Dr Ellie Milnes
MA VetMB MVetSci DVSc DiplACZM DiplECZM
Lecturer in Conservation Medicine
Department: Pathobiology & Population Sciences
Campus: Boltons Park
Ellie is a lecturer in the Wildlife Health Research Group, teaching Applied Wildlife Health Sciences. Her clinical and research interests relate to non-domestic hoofstock, particularly the medicine, anaesthesia, and conservation management of rhinoceroses and non-domestic equids.
Ellie completed a residency in zoological medicine and pathology in the joint Toronto Zoo-University of Guelph (Ontario Veterinary College) programme in Canada, and is a diplomate of both the American College of Zoological Medicine and the European College of Zoological Medicine (Zoo Health Management).
She was the recipient of the 2019 Rudolph Ippen Young Scientist Award (for a veterinarian in the early phases of their career who demonstrates a great potential for advancing knowledge in wildlife veterinary science, conservation medicine, or zoo animal medicine).
Ellie became a National Geographic Explorer in 2021 and was recognised for her work identifying the causes of blindness in Kenya's critically endangered free-ranging black rhinoceros.
Milnes EL, Skelding AM, Larouche CB, Ferro A, Delnatte P, Dutton C, Anderson NE. A randomized clinical trial to compare ketamine-butorphanol-azaperone-medetomidine and detomidine-etorphine-acepromazine for anesthesia of captive Przewalski’s horses (Equus przewalskii). American Journal of Veterinary Research (Open Access), 83(6). https://doi.org/10.2460/ajvr.21.10.0165
Co C, Larouche CB, Milnes EL, Delnatte P, Susta L (2022). Pathology in Practice: Acute myeloid leukemia with heterophilic differentiation in an adult gyrfalcon. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 259(S2):1-3. https://doi.org/10.2460/javma.19.10.0531
Drane AL, Calvi T, Feltrer Y, Curry BA, Tremblay JC, Milnes EL, Stöhr EJ, Howatson G, Oxborough D, Stembridge M, Shave R (2021). The influence of anesthesia with and without medetomidine on cardiac structure and function in sanctuary captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 52(3):986-96. https://doi.org/10.1638/2020-0024
Kamau MW, Hassell JM, Milnes EL, Hayek LA, Mutinda MM, Harel R, Matsumoto-Oda A, Yu JH, Zimmerman D, Crofoot M, Murray S (2021). Point of care blood gas and electrolyte analysis in anesthetized olive baboons (Papio anubis) in a field setting. International Journal of Primatology, 8:1-5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-021-00241-3
Milnes EL, Calvi S, Feltrer Y, Drane AL, Howatson G, Shave RE, Curry BA, Tremblay JC, Williams DL (2020). Factors affecting tear production and intraocular pressure in anesthetized chimpanzees. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 51(3):687-690. https://doi.org/10.1638/2020-0014
Milnes EL, Delnatte P, May K, Ma J, Jamieson FB, Slavic D, Smith D (2020). Mycobacteriosis in Chinese gliding frogs (Rhacophorus dennysi) due to Mycobacterium marinum. Journal of Herpetological Medicine and Surgery, 30(1):14-20. https://doi.org/10.5818/19-03-186.2
Milnes EL, Hering A, Lee S, Gehring R, Delnatte P, Gu Y, Woodbury M, Johnson R (2020). Pharmacokinetics of imidocarb dipropionate in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) following a single intramuscular injection. Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 43(1):33-37. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvp.12760
Pastor A and Milnes EL (2019) Babesiosis in Cervidae. In: Miller, R.E., Lamberski, N., Calle, P. (Eds.) Fowler’s Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine Current Therapy, Volume 9, pp. 647-657.
Milnes EL, Delnatte P, Thornton GL, Léveillé AN, Barta JR, Smith DA, Nemeth N (2019). Babesia odocoilei and zoonotic pathogens identified from Ixodes scapularis ticks in southern Ontario, Canada. Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases, 10(3):670-676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2019.02.016
Milnes EL, Thornton GL, Delnatte P, Léveillé AN, Barta JR, Smith DA, Nemeth N (2019). Molecular detection of Babesia odocoilei in wild, farmed, and zoo cervids in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 55(2):335-342. https://doi.org/10.7589/2018-06-147
Milnes EL, Delnatte P, Dutton CJ, Brouwer E, Cai C, Peregrine AS (2018). Echinococcus equinus hydatid cyst in the liver of a Przewaski’s horse (Equus przewalskii) in a Canadian zoo. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 49(4):1047-1051. https://doi.org/10.1638/2018-0072.1
Milnes EL, Delnatte P, Cai HY & Nemeth N (2018). Systemic encephalitozoonosis due to Encephalitozoon cuniculi strain IV in a Vancouver Island marmot (Marmota vancouverensis). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 49(2):484-488. https://doi.org/10.1638/2017-0175.1