Butorphanol in the Wild: Advancing Anaesthetic Protocols

Subject: Butorphanol in the Wild: Advancing Anaesthetic Protocols
Speakers: Dr Keith Meyer
Organizer: Vetlink
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Prof Leith Meyer is currently the Director of the Centre for Veterinary Wildlife Research and a Professor at the University of Pretoria. His qualifications include a PhD in Physiology (Wits), a Veterinary Degree (BVSc – UP) and a Science Honours Degree in Wildlife Management (BSc Hon – UP). His research activities are mainly dedicated to wildlife conservation medicine, pharmacology and physiology, and veterinary management of wildlife. He has published more than 120 research papers and 8 chapters in books mainly in these fields. He is also an author on the latest edition of the Handbook for Wildlife Chemical Immobilization. His research interests include improving health and welfare, and better understanding the physiological consequences, of veterinary management procedures in wildlife, particularly when they are captured, translocated, reintroduced, rehabilitated or anaesthetised. He also has an interest in temperature regulation and the ecophysiology of free-living mammals, with a particular focus on how climate change influences these animals. His primary research interest is in discovery novel ways of reducing the side-effects of wildlife capture to improve animal health and welfare.