Clinical Assistant Professor, Veterinary Clinical Sciences
Surgery, Anesthesia & Community Outreach
Education
DVM, Iowa State University, 2008
MPH, University of Iowa, 2013
Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, 2014
Past Experience
Dr. Jodi Collins has a wide variety of veterinary experience. After graduating, she practiced emergency small animal medicine in Colorado Springs and Des Moines before moving into small animal general practice. She joined the U.S. Army Reserve’s Veterinary Corps in 2011.
After a 2015 deployment, Dr. Collins worked for the Virginia Department of Agriculture as a staff veterinarian for animal care. Her role there consisted of being the state’s animal forensic and animal welfare investigator, working closely with local authorities on a range of large-scale cases such as dogfighting, cockfighting, hoarding, starvation and neglect.
Since returning to Iowa in 2019, she has locumed at a plethora of small animal general practice and intermittently in the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Surgery, Anesthesia and Community Outreach program.
Interesting Fact
As a member of the U.S. Army Reserve’s Veterinary Corps, Dr. Collins has completed several African deployments to Dijbouti, Ethiopia, Madagascar and Senegal.
Dr. Collins says…
“I keep coming back to the College of Veterinary Medicine and took on this more permanent part-time position because I enjoy teaching veterinary students where I find their curiosity and enthusiasm refreshing!”