USDA Forest Service
Washington Grove, MD
Dr. Klein is the Attending Veterinarian for the USDA Forest Service (USFS) Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, and the National Program Lead for Fish and Wildlife Health. She served as an organizing committee member for the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine to conduct a workshop on animal welfare challenges in wildlife research (2022). She is the USFS Focal Point on the National One Health Coordination Unit and was an Embassy Science Fellow for the Department of State assigned to the U.S. embassy in Lima, Peru to establish the South American One Health Network. Her 30-year career has focused on a One Health community of practice advancing disease prevention in people, animals, and the environment through improved biosecurity and animal welfare in alignment with the Five Domains Model.
She previously worked for USDA APHIS Veterinary Services as the National Program Coordinator for Cervid Health and Avian Health impacting farmed animals and wildlife. She also served as Commander in the U.S. Public Health Service at FDA investigating food safety issues. Her career began in the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center where she managed captive wildlife health care and welfare. She served as the Center’s IACUC Attending Veterinarian. She also conducted research and published on environmental toxicology and wildlife diseases. She was the Veterinary Director for wildlife rehabilitation facilities in Maryland and Massachusetts for over 25 years providing veterinary care and public education on zoonotic diseases and animal welfare to the wildlife conservation communities in the United States and internationally. She co-authored guidelines on wildlife rehabilitation of rabies vector species for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, the Maryland Department of Public Health, and the New York Department of Environmental Conservation.
Dr. Klein is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine and earned a Master’s Degree in Toxicology at St. John’s University, NY. She completed a Fellowship in comparative pathology at The John’s Hopkins University School of Medicine after a Residency in Avian Pathology at U.C. Davis, CA. She is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine and the American College of Poultry Veterinarians, and is adjunct faculty at University of Maryland and University of Pennsylvania. She worked in veterinary disaster response and was Team Commander of the AVMA VMAT-2 team. She deployed to 9/11 (2001), UK-FMD Outbreak (2001), Hurricane Katrina (2005), and Hurricane Sandy (2012). She trained in oil-spill response and deployed to oiled-wildlife spills in MD and NJ.
Friday, November 7, 2025
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM ET