About the Author
Jan White, DVM, has been a wildlife rehabilitator since 1975. She attended UC Davis veterinary school from 1985 to 1989. Upon graduation, Jan served as operations manager for the International Bird Rescue Research Center, working at over 20 oil spills from small pipeline spills in California to the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
In 1992, Jan returned to UC Davis to help create the Wildlife Health Center at the veterinary school and work as a researcher on the faculty at the Institute of Toxicology and Environmental Health. Jan served as the Executive Director of IWRC from 1987 to 1995, and served as Editor of the Journal of Wildlife Rehabilitation until October 1997. She worked as the wildlife veterinarian for the state of Arizona from October of 1997 to September 1998.
Jan launched Wildlife Publications in the summer of 1997. She is currently practicing small and exotic animal medicine at the Renton Veterinary Hospital, which she owns.