Dr. Jen Zimmer,DVM ABVO
She grew up in Armada, Michigan, she went on to earn an associate degree in Veterinary Technology from Macomb Community College and spent seven years as a Licensed Veterinary Technician in a veterinary practice limited to animal eye care. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Animal Science at Michigan State University and went on to earn her DVM from Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine. After a year of clinical training at Purdue University, she completed a rotating internship at VCA Veterinary Care and Emergency in Albuquerque, NM, followed by a three-year residency in Comparative Ophthalmology at the University of Georgia. She is now board-certified by the American Board of Veterinary Ophthalmology.
She then returned to Michigan where she managed the ophthalmology department at a busy small-animal specialty and referral hospital in Metro Detroit for 5 years before venturing out on her own to start Animal Eye Solutions. Her work now includes mobile ophthalmology for small and large animals which allows her to be back in the barn treating horses while visiting small animal practices to offer specialty ophthalmology care.
She is currently a member of the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmology, International Equine Ophthalmology Consortium, American Veterinary Medical Association, South-Eastern Michigan Veterinary Medical Association and the Michigan Veterinary Medical Association as well as the Michigan Beekeepers Association.
Her hobbies include beekeeping, boating, regenerative farming and gardening, traveling, horseback riding and keeping up with her French Bulldog, Wally.
Complete Ophthalmic Exam which includes:
- Biomicroscopy
- Direct and Indirect ophthalmoscopy
- Fluorescein stain
- Intraocular pressure (IOP)
- Neurophthalmic exam (cranial nerve assessment)
- Schirmer tear test
Diagnostic Services:
- Blood pressure
- Chromatic PLR
- Electroretinography
- Fluorescein stain
- Full laboratory services
- Gonioscopy
- Ocular and periocular biopsy
- Ocular cytology
- Ocular ultrasound
- Rose Bengal stain
- Tear testing
- Tonometry
Surgical procedures:
- Bent third eyelid cartilage repair
- Brow suspension
- “Cherry eye” repair
- Corneal grafting
- Corneal laceration repair
- Diamond burr keratotomy
- Diode laser treatment of pigmented iris lesions
- Distichiasis removal
- Ectopic cilia removal
- Entropion/Ectropion correction (blepharoplasty)
- Enucleation (eye removal)
- Eyelid laceration repair
- Eyelid mass removal
- Intrastromal corneal injections
- Intravitreal chemical ablation
- Keratectomy (ie. removal of sequestrum)
- Laser ablation of cystic corpora nigrans
- Luxated lens removal
- Subconjunctival cyclosporine implants
- Subpalpebral lavage (SPL) placement and management
- Thermokeratoplasty
- Third eyelid removal due to tumors
- Ulcer treatment and management
