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IAAAM/WDA Student Award
The International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine and WDA Student Award
The Wildlife Disease Association (WDA) and the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine (IAAAM) jointly provide an award for the best student-authored aquatic animal paper in the previous year’s Journal of Wildlife Diseases (JWD). The scholarship is valued at $1,500 US, which can be used for fees, books, supplies, equipment and other educational expenses incurred by the winner as a student during the pursuit of their graduate degree, or to support travel to conferences plus one-year’s WDA membership (Student or Regular Member Online Journal) and one-year IAAAM membership (Student or Full membership, depending on the status of the recipient at the time of the award). There are approximately 1-15 articles each year whose authors meet these criteria.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR MOST RECENT IAAAM WINNER - BRETT GARDNER
Brett Gardner received a BVSc from the University of Pretoria, South Africa in 2006. He has been working as a zoo and wildlife veterinarian, predominantly in Africa and currently in Australia ever since. He completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne, Australia in 2024, investigating some of the infectious etiologies of abortion in Australian fur seals. He is currently based jointly between the One Health Research Group at the University of Melbourne and Zoos Victoria, at the Werribee Open Range Zoo. His biggest veterinary interests are field anesthesia and disease ecology in marine mammals. Brett's paper Surveillance for Toxoplasma gondii, Brucella spp., and Chlamydia spp. in Australian Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus) Abortions was published in JWD's October 2024 issue, 60(4).
Previous winners of the joint IAAAM/WDA manuscript award
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