Dr. Marianne Lian, DVM, MSc, Ph.D.

 

Associated Faculty and course organizer for Principles of Veterinary Anesthesia

Research and teaching interests:

• Improving and advancing wildlife capture and anesthesia
• Respiratory physiology
• Toxicology, with an emphasis on adverse effects from mercury
• Environmental contaminants in the food chain
• One Health, wildlife health and diseases

Education

Time period: Jan. 2015 –
School: University of Alaska Fairbanks
Degree sought: PhD, interdisciplinary program with Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Veterinary Medicine

Time period:  Aug. 2013 – June 2015
School: Section for Forestry and Wildlife Management, Department of Applied Ecology And Agricultural Sciences, Hedmark University College, Campus Evenstad
Degree: MSc in Applied Ecology

Time period: Sept. 2005 – June. 2012
School: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
Degree: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM)

Time period:  Jan. 2012 – June 2012
School: Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, Department of Applied Ecology And Agricultural Sciences, Hedmark University College, Campus Evenstad
Degree: Externship in wildlife immobilizations 

Time period:  Sept.2011 – Oct. 2011
School: Norwegian School of Veterinary Sciences
Degree: Externship in small animal, equine and large animal medicine 

Time period: April 2011 – June 2011
Institution: The Norwegian Veterinary Institute
Degree: Externship in pathology and diagnostics

Professional experience

Associated Faculty and course organizer for Principles of Veterinary Anesthesia, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2015 -

Fulbright Fellowship at Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game, concentrating on developing a new chemical immobilization protocol for caribou, 2013-2014.

Field capture veterinarian for Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, working with chemical immobilization and anesthesia of moose, reindeer, bison, beavers, bears and wolves 2012 -2015.

Veterinarian in private practice 2012-2014.

Publications

Lian M, Castellini JM, Miller D, Griff B, Vertyankin VV, Dupont J, Broker K, Godard-Codding CAJ, O’Hara TM. Validation of δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N and total mercury measures in epidermal biopsies from gray whales. Marine Pollution Bulletin (submitted).

Lian M, Evans AE, Beckmen KB, Caulkett NA, Arnemo JM. Restraint and immobilization. In: Tryland M, Kutz S, Oksanen A, eds. Reindeer and caribou. Health and disease. Boca Raton, FL, USA: Taylor & Francis, 2018.

Lian M, Johnson S, Gelatt T, O’Hara TM, Beckmen KB, Rea LD. Field anesthesia of juvenile Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) using inhalation anesthesia. Marine Mammal Science 2017 34(1) 125-135

Lian M, Björck S, Arnemo JM, Esteruelas NF, Angel M, Minsaas SC, Jones KL and Evans AL. Severe hypoxemia in muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) immobilized with etorphine-xylazine. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 2017 53(2) 356-360.

Lian M, Beckmen KB, Bentzen TW, Demma, DJ, Arnemo JM. Thiafentanil-azaperone-xylazine and carfentanil-xylazine immobilizations of free-ranging caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) in Alaska. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 2016 52: 327-334 

Lian M, Evans AL, Bertelsen MF, Fahlman Å, Haga HA, Ericsson G, Arnemo JM. Improvement of Arterial Oxygenation in Free-Ranging Moose (Alces alces) Immobilized with Etorphine-Acepromazine-Xylazine. Acta Vet Skand 2014, 56:51

Arnemo JM, Evans AL, Lian M, Os Ø. Anaesthesia of reindeer. Norwegian Veterinary Journal 2014; 2:148-51

Evans AL, Lian M, das Neves CG, Os Ø, Andersen R, Aanes R, Strand O, Tryland M, Arnemo JM. Physiological evaluation of medetomidine-ketamine anesthesia in free-ranging Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) and wild Norwegian reindeer (R. t. tarandus). J Wildl Dis 2013; 49: 1037-41