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Dr. Mike Loomis - Chief Veterinarian
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Dr. Mike Loomis is the Chief Veterinarian at N.C. Zoo. He has a masters degree in zoology from Indiana University. He graduated from Univ. of California, Davis College of Veterinary Medicine and did an internship at the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC.
Mike has worked as a veterinarian at the Los Angeles and San Diego Zoos. He is past president of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians and of the American College of Zoological Medicine.
He is currently Adjunct Associate Professor of Zoological Medicine at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine and is a member of the Associate Graduate Faculty and GIS (Geographical Information System) Faculty at North Carolina State University.
As part of his job at N.C. Zoo, he has coordinated an elephant conservation project in Cameroon, Africa since 1998. The goals of the project are to determine elephant land use patterns and to evaluate human-elephant interactions around several national parks and find ways to ameliorate negative human-elephant conflicts.
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