Christina Pettan-Brewer

Christina Pettan-Brewer is a Senior Veterinarian, Director of the Animal Health Monitoring Program and Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Comparative Pathology, School of Medicine at the University of Washington. Christina received her veterinarian degree in Brazil with specialization in Zoo/Wildlife Medicine and moved to the USA to continue her graduate and postgraduate studies in Veterinary Medicine. After a surgery and pathology residency at the Los Angeles Zoo, California, she accredited her degree in the USA (DVM) at University of California, Davis and pursued a MSc/Residency in Zoological Medicine and Comparative Pathology at the School of Veterinary Medicine,  University of California, Davis with Drs Murray E Fowler and Linda J Lowenstine. Following zoological and wildlife medicine residencies, she performed her post-doctoral research trainings in Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia (USA), and Medical Genetics/Comparative Medicine at the School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle (USA). She is also an international reference and Fulbright Ambassador for One Health/EcoHealth/Planetary Health/One Wellbeing in the USA and Latin America with relevant publications and chapters in Infectious Diseases, Cancer and One Health”