Meet the Instructors - International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council

Christina Carrières RVT, CWR

Christina Carrières is a veterinary technician and a Certified Wildlife Rehabilitator (IWRC certification program). For over 15 years, she has...

Debbie Sykes LVMT, CWR

Debbie has been a wildlife rehabilitator since 2012 in Nashville, playing every role from volunteer to supervisor to director. She...

Elisa Fosco RVT, CWR

Lisa Fosco (Elisa) has been rehabilitating wildlife for over 30 years. She is a licensed veterinary technician (RVT), a wildlife...

Ernesto Dominguez DVM, DACVPM, CWR

Dr. Ernesto Dominguez is currently the Associate veterinarian at Wellesley Animal Hospital, in Richmond, VA. Dr. Ernesto Dominguez grew up...

Halley Buckanoff BS, CVT, CWR, CESMT

Halley is currently employed at the North Carolina Zoo’s Wildlife Rehabilitation Center overseeing rehabilitation practices, center operations, and mentoring of ...

Jan Shadick CWR

Jan grew up with a love of animals but did not discover wildlife rehabilitation until 1998 when she volunteered at...

Jayanthi Kallam CWR

Though my professional background has been in the field of management and information technology, I was always passionate about environmental...

Kelli LeVan DVM, CWR

Dr. Kelli graduated cum laude from Virginia Tech with a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry and from the Virginia-Maryland Regional...

Kim Blomme RVT, CWR

Kim never really knew what she wanted to be when she grew up until she responded to an advertisement looking...

Lisa Tretiak CWR

Lisa Tretiak, a founding member of the Prairie Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre (PWRC), started her career in wildlife rehabilitation in 1994....

Lloyd Brown CWR

Lloyd has served IWRC as a State Representative, a regional representative and then as a board member. He served as...

Rebecca Michelin BSc., CWR

Rebecca’s wildlife rehabilitation journey started with an internship in 2009 which she turned into a full-time career. She has coordinated...

Renee Schott DVM, CWR

Renée is currently the Medical Director at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota (WRCMN), the busiest wildlife rehabilitation hospital in...