Courses:
WIS6050 Professional Communication in Wildlife Forensic Sciences
WIS6421 Wildlife Toxicology: The Ecohealth Perspective
Academic Qualifications:
Hayley Adams has over 20 years of experience in wildlife veterinary medicine, conservation, and issues related to One Health in Africa. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Zoology/Anthropology, and went on to receive her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from The University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine in 2001. She completed a clinical internship in small animal and emergency medicine, and worked briefly in small animal private practice before returning to her alma mater to work on her PhD in the veterinary sciences. In 2007 she received her PhD from the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine’s Comparative Medicine Program, with a concentration in epidemiology and virology. Her PhD research focused on the molecular epidemiology and diagnosis of lentiviruses of free-ranging lions in southern Africa.
She is a board-certified Diplomate in the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine (specialties include environmental health, infectious & parasitic diseases, food safety, epidemiology & biostatistics, & public health administration & education) and the American College of Veterinary Microbiology (specialties include virology, bacteriology/mycology, & immunology).