Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

MCM Program Leadership and Contributing Faculty

Program Director

Christopher Whittier

Assistant Teaching Professor

Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health

Wildlife medicine; Conservation; African apes; Zoonoses; Field diagnostics; Epidemiology

Assistant Director

Alison Robbins

Assistant Teaching Professor

Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health

Zoonotic diseases of public health importance; Wildlife diseases surveillance and epidemiology, especially rabies, amphibian chytridiomycosis, and white nose syndrome in bats; Disease control methods in free-ranging populations; Conservation medicine

Course Directors

Caitlin Andrews

Post-doctoral Fellow

Department of Infectious Disease & Global Health

Felicia Nutter

D.V.M., Ph.D., DACZM

Assistant Professor

Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health

Health of free-ranging wildlife, including capacity buildilng for wildlife health professionals; Wildlife rehabilitation and reintroduction; Conservation medicine; Infectious disease ecology and zoonoses; Humane cat and dog population control, especially in lower and middle income countries; transdisciplinary One Health capacity building.

Allen Rutberg

Associate Research Professor

Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health

Deer and wild horse immunocontraception; suburban deer controversies and population management; wild horse management; ungulate social organization

Adam South

Assistant Teaching Professor

Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health

My research spans multiple levels of analysis (from proximate to ultimate) by incorporating in depth observations at different biological scales (from molecular to population level). My approach to research integrates molecular and genetic approaches with elements of animal behavior, ecology, evolution and phylogenetics with the experimental power of model systems to answer fundamental questions about the evolution of reproduction in disease vectors and other insect model systems of significance to humanity. Recently, much of my work has focused on Anopheles mosquitoes, the principal vectors of malaria. However, I am interested in switching my focus to local mosquito species and other arthropod vectors. General Research Interests - Vector Biology - Pathogen-Vector Interactions and Coevolution - Sexual Selection

Jessica Sparks, M.S., M.S.W., Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

Carolyn Talmadge

Data Lab Services Manager

Contributing Faculty

School Faculty

Guest Faculty