Veterinarian

Veterinarian

The Veterinarian is integral in providing quality medical and surgical care to the New York Aquarium animal collection and serves as a mentor within the Aquatic Health Department, a complex multi-veterinarian, multi-technician health care setting. This position also participates in local field conservation projects with the New York Bight Program.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Aquatic Health Department, Animal Department staff, Life Support Staff, and the Bronx Zoo Zoological Health Program to provide excellent medical, surgical, and preventative medical care to the New York Aquarium animal collection, serving a primarily clinical role, and, when assigned, providing medical care to the animals in the Wildlife Conservation Society zoos.
• Coordinate the veterinary student externship program and supervise externs, including providing input for final reviews (students).
• Contribute to mentoring WCS veterinary clinical residents on rotation at NYA and AHD personnel, including veterinary technicians, water quality lab personnel, hospital manager, program assistant, volunteers, and interns.
• Assist with administrative functions of the Aquatic Animal Health Center, including purchasing, budget, inventory management, and developing and maintaining standard operating procedures.
• Assist in implementing and maintaining the preventative medicine program consistent with current best practices in aquatic veterinary medicine.
• Assist in coordinating communication, scheduling, and veterinary procedures associated with animal shipments, acquisitions, dispositions, and the quarantine process.
• As time and other responsibilities permit, represent WCS via participation in conferences, workshops, professional organizations, local and/or international projects and activities, research, and publications/presentations.
• Participate in the New York Bight Program, including field involvement, lab sample processing, research, presentations and/or publications of data.
• Perform gross post-mortem examinations on deceased collection fish and invertebrates and coordinate with Zoological Health Program pathologists and outside histopathology laboratory.
• Perform related tasks and duties as required.