Dr. Gabriela Hernández Mora is a veterinarian and researcher from the National University of Costa Rica (UNA). Since 2009, Gabriela has led the Bacteriology Laboratory of the National Service of Animal Health of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of the Costa Rican government. Her main interest is the diagnosis and pathobiology of Brucella infections in marine mammals and other domestic and wild animals. She completed her M.Sc in Microbiology (2011) and PhD in Science (2019) with an emphasis in the epidemiology of brucellosis in terrestrial and marine mammals at the University of Costa Rica (UCR). Her specialization with rescue, attention, and research of stranded cetaceans began in 2004 with training at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Florida, US, and with the Taiwanese Cetacean Society in Taipei, Taiwan in 2005. Since 2007, she has been a member of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine, and since 2017, a member of the Expert Advisory Panel on Strandings of the International Whaling Commission. She has participated in multiple international conferences and given several trainings on handling and investigation of stranded marine mammals.
