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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Chiefland, Florida
Dr. Samantha Gibbs leads the Wildlife Health office, which provides veterinary support for wildlife health issues on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Wildlife Refuges. Sam obtained a bachelor’s degree (Wildlife Ecology and Conservation) and a veterinary degree (DVM) at the University of Florida. She completed a PhD (Medical Microbiology) with a focus on vector-borne diseases in wild birds at the University of Georgia. She worked for the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study at the University of Georgia as a wildlife disease diagnostician during her PhD and post-doc. Sam then took a position as veterinary epidemiologist with the Australian government’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) conducting work on avian influenza in Australia and Indonesia. She moved back to the U.S. in 2008 to take the position of Avian Disease Coordinator with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Division of Migratory Bird Management. Sam transferred to the National Wildlife Refuge System five years later to create the Wildlife Health office. Her interests and expertise are focused on the investigation of chronic and emerging infectious diseases affecting the conservation of free-ranging wildlife.
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM ET