Dr. Katie Flynn was raised on a Standardbred racehorse farm in South Grafton, Massachusetts. She received her undergraduate degree in Animal Science from University of Massachusetts. In 2001, she received her veterinary degree from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. In 2002, Dr. Flynn began her regulatory career with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Animal Health Branch (AHB) where she held several positions including a field veterinarian, livestock health program veterinarian and equine staff veterinarian. While at CDFA, Dr. Flynn participated in numerous equine disease responses including equine herpesvirus-1, equine infectious anemia, equine influenza, equine piroplasmosis and contagious equine metritis. Dr. Flynn is a subject matter expert on equine biosecurity authoring the Biosecurity Toolkit which has been distributed to all 50 states and 12 countries. In June of 2020, she became the Deputy State Veterinarian for the Kentucky Department of Agriculture and in January 2021, she was promoted to State Veterinarian. In March 2023, Dr. Flynn accepted the senion staff veterinarian position with the United States Equestrian Federation to focus equine health, specifically biosecurity and infectious disease control.