Dr. Matt Allender

On this week's episode of Aquadocs Podcast, Dr. Michelle Greenfield-Feig, DVM, CertAqV Greenfield-Feig interviews Dr. Matt Allender, director of conservation medicine and science at the Brookfield Zoo Chicago and director of the Wildlife Epidemiology Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In this episode, Dr. Allender discusses the important research that he and his colleagues are completing studying infectious and non-infectious disease of reptiles and amphibians. Importantly, he highlights ranavirus infection in turtles, a deadly disease that has huge impacts on individual and population health.