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 care, critical care response, equine technical rescue and rehabilitation and has been practicing equine veterinary medicine for 22 years. She enjoys the close relationships she develops with her patients and clients and the fact that her clients feel comfortable reaching out to her whenever they have a question or need help with their horses no matter what time of day it is. 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 New England Association of Equine Practitioners (NEAEP.) 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 animal cruelty cases involving horses in dire straits and near death and many times 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 is nationally regarded for her expertise in equine disaster and emergency field response and has been a repeat guest lecturer at her veterinary school alma mater Tufts and at Washington State University School of Veterinary Medicine. She has served as an expert witness 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 the TN/MS Geldathon program to allow at risk stallions and colts to get low cost castrations and vaccinations and at this time nearly 200 colts/stallions have come through the program. She is extremely proud of her Pre-Vet Externship Program which allows pre-vet students to shadow on farm calls and gain experience through the Geldathon program and the variety of equine veterinary cases seen. Every extern who has completed the program has been accepted into their first choice of vet school including UT, Miss State, Colorado State, Tufts, Cornell and Ohio State. As she tells each of her pre-vet students, equine vet med is a lifestyle and there is nothing else Dr. Dunlap would rather do than care for her horse patients. (Source)

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