Welcome Dr. Jane Riner!
UCD-CDFW's Fourth Free-Ranging Wildlife Health Resident
Dr. Jane Riner developed strong interests in wildlife health through working with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Wildlife Health Laboratory and Foley Laboratory in Infectious Disease Ecology at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, where she witnessed the value of medicine, research, policy, and collaboration with other organizations to meet the needs of wild species. During her time there, she was involved in a wide variety of wildlife health projects, including mange intervention in San Joaquin kit foxes, statewide mountain lion health, nutria disease surveillance, Aleutian disease surveillance in striped skunks, population recovery for the Amargosa vole, population monitoring of translocated fishers, and treatment of burned native California wildlife. After veterinary school at UC Davis, she pursued an internship in emergency and exotic animal medicine in San Diego then worked as an associate veterinarian at Wildlife Safari, an AZA accredited zoological institution in Oregon.
Since starting residency, she has participated in wildlife health and research efforts of all shapes and sizes all over the state of California, including live capture of over 10 different species, collaboration with over 10 different agency/institution/nonprofit partners, involvement in many fascinating wildlife pathology cases, and participation in discussions around important wildlife diseases including HPAI, RHDV2, and CWD. She is looking forward to the remainder of her residency learning all about agency work with CDFW, completing the Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, and being involved in wildlife projects through the Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center.