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