Denise Mcaloose

Dr. McAloose directs the pathology and molecular diagnostic laboratories at the WCS, which provide diagnostic services and consultation to the organization's 4 zoos and aquarium in New York City and their local and international conservation projects in over 40 countries. Primary interests include emerging diseases and the development and implementation of field-based tools for disease diagnostics, species identification, and biodiversity studies. She serves as an advisor for the Association...See more

Dr. McAloose directs the pathology and molecular diagnostic laboratories at the WCS, which provide diagnostic services and consultation to the organization's 4 zoos and aquarium in New York City and their local and international conservation projects in over 40 countries. Primary interests include emerging diseases and the development and implementation of field-based tools for disease diagnostics, species identification, and biodiversity studies. She serves as an advisor for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Felid Taxon Advisory Group and individual felid and canid Species Survival Plans (SSP). She is also a Senior Courtesy Lecturer at Cornell University's School of Veterinary Medicine and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. She serves as a Scientific Advisory Board member for the Morris Animal Foundation and has served as a member of the National Marine Fisheries Services/National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Working Group for Unusual Marine Mammal Mortality Events. See less