Keynote - Sharon L. Deem, DVM, PhD, Dipl ACZM
Wildlife Health in the Age of the Anthropocene
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Wildlife Health in the Age of the Anthropocene Sharon L. Deem, DVM, PhD, Dipl ACZM. Dr. Deem is the Director of the Saint Louis Zoo Institute for Conservation Medicine (ICM) (https://www.stlzoo.org/conservation/institute-for-conservation-medicine). A wildlife veterinarian and epidemiologist, Dr. Deem is a leader in conservation medicine / One Health. She holds a DVM from the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine and a PhD in veterinary epidemiology from the University of Florida. She completed a 3-year Zoo and Wildlife Medicine Residency at the University of Florida, becoming board-certified in the American College of Zoological Medicine following her residency. Before joining the Saint Louis Zoo, Dr. Deem worked for the Wildlife Conservation Society and Smithsonian National Zoo as both a clinical zoo veterinarian and an international wildlife veterinarian. During her first three years with the Saint Louis Zoo, Dr. Deem lived and worked in the Galapagos Islands, where she served as the veterinary epidemiologist for the Zoo’s WildCare Institute Center for Avian Health in the Galapagos. Dr. Deem returned to St Louis in 2010 and since that time, she has been conducting conservation medicine / One Health programs globally, while training the next generation One Health practitioners. Dr. Deem brings years of experience to One Health from her work with zoos, universities, and field-based conservation projects. Her first textbook, “Introduction to One Health: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Planetary Health,” which she co-wrote with Drs. Kelly Lane-deGraaf and Elizabeth Rayhel, was published in January 2019. You can follow her on Twitter @deemsharon. |