Dr. Jen Nevis

DVM

Youngest of 6 kids, Dr. Nevis occupied her mis-spent youth with mud-pies, craft projects, the family cat, Katrina, and innumerable pet mice, hamsters, rabbits, fish and inchworms. Once she accepted her destiny as the black sheep of the family, taking up animal medicine instead of becoming another engineer, she took to her heels upon graduating UIUC Vet Med in 1997, fleeing to the rolling green hills of Wisconsin where she cut her professional teeth in rural medicine. After 7 years, she returned to the Chicagoland suburb of her childhood, trying out every job anybody’d hire her for, from private practice to wildlife rehab, shelters to home euthanasia, and solo relief work. By far, her favorite way to spend time is in the dental chair or surgical suite, doing what she can to relieve suffering in animals, who show heroic endurance while providing unconditional love for their humans every single day.