Jennifer Smallwood DVM MS-TCVM CVA CCRP CVFT is a Dallas native who attended the Hockaday School before receiving a BS in Animal Science from Texas A&M University in 1999. In 2003 she graduated from Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and moved to Lexington, Kentucky to complete a private practice internship which focused on thoroughbred racehorses at Keeneland Racecourse. It was at the racetrack where she first became interested in acupuncture as a therapeutic and diagnostic tool. She practiced in the Lexington area for ten years and over time her practice shifted from a traditional Western medicine practice to a practice with an integrative approach encompassing both Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine as well as Western Medicine. In 2013 she returned to the Dallas area and opened an ambulatory acupuncture practice servicing horses and small animals.