We’ve got a lot of fun and exciting events planned for this semester! Everything from field trips, to workshops, to seminars that are all focused on wildlife and wildlife health. This year, we’re kicking things off with a movie night and meet and greet Thursday, September 19th at 6:30 PM in Russell Labs. We hope to see you all there!
Author: uwwdaofficer
4th Annual Symposium: Wildlife Health for Wildlife’s Sake
Join the University of Wisconsin-Madison Student Chapter of the Wildlife Disease Association for our 4th Annual Wildlife Health Symposium on Saturday, April 13! Learn from experts in the fields of wildlife medicine, applied wildlife health research, and wildlife ecology about why we should care about wildlife health beyond the scope of human disease risk. Engage with other wildlife enthusiasts, and acquire skills to tackle conservation challenges together. This event is open to undergraduate, graduate, and veterinary students alike.
Breakfast and lunch will be provided for FREE for members. Non-members can join the club for $10, which will include entrance to the symposium AND membership the Fall 2019/Spring 2020 academic year – a package deal! If you’re a freshman or first year veterinary student/graduate student, you can join the club for $35 for 4 years.
**Send us an e-mail at wiscwda@gmail.com if you would like to become a member. Payment can be made to WiscWDA Treasurer Nicole Pietrunti via Venmo @Nicole-Pietrunti, or by cash or check at the door.
4th Annual Wildlife Health Symposium
Date: Saturday, April 13, 2019
Location:
Russell Laboratories, Room 548
1630 Linden Dr
Madison, WI 53706
Itinerary:
9:00 AM – Coffee & bagels from Einstein Bro. Bagels/Caribou.
9:30 AM – Introduction.
9:45 AM – Talk by Dr. Katie Richgels, Chief of the Applied Wildlife Health Research Branch at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center
10:15 AM – Talk by Dr. Michelle Verant, Wildlife Veterinarian at National Park Service.
10:45 AM – Workshop “Challenges Associated with Wildlife Translocation”
12:00 PM – Lunch from Noodles & Co.
1:00 PM – Talk from Dr. Tim Van Deelen, Professor at the UW-Madison Dept. of Forest & Wildlife Ecology
1:30 PM – Workshop “Advocating for Wildlife – An Activist’s Toolbox”
2:00 PM – Group discussion
3:00 PM – Social time! Meet & greet your peers.
Click HERE for registration!
Contact us at wiscwda@gmail.com if you have any questions.
3rd Annual Wildlife Health Symposium: Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health
Join us for our 3rd annual WiscWDA Wildlife Health Symposium! We have a great group of speakers lined up for you plus a necropsy lab (check out details below). Register at the link below:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RZBQG9Z
Monthly Meeting: Wildlife Pathology Cases
CORRECTION TO BELOW FLYER…THE MEETING IS AT 5:30PM INSTEAD OF 6PM!
Also be on the look out for more details on our April 3rd Annual Wildlife Health Symposium with the theme of Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health!
Monthly Meeting: Sloths and Pesticides with Dr. Kurt Sladky
Come join us for our this Thursday (10/17) at 6pmOctober meeting where Dr. Kurt Sladky (DVM, MS, DACZM) will speak to us about sloth research that he performed in Costa Rica and how pesticides affect them! The meeting will be held in the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine (2015 Linden Drive, someone will be waiting at the door to let you in!).
Dr. Kurt Sladky is the current section Head of the Special Species Health Service at UW-Veterinary Care. https://www.vetmed.wisc.edu/people/sladkyk/
Thanks to Dr. Bieneke Bron, Julia Poje, Steph Kurth and Kelsey Rayment for presenting about their career paths in the wildlife disease field at our September meeting!
2nd Annual Wildlife Health Symposium Registration!
For more information of lecture topics, schedules, topics and speakers, please click on the Events tab to find the Wildlife Health Symposium tab.
Monthly Meeting-NPS Wildlife Veterinary Medicine
Join us this Thursday, April 6th at 6:00 pm for our April Monthly Meeting. We will be having a video talk with Dr. Michelle Verant (DVM, PhD, MPH) who was one of the co-founding officers of the our WI student chapter of the WDA. Dr. Verant currently works as a wildlife veterinarian in the Wildlife Health Branch of the National Park Service in Colorado (check out an interview of her at the link below)! She will be sharing with us her career path and her work as an NPS veterinarian. The meeting will be held in Room 101 Hanson Laboratories. Hope to see you there!
https://www.nps.gov/articles/staycurious_michelleverant.htm
