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Names: Ballard, Bonnie M., editor. | Cheek, Ryan, editor.
Title: Exotic animal medicine for the veterinary technician / edited by
Bonnie Ballard, Ryan Cheek.
Description: Third edition. | Ames, Iowa : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016014207 (print) | LCCN 2016014707 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781118914281 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781118924204 (pdf) | ISBN 9781118924211 (epub)
Subjects: | MESH: Animals, Exotic | Animal Diseases | Veterinary
Medicinemethods | Animal Technicians
Classification: LCC SF997.5.E95 (print) | LCC SF997.5.E95 (ebook) | NLM SF
997.5.E95 | DDC 636.089/073dc23
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I would like to thank all the contributors who like Ryan and I have a passion for exotic animal medicine and want to share what we know with veterinary technicians. I would also like to thank Ryan for the idea of doing this book and my husband Brian who unselfishly allows me the time to work on it.
Bonnie Ballard
I would like to thank my family and friends for the support they have given me throughout my career as a veterinary technician and throughout this entire process. A special consideration goes to my wife, Savannah, for her endless patience with me and the many projects that I always have my hands in. I would also like to acknowledge the technicians working in the field of exotic animal medicine. This is an ever changing and evolving field that requires dedication and patience. Your commitment to this field is truly inspiring.
Ryan Cheek
Contributors
Bonnie Ballard,DVM, has worked in veterinary medicine since 1974, starting as a veterinary assistant, becoming a technician in 1979, and earning a DVM in 1994. In 1997, she started the veterinary technology program at Gwinnett Technical College. The program has been AVMA accredited since 2000. Dr Ballard currently is the program's director and one of two full-time faculty members. She has won numerous teaching awards and has received numerous accolades for the program. She is a relief veterinarian part time. She has had an interest in exotic animal medicine since she was a child and has owned many different types of exotic animals during her life.Denise I. Bounous,DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVP, was a professor of clinical pathology at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine before moving to the pharmaceutical industry.Ryan Cheek,RVTg, VTS (ECC), graduated from Gwinnett Technical College with an Associate of Applied Veterinary Technology, where he focused his studies on exotic animal medicine. From there he worked at Zoo Atlanta and then at a small animal/exotic animal practice for four years; he has worked in emergency and critical care since 1998. He completed his Veterinary Technician Specialist in Emergency and Critical Care in 2005 and his Bachelor of Applied Science in Veterinary Technology from St Petersburg College in 2007. He has also spoken at state and national conferences on the topic of exotic animal medicine. Ryan has been teaching full time at Gwinnett Technical College since 2007, where he teaches many subjects including exotic, wildlife, zoo, and laboratory animal medicine. Ryan's life as a reptile hobbyist began in 1986 when he purchased his first pet lizard, and has since owned more than 40 different species of reptiles.Susan Coy,CVT, received her AAS in veterinary technology from the Medical Institute of Minnesota in 1996. She interned and later volunteered at the Minnesota Zoological Gardens in Apple Valley, Minnesota. After working in a small animal hospital she became employed in April 1999 at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa, Florida.Maria Crane,DVM, received her MS in Exercise Science from Georgia State University and her DVM from the University of Georgia in 1994. She practiced in small and exotic animal medicine, then later worked at Zoo Atlanta as a staff veterinarian. She currently is the Assistant Director of Animal Resources, Field Station at Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University.Michael Duffy Jones,DVM, received a BS from Notre Dame and a DVM from Tufts University. He completed an internship at Georgia Veterinary Specialists. He worked for five years at Bells Ferry Animal Hospital before opening his own practice, Peachtree Hills Animal Hospital, in Atlanta in 2005. He has a particular interest in the use of ultrasound as a diagnostic tool, which he uses regularly in his practice and which he teaches to other veterinarians.Lillian Gerhardt,LVT, graduated from the State University of New York. She has been a technician at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine in the Avian and Zoological Medicine Service for over 20 years. She has presented seminars at the Avian Veterinarian Annual Conferences several times. She has always had a special interest in birds and has shared the last 25 years of her life with a sulphur crested cockatoo named Sugar.Cheryl B. Greenacre,DVM, Diplomate ABVP-Avian, Diplomate ABVP-Exotic Companion Mammal, graduated from the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine in 1991 and taught avian and exotic animal medicine at UGA for 10 years. She is now a professor at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine and has taught there for the past 14 years. Dr Greenacre is the President of the Association of Avian Veterinarians and Chair of the Avian Working Group on the AVMA's Panel of Euthanasia. Dr Greenacre divides her time between teaching, research, and clinics.Tarah L. Hadley,DVM, Diplomate ABVP-Avian, is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Tufts University, where she received her DVM degree. She completed an internship in small animal medicine and surgery at Rowley Memorial Animal Hospital in Massachusetts followed by a residency in avian medicine and surgery at the University of Tennessee. During her residency, Dr Hadley was also trained in exotic animal and zoological medicine. She currently serves as Director of the Atlanta Hospital for Birds and Exotics.Melanie Haire,VMT, received an AS degree in veterinary technology from Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA, and worked as a veterinary technician in an Atlanta small animal clinic following graduation. She has spent the last two decades on the staff of Zoo Atlanta, where she is the senior veterinary technician and serves as the hospital manager. She is federally licensed to rehabilitate migratory bird species, including raptors, and has a GA state DNR permit to rehabilitate all native GA wildlife with specialties in songbird and river otter care.Michael J. Huerkamp,DVM, Diplomate ACLAM, earned his DVM from the Ohio State University and did postdoctoral training in the specialty area of laboratory animal medicine at the University of Michigan. He is a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine in the Emory University School of Medicine, where he serves as director of the Division of Animal Resources.Katrina Lafferty,BFA, CVT, VTS (anesthesia), received her AAS in Veterinary Medical Technology in 2005 from Joliet College in Illinois. After graduation she worked at Globe University in Madison Wisconsin as an instructor in the veterinary technology program. Since June 2005 she has worked at the University of Wisconsin Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital in the anesthesia and pain management department, responsible for a variety of species including exotics and zoo animals. She also is the director of the hospital's veterinary technician internship program.Vanessa K. Lee,DVM, DACLAM, obtained her veterinary degree from the University of Georgia in 2005. She was an associate veterinarian in a small animal and exotic companion animal private practice for 2 years. She completed her residency in laboratory animal medicine in 2009 at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she is currently a faculty veterinarian.David Martinez-Jimenez,DVM, was born in Spain, where he completed his veterinary degree in 2002.After graduation, he performed several externships in exotic pet, zoo, and wildlife medicine. In 2004, he completed a Master's degree in Wild Animal Health at the Royal Veterinary College and Institute of Zoology of London. Then he moved to the USA, where he completed an internship in Exotic, Zoo, and Wildlife Medicine at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr Martinez-Jimenez is currently practicing in zoo, wildlife, and exotic medicine.Deborah Mook,DVM, Diplomate ACLAM, received her DVM from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998 and became board certified in laboratory medicine in 2004. She worked with pet rabbits in the clinical setting and rabbits as research models in the medical school setting. Her primary expertise lies in the field of laboratory animal medicine with a focus on murine infectious disease.Jill Murray,RVT, received her veterinary technology degree from Seneca College. She also is certified in Exotic Companion Animal Medicine as well as being a registered laboratory technician. Originally from Guelph, Ontario, Canada, she began her exotic career at the veterinary school at Kansas State University. She later moved to Oklahoma State University, where she has worked as a technician in the avian, exotic, and zoo animal medicine service since 2008.Jody Nugent-Deal,RVT, VTS (Anesthesia and Clinical Pra- ctice-Exotic Companion Animal), joined the UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital in 1999, working in the Companion Exotics Department for 10 years and currently the Small Animal Anesthesia Department, where she is the supervisor. She has lectured throughout North America since 2000 on anesthesia and exotic animal topics as well as being published in multiple articles and chapters for both canine/feline and exotic animal medicine and anesthesia topics. Jody is an instructor for both VSPN and VetMedTeam.Samuel Rivera,DVM, MS, ABVP (avian practice), graduated from Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1996. After graduation he practiced in a small animal/exotics practice in the Atlanta metro area for nine years prior to accepting a full-time position at Zoo Atlanta. He currently serves as the senior clinical veterinarian at Zoo Atlanta. Sam also serves as an adjunct faculty at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine.April Romagnano,PhD, DVM, ABVP, graduated from McGill University, Montral, Qubec, in 1982 with a BSc in agriculture. She obtained her PhD from the Universit de Montral in 1987 and a DVM from the University of Florida in 1992. She completed a postdoctoral appointment in BCL2 transgenic mice at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research lab, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, in 1988, an internship in wildlife/small animal medicine at the University of Florida in 1993, and a residency in non-domestic avian medicine at North Carolina State University in 1995. In 2001 she opened an animal clinic and functions as the avian specialist there. She also serves as the full-time director of Animal Resources at Scripps Florida, a consultant veterinarian for Lion Country Safari in Loxahatchee Florida, and a courtesy clinical assistant professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Florida.Colleen Roman,RVT, has a BS in biology from Georgia College and State University, and received an AS in veterinary technology from Gwinnett Technical College in 2011. She was the lead veterinary technician on staff at All Creatures Animal Hospital, a busy small animal and exotics animal hospital in Atlanta, Georgia for four years. She currently is the small animal specialty dermatology technician in charge of the dermatology department at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital at the University of Georgia.Ashley Schuller,RVT, received a BS degree in veterinary technology from Fort Valley State University. She has been working at the University of Georgia's Veterinary Teaching Hospital as the Zoological Medicine Technician since 2010. She has given many lectures over those years to veterinary students, technicians, technician's students, and incoming veterinary interns on how to properly handle and give nursing care for exotic animals.Sandy Skeba,LVMT, received an AS degree in veterinary technology at Harcum Junior College in Pennsylvania in 1987. After graduation she worked at the New Bolton Center at the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School, first in large animal ICU and later as a nurse in the small animal hospital. From 1990 to 2000 she worked as a senior technician at the Philadelphia Zoo, and then as a senior laboratory technician at the Alaska SeaLife Center. She is currently employed at the Nashville Zoo.Douglas K. Taylor,DVM, MS, DACLAM, received his veterinary degree from Michigan State University in 1995 and practiced small animal medicine for five years afterward. He received his specialty training in laboratory animal medicine at the University of Michigan, where he also earned his MS degreeduring that time. He is currently a clinical veterinarian in the Division of Animal Resources and Associate Professor in Pathology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.Brad Wilson,DVM, is a veterinarian and partner in two private practice veterinary clinics in north Atlanta. He received his BS in zoology and his DVM from the University of Georgia. He is a consulting veterinarian for the largest wholesale importer and distributor of fish, reptiles, amphibians, pocket pets, ferrets, and birds in north Georgia as well as for the Atlanta Botanical Garden, which has an extensive collection of dendrobatid and Central and South American hylid frogs. He has personally maintained and captively bred many species of snakes and frogs.
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