GI Disease (Jenessa Winston DVM DACVIM) and Nutrition (Valerie Parker DVM DACVIM) | March 18, 2023

Valerie Parker, DVM DACVIM/DACVN

Dr. Valerie Parker is currently a clinical professor at The Ohio State University. She received her DVM from Tufts University, followed by a small animal internship at the Animal Medical Center in New York City. Dr. Parker then completed a small animal internal medicine residency at Iowa State University and a nutrition residency at Tufts University. She is a diplomate of both the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and the American College of Veterinary Nutrition. Dr. Parker’s primary areas of interest include kidney disease, gastrointestinal disease, and vitamin D metabolism, as well as nutritional management of a variety of canine and feline diseases.

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Jenessa Winston, DVM DACVIM

Dr. Jenessa Winston is an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University. She received her veterinary degree from the North Carolina State University (NCSU). She went on to complete a rotating internship and residency training in small animal internal medicine at NCSU. As a Clinical Investigator and NIH T32 fellow at NCSU, Dr. Winston completed a PhD in Comparative Biomedical Sciences with an infectious disease concentration. Her primary research areas include microbe-host interactions during health and disease and rational manipulation of microbial ecosystems including interventions such as fecal microbiota transplantation.

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