Dr. Sathya Chinnadurai is a native of St. Louis and completed his DVM, internship and a Master’s in Wildlife Biology at the University of Missouri. He then moved to North Carolina State University for residencies in zoological medicine and anesthesia, leading to board certification in the American Colleges of Zoological Medicine, Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia, and, recently, Animal Welfare. His interests include clinical teaching, anesthesia and analgesia of all species.

Dr. Chinnadurai served as a Clinical Instructor in Zoological Medicine at the University of California at Davis and a Staff Veterinarian at the Sacramento Zoo and senior staff veterinarian at the Chicago Zoological Society's Brookfield Zoo. He is currently the Director of Animal Health at the Saint Louis Zoo which serves to finance his expensive passions for amateur woodworking and raising two amazing daughters