Presenter

Dr. Ziccardi is currently the Executive Director of the One Health Institute, Director of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network, Director of the California Veterinary Emergency Team, Co-Director of the Veterinary Access to Care Program, and Health Science Clinical Professor for the School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis. He received his DVM, MPVM, and PhD in epidemiology from UC Davis, emphasizing free-ranging wildlife health and the effects of petroleum exposure in wildlife. He has been an oil spill response veterinarian and coordinator since 1996, responding to more than 70 spills in the US and abroad. He has also worked as a contract veterinarian for California Department of Fish and Game, a wildlife epidemiologist at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, Chair of the Global Oiled Wildlife Response System project, Chair of NOAA’s Working Group on Marine Mammal Unusual Mortality Events, and Treasurer for the Wildlife Disease Association.