
Dr Monica Bando
Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Professional & Clinical Skills, and Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Lead
School of Veterinary Medicine
Monica is a veterinary surgeon with international companion animal and wildlife medicine, welfare, research, and teaching experience. Monica has worked in private practice, charities, and academia. Monica also has fieldwork experience with free-ranging wildlife and has collaborated with charities to help animals in need in North America, Africa, and Asia. Monica combines her animal welfare, veterinary capacity building, and clinical communications experience with her interests in compassionate and humane veterinary education and veterinary ethics to equip veterinary graduates with exceptional skills to thrive in their careers.
Monica is responsible for developing humane clinical skills and effective professional and communication skills for the University of Central Lancashire’s new School of Veterinary Medicine. Monica’s research interests include animal welfare, veterinary ethics, effective and humane veterinary education, as well as wildlife conservation, medicine and welfare. Monica has published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, serves on the board of international animal welfare charities, and consults on wildlife cases for international charities.
Monica graduated with a Bachelor of Veterinary Science (veterinary degree, DVM equivalent, AVMA accredited) from Massey University, New Zealand, in 2007, and a PhD in Veterinary Clinical Sciences from Washington State University, U.S., in 2019.
Monica worked as an associate veterinarian in private practice in the U.S. She then moved to China and joined Animals Asia, an international animal welfare charity where she served as Senior Veterinarian at their China Bear Rescue Centre. Her responsibilities included various welfare outreach programs including dog and cat shelter support and veterinary capacity building for veterinary students and local veterinary practitioners in China to help improve standards of care. Monica has also worked and volunteered internationally with companion animal and wildlife species including as a locum veterinarian in the U.K. and at a veterinary teaching hospital in the U.S., and as a volunteer wildlife veterinarian with the Scandinavian Brown Bear Project in Sweden and at Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Sierra Leone.
Monica worked as a captive wildlife veterinarian for the captive animal law enforcement division of The PETA Foundation, working for a legal team addressing cases of abuse and neglect of wildlife as well as drafting comprehensive regulatory welfare standards for birds and large carnivores. Monica also served as a clinical communications coach at Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine guiding veterinary students through simulated veterinary consults.
Monica also developed wildlife welfare seminar series for veterinary students, has advised and mentored veterinary students throughout senior research projects, and has been an invited and guest speaker at numerous interdisciplinary and veterinary conferences and public talks nationally and internationally, presenting on a range of topics in animal welfare, wildlife conservation and medicine, one health, and veterinary ethics.
- BS Wildlife Ecology and Conservation and Pre-Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, 1998
- MS Marine Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2002
- BVSc Massey University, New Zealand, 2007
- PhD Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Washington State University, 2019
- Wildlife and Exotics Fellowship Training Grant, Morris Animal Foundation, 2018-2019
- Second place oral presentation, 4th Annual College of Veterinary Medicine Post-Doc Association Research Symposium, Washington State University, 2017
- Second place poster presentation, Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) Research Exposition, Medical and Life Sciences Division, Washington State University, 2017
- First place, 3 Minute Thesis Competition, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, 2017
- International Conference Scholarship, American Association of Zoo Veterinarians, 2012
- Animal Welfare
- Veterinary Ethics
- Wildlife welfare, medicine, and conservation
- Humane veterinary education
- Effective clinical communication
- Simulation based education
- Human-animal bond
- One Health
- Board Member, Global Animal Welfare
- British Veterinary Association
- BVCIS (British Veterinary Chronic Illness Support) Working Group
- California Veterinary Medical Board
- Global Wildlife Welfare Working Group
- International Society of Applied Ethology
- Junior Vice President, The Association for Veterinary Teaching and Research Work (AVTRW)
- Member, BEAR Alliance
- Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
- Universities Federation for Animal Welfare
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- Aquatic Animal Medicine Club, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, U.S., 2021
- 52nd Annual American Association of Zoo Veterinarians Conference, U.S., 2020
- Shelter Medicine Club, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, U.S., 2019
- Zoo and Exotics Wildlife Symposium, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, U.S., 2018
- Behavior Club, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, U.S., 2018
- Morris Animal Foundation Club, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, U.S., 2018
- Veterinary Cardiology Society, Loughborough, U.K., 2017
- Sapporo Summer Seminar for One Health, Hokkaido, Japan, 2016
- Joint American Association of Zoo Veterinarians/European Association of Zoo and Wildlife Veterinarians/Institute of Zoo and Wildlife/Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, 2016
- International Conference on Bear Research and Management, 2016
- Annual Meeting of the Mammal Society of Japan 2016
- Northern Rocky Mountain Branch of American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, U.S., 2016
- Science Pub, Palouse Discovery Science Center, Washington, U.S., 2016
- Pullman Rotary Club, Washington, U.S., 2016
- 7th Annual Asian Meeting on Zoo and Wildlife Medicine/Conservation, Vietnam 2014
- 45th Annual American Association of Zoo Veterinarians Conference, U.S. 2013
- 44th Annual American Association of Zoo Veterinarians Conference, U.S. 2012
- China Association of Zoological Gardens South Central China Veterinary Skills Training Workshop, Guangzhou, 2012
- First China Cat Management TNR Workshop Symposium, Beijing, 2012
- Third Eastern Veterinary Small Animal Clinical Conference, Chengdu, China, 2011
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