Abstract

Dr. Mitchell received his DVM in 1992 from the University of Illinois, and an MS in clinical epidemiology with an emphasis on wildlife medicine from the same institution in 1997. He completed his PhD in clinical wildlife epidemiology with an emphasis on Salmonella in reptiles at Louisiana State University in 2001. From 1996–2007, Dr. Mitchell was a member of the zoological medicine faculty at Louisiana State University. In February 2007, Dr. Mitchell moved to be closer to family and is currently an associate professor in zoological medicine and surgery at the University of Illinois. Although he has had the opportunity to travel extensively and pursue many of the things he dreamed of as a child, his greatest pleasures come from spending time with his wife, Lorrie, and adopted daughter, Mary Yansung, and teaching Mary (a 14-month-old) the International Codes of Zoological Nomenclature while his wife asks him to “not screw up this poor child.”