Dr. Dickie Joe Vest, "Joey" to family, friends, and colleagues, graduated from Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1998. After five years of equine practice, he completed a two-year clinical residency in Theriogenology at Texas A&M, becoming board-certified by the American College of Theriogenologists in 2005, then achieved board-certification by the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners in Equine Practice. Dr. Vest has been in private specialty practice for the majority of his career, much of which was operating his own private specialty practice focused on providing reproductive medical and surgical procedures to private practitioners in their own hospitals.
Dr. Vest started companion animal relief work over 15 years ago to stay engaged in canine medicine for his military working dog obligations and that passion let him to join small animal practice full-time in 2019 with VCA. He has held leadership positions within VCA and BluePearl.
Dr. Vest joined the US Army Reserves as a 1LT Veterinary Corps Officer in June of 2001. Since September 11, 2001, Dr. Vest has mobilized and deployed multiple times for long and short missions to Afghanistan, Kuwait, South Africa, Timor Leste, Ecuador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, and almost every country around the Middle East. Dr. Vest has served in the Army Reserves for 23 years.
Linette and Joey live in the Tomball area northwest of Houston, and together they have four beautiful children: Hannah, Hayden, Emma and Elli.
Joey and Linette's shared passion is saltwater fishing, the beach, and all things Gulf Coast.
