Dr. Zoltan SZABO
Registered Specialist, Zoological Medicine
Registered Specialist, Exotic Companion Mammal Practice
Registered Specialist, Avian Practice
Adjunct Professor
Biography
Dr Zoltan graduated from the University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest, Hungary, in
2002. After graduation, he worked as a clinician and lecturer in the same university and
became the head of the Exotic Division and coordinated the studies on Exotic Animal
Diseases. He later moved to the UK to further his skills and was employed by London's
only exotic animal referral centre. He moved to Hong Kong in 2010, where he works at the
largest exotic animal referral centre in Asia.
Dr Zoltan has five postgraduate degrees in exotic animal medicine in three countries. In
the USA, apart from being a diplomate of the American College of Zoological Medicine,
he is also a double-boarded diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners,
specialising in Avian Practice and Exotic Companion Mammal Practice. In the United
Kingdom, he has received the General Practitioners Certificate in Exotic Animal Practice
and the Certificate in Exotic Animal Medicine in Hungary.
Dr Zoltan had the opportunity to do research and work as a wildlife veterinarian in nine
countries on four continents. Apart from Hong Kong, UK and Hungary, he worked at the
Wildlife Institute of India; later, in South Africa, he had a project on African buffalo
anaesthesia, then he worked at the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia. He was the
field veterinarian of the Tambopata Macaw Project in Peru. Later he worked on an avian
malaria project at the Galapagos Islands and was also a veterinarian and lecturer at the
Belize Wildlife & Referral Clinic. He is the co-author of books about exotic animal surgery
and avian diseases, has published over twenty articles in peer-reviewed veterinary
journals and presented dozens of lectures at veterinary conferences.