Dr. Jennifer Coval has had a love and a passion for working with animals from a young age. Now, she’s living out this passion as a small animal veterinarian here at Countryside. “I remember being a kid and thinking how special animals were,” she recalls. “Science was always my favorite subject, and from there, it just all kind of fell into place.” Dr. Coval grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee. Throughout her academic career, veterinary medicine was at the forefront of her mind, as vet school became a goal for her fairly early. She earned her undergraduate degree at Furman University, where she majored in biology, and later attended vet school at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville.