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Jody Gookin, DVM, PhD, DACVIM

FluoroScience Distinguished Professor in Veterinary Scholars Research Education
Professor, Internal Medicine

Contact:

jgookin@ncsu.edu
Office: 919.513.6295
Lab: Intestinal Pathogens Research
Lab Phone: 919.513.6295
Lab: T. foetus Diagnostics
Lab Phone: 919.513.6365

Biography

Dr. Gookin is nationally recognized for her expertise in gastroenterology with a special emphasis on infectious causes of feline diarrheal disease. Dr. Gookin and her colleagues are credited with identification of Tritrichomonas foetus as a previously unrecognized cause of diarrhea in domestic cats and have dedicated over 15 years of research effort into establishing the pathogenicity, means for diagnosis, worldwide significance, and an effective treatment for this infection.

Dr. Gookin received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the University of California at Davis and a PhD in Gastrointestinal Physiology at North Carolina State University. She completed the Small Animal Internal Medicine Clinician Scientist training program at North Carolina State University where she became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. Dr. Gookin is currently a Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences at North Carolina State University where her efforts are devoted to research, clinical service and teaching.

Dr. Gookin’s clinical interests include small animal gastroenterology with a special emphasis on feline gastroenterology and intestinal epithelial-pathogen interactions. In addition to her extramurally funded research efforts in both clinical and basic gastroenterology, Dr. Gookin is a passionate advocate for mentorship of the next generation of veterinarian clinician-scientists and serves as Co-director of the NCSU Veterinary Scholars Program, on the Executive Committee of the NIH/NCSU T35 Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Training Program, and as training faculty for the NIH/NCSU T32 Comparative Medicine and Translational Research Training Program.

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Affiliations
Comparative Medicine Institute
North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute
NIH UNC/NCSU Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease
American Gastroenterological Association
American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine
Comparative Gastroenterology Society
American Physiological Society
American Society for Microbiology
North Carolina Veterinary Medical Association
Phi Zeta Veterinary Professional Honor Society
Certifications
Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine

Research Emphasis

Biological Barriers, Gastroenterology, Global Health, Infectious Diseases, Spontaneous Animal Disease Models
Dr. Gookin’s laboratory is interested in finding novel approaches to the treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract that are of comparable importance to human and veterinary medicine. Our research is centered on understanding the host strategy in defense against diarrheal pathogens that infect intestinal epithelia including the protozoal pathogen Cryptosporidium and bacterial pathogen Enteropathogenic E. coli. Our approaches range from cell culture based to ex vivo to experimentally and naturally-occurring models of enteric infection.

News

Kittens Could Hold Key to Understanding Deadly Diarrheal Disease in Children

New research findings point to kittens as a potentially invaluable model for further exploration of atypical enteropathic Escherichia coli to inform treatment approaches for both humans and felines.

Annable Scholarship Supports Student Driven to Serve

Elisa Meier’s determination to hold down student debt and her passion for community service made her a natural fit for the Annable Scholarship.

Gut Microbiome Study Could Guide New Canine Epilepsy Treatments

Neurology professor Karen Muñana is leading a new three-year study into canine epilepsy, the most common neurological condition in dogs, but one of the least understood.

CVM Study Reveals a Key Way Your Gut Battles Infections

NC State College of Veterinary Medicine researchers have uncovered a new defense mechanism used by the gut against the parasite Cryptosporidium parvum, one of the leading causes of childhood diarrhea in developing countries. In the study, which used a pig model, the researchers found that at the peak of Cryptosporidium infections, epithelial cells lining the

NC State CVM Awarded 3 Winn Feline Foundation Research Grants

The CVM took home three of the 14 grants awarded...

July CVM Research Roundup

A look at some of the newest published studies coming out of the CVM...

Gookin Awarded Feline Health Research Grant

Gookin’s study is one of just 11 research projects worldwide to receive the latest research grant awards from the Winn Feline Foundation...

Two NC State Researchers Awarded National Grants to Study Canine Health

Two of nine grants from the Morris Animal Foundation funding research to improve canine health have been awarded to faculty members from...

Gookin Named FluoroScience Distinguished Professor in Veterinary Scholars Research Education

Gookin is nationally recognized for her expertise in gastroenterology with a special emphasis on infectious causes of feline diarrheal disease...

Morris Animal Foundation Supports CVM Research

Selected researchers at the North Carolina State University’s College Veterinary Medicine (CVM) are recipients of Morris Animal Foundation grants that total more than $1.2 million for investigations aimed at improving the health of dogs, cats, horses, and wildlife. More specifically, Morris Animal Foundation (MAF) is providing $1,212,671 to help support 12 different studies being conducted