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Nora Pihkala raised and bred exhibition chickens in the 4‐H youth program in Southern
California. She obtained both her BS in Avian Sciences and a DVM from the University of
California, Davis. Following veterinary school, she practiced companion animal medicine, includ-
ing backyard poultry. Currently, her professional interests lie in public health practice. Her favorite
chicken breeds remain Silver Spangled Hamburgs and bantam Barred Plymouth Rocks.

Megan Shaw Prelinger is a former wildlife rehabilitator specializing in aquatic birds and oil spill
response, working with International Bird Rescue from 2000 to 2010. Living in San Francisco, CA, she
leads birding walks for San Francisco Nature Education, teaches a course on diving birds for Golden
Gate Audubon Society, and has presented widely on aquatic bird rehabilitation. She is also an inde-
pendent scholar and cofounder of the Prelinger Library, a private research library in San Francisco.

Guthrum Purdin earned a BS in Marine Biology from San Francisco State University and his
DVM from the University of California. While making a living as a jeweler and then a movie prop-
maker in Hollywood, he began working with wildlife as a volunteer at The Marine Mammal Center
in Sausalito, CA where he was active for 18 years. He went on to work professionally with birds and
land mammals before deciding to pursue a career in veterinary medicine. In the past 30 years, he
has worked with and provided medical care for a myriad of animal species, both wild and domes-
tic, and has served as the primary veterinarian for several of California’s large wildlife hospitals.
He has a particular fondness for passerines and California sea lions.

Yuko Sato is a 2012 graduate of Purdue University’s veterinary medicine program. She joined
Iowa State University in August 2015 after completing a poultry residency and serves as the uni-
versity’s Poultry Extension Veterinarian and Diagnostic Pathologist. She has been a diplomate of
the American College of Poultry Veterinarians since 2015. Sato works broadly with commercial
and backyard poultry producers within and outside the state of Iowa.

Renée Schott has been involved in wildlife rehabilitation since 2003, working in various centers
across the country, before starting at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota in 2010. Renée
teaches courses at the University of Minnesota School of Veterinary Medicine, does relief work at The
Univ. MN Raptor Center, is a Course Instructor for the International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council,
and lectures on wildlife rehabilitation and medicine all over the country. Renée’s professional interests
include wildlife rehabilitation welfare and clinical medicine, and advancing the profession.

Louise Shimmel has been a state and federally permitted wildlife rehabilitator since 1985, work-
ing for five years with all species, and then specializing in raptors. In 1990, she founded Cascades
Raptor Center, a nature center and wildlife hospital in Eugene, Oregon, to focus on environmental
education, as well as rehabilitation. The Raptor Center now sees over 30 000 visitors each year. She
served for seven years on the board, including two years as president, of the International Wildlife
Rehabilitation Council, was an IWRC Skills Seminar instructor for five years, has reviewed articles
for the IWRC Journal of Wildlife Rehabilitation since 1989, authored an article in Seminars
in Avian and Exotic Pet Medicine, contributed a number of articles to the IWRC Journal, and
presented at numerous conferences.

Dale A. Smith is Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph, following a career in the Department
of Pathobiology at the Ontario Veterinary College, Ontario, Canada. She educated generations of
veterinary students in the clinical medicine of avian and exotic pet species, zoo animals, and