoctoral research at the Natural History Museum of Utah at the University of Utah. Dr. Rowe’s research investigates the population and community ecology of small mammals (rodents and shrews) over space and time, as well as the functional role animals play in ecosystems. Emphasis is placed on how changes in climate and land use shape resource use, population density, species distributions, community structure, and functional diversity. Current research projects are located in the Great Basin of western North America, northern New England, and arctic Alaska. At the University of New Hampshire, Dr. Rowe has served as a member of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee since 2011 and as the chair of that committee since 2018.

Robert S. Sikes, Ph.D., is a professor of biology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, with primary interests in behavioral and evolutionary ecology. Dr. Sikes’s research experience has been exclusively with wild vertebrates, both in the field and in captivity, with mammalian subjects ranging in size from shrews to giant pandas. He is the past president of the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM), currently co-chairs the ASM’s Animal Care and Use Committee, was the lead author on the last two revisions of the ASM’s guidelines for the use of wild mammals in research, and has authored a number of additional publications regarding the ethical use of wild animals in research. Dr. Sikes is a former member of the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and a current member of the AAALAC Council on Accreditation. Dr. Sikes holds a B.S. in biology from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (1985), an M.S. in biology from Memphis State University (1990), and a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Minnesota (1994). Dr. Sikes has retired.

Michael Smotherman, Ph.D., is a professor of biology and the chair of the Institute for Neuroscience at Texas A&M University. He received his B.S. from Occidental College in Los Angeles, an M.S. in zoology from the University of Maine at Orono, and his Ph.D. in physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1998. He was a Grass Fellow in neurophysiology at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in 2002 and joined Texas A&M University as an assistant professor in 2004. His primary research explores the neurophysiology of the vertebrate auditory system, investigating how the ascending auditory pathways and cortical circuits encode complex sounds and sequences. Dr. Smotherman has studied a wide range of species, including horseshoe crabs, frogs, cephalopods,

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Speaker Biosketches." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Animal Welfare Challenges in Research and Education on Wildlife, Non-Model Animal Species and Biodiversity: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26614.
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songbirds, and mice, but his laboratory mainly works with wild-caught echolocating bats. In addition to neurophysiology, his laboratory conducts complementary fieldwork and behavioral experiments in bat echolocation, social communication, olfaction, and magnetosensation. He currently serves as the director of the biology department vivarium, and recently completed 10 years on the Texas A&M Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, including the past 4 years as its vice chair.

Michael Stoskopf, D.V.M., Ph.D., DACZM, is a professor of wildlife and aquatic health and the director of the Environmental Medicine Consortium at North Carolina State University. His research focuses on population, ecosystem, and landscape approaches to the health management of wildlife, broadly defined to include aquatic and marine species including invertebrates and vertebrates, and their physiologic responses to environmental changes. He is the past president of the International Association for Aquatic Medicine, was active in the establishment of the American Veterinary Medical Association’s Committee on Aquaculture, and has also served on the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He has spoken widely and authored several publications regarding the ethical use of wild animals in research. Dr. Stoskopf earned his D.V.M. at Colorado State University (1975) and his Ph.D. in environmental and biochemical toxicology at Johns Hopkins University (1986). He was instrumental in the establishment of the American College of Zoological Medicine, passing the first examination offered, and serving in various roles, including president, where he encouraged the inclusion of aquatic and wildlife medicine as subspecialties of the developing organization.

Lisa A. Tell, D.V.M., is a professor in the Department of Medicine and Epidemiology in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California (UC), Davis, and a Diplomate in the American College of Zoological Medicine and the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (Avian). After obtaining her D.V.M. (UC Davis 1991), she trained (1991–1994) at the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, as a zoological medicine intern and resident. In 1994 Dr. Tell joined the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine faculty, and from 1994 to 2006 she was the chief of service for the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital’s Companion Avian and Exotic Pet Medicine Service. In 2006, Dr. Tell’s academic career shifted to a focus on human food safety when she was appointed as the western region director and the avian specialist for the Minor Use Animal Drug and Food Animal Residue Avoidance and Depletion Programs. In addition, she successfully finished an apprenticeship that established her as a Master Hummingbird Bander, and she became the director of the Hummingbird Health and Conservation Program. Over the course of Dr. Tell’s academic career, she has enjoyed mentoring numerous undergraduate and veterinary students, training several clinical house officers and human pharmacists, and serving as major professor or co-major professor for graduate students. Her research has focused on diagnosing and treating avian diseases; classical pharmacokinetic studies in birds and small ruminants in relation to residue avoidance; and hummingbird disease ecology. Dr. Tell has been a leader in establishing health parameters for hummingbirds, banded and/or subcutaneously placed radio frequency identification tags in thousands of hummingbirds representing five different species, and developed welfare conscious approaches and techniques for studying diseases that impact hummingbirds.

Vance T. Vredenburg, Ph.D., is a professor and the associate chair of the Department of Biology at San Francisco State University, a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, a research associate at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, and a Fulbright fellow (Spain and Morocco). He grew up in Mexico and the United States, received his bachelor’s degree from UC Santa Barbara, and received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. His Ph.D. research included field experiments that revealed a method to rapidly recover threatened frog populations, and this has been implemented in mountain habitats globally. His current research focuses on the impacts of an emerging infectious disease (chytridiomycosis) and climate change on amphibians and the role of the amphibian skin microbiome in health and disease. Dr. Vredenburg is the co-founder and the associate director of

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Margaret A. Wild, D.V.M., Ph.D., CWB®, focuses on protecting and promoting the health of wildlife, primarily through the study of emerging infectious diseases. She received her B.S. in wildlife biology, D.V.M., and Ph.D. in zoology, all from Colorado State University. After working as a researcher with the Colorado Division of Wildlife, she was the chief wildlife veterinarian for the National Park Service for 18 years. In 2018, she moved to Washington State University, where she is currently a professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine focused on studying an emergent hoof disease in elk.

Jeff Wyatt, D.V.M., M.P.H., DACLAM, emeritus AAALAC Council member and American Zoological Association (AZA) accreditation commissioner, graduated from The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1982, became American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM) specialty board certified in 1989 and earned an M.P.H. from the University of Rochester School of Medicine in 1995. Dr. Wyatt, a professor and the chair of comparative medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, uses a “One Health-One Medicine” approach to evaluate and promote ecosystem health in the field and in the laboratory. His wildlife research has included characterizing the epidemiology of human post-exposure prophylaxis in the face of the mid-Atlantic raccoon rabies epizootic, assessing the population health of federally endangered Chittenango Ovate Amber snails enrolled in mark and recapture studies, and evaluating the health of denning black bears and cubs as bio-indicators of the upstate New York ecosystem health. Ongoing projects assess lemur and human health through a climate change lens in southeast Madagascar, validate repatriated lake sturgeon as biomonitors of legacy pollutants in the Rochester Embayment Environmental Protection Agency Area of Concern, and provide capacity building in a multidisciplinary “One Health” program reversing poverty, transforming community health, and saving the rainforest home of 2,500 orangutans in Indonesian Borneo. Dr. Wyatt represents the American Association of Fish Veterinarians on the American Veterinary Medical Association Animal Welfare Committee, is a Fulbright specialist awardee for developing a planetary health curriculum at Bogor’s IPB University in Indonesia, and is a senior scientific advisor to the Morris Animal Foundation.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Speaker Biosketches." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Animal Welfare Challenges in Research and Education on Wildlife, Non-Model Animal Species and Biodiversity: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26614.
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Research to advance understanding of the ecology and biology of wildlife species is more important than ever as the world confronts issues ranging from biodiversity loss to the emergence of zoonotic diseases. However, the current understanding of animal welfare in research and education has been based on laboratory work with specific domesticated species. Wildlife research represents a starkly different context and with different implications for animal welfare. Wild species that are the subject of research have extremely diverse physiologies and behaviors and live in diverse habitats. This makes it challenging and sometimes impossible for wildlife researchers to follow the recommendations outlined in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (NRC 2011) and other guidelines developed for a laboratory-based, biomedically focused research context.

To explore issues associated with the unique welfare considerations of wildlife research, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (under the auspices of the Roundtable on Science and Animal Welfare in Laboratory Animal Use), hosted a workshop titled Discussing and Understanding Animal Welfare Challenges in Research and Education on Wildlife, Non-Model Animal Species, and Biodiversity on February 9-10, 2022. The event, held virtually, included pre-recorded presentations and overarching discussions to explore this topic in breadth and depth. More than 1,800 participants from academia, industry, government, and nonprofit organizations joined the webcast. This proceedings summarizes key topics covered in the workshop presentations and discussions based on transcripts, recordings, and slides from the event.

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