Brundage is a forensic entomologist currently residing in Texas. She has testified in numerous cases of animal neglect and abuse and has lectured at many regional and national conferences in the United States and Canada on animal abuse, humane investigation, veterinary forensics, behavior of fighting dogs, disaster animal sheltering and other topics.ĭr. She is a charter member of the International Veterinary Forensic Sciences Association, the Association of Shelter Veterinarians, the Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association, and the Veterinary Information Network. Currently, she is one of two full-time shelter veterinarians at the Humane Society of Missouri who are responsible for the health and welfare of shelter animals and oversee the University of Missouri’s shelter medicine elective clinical rotation. She received an Award for Distinguished Service by the Office of the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri in 2009 for her work with “The Missouri 500” and was named “Veterinarian of the Year” in 2012 by the Missouri Animal Control Association.
She has special interests in forensic medicine and investigation, behavior and welfare of shelter animals, and zoonotic disease.
She has practiced clinical, shelter and forensic medicine at the Humane Society of Missouri since 2001 where she was responsible for the care of over 500 dogs confiscated in the largest dog fighting raid in the United States in 2009 (“The Missouri 500”). Julie Brinker earned her DVM in 2000 from the University of Missouri, her Master of Science with a concentration in Veterinary Forensic Sciences from the University of Florida in 2015, and a graduate certificate in shelter medicine, also from the University of Florida, in 2016. In addition to her teaching responsibilities at the University of Florida, she is an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine. She serves as a board member for several charitable organizations focused on issues related to wildlife conservation & one health. She is a board certified Diplomate in the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine (specialties include environmental health, infectious & parasitic diseases, food safety, epidemiology & biostatistics, & public health administration & education) and the American College of Veterinary Microbiology (specialties include virology, bacteriology/mycology, & immunology). Her PhD research focused on the molecular epidemiology and diagnosis of lentiviruses of free-ranging lions in southern Africa. In 2007 she received her PhD from the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine’s Comparative Medicine Program, with a concentration in epidemiology and virology. She completed a clinical internship in small animal and emergency medicine, and worked briefly in small animal private practice, before returning to her alma mater to work on her PhD in the veterinary sciences. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Zoology/Anthropology, and went on to receive her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from The University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine in 2001. She is the Founder & Director of Operations of the Silent Heroes Foundation, a charity devoted to wildlife conservation & one health in Africa. She has worked with a variety of domestic and wild animals, and has a particular interest in endangered species conservation and infectious disease at the human/domestic animal/wildlife interface. Adams has over 20 years of experience in wildlife veterinary medicine, conservation, and issues related to One Health in Africa.
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