Dr. Joe Smith is a southwestern Pennsylvania native. After graduating from the Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2009 he practiced in a mixed animal clinic based out of Northwest Pennsylvania and Northeast Ohio. While in practice he completed a master’s degree from Penn State University. In 2015 he completed a Large Animal Internal Medicine Residency at UC Davis. He then served as a faculty clinician at Iowa State University while completing a PhD in Pharmacology. Dr. Smith has board certifications from the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and the American College of Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology. His primary research interests are small ruminant pharmacology and point-of-care/smartphone diagnostics for food animal species. He enjoys all aspects of farm animal medicine and surgery but has a clinical interest in the management of small ruminant medical conditions.