DR. LAURIE GAGE is a board member of Global Research and Rescue, grr and has served as the Chief Veterinarian at Six Flags Marine World (formerly Marine World Africa USA) in Vallejo, California from 1980 to 2003. Dr. Gage simultaneously was the Director of Veterinary Services at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California from 1980 through 1994. She was the part-time veterinarian at the Los Angeles Zoo as well as a veterinary consultant to the Coyote Point Museum on the San Francisco Peninsula, Safari West in Santa Rosa, and the Oregon Tiger Sanctuary in Medford Oregon.  Since 1998, she has been a veterinary consultant for the Veterinary Information Network; an online veterinary resource service subscribed to by over 10,000 individuals. From 1993 to 1995 she was a veterinary consultant to Safari World in Bangkok, Thailand. She graduated from UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in 1979, and was a resident in equine surgery at Washington State University from 1979 to 1980. She is an associate clinical professor and guest lecturer at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, where she teaches the marine mammal medicine and husbandry courses, as well as lectures on carnivore and elephant medicine. She has been involved in several expeditions to help endangered marine mammals, including assisting with the now legendary story of Humphrey "the wrong way Whale" in San Francisco. She's traveled to Barnes Lake, Alaska to help 9 trapped whales in a tidal lake and to Hubbard Glacier to assist with the rescue of several trapped seals. She has published “Hand Rearing Wild and Domestic Mammals”, has authored, numerous scientific articles and book chapters, appeared on a variety of TV and radio programs and interviews, and has been the subject of many newspaper and internet articles. She is the current  president of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine (IAAAM) iaaam.org, and is a board member for the San Francisco Chapter of Waterkeepers www.waterkeepers.org Dr. Gage is presently the Large Cat Specialist and Marine Mammal Advisor for the United States Department of Agriculture Animal Care Division.