Continuing Education
Chris Nettune, DVM, DACVO
Chris Nettune grew up in small-town Athens, TX. As a kid he never imagined being a vet—truly didn't cross his mind. While he loved the animals he surrounded himself with, he imagined he would be an MD eye surgeon like his dad, or a professional fisherman. Then college happened. Majoring in economics at Vanderbilt took him down a path of investment banking, and after years of working on the trade floor and analyst desk, with long meetings and late nights, he decided it was time to make a change. With all three of his brothers back in Dallas, one of whom followed in their father's footsteps as an MD corneal transplant doctor and cataract surgeon, Chris realized that helping people, solving problems, and once again, being surrounded by animals truly made him happy. A phone call to A&M informed him that the average vet school candidate was a 22 yr old woman with a 4.0 GPA and numerous years of veterinary experience. So, after a year of night school for prerequisites while still working in finance, he was off to the island of St. Kitts. Transferring from Ross University after a year, he took his soon-to-be wife and then-classmate to finish vet school at Oklahoma State. Following graduation he went to Ohio State University before moving back home to Dallas. He spent the past 8 years at the Animal Ophthalmology Clinic alongside Dr. Munger and Dr. Ring before leaving to start Blink Veterinary Eye Specialists in May of 2023. Focused on seeing clients and their pets when their vets want them seen, he added an ocular emergency doctor to facilitate same and next-day ocular emergencies - so vets, pets, and clients don't have to endure the lengthy wait times all too common today. While cataract surgery is his specialty, emergency corneal repairs are a very close second.
In addition to being a board certified veterinary ophthalmologist, he has further specialized in eye surgery by adding new procedures and treatments often only offered to us for our own eyes - techniques and skills learned from invaluable time spent in the operating rooms of his MD brother and father.
When not seeing patients Chris is most often still found at Blink, where his two young daughters love to play pretend animal doctor while making Chris and his wife play the role of incredulously moronic pet owners who know shockingly little about animals. Very rarely does he get to go fishing anymore.