The Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health, with programs around the globe, strives to sustain a healthier world by developing and implementing proactive, science-based solutions to challenges at the interface of wildlife health, domestic animal health, human health and livelihoods, and the environment that supports us all.
This Keynote focuses on the work of the Janet L. Swanson Wildlife Hospital at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, its team and their patients, and what is being learned about the wider disease and environmental threats to wildlife in the northeastern United States.
As part of the Cornell University Hospital for Animals, the Janet L. Swanson Wildlife Hospital provides state-of-the-art medical and surgical care for ill and injured native wild animals. Serving as a valuable and trusted resource to the local community, the state of New York, and surrounding northeast region, the Swanson team works diligently to treat a broad range of common to complex disease presentations in a wide variety of birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.
Hospital staff work closely with a large network of licensed wildlife rehabilitators to bridge the gap between hospitalization and successful release back to the wild. Through innovative research, the Swanson Wildlife Hospital contributes new information to the field of wildlife medicine that improves clinical outcomes and release success for wildlife patients while deepening our understanding of wildlife health.
