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Dr. Christine Fiorello, DVM, PhD, MS, Dipl. ACZM

Assistant Professor of Exotic Animal, Wildlife & Zoological Medicine
Department of Small Animal Medicine & Surgery
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-7390, USA

Tel: 1-706-542-9384 ( Small Animal Department )
Tel: 1-706-542-3221 ( Hospital ) - Owners may contact faculty through the hospital number.
Fax: 1-706-542-6460
E-mail: fiorello@uga.edu

Education:

• Residency in Zoological Medicine, University of Florida, 2006
• Diplomate of the American College of Zoological Medicine, 2006
• PhD in ecology, Center for Environmental Research & Conservation, Columbia University, NY, 2004
• Internship in Small Animal Medicine, Angell Memorial Animal Hospital, Boston, MA, 1999
• DVM, Tufts University, Grafton, MA, 1998
• MS in Evolutionary Biology, University of Cincinnati, OH, 1993
• AB in Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1990

Boarded Area of Specialization:
Zoological medicine (free-ranging wildlife).

Clinical and Research Interests:

• Wildlife immobilization and anesthesia
• Disease ecology in free-ranging wildlife
• Carnivore ecology & conservation
• Pain management in non-domestic species

Dr. Fiorello is interested in disease ecology in wildlife, especially at the domestic animal-wildlife interface. Her doctoral dissertation research explored the relationship between domestic hunting dogs and disease in wild canids and felids in Bolivia. Her main interests are in Latin American carnivore ecology and conservation, but she also has worked on tortoises, armadillos, tapirs, and tegu lizards in Bolivia and elsewhere in South America. She continues to work in Latin America, and is currently studying nutrition and feeding ecology in northern tamanduas in Honduras.

Various opportunities exist for veterinary students, fellow academicians, and veterinarians to visit, observe and train at the veterinary college. More at "Visit Us."

Professional Curriculum Courses:

• SAMS 5218, Reptile & Avian Medicine.
• SAMS 5316, Marine Animal Medicine
• SAMS 5117, Wildlife Clinical Medicine elective

Selected Publications:

Fiorello, C.V., J. Beagley, and S.B. Citino. In press. Antibiotic intravenous regional perfusion for distal limb infections: two cases. Journal of Zoo & Wildlife Medicine

 

Fiorello, C.V., L. Maffei, S.L. Deem, 2007. Serosurvey of small carnivores in the Bolivian Chaco. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 43: 551-557.

 

Maffei, L., A.J. Noss, C.V. Fiorello. 2008. The jaguarondi (Puma yagouaroundi) in the Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Mastozoologia Neotropical, in press.

 

Fiorello, C.V., M.W. Cunningham, S.L. Cantwell, J.K. Levy, E.M. Neer, K. Conley, P.M. Rist. 2007. Diagnosis and treatment of presumptive post-obstructive pulmonary edema in a Florida panther. Journal of Zoo & Wildlife Medicine 38: 317-322.

 

Fiorello, C.V., A.J. Noss, S.L. Deem. 2006. Demography, ecology, and pathogen exposure of domestic dogs in the Izozog of Bolivia. Conservation Biology 20: 762-71.

 

Fiorello, C.V., D.J. Heard, H.B. Heller, K. Russell. 2006. Medical management of toxoplasmosis in a capuchin monkey. Journal of Zoo & Wildlife Medicine 37: .397-400.

 

Fiorello, C.V., S.E. Wade, R.Robbins. 2006. Parasites of free-ranging small canids and felids in the Bolivian Chaco. Journal of Zoo & Wildlife Medicine 37: 130-134.

 

Adin, D., H. Meisenbacher, N. Ojeda, C. Fiorello, A. Estrada, R. Prosek, S. Citino. 2007. Cardiac evaluation of anesthetized Grevy’s zebras. Ameican. J. Veterinary Research 68: 149-152.

 

Lafortune, M., J.F.X. Wellehan, D.J. Heard, E. Rooney-DelPino, C.V. Fiorello, and E.R. Jacobson. 2005. Vacuum-assisted closure (Turtle VAC) in the management of traumatic shell defects in Chelonians. Journal of Herpetological Medicine & Surgery 15: 4-13.

 

Powe, J., W. Castleman, C. Fiorello. 2005. A thymic carcinoid in a Bengal tiger. Journal of Zoo & Wildlife Medicine 36: 531-33.

 

Fiorello, C.V., S.L. Deem, M.E. Gompper, E.J. Dubovi. 2004. Seroprevalence of selected pathogens in domestic carnivores on the border of Madidi National Park, Bolivia. Animal Conservation 7: 45-54.

 

Gompper, M.E., R. Goodman, R. Kays, J. Ray, C.V. Fiorello, and S.E. Wade. 2003. Parasites in coyotes, Canis latrans, in New York. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 39: 712-717.

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