Dr Derek Spielman
Lecturer in Veterinary Pathology
Faculty of Veterinary Science
McMaster Building (B14)
University of Sydney NSW 2006
Ph: +61 2 9351 7170
Fax: +61 2 9351 7421
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Qualifications
- MVSc BSc PhD MACVSc (Wildlife Medicine)
Teaching Areas
Undergraduate teaching:
- Principles of Disease & Veterinary Conservation Biology BVSc & AVBSc students year II
- Veterinary Pathology students year III
Postgraduate teaching:
- Ex-situ Wildlife Management component of the Applied Science (Wildlife Health and Population Management) Master Degree & P-G Diploma students
Administration
- Faculty Committee in Post-Graduate Coursework member
Research
- Wildlife pathology, diseases and ecology and epidemiology of wildlife diseases
- Pharmacokinetics of antibiotics in Australian marsupials
- Conservation genetics
Contribution to the Profession and the Community
- Provide a diagnostic pathology service to the University Veterinary Teaching Hospital Sydney, researchers and external veterinary practitioners
- Provide veterinary services to the WAIF Wildlife Clinic and wildlife veterinary expertise to the WAIF “Science of Wildlife Rehabilitation” courses
Selected Publications
- Spielman DS, Brook BW, Frankham R (2004) Most species are not driven to extinction before genetic factors impact them, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 101(42): 15261-15264
- Spielman DS, Brook BW, Briscoe DA, Frankham R (2004) Does inbreeding and loss of genetic diversity decrease disease resistance? Conservation Genetics 5: 439-448
- Spielman DS, Frankham RJ (1992) Modeling problems in conservation genetics using captive Drosophila populations: improvement of reproductive fitness due to immigration of one individual into small partially inbred populations, Zoo Biology 11(5): 343-352