About
Dr. Michael Ziccardi has been a part of both the One Health Institute (OHI) and the Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center (WHC) since the founding of each—as a graduate student, as staff, and as a director. He received his DVM, masters, and doctorate in epidemiology degrees from UC Davis. Since 1996, Michael has acted as an oil spill response veterinarian and oiled wildlife response director during more than 50 spills nationally and internationally, most notably as the Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Group Supervisor for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration during the Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010. Currently, he is the Executive Director of the One Health Institute, Director for California’s Oiled Wildlife Care Network, and Health Science Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine and Epidemiology at UC Davis.
