Jennifer G. Barrett, DVM, Ph.D., Diplomate ACVS

Assistant Professor
Equine Surgery
jgbarret@vt.edu
(703) 771-6856

Dr. Barrett is an assistant professor of equine surgery at Virginia Tech’s Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center. She received a doctor of veterinary medicine degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 2002 and a doctorate in molecular biology from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1999. Prior to joining the center, she conducted a residency in equine surgery at the University of Illinois’ Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Urbana, held a postdoctoral research position in the University of Wisconsin’s Comparative Orthopaedics Research Laboratory in Madison and completed an internship in equine medicine and surgery at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. Barrett joined the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center’s faculty in August 2007 and achieved Diplomate status through the American College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2008. She is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Association of Equine Practitioners, the Veterinary Orthopedic Society and the Phi Zeta Honor Society. Her research interests include tendon, ligament, and cartilage healing, stem cell and platelet rich plasma therapies, and tissue regeneration. She has introduced the new Regenerative Medicine Service at the EMC, which offers stem cell therapies and platelet rich plasma therapy to patients at the EMC.

Selected Publications:

  • Stewart AA; Barrett JG; Byron CR; Yates AC; Durgam SS; Evans RB; Stewart MC. Comparison of equine tendon-, muscle-, and bone marrow–derived cells cultured on tendon matrix. American Journal of Veterinary Research, Volume 70, Number 6, pp 750-7, June 2009.
  • Barrett J.G., Sample S.J., McCarthy J., Kalscheur V.L., Muir P., Prokuski L., Effect of Short-Term Treatment with Alendronate on Ulnar Bone Adaptation to Cyclic Fatigue Loading in Rats. Journal of Orthopaedic Research, Volume 25, Number 8, Pages 1070-7, 2007.
  • Muir P., Sample S.J., Barrett J.G., McCarthy J., Vanderby R., Markel M.D., Prokuski L.J., Kalscheur V.L., Effect of Fatigue Loading and Associated Matrix Microdamage on Bone Blood Flow and Interstitial Fluid Flow, Bone, Volume 40, Pages 948-56, 2007.
  • Barrett J.G., Manley P.A., Colopy S.A., Hao Z., Graf B.K., Muir P., Inflammatory Changes in Ruptured Canine Cranial and Human Anterior Cruciate Ligaments, American Journal of Veterinary Research, Volume 66, Number 12, Pages 2073-80, 2005.
  • Da Costa Gomez T.M., Barrett J.G., Sample S.J., Radtke C.L., Kalscheur V.L., Lu Y., Markel M.D., Santschi E.M., Scollay M.C., Muir P., Up-regulation of Site-Specific Remodeling without Accumulation of Microcracking and Loss of Osteocytes, Bone, Volume 37, Pages 16-24, 2005.
  • Colopy S.A., Benz-Dean J., Barrett J.G., Sample S.J., Lu Y., Danova N.A., Kalscheur V.L., Vanderby R. Jr., Markel M.D., Muir P., Response of the Osteocyte Syncytium Adjacent to and Distant from Linear Microcracks During Adaptation to Cyclic Fatigue Loading, Bone, Volume 35, Pages 881-91, 2004.
  • Schatzberg S.J., Cutter-Schatzberg K., Nydam D., Barrett J., Penn R., Flanders J., deLahunta A., Lin L., Mignot E. The Effect of Hypocretin Replacement Therapy in a 3-Year-Old Weimaraner with Narcolepsy, Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Volume 18, Pages 586-8, 2004.
  • Barrett J.G., Manning B.D., Snyder M., The Kar3p Kinesin-related Protein Forms a Novel Heterodimeric Structure with its Associated Protein Cik1p., Molecular Biology of the Cell, Volume 11, Pages 2373-2385, 2000.
  • Manning B.D., Barrett J.G., Wallace J.A., Granok H., Snyder M., Differential Regulation of the Kar3p Kinesin-Related Protein by Two Associated Proteins, Cik1p and Vik1p., Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 144, Pages 1219-1233, 1999.