Gretchen E. Kaufman
Assistant Professor, Wildlife Medicine
Department of Environmental and Population Health
Director
of the Tufts Center for Conservation Medicine http://www.tufts.edu/vet/ccm/index.html
Wildlife, Zoological and Exotic Animal Medicine, International Veterinary Medicine, Conservation Medicine
Phone: 508-839-7918
Email: gretchen.kaufman@tufts.edu
Education
DVM - Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine - 1986
Residency - Zoological Medicine, University of California at Davis, 1989
Selected Publications
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Kaufman, GE, Else, JE, Bowen, K, Anderson, M, Epstein J. Bringing Conservation Medicine into the Veterinary Curriculum – the Tufts Example. EcoHealth, Volume 1 (Suppl. 1), September, 2004: 43-49.
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Kaufman GE., Seymour R, Bonner B, Court M and Karas AZ. Use of rocuronium for endotracheal intubation in North American Gulf Coast box turtles. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 222 (8), 2003 : 1111-1115.
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Stoskopf MK, Paul-Murphy J,Kennedy-Stoskopf S, and Kaufman GE. American College of Zoological Medicine recommendations on veterinary curricula. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 219 (11), 2001 : 1532-1535.
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Epstein, J. H. et al. The Australian white ibis (Threskiornis molucca) as a reservoir of zoonotic and livestock pathogens. Ecohealth 3, 290-298 (2006).
Book chapters:
- Mayer, J, Kaufman G, and Pokras M.1. Mayer, J, Kaufman G, and Pokras M. Reptile Medicine and Surgery, 2nd ed., 2005.
- Kaufman GE. Pharmacology, pharmacodynamics and drug dosing. IN The Biology, Husbandry and Health Care of Reptiles and Amphibians edited by Lowell Ackerman. TFH Publications, Inc. Neptune City, NJ, 1997.
- Kaufman GE The Effects of dexamethasone on serum hepatic enzymes and glucose in Red-Tailed Hawks. Raptor Biomedicine, P.T. Redig (ed.) et al. University of Minnesota Press, c1993.
- Kaufman GE Avian emergencies. IN Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, edited by R. Murtaugh and P. Kaplan. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, c1992.