Veterinary imaging keeps zoo radiologist hopping

Dave Pearson | | Health Imaging | Diagnostic Imaging

The American Veterinary Medical Association is checking in with the only zoo in the U.S. to employ, fulltime, a board-certified veterinary radiologist.

Marina Ivančić, DVM, joined Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo last June. This week the association’s JAVMAnews caught up with her.

Brookfield is “one of only three zoos in North America to have a CT scanner on site,” the outlet reports. “Brookfield also has fluoroscopy and ultrasonography equipment on site and transports animals off-site for magnetic resonance imaging.”

From her home base there, Ivančić interprets images for zoos around the world and consults to help clients “practice high-level medicine, conduct studies and establish norms.”

She’s also engaged in teaching and research.

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Brookfield Zoo invests in imaging with full-time radiologist

Dave Pearson
Dave Pearson

Dave P. has worked in journalism, marketing and public relations for more than 30 years, frequently concentrating on hospitals, healthcare technology and Catholic communications. He has also specialized in fundraising communications, ghostwriting for CEOs of local, national and global charities, nonprofits and foundations.

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