Jody Gookin
Bio
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.
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
Area(s) of Expertise
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.
Publications
- Randomized placebo-controlled trial of feline-origin Enterococcus hirae probiotic effects on preventative health and fecal microbiota composition of fostered shelter kittens , FRONTIERS IN VETERINARY SCIENCE (2022)
- Comparative Genomics of Atypical Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli from Kittens and Children Identifies Bacterial Factors Associated with Virulence in Kittens , INFECTION AND IMMUNITY (2021)
- Dysbiosis of fecal microbiota in cats with naturally occurring and experimentally induced Tritrichomonas foetus infection , PLOS ONE (2021)
- Proteinuria in dogs with gallbladder mucocele formation: A retrospective case control study , JOURNAL OF VETERINARY INTERNAL MEDICINE (2021)
- Association of fecal sample collection technique and treatment history with Tritrichomonas foetus polymerase chain reaction test results in 1717 cats , JOURNAL OF VETERINARY INTERNAL MEDICINE (2020)
- Perceptions and attitudes of Small Animal Internal Medicine specialists toward the publication requirement for board certification , JOURNAL OF VETERINARY INTERNAL MEDICINE (2020)
- Influence of the intestinal microbiota on disease susceptibility in kittens with experimentally-induced carriage of atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli , Veterinary Microbiology (2019)
- Interferon-λ3 Promotes Epithelial Defense and Barrier Function Against Cryptosporidium parvum Infection , Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology (2019)
- Interventions and observations associated with survival of orphaned shelter kittens undergoing treatment for diarrhea , Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery (2019)
- Investigation of adrenal and thyroid gland dysfunction in dogs with ultrasonographic diagnosis of gallbladder mucocele formation , PLOS ONE (2019)
Groups
- Research Area of Emphasis: Biological Barriers
- CVM: Clinical Sciences
- Focus Area: Clinician Scientist
- CVM
- Clinical Sciences: DOCS Faculty
- Clinical Sciences: DOCS Internal Medicine Faculty
- CVM: Feline Health
- CVM: Focus Area
- Research Area of Emphasis: Gastroenterology
- Research Area of Emphasis: Global Health
- Focus Area: Graduate Cell Biology
- Focus Area: Graduate Infectious Diseases
- CVM: Hospital
- Focus Area: Immunology
- Research Area of Emphasis: Infectious Diseases
- CVM: Research Area of Emphasis
- Hospital: Small Animal Internal Medicine
- Focus Area: Small Animal Practice
- Research Area of Emphasis: Spontaneous Animal Disease Models
News
- Kittens Could Hold Key to Understanding Deadly Diarrheal Disease in Children
- Annable Scholarship Supports Student Driven to Serve
- Gut Microbiome Study Could Guide New Canine Epilepsy Treatments
- CVM Study Reveals a Key Way Your Gut Battles Infections
- NC State CVM Awarded 3 Winn Feline Foundation Research Grants
- July CVM Research Roundup
- Gookin Awarded Feline Health Research Grant