2013

Workshop Program Coordinator, AZVT Focus Group: The Art and Science of Hand-Rearing

2012

Twin Pines Senior and Community Center, Belmont, CA.  Guest Speaker

55 Club, Foster City, CA.  Guest Speaker

Assoc. Zoo Veterinary Technicians,  Assistant Editor

2011

Crystal Cruises, Century City, Los Angeles, CA. Guest Speaker: Enrichment Program- San Francisco to Alaska, Canada cruises; v1217, v1218, v1219

Co-Chair Advancing Bear Care 2011, Banff, Canada Guest Speaker: Implementing an Ursid Neonatal Care Program

2010

Siegfried and Roy Productions, Las Vegas, NV.
Hand-Rearing Consultant, Team Leader: quarantine, 24 hour nursery care bottle feeding and weaning for two-11 day old white tiger cubs

Assoc. Zoo Veterinary Technicians, Assistant Editor

2009

Cystal Cruises, Century City, Los Angeles, CA Guest Speaker:Enrichment Program- London to Boston v9221 and Copenhagen to Stockholm v9216

Co-Chair Advancing Bear Care 2009 Conference, San Francisco 
Presenter: Preliminary results of milk composition from free-ranging polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in Svalbard, Norway

Safari West, Santa Rosa, CA  Hand-Rearing Consultant: Initial care, evaluation, staff training for bottle feeding newborn giraffe calf

2008

San Francisco Zoo  
Hand-Rearing Team Member: Initial 24 hour care, quarantine, staff training for hand-rearing gorilla infant (4 months) 

Motion Picture Mothers, Los Angeles, CA.
Guest Speaker

Crystal Cruises, Century City, Los Angeles, CA. Guest Speaker: Enrichment Program- Copengagen to London v8215

Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda, Chengdu, China: Guest Speaker-Hand-rearing giant panda;IgG discussions

Chengdu Zoo, Chengdu, China: Guest Speaker- Hand-rearing zoo species

 

 

Founding board member and Vice President of The Bear Care Group

 

Certification Chemical Capture Training-ACES

 

2007

 

 

B.I.E.R.Z.S. Bear Information Exchange for Rehabilitation, Zoos and Sanctuaries Symposium, Pomona, CA. Planning team member
Guest Speaker: Infant Hand-Rearing Ursid IgG Supplementation Guidelines

 

 

 

San Francisco Zoo Team Leader: 24 hour care Hand-rearing siamang infant and critical care TPN for a giraffe calf

2006

 

Motion Picture Mothers, Los Angeles, CA.                                 
Guest Speaker: Zoo Babies (video/slide presentation)
                                      
Santa Rosa Community College; Veterinary Technician Program, Santa Rosa, CA.
Guest Speaker: Diagnostic Veterinary Microbiology Review-3 hour workshop

2005

 

 

Oakland Zoo
Hand-Rearing Consultant: Staff training-bottle feeding techniques for a giraffe calf

2004

 

Zoo Atlanta
Hand-Rearing Consultant: On site team member-Giant panda 30 day birth watch
 
International Polar Bear Husbandry Conference, San Diego, CA.
Guest Speaker: Pathogenesis of metabolic bone disease in captive polar bears (Ursus maritimus)

2003 

 

 

Siegfried & Roy Productions, Las Vegas, NV.
Hand-Rearing Consultant: 24 hour care, bottle feeding and weaning for 3 white tiger cubs

 

 

San Francisco Zoo-Hand-Rearing Team Leader: 24 hour care and supervsed staff training 2 litters one day old Fishing cat kittens;

 

 

San Francisco Zoo Educational Brown Bag Lunch,
Co-Guest Speaker: Zoo Animal Nutrition

2002

 

 

22nd Annual Meeting of the Association of Zoo Veterinary Technicians Conference and participant in  Association of Zoo Veterinarians Conference wet lab, Milwaukee, WI.   Presenter: A preliminary investigation of taurine in zoo carnivores.

Shared Conferece Wet Lab Co-Instructor Demo-Microbiology procedures and protocols

2001

Safari West Wildlife Preserve, Santa Rosa, CA.  
Hand-Rearing Consultant: 2 cheetah cubs, giraffe calf
Provided assistance with lemur clinical pathology and adult giraffe anesthesia.
 
Siegfried & Roy Productions, Las Vegas, NV.   
Hand-Rearing Consultant: Transport & initial 24 hour care for a 10 day old spotted leopard cub
                                       
21st Annual Meeting of the Association of Zoo Veterinary Technicians Conference, Santa Barbara, CA.
Wet Lab: Microbiology procedures and protocols 

 

 

 

 

2000

Bob Dunn’s Animal Services, Burbank, CA.
Hand-Rearing Consultant: Initial care, stabilization and staff training for bottle feeding a one week old giraffe calf

 

1999

 

 

Santa Barbara Zoological Gardens, Santa Barbara, CA.  
Hand-Rearing Consultant: Stabilization and staff training for bottle feeding a 3 day old giraffe calf
 
Oregon Tiger Sanctuary, Eagle Point, OR.  
Hand-Rearing Consultant: Telephone & e-mail advisor for lion cub feeding protocols 

 

 

1997

Siegfried & Roy Productions, Las Vegas, NV. Overlapping Projects
Hand-Rearing Consultant: Team Leader: Guadalajara Zoo Veterinary department for 5 weeks; Created quarantine and nursery protocols and provided 24 hour care for 3 tiger cubs transported to Las Vegas

 

 

 

Hand-Rearing Consultant, Team Leader: quarantine, 24 hour nursery care 4 two week old white lion cubs from Johannesburg Zoo.

 

Fremont High School, Fremont, CA.
Guest Speaker: What is Zoo Medicine?

 

1996

Siegfried & Roy Productions, Las Vegas, NV.
Hand-Rearing Consultant, Team Leader: Primary for transport and 24 hour care of 2 seven day old white lion cubs from Johannesburg Zoo to Las Vegas and subsequent 6 week 24/7 quarantine-nursery care.

 

1995

 

 

Neverland Valley Ranch/Michael Jackson, Santa Barbara County, CA. br />Hand-Rearing Consultant: Initial care, stabilization and staff training for bottle feeding giraffe                                                             
            
Siegfried & Roy Productions, Las Vegas, NV.   
Hand-Rearing Consultant, Team Leader: quarantine, 24 hour nursery care, for 2 white lion cubs from 4 weeks of age until 3 months
                                    
San Francisco Zoo, San Francisco, CA.
Team Leader: Initial stabilization, bottle feeding and weaning for a black rhinoceros calf

1994 

 

 

 

 

14th Association of Zoo Veterinary Technicians Conference, Cleveland, OH  Presenter: Preliminary Studies on the Use of Milbemycin oxime in Galiformes

1993

 

 

Royal Viking Cruise Line, Coral Gables, Fl.
Guest Speaker Enrichment Program: Copenhagen to Hamburg

1992 

 

 

 

 

Neverland Valley Ranch/Michael Jackson Santa Barbara County, CA.  
Hand-Rearing Consultant: Initial care, stabilization, staff training for bottle feeding a 3 day old giraffe calf

 

 

Siegfried & Roy Productions, Las Vegas, NV.
Hand-Rearing Consultant:24/7/6 weeks bottle feeding for 5 white tiger cubs provided care and supervision during 7 day book tour to New York/Washington D.C.

 

 

Andrew P. Hill High School, San Jose, CA.
Guest Speaker: What is Zoo Medicine?

 

 

North Santa Clara County Regional Occupational Program, Santa Clara, CA.  
Guest Speaker: The Role of the Veterinary Technician in Zoo Medicine

1991

 

 

Siegfried & Roy Productions, Las Vegas, NV.   
Hand-Rearing Consultant: 24 hour care, stabilization, bottle feeding and weaning of 4 tiger cubs

 

 

North Santa Clara County Regional Occupational Program, Santa Clara, CA.  
Guest Speaker: The Role of the Veterinary Technician in Zoo Medicine
                                      
Foothill College Veterinary Technology, Los Altos Hills, CA.
Guest Speaker: Clinical Cases in Zoo Medicine, Hand-Rearing Zoo Felids, Parasitoloy

 

 

AAZK National Conference, Audubon Zoo-New Orleans, LA
Recipient: Certificate in Excellence in Journalism Award, Outstanding Veterinary Article;"Practical Avain Triage"

 

 

1989

 

Marine Humane Society, Animal Education Series-Training Workshop: For the Birds

1988

 

 

 

 

Royal Viking Cruise Line, Coral Gables, Fl.
Guest Speaker Enrichment Program: Alaska, Canada

1987

 

 

Skyline College, San Bruno, CA.
Guest Speaker: Careers in Zoo Medicine
 
Royal Viking Cruise Line, Coral Gables, Fl.
Guest Speaker Enrichment Program: Alaska, Canada 

 

 

 

San Carlos Lions Club, San Carlos, CA.
Guest Speaker

1986

 

 

 

 

Royal Viking Cruise Line, Coral Gables, Fl.
Guest Speaker Enrichment Program: Alaskan, Canada

 

 

1985

Colorado Mountain College Veterinary Technology, Glenwood Springs, CO
Guest Speaker: Annually in the spring; 2 day seminars in zoo medicine 1985-1993

1983 

 

 

 

Soroptimist International of Palo Alto/Menlo Park, Palo Alto, CA.
Guest Speaker: Hand-Rearing Pike the Polar Bear

1982 

 

 

San Francisco Zoo  
Primary caretaker for 24 hour care (5.5mo) and bottle feeding, weaning for 1 day old polar bear cub
 
6th Wildlife Conference, S.F. State University, San Francisco, CA.
Guest Speaker: Mammalian Inoculations

                          
1979

 

 

Marine World/Africa USA. Redwood City, CA.
Team Leader, Veterinary Technician for hand-rearing, bottle feeding and weaning for 7 tiger cubs
Current record in Guinness Book of World Records for largest captive Panthera tigris litter; 8 cubs born-7 survived

 

 

Instructor: Advanced Animal Technician School, Santa Clara, CA