Dr. Michelle Hawkins is the Director of the California Raptor Center, which we talk about in detail in this episode of the show.
Hawkins received her veterinary degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. She completed a residency and fellowship in Companion Avian and Exotic Animal Medicine and Surgery at UC Davis in 2001 and was board certified in Avian Practice in 2003, when she returned to Davis to join the faculty. She became the medical director of the CRC in 2005 and the general director in 2013.