Dr. Katie Tolbert completed her small animal internal medicine residency and Ph.D. at North Carolina State University. She is an associate professor in the Gastrointestinal Laboratory at Texas A&M University and is a member of the Dog Aging Project consortium. She completed an alternate-track residency in small animal nutrition at the University of Tennessee. Her clinical interests and research program are focused on the treatment of acute and chronic gastrointestinal diseases in dogs and cats. She was the recipient of the Zoetis Award for Veterinary Research Excellence and is an author on over 100 peer-review publications.