Dr. Kim Sprayberry grew up in a farming family in the San Joaquin Valley, in Sanger, CA.  She did her undergraduate work at UC Davis, earning a Bachelor's degree in Physiology there in 1984 and her doctorate in veterinary medicine there also, in 1988. After 6 years of private practice in performance horse medicine and at the southern California racetracks, Dr. Sprayberry returned to UC Davis for a 3-year residency in equine internal medicine and became Board-certified in that discipline in 1997.  Following that she joined the venerable firm Hagyard-Davidson-McGee (now Hagyard Equine Medical Institute) in Lexington, KY, and worked there as part of the Internal Medicine division for much of the next 15 years.  During that time she took a 2-year hiatus from practice to move to Chicago and work at the AVMA, as an editor for Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association and American Journal of Veterinary Research.  She missed practice, the horses, and the people who come with them and returned to Hagyard in Lexington, but was able to continue her interest in medical journalism in joining Dr. Ed Robinson as editor for the veterinary textbook series Current Therapy in Equine Medicine. She completed a second residency and became Boardcertified in veterinary emergency and critical care in 2018.  Dr. Sprayberry's particular clinical interests lie in pediatric intensive care and high-risk pregnancies in the broodmare, and she enjoys working with any cases that fall under the umbrella of internal medicine, such as cardiac, neurologic, and gastrointestinal diseases. She also enjoys teaching, and is a professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.