Rate My Professor Jacqueline Whittemore

Jacqueline Whittemore, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (SAIM), serves as Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine in Knoxville. She received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of California, Davis College of Veterinary Medicine in 2000. Whittemore completed her residency training in small animal internal medicine and earned her PhD at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine. She joined the UT faculty in 2007 and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 2013. Her research specializations include small animal gastroenterology, nutrition, endoscopy, states of hypoalbuminemia, and the gastrointestinal microbiome. Whittemore investigates clinical signs, fecal microbiome alterations, metabolomic profiles, platelet function, and gastrointestinal mucosal changes associated with synbiotics, clindamycin, prednisone, aspirin, NSAIDs, and other therapies in healthy and diseased dogs and cats.

Whittemore is principal investigator on multiple clinical trials conducted at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine, such as studies on gastrointestinal and platelet changes in dogs with immune-mediated hemolytic anemia, gastrointestinal bleeding in dogs with pituitary-dependent hyperadrenocorticism, and serum vitamin K measurement in rodenticides-exposed dogs. Key publications include 'Short and long-term effects of a synbiotic on clinical signs, the fecal microbiome, and metabolomic profiles in healthy research cats receiving clindamycin: a randomized, controlled trial' (PLoS ONE, 2018), 'Clinical, clinicopathologic, and gastrointestinal changes from aspirin, prednisone, or combination treatment in healthy research dogs: A double-blind, randomized trial' (Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2019), 'Effects of Synbiotics on the Fecal Microbiome and Metabolomic Profiles of Healthy Research Cats' (Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021), 'Clinicopathologic and gastrointestinal effects of administration of prednisone, prednisone with omeprazole, or prednisone with probiotics to dogs: A double-blind, randomized trial' (Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2023), and 'Association of microalbuminuria and the urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio with systemic disease in cats' (Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 2007). She contributed to chapters in Small Animal Endoscopy (3rd Edition, 2011) and Nephrology and Urology of Small Animals (2011). Whittemore participates in veterinary education initiatives, including student-led virtual clinics and problem-based learning for clinical skills proficiency. Her work informs clinical management of gastrointestinal disorders and pharmacotherapy risks in companion animals.