Medical Director
The Marine Mammal Center
Sausalito, California
Dr. Field is the medical director at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California. Her primary roles include overseeing the care of all stranded marine mammal patients, conducting and collaborating on numerous research projects, and teaching and mentoring the veterinary interns, fellows, and dozens of veterinary residents, international veterinarians, students, and other visitors who come to TMMC each year to learn about marine mammal medicine and health. Dr. Field completed the dual DVM/PhD degree program at the University of California Davis in 2005, where she studied the effects of high pressure on blood platelets from elephant seals. She then worked at Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut as a post-doctoral researcher studying brucellosis in marine mammals, and was subsequently the intern veterinarian there. Following three years at Mystic Aquarium, she served as associate veterinarian in New Orleans for the Audubon Nature Institute caring for animals at the aquarium, zoo and Endangered Species Survival Center. As the primary vet for the Audubon Aquarium Stranding Program, she oversaw the care of oiled sea turtles and dolphins during the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Dr. Field then accepted a position as associate veterinarian at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, one of the largest aquariums in the world, for several years before moving back to California to start work at TMMC in 2014. As a Diplomate of the American College of Zoological Medicine specializing in aquatic animal medicine, Dr. Field particularly enjoys the combination of medicine, teaching and research in marine mammal health and conservation.
Thursday, October 13, 2022
2:00pm – 2:30pm
Thursday, October 13, 2022
2:30pm – 3:00pm
Thursday, October 13, 2022
3:00pm – 3:45pm
Friday, October 14, 2022
8:00am – 9:15am
Friday, October 14, 2022
10:00am – 11:00am
Friday, October 14, 2022
11:00am – 12:00pm
Friday, October 14, 2022
2:15pm – 2:45pm