Title: Veterinary Pathologist
Gorilla Doctor Since: 1986
Favorite Part of the Job: Discovering new diseases and elucidating patterns and impact of known disease so that we can better manage gorilla health (plus interacting with students and colleagues involved in Gorilla Doctors!)
Memorable Moment: Visiting the gorillas in person after nearly 20 years of only seeing formalin-fixed tissues, peering at those tissues under the microscope and trying to piece together their life histories and causes of death.
Select Publications
- Neoplasia and proliferative lesions in free-ranging mountain and Grauer’s gorillas (Gorilla beringei), Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 2025.
- Morbidity and mortality in infant mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei): A 46-year retrospective review, American Journal of Primatology, 2017.
- Mountain gorilla lymphocryptovirus has Epstein-Barr virus-like epidemiology and pathology in infants, Scientific Reports, 2017.
