Mark A. Mitchell received his DVM in 1992 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MS in wildlife epidemiology from the University of Illinois in 1997. He completed his PhD in clinical epidemiology with an emphasis on Salmonella spp. in reptiles at Louisiana State University (LSU) in 2001. From 1996-2007, Dr. Mitchell served as a member of the zoological medicine faculty at LSU, and from 2007-2016 served as a member of the zoological medicine faculty at the University of Illinois. From 2016-2020 he was the Hospital Director of the LSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital and Professor of Zoological Medicine. Since 2020, he has been the Marie Louise Martin Professor of Epidemiology. Dr. Mitchell is a past-president of the Association of Reptilian and Amphibian Veterinarians. Dr. Mitchell has published over 275 peer-reviewed articles on a variety of veterinary topics and has served as the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Exotic Pet Medicine (2005-2019), Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Herpetological Medicine and Surgery (2008-2021), and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery (2021-present).