Jeff Baier, DVM

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Karen Bailey, CWR

Karen Bailey is president and founder of Central Kentucky Wildlife Rehabilitation, Inc. in Georgetown, Kentucky. They specialize in neonatal and critical care of orphan raccoons, but accept all native mammals. One of the key components of our mission is to advance wildlife rehabilitation through scientific research and education. She is a licensed wildlife rehabilitator with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and possesses a USDA permit. She is also a Certified Wildlife Rehabilitator (CWR) with the IWRC, a Board member of the Kentucky Wildlife Rehabilitators Association, and has a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Vanderbilt University.

Halley Buckanoff, CWR

Halley is currently employed at the North Carolina Zoo at the helm of the Valerie H Schindler Wildlife Rehabilitation Center overseeing rehabilitation practices, center operations, and mentoring of more than 150 volunteers and interns.  Halley graduated from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR with a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology.  She is a Certified Veterinary Technician with 10+ years of emergency, exotic, zoo and wildlife medicine and husbandry experience.  She has completed graduate level course work in animal population management and animal nutrition.  Previously, she worked as field biologist mist-netting, trapping, banding, tracking and radio-collaring birds; currently she holds a USFW banding permit and is conducting post-release survival studies on commonly rehabilitated backyard birds in conjunction with Guilford College.  She is also the Association of Zoo and Aquarium’s North American Regional Studbook Keeper for the Perodicticus potto (a small African monkey) having devised and published protocols leading to the first successful hand-rearing of a captive infant.  Halley believes that the wildlife rehabilitation community are entrusted professionals and as such stewards for wildlife and wild places, relied upon to stay up-to-date on practices and provide conservation education.

Sue Hammer, CWR, RVT

Sue Hammer has been teaching and presenting for IWRC for eleven years. She has been a certified Veterinary Technician for 16 years and recently received her Certified Wildlife Rehabilitator License in 2010. She has directed two wildlife rehab centers in California, and has a total of 17 years experience in directing rehab centers. She has been in the rehab field in general for over 45 years! She has also written a weekly column on wildlife rehabilitation for the Amador Ledger Dispatch. Professionally, Sue also served her community through a career as a law enforcement officer. Sue has taught IWRC classes throughout the United States, Canada, and Africa.

Kristin Madden, CWR

Kristin Madden is the Clinic Director for Wildlife Rescue Inc. of New Mexico. She has been training educational raptors and rehabilitating wildlife since 1998. She is the Chair of IWRC’s Scientific Committee and is a member of the Wildlife Disease Working Group for The Wildlife Society. Kristin is the Permits and Biological Information Specialist for the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, Conservation Services Division. She has a Master’s degree in environmental studies – wildlife biology and is conducting ongoing research on Cooper’s Hawks in New Mexico, a collaborative effort with US Fish and Wildlife staff that includes an investigation into the incidence of trichomoniasis in urban Cooper’s Hawks.

Rebecca McKeever, CWR   

Lynn Miller, CWR

Lynn began life in New Zealand, but her passion for wildlife and conservation lead to Summer School at Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust and a stint at London Zoo. During a holiday in France, she meet a gorgeous French Canadian chap, which led her life to Quebec. While attending McGill University’s MacDonald College, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, near Montreal, she began working with birds of prey at the Macdonald Raptor Research Centre. Of course, the raptor specialty did not deter people from bringing in ducklings, song birds, herons and pigeons. The mistake was to take these birds to her home, or was it? That was 25 years ago. Since then, Lynn founded Le Nichoir in 1994, become an IWRC instructor some 7 years ago, joined the IWRC board, and is now the current president of IWRC. She also completed her PhD in Environmental Toxicology in 2011. This year is a busy one with continued research into the impact of oil in birds, especially the northern gannets that migrate south to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico through her research position in the Chemistry department at Concordia University. She is also under contract to the HSUS working with their wildlife rehabilitation programs.

Mark Naniot

Mark Naniot has been mending orphaned and injured wildlife for almost 40 years. For the last 20 he has done it professionally. He has Bachelor degrees in natural resources and biology. Mark serves on the Wildlife Rehabilitation Advisory Committee to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and has since its inception. This committee promotes wildlife rehabilitation as a profession with guidelines and rules to protect the wildlife in rehabbers’ care as well as safeguard the public.
From 1996-2010 Mark and his center were responsible for the care & treatment of over 10,630 wild animals comprised from over 100 different species.

Renee Schott, DVM

Renée is currently a full-time staff veterinarian at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota (WRC), one of the largest rehabilitation centers in the country.  She has been involved in wildlife rehabilitation for over nine years and has worked at wildlife rehabilitation centers across the country.  Renée is passionate about wildlife rehabilitation medicine and sharing her knowledge with others; over 50 veterinary students come to WRC each year to learn more about wildlife medicine. Additionally, Renée is involved in teaching courses at the University of Minnesota-College of Veterinary Medicine, teaches veterinary technicians at Argosy University and is on the National Wildlife Rehabilitators’ Association’s Board of Directors.

Lynne Slater, CWR

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Lisa Tretiak, CWR

Lisa Tretiak, a founding member of the Prairie Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre (“PWRC”), started her career in wildlife rehabilitation in 1994.  In 1998, Lisa graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree with a major in Zoology from the University of Manitoba. She gained permanent employment in the wildlife rehabilitation field as a rehab supervisor, and later moved into the position of Rehabilitation Director. From years of experience working with raptors, and successfully completing a training course, Lisa became permitted as a Master Bander for rehabilitated raptors. In spring 2008, Lisa became the first Manitoban, and only the fourth person in Canada, to be a Certified Wildlife Rehabilitator (CWR) through the International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council.

Rebekah (Beka) Weiss, CWR

Rebekah Weiss is the founder and staff rehabilitator for Aves Wildlife Alliance in Central
Wisconsin, U.S.A. Beka specializes in emergency and critical care for adult birds and mammals, but enjoys the challenges of improving orphan care as well. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point with a B.S. in Wildlife Ecology, Animal Physiology, and Captive Wildlife Management. Since 2006, Beka has worked as a full-time wildlife rehabilitator and has studied wildlife surgical nursing under two seasoned wildlife veterinarians. Between wildlife feedings and scrubbing cages, Beka enjoys digging potatoes, eating fresh raspberries, and picking what’s left of the lettuce, after first chasing the chickens out of her garden.

Sue Wylie, CWR

Susan Wylie is Executive Director of Le Nichoir, a wild bird rehabilitation center located in Hudson, Quebec that receives 1,400 wild birds annually. Susan has been rehabilitating songbirds and aquatic birds for 8 years, with her passion being the rehabilitation of insectivorous birds, especially Chimney swifts.  As Director, Susan is also responsible to drive the Centre’s fundraising events, manage staff and volunteers, and participate in research. Susan graduated from McGill University with a bachelor’s degree, majoring in wildlife biology, and is an environmental management technician. She also has experience working in the horticulture business, including at McGill’s research greenhouses, for 8 years while going to school, and has been a cub leader with Scouts Canada for the last 15 years.