We work hard to provide the best experience possible for both our patients and our clients. Through rigorous training and staying current on recent advancements and regularly adding to our diagnostics and treatment options we pride ourselves on our slogan of “experience and cutting edge care 24/7"

Jennifer dunlap, DVM

Jennifer is a lifelong horsewoman and animal rescuer and has competed in 3-day eventing, dressage and hunter-jumpers. She has taken many Thoroughbreds directly from the racetrack and rehabilitated them for new careers. She enjoys working with her Irish Draughts and Irish Draught Sport Horses and her homebred KF Mountain Chieftain RID, a son of the legendary RID Mountain Pearl, successfully passed his Irish Draught stallion inspections.

Jennifer graduated from Tufts University’s School of Veterinary Medicine in 1999 and was awarded the prestigious ACVS Large Animal Surgery award during her 4th year. Tufts is world renowned for its advancements in veterinary medicine and its equine sports medicine program. She then completed an Equine Medicine/Surgery Internship at Tufts in conjunction with the sport horse veterinary practice Mass Equine and then a rigorous 3 year Equine Surgical Residency at the University of TN School of Veterinary Medicine. She was awarded the Large Animal Resident of the Year award twice while at UT.

She has extensive experience in lameness, emergency medicine, critical care response, equine technical rescue and equine rehabilitation and disaster response and is a credentialed AVMA AVMF Veterinary First Responder and Dunlap Equine Services is an AVMA Business Continuity certified business. She enjoys the close relationships she develops with her patients and clients. She treats her patients with the same care and concern she does her own horses. She is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) and the National Alliance of Equine Practitioners (NAEP.) She is also a member of the Shelby and Fayette County Disaster Animal Response Teams (DART) and has completed ASAR training in slack water animal rescue. She was head of the vet team for the Memphis Flood Disaster Shelter in 2011 overseeing the care of over 300 animal flood victims. Jennifer is very dedicated to providing emergency veterinary care in animal rescue situations and has served as the Incident Commander on Animal Response Foundation’s Rapid Response Team on numerous federal, state and local animal cruelty cases. She is nationally regarded for her expertise in equine disaster and emergency field response and has responded to numerous cases involving horses in such dire straits and near death in such a state of extreme starvation they could not stand, requiring a rescue sled and the Anderson Sling, nasal oxygen and blood transfusions. She has been a guest lecturer at Arizona and Washington State Veterinary Schools regarding the vet’s role in disasters and animal cruelty investigation and has been a repeat guest lecturer at her veterinary school alma mater Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. She has served as an expert witness in veterinary medicine, veterinary forensics and animal cruelty investigation in court in animal cruelty cases and is a frequent contributor to equine publications on a variety of equine veterinary topics and enjoys posting informative articles on the Dunlap Equine Services facebook page and providing educational seminars for her clients.

She founded her Geld-a-thon program to allow at risk stallions and colts to get low cost castrations and vaccinations and at this time nearly 250 colts/stallions have come through the program. The program pairs veterinary students with each colt or stallion and that student then scrubs in and performs the surgery with Dr. Dunlap. At risk stallions and colts benefit as do the vet students.

She is extremely proud of her Pre-Vet and Veterinary Student Externship Program which allows pre-vet students and vet students to gain a lot of real world experience in both the outpatient and inpatient wards at the clinic and on farm calls and gain experience through the Geldathon program. Students gain experience in handling contagious diseases in the isolation ward and how to use PPE, personal protective equipment, and are exposed to a large caseload of emergency, critical care and routine equine veterinary cases. Her students are also instructed in animal cruelty investigation, veterinary forensic investigation and emergency and critical care and technical large animal rescue. Externs also receive instruction from leading experts, Daniel Bishop, the clinic’s therapeutic farrier, acupuncture from the clinic’s acupuncturist, Dr. Kathy Mitchener and lectures on self care and resilience from both Dr. Dunlap and Josh Cary, the national director of American Humane’s Animal Rescue Team. Every pre-vet extern who has completed the program has been accepted into their first choice of vet school including the University of Tennessee, Oklahoma State, Mississippi State, Colorado State, Tufts, Cornell and The Ohio State. As she tells each of her pre-vet and vet students, equine vet med is a lifestyle and there is nothing else Dr. Dunlap would rather do than care for her horse patients.