Rachelle Joress, DVM

Dr. Rachelle Joress grew up on Long Island, New York, horseback riding and enjoying a menagerie of pets. She majored in Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and received her DVM degree from Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2017. Following her passion for equine medicine, Dr. Joress completed an ambulatory and critical care equine internship In central Virginia. Since then she has been practicing equine medicine in Maryland and, more recently, working with small animals as well.

Her professional interests include equine lameness, dentistry, and emergency medicine, as well as small animal general medicine. She values client education and finding treatments that are best suited to the unique needs of her patients and clients. In addition, she has enjoyed traveling to care for animals in underserved communities, including working equids in the Dominican Republic as well as cats and dogs on Native American reservations in South Dakota. In her free time, she enjoys rock climbing, backpacking, traveling, cooking, and spending time with her husband Howie, and their dog Photon and polydactyl cat Milo. (Source)

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