Dr. Stephanie Venn-Watson

We're going to help the Navy SEALs too.

Yeah, boy, this is going to be an exciting talk. I love the TF. Dr. Hyman, it's great to be here. It's always good to see you. So yes, as a veterinary epidemiologist, I wanted to track diseases. I read Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague when I was an undergraduate and said, I want to do that. And I thought it was going to be infectious diseases.

Yeah, boy, this is going to be an exciting talk. I love the TF. Dr. Hyman, it's great to be here. It's always good to see you. So yes, as a veterinary epidemiologist, I wanted to track diseases. I read Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague when I was an undergraduate and said, I want to do that. And I thought it was going to be infectious diseases.

Yeah, boy, this is going to be an exciting talk. I love the TF. Dr. Hyman, it's great to be here. It's always good to see you. So yes, as a veterinary epidemiologist, I wanted to track diseases. I read Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague when I was an undergraduate and said, I want to do that. And I thought it was going to be infectious diseases.

And it ends up that, thanks to being recruited by the Navy, to help lead their clinical research program with their dolphin population to help improve the lives of their dolphins, it quickly pivoted to chronic diseases and chronic diseases of aging.

And it ends up that, thanks to being recruited by the Navy, to help lead their clinical research program with their dolphin population to help improve the lives of their dolphins, it quickly pivoted to chronic diseases and chronic diseases of aging.

And it ends up that, thanks to being recruited by the Navy, to help lead their clinical research program with their dolphin population to help improve the lives of their dolphins, it quickly pivoted to chronic diseases and chronic diseases of aging.

Right, well, that was the key question, right? It really, you hit the nail on the head. That moved over to the Navy, ended up spending 20 years there, 10 full years working with the Navy's dolphins with the pure goal of improving Navy dolphin health. So they live, Navy dolphins, they live in San Diego Bay, go out into the open ocean every day. Every day they choose to come back.

Right, well, that was the key question, right? It really, you hit the nail on the head. That moved over to the Navy, ended up spending 20 years there, 10 full years working with the Navy's dolphins with the pure goal of improving Navy dolphin health. So they live, Navy dolphins, they live in San Diego Bay, go out into the open ocean every day. Every day they choose to come back.

Right, well, that was the key question, right? It really, you hit the nail on the head. That moved over to the Navy, ended up spending 20 years there, 10 full years working with the Navy's dolphins with the pure goal of improving Navy dolphin health. So they live, Navy dolphins, they live in San Diego Bay, go out into the open ocean every day. Every day they choose to come back.

So it's a pretty nice environment with regard to quality of life.

So it's a pretty nice environment with regard to quality of life.

So it's a pretty nice environment with regard to quality of life.

Yeah. It's pretty amazing, right? So they live in the open ocean. That's their pod. So they choose to be there. And it meant a lot to me as a veterinarian. I didn't know how I'd feel.

Yeah. It's pretty amazing, right? So they live in the open ocean. That's their pod. So they choose to be there. And it meant a lot to me as a veterinarian. I didn't know how I'd feel.

Yeah. It's pretty amazing, right? So they live in the open ocean. That's their pod. So they choose to be there. And it meant a lot to me as a veterinarian. I didn't know how I'd feel.

Right. Yeah. So it ends up that they're really good at being able to find underwater objects that we can't see very well. And so they've done humanitarian demining missions in the Mediterranean where they're able to find buried mines.

Right. Yeah. So it ends up that they're really good at being able to find underwater objects that we can't see very well. And so they've done humanitarian demining missions in the Mediterranean where they're able to find buried mines.

Right. Yeah. So it ends up that they're really good at being able to find underwater objects that we can't see very well. And so they've done humanitarian demining missions in the Mediterranean where they're able to find buried mines.

target it they um they you know mark it and then humans come in and things left over from world war ii or whatever right exactly so they have now made entire areas of the world safe uh which is amazing they can also find underwater swimmers uh enemy swimmers and be able to interdict and put a leg cuff on those swimmers and they get reeled up by their human counterparts so