Jeffrey Wimsatt-Veterinarian And Expert In Lab Animals

Jeffrey Wimsatt - Veterinarian and Expert in Lab Animals

A graduate of Cornell University, Jeffrey Wimsatt holds a bachelor of science in biological sciences and a doctor of veterinary medicine. He served his residency in primate medicine with the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital/California Primate Research Center at the University of California, Davis. Returning twice to Cornell University over the course of his career, Jeffrey Wimsatt completed post-doctoral NIH-NRSA reproductive studies in 1989 and earned his doctorate of physiology with an emphasis on pregnancy and parturition in 1995. He became a diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine and earned board certification in laboratory animal medicine in 2007.

For the past seven years, Jeffrey Wimsatt has provided clinical care to animals as an attending veterinarian for the West Virginia University (WVU) System. He simultaneously directs WVU’s Office of Lab Animal Resources and conducts scientific research to benefit animal health. Outside of the professional environment, Mr. Wimsatt supports a number of environmental and wildlife protection groups.

West Virginia University Veterinarian and Educator Jeffrey Wimsatt

An experienced clinical practitioner and university-level educator, Jeffrey Wimsatt served tenures as a professor of zoological medicine and the chief of zoo and wildlife medicine service at Colorado State University in the 1990s. He subsequently joined the faculty at the University of Virginia, acting as campus veterinarian for the College of Arts and Sciences and instructing students in the Department of Biology, the Department of Medicine, and the Department of Psychology. Since 2009, Jeffrey Wimsatt has taught medical courses as a full professor with West Virginia University (WVU).

Mr. Wimsatt simultaneously serves as director of the WVU Office of Lab Animal Resources and attends to animals throughout the WVU System as a practicing veterinarian. His veterinary responsibilities encompass three WVU campuses and five agriculture extension farms. Jeffrey Wimsatt also monitors animal health at two fish farms and has lent his support to a number of Federal/State Wildlife Cooperative and Wildlife Department projects.