“Zoobiquity” authors to deliver lecture at Iowa State on April 9

AMES, Iowa – A pair of authors will deliver a lecture next week at Iowa State University detailing what humans can learn from studying animal health and medicine.

Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D., and Kathryn Bowers will discuss their new book “Zoobiquity,” which explores how animal and human commonality can be used to diagnose, treat and heal patients of all species, on April 9 at 7 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.

The presentation will draw on the latest in medical and veterinary science as well as new findings in evolutionary and molecular biology.

Natterson-Horowitz is a cardiac consultant for the Los Angeles Zoo and a member of the zoo’s medical advisory board. She is the director of imaging at the University of California-Los Angeles Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and a professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Kathryn Bowers is a writer and editor of fiction and nonfiction and has taught writing at UCLA. She began her career in journalism as a staff editor for Atlantic Monthly and worked for CNN-International in London. She later served as an assistant press attaché at the U.S. embassy in Moscow.

The presentation is part of the One Health Lecture Series, which was established by the ISU College of Veterinary Medicine in honor of Dr. Roger Mahr, CEO of the One Health Commission. The presentation is also cosponsored by the Committee on Lectures, which is funded by the Government of the Student Body.