Biography

Animal Cases

Casey Sugarman has been gathering unique experiences as an animal expert for many years. As a comparative veterinary biologisthandling 750 species (11,000 individuals) of captive mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, sharks, amphibians, and invertebrates, this broad grouping taught me what ALL animals, including the human animal, have in common. This was an invaluable 'wide view' of comparative social behavior that I could not have found in any PhD program.

  • 10 years in exotic animal case management as veterinary biologist at Boston's New England Aquarium
  • 20 years equine behavior work
  • Currently authoring a large book about this information
  • Professional behavioral therapist for hire to multi-species casework
  • Specializing in psychological phobia reversalin domestic and wild species.

Irregular, unusual, or irrational interaction modes can be decoded and resolved.

Human Participants

“Casey teaches people as well as she teaches animals.” After helping the animal normalize, Casey can teach the owner to communicate with this animal or any other using this same set of tools. Casey was co-designer of the Aquarium's Public-InteractiveVeterinaryHospitalMedicalCenter Exhibit.Casey regularly taught girl scouts how to perform surgery.

Experiential learning models that apply to all species, from octopus to human, led Sugarman to develop Partnership Engineering, an applied “choice-modification skillset-curriculum”. Partnership Engineeringhas applications in human education and training, medical case management, physical and psychological rehabilitation, and business learning. In addition to animal case-work, Sugarman is eager to teach the Partnership Engineeringmethod of communication to trainers, educators, coaches, associations, and companies.

The human species reacts to primal social triggers in lock step with other social animals, but we humans just haven't yet harnessed this predictable ability in our nature. Our primal instincts are in tact but we don’t know how to apply our innate nonverbal behavioral instinct consciously.

“Partnership Engineering” is NOT about body language, it's like nothing you've ever learned before..."

“The knowledge set is so primal that it’s hard to describe in human words, but easy to learn from Casey.”

Sugarman earned her degree in Biology and Philosophy from BostonUniversity and lives in Lyme, CT.

Excerpt from Resume:

Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystem Veterinary Medicine

  • Clinical: Perform triage, treatment, management of all medical cases: plan and perform examinations, diagnostics, treatments, and necropsies. Perform weekly medical rounds assessment with problem recognition for large whale, cetacean, pinniped, avian, reptile, amphibian, fish and elasmobranches, and terrestrial and marine invertebrate phyla.
  • Research: Perform original clinical research and collaborate with outside investigators on research clinically significant for NEA species. Current projects include radiographic gender determination in sea turtles and diagnostic ultrasound applications in seals and sea lions, trans-esophageal diagnostic ultrasound of penguins, observational learning in cuttlefish (squid), and voluntary restraint in fishes.
  • Diagnostic: independently perform all anesthesia, diagnostic ultrasound and radiographic examinations, assist in surgical plans, preparation, and act as surgical assistant for all non-mammalian species. Maintain and operate medical diagnostic and therapeutic equipment (radiology, ultrasonography, endoscopy, hematology, microscopy, surgical, anesthetic, vitals monitoring).
  • Life Support Systems: one million gallon facility, water quality analysis including federally required microbiological analysis, life support system maintenance, chemistry trouble-shooting, electronics, and equipment maintenance. Administer aquatic system pharmaceutical treatments in conjunction with aquarist and Mechanical Systems Operation staff. Make complex animal health decisions in the multi-variable chemical setting encountered in an open/closed, inner harbor sourced .
  • Library: Produce accurate and complete medical records, create formats, created vertical library for relevant natural history and medical literature cross-referenced by technology, animal class, and species. Function as department historian, tracking changes in goals, design, management, and resources over 10 years of operation. Some PC and MAC network installation and maintenance.

“Split second decisions to transform relationships…”

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