Dr. Doug Mader at the Key West Public Library

700 Fleming Street,Key West FL 33040

30 January, 2023

Description

The Vet at Noah’s Ark: Stories of Survival from an Inner-City Animal Hospital follows Dr. Doug Mader and his staff over the course of a year at his inner-city Los Angeles veterinary hospital, where Dr. Mader treats not only dogs and cats, but also emus, skunks,snakes, foxes, monkeys, and a host of other exotic animals. The book is a heartfelt, sometimes hilarious, always suspenseful tale of the human-animal bond. Dr. Doug Mader is a triple board-certified veterinary specialist and has been a veterinarian for over three decades. He is an internationally recognized speaker, has written three best-selling medical textbooks and numerous book chapters and scientific publications, and has had long standing pet columns in the Long Beach Press Telegram, Reptiles magazine, and the Key West Citizen. Dr. Mader is the recipient of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Award, the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine Alumni Achievement Award, and the Fred L. Frye Lifetime Achievement Award for Veterinary Medicine,and is a seven-time winner of the North American Veterinary Community Speaker of the Year award and a four-time winner of the Western Veterinary Conference Educator of the Year award. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in the UK. Dr. Mader practiced in California for many years, but today lives and works in the Florida Keys.