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Bill Schutt is an Emeritus Professor of Biology at LIU Post and a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History. His newest non-fiction book, Pump: A Natural History of the Heart was published on September 21, 2021 and is currently available everywhere books are sold. Pump has already garnered great reviews from Publisher's Weekly (starred review), Kirkus Reviews, The Wall Street Journal, Cool Green Science, and elsewhere. His last book, Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History, garnered widespread rave reviews from The New York Times, The Boston Globe and elsewhere.
Born in New York City and raised on Long Island by parents who encouraged his love for turning over stones and peering under logs, Schutt quickly grew a passion for the natural world, with its enormous wonders and its increasing vulnerability.
Schutt received his Ph.D. in zoology from Cornell and held a post-doctoral fellowship at the AMNH where he received a Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grant. He has published over two dozen peer-reviewed articles on topics ranging from terrestrial locomotion in vampire bats to the precarious, arboreal copulatory behavior of a marsupial mouse. His research has been featured in Natural History, The New York Times, Newsday, The Economist, and Discover. Schutt lives on Long Island with his wife and son.
He is currently working on a new non-fiction book on teeth, and has also finished the first draft of his first solo novel.
About the Speaker
Dr. Ann Hohenhaus is a third generation veterinarian who is also double board certified by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. She is an avid blogger and has written for multiple media outlets including www.amcny.org and vetstreet.com. In 2019, Dr. Hohenhaus was honored by the New York City Veterinary Medical Association with their Outstanding Service to Veterinary Medicine Award. Previously, she received the DeBakey Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Foundation for Biomedical Research for "Dogs Go To Bat Against Lou Gehrig's Disease." Dr. Hohenhaus has also created content for publications such as Ladies Home Journal and Real Simple Magazine.
Dr. Hohenhaus is an active participant in AMC's research mission and has written extensively in the veterinary literature. She is listed as an author on numerous publications in PubMed in the disciplines of oncology, internal medicine, and transfusion medicine, including: squamous cell carcinoma, mast cell tumors, melanoma, exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, and anemia. She authored many veterinary textbook chapters and is currently investigating immunotherapy for hemangiosarcoma in dogs. Dr. Hohenhaus lectures nationally and internationally, most recently in the Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Capetown, South Africa.
In her spare time, Dr. Hohenhaus raises foster kittens as a member of the ASPCA Foster Kitten Team.