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Robert S. Sikes, PhD

Professor of Biology; Director, Basic Animal Services Unit, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; President-Elect; Chair, Animal Care and Use Committee, American Society of Mammalogists, Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology

Robert S. Sikes, PhD, is a professor of biology and director of the basic animal services unit at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He currently serves as President-Elect of the American Society of Mammalogists, and he chairs the animal care and use committee for that organization. His background and research experience is exclusively with wild vertebrates, both in the field and in captivity.

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John A. Bryan II., DVM, MS

Public Service Assistant; Wildlife Veterinarian, University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine

Dr. Bryan is a native Georgian who received his undergraduate education from Emory University, and his professional and graduate degrees from the University of Georgia. Following graduation from veterinary school, Dr. Bryan received post-doctoral training at the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study (SCWDS) in the diagnosis, pathology, and epidemiology of wildlife disease. From 2009 to 2015, Dr. Bryan served as a team member of the Biological Resource Management Division of the National Park Service (NPS), where he served as Chair and Attending Veterinarian of the NPS Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Veterinary Diagnostic Service Coordinator, and as a Field Wildlife Veterinarian. In 2015, Dr. Bryan returned to SCWDS as a Public Service Assistant and Wildlife Veterinarian focusing on issues involving exotic invasive species and wildlife disease.

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Gregg Langham, DVM MPH DACLAM

Senior Veterinarian, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Dr. Langham was born and raised in Georgia. He began his career as an animal technician with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia in 1988. He resigned in 1991 to attend the University of Georgia, where he completed the degree of Bachelor of Science in biology. Shortly thereafter, he worked for Merial Animal Health prior to attending the Atlantic Veterinary College at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Immediately following graduation from veterinary college, Dr. Langham accepted a position as a junior clinical veterinarian with National Cancer Institute within the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. During that time, he completed a combined program leading to the degree of Master of Public Health at the Uniformed Services University, School of Medicine and a Laboratory Animal Medicine residency within the NIH in Bethesda. Since 2003, Dr. Langham has worked for the CDC in Atlanta where he has attained the position of Senior Veterinarian and has had the pleasure of working with numerous wildlife models. He holds the rank of Commander, United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corp, Veterinary Category and he is board certified in Laboratory Animal Medicine.